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Folding bikes are everywhere around in modern cities. But this bike – the Mountain Monk – solves a completely different problem then slipping around SUVs and outrunning Porsches at the traffic lights.
Imagine having a nice wandering trip in the mountains. Instead of your designer rucksack you carry this bike uphill. It weighs about 9 kg and has enough extra storage for your hearty peak-snack. Once you had your drink you unfold your backpack and change it into a full functioning mountain bike! This prevents meniscus injuries, makes you fast and is a lot of fun.
It will cost about € 1500, when it will be available soon.
Check out the Website of the Bergmönch here.

Ah – I remember those merry days of childhood when my mother strolled around the neighbourhood with me in my little monster-booby-car! It was so comforting sitting in the warm brain of a monster in summer. And did its rotten teeth not protect me from fairies and pixies or good-willing sprites?
Gotten curious? Check the site of Elmer Preslee: Illustration, Furniture and Sculpture. And buy the Monster Stroller

Japanese love building stuff from paper, and most Japanese companies offer free paper models of something or other on their websites. Many of those models are amazingly naturalistic and intricately detailed – and correspondingly difficult to build.

Honda Motors takes another approach, however: Akira Mizorogi’s paper models bear only a crude resemblance to the real thing, but they have lots of charm. The instructions are in Japanese, of course, but completely superfluous to begin with – the models are so simple that there is just no way to get them wrong.

Feel free to click around when you are there – there are other nifty things around, including a few Flash (actually mostly Shockwave) games. Just be careful not to order a new car by accident…

....but don’t worry if you do, they’re supposed to be good cars.

Creating an army of merciless, unstoppable robotic soldiers has always appealed to me as being the most gentlemanly road to global rule – unlike either necromancy or politics, it doesn’t involve selling your soul.

All of my attempts (as pictured above) failed, however, mostly due to a nasty habit of focusing more on aesthetics than on more practical considerations, i.e. the need to include up-market options like rail guns and heat-seeking missiles. If I had instead invested my money in the kind of robots that were commercially available throughout all those years, mostly in the toy aisles, I could already be in command of a quite sizable army, much like Lee.

Some of those look pretty cool even, although I doubt that “Verbot” sold well in German speaking markets – there is something vaguely off-putting about a toy being named “Prohibition”.

And “CompuRobot” looks suspiciously similar to a certain movie robot – I sincerely doubt that the manufacturer has paid for the use of that likeness. But then, I sincerely doubt that anybody would pay for a license to associate their products with that particular movie … in fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney actually paid people for not mentioning it. (If that’s really the case, I’m perfectly willing to remove this whole paragraph for as little as five bucks.)

Really: Who said grown ups do not need cuddly toys? In European cities you will find that 50% of all households are run by singles, so there is a huge market for Karakiri. You can order your own Karakiri by sending an eMail to Embrace
Visit Karakiri’s homepage and read its blog.

The wishbone is a bone that developed by the fusion of the two clavicles. The first fossil record of it is the dinosaur Longisquama insignis.
Every year around Thanksgiving millions of Meleagris gallopavo are killed, plucked, baked, their corpses dissected, their meat eaten and their furculae ritually broken. If you like the wishbone breaking part more than the butchery part, Lucky Break Wishbones are made for you!
You can test their product by buying the 4-Pack or, if you want to break a bone every day: The Galaxy Pack!
Lucky Break Wishbones