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A Lawn Mower That Flies


Leave it to our friends up in Canada to spend their long winters coming up with creative modifications and twists on the familiar.

Two Canadian radio control enthusiasts have made a business out of making bizarre things fly. Things not shaped like planes. Not shaped like birds. Not even shaped like a moth or a dragonfly.

So, the next time you find yourself in a park on a warm sunny day, and you hear that high-pitched buzzing you expect comes with a remote controlled plane, look closely and you may see a flying witch, a flying doghouse, or even a flying lawn mower.

Yes, the inventive guys at Flying Thingz have put a lawn mower in the sky. Brilliant, we say.

Think you want to mow the sky yourself? Order one up. They're selling the kits to these choppers for $149 a pop.

From Revver.


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World's First Remote-Control Beer Cooler

Deliver Drinks From Across the Room With the RC Cooler
If you wander by the Interactive Toy Concepts booth at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, there is a good chance you'll be greeted by a friendly bump from a drink (beer) bearing device called the RC Cooler. The RC Cooler is exactly what it sounds like -- a radio-controlled cooler.

The soft-sided, collapsible cooler sits atop four wheels and a radio receiver powered by eight "C" batteries (which will survive only three hours of constant use). The round gray plastic remote takes a single 9-volt battery that shouldn't need to be swapped out nearly as often.

After beating back the CES-show-floor-gawkers who were trying to get a good shot of this thing, we were able to get a good look have to admit we were smitten. Yes, it's silly, but it seems to handle well, which makes it really useful for lounge-chair potatoes who like to party!

Now, when you're lounging poolside at your barbecues, you won't have to get up and fetch a beer or hand one over to a friend. Just send out the RC Cooler with a full load of 12 beverages, while you sit back and relax with the remote. The RC Cooler will be available in the Spring, for $49.99, just in time for the lazy host in all of you to pick one up for the first pool party of the season.

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