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Collapsible Surfboard Concept Brings Meccano Fun to Water Sports
10:25PM Haroon Malik | So, you like surfing, but your apartment and car are not big enough for a full-sized board. What’s the solution, I hear you ask. Sure, you could take up a new sport, or you could get yourself a Collapsible Surfboard. Designed by Nicholas Notara, who wanted to achieve portability without compromising functionality, the frame is made of carbon fiber, and the whole board is taken apart in three easy moves: More »
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11:22AM Seamus Byrne | Meccano has released a new range of build-it-yourself toy tuner cars. They’re full functioning remote-controlled cars, and I’m in love with that crazy Meccano exterior. They’re really tricked out too, with neon skirt lighting and a choice of rock or hip hop music to pump out of the windows (not sure if you can feel the bass as it rolls on by).
A choice of styles too – urban, street racer, and truck. Even if there wasn’t, isn’t the whole idea of tuners is to mod the shit out of it? 9V motors aren’t so easy to tune, though. -Seamus Byrne
Meccano Tuner RCs [via Toyology] More »
Meccano R/C tuner cars
11:22AM Seamus Byrne | Meccano has released a new range of build-it-yourself toy tuner cars. They’re full functioning remote-controlled cars, and I’m in love with that crazy Meccano exterior. They’re really tricked out too, with neon skirt lighting and a choice of rock or hip hop music to pump out of the windows (not sure if you can feel the bass as it rolls on by).
A choice of styles too – urban, street racer, and truck. Even if there wasn’t, isn’t the whole idea of tuners is to mod the shit out of it? 9V motors aren’t so easy to tune, though. -Seamus Byrne
Meccano Tuner RCs [via Toyology] More » 