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Hardware

Steve Jobs: “If You Have Any Further Questions, Please Call Or Write”

8:00AM Jesus Diaz | Once upon a time, Apple computers didn’t come with keyboards or monitors or even cases. But they often came with a personal letter from Steve Jobs, like the one included with this Apple I, now available starting at $US50,000. More »
Robots

Michael Jackson’s 3D Body Scans On eBay For $US1.5m

4:40AM Danny Allen | This just seems wrong. A US businessman claims he’s been sitting on 3D scans from 1996, when MJ was aged 37. It’s rumoured the singer wanted a virtual or robot double, and this data, if real, would enable just that. More »
Random Stuff

On The Auction Block: 5000 Leftover Condoms From The Olympics

5:29AM Rosa Golijan | Hot date this weekend? Impress with your sports memorabilia collection by snatching up these 5000 condoms left over from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With inscriptions of faster, higher and stronger, they’re a bargain with a starting bid of $US730. More »
Vehicles

Motorised La-Z-Boy On eBay, Slightly Damaged Due To DWI

4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Remember the guy who got a DWI after crashing his motorised La-Z-Boy? While he’s serving a 180-day jail sentence, the City of Proctor, Minnesota is putting his tricked out chair onto eBay, “Hell yeah, it’s fast” bumper sticker and all. More »
Toys

The Biggest Lego Mario Ever Built

1:40PM Jesus Diaz | If you have $US3700 handy, you can buy this 180cm tall, 50kg 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan and 175 hours to build over 16 days. More »
Music

Elusive “Atomic” Zune HD Seen On eBay For Over $US2000

1:00AM Jack Loftus | Massive shortages, a slick UI and an elusive “atomic” flavour that’s currently tearing up eBay with a $US2025 bid? Sounds like there may be something to this little Microsoft Zune HD thing. Updated. More »
Vehicles

Martin Jetpack: How Much Would You Pay To Be A Test Pilot?

1:20AM Danny Allen | An eBay auction (ending in 10 hours) offers the chance to be amongst the first to go through the Jetpack’s test pilot training program. You’ll need to be over 18, have a driver’s licence, be under 90kg…and have $US35,000 spare. More »
Online

RRoD Xbox 360: The Gift Of A Thousand Uses

12:30PM Nick Broughall | Rather than trying to get his RRoD’d Xbox 360 fixed, eBay user bellscape_computers has decided to sell it. But not as a broken games console – this thing is the consumate multi-function gadget! More »
Phones

Pee-Tarnished iPhone For Sale, Come and Get It!

8:20AM Adam Frucci | Is this level of honesty a good thing or unnecessary? Also, would you sell your phone just because of a little pee? This posting has elicited an unexpected amount of soul-searching for me. [Craigslist via Geekologie] More »
Online

Toddler Buys Industrial Excavator Online, ‘Doesn’t Even Like Tractors’

12:00PM Wilson Rothman | A 3-year-old New Zealand girl, bored in the early hours of the morning, hopped on her parents’ computer and, via auto-logins, managed to buy a used mechanical excavation machine for around $US15,000. More »