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Butterfingered Sea Captains Need These Floating Boat Tools
7:00AM Jack Loftus | Yar! Where be my pliers and braided cable cutters? Avast! There they be, bobbin’ in the surf, next to me floatin’ massage chair! More »
Vehicles
Infintas Yacht Spoils You For Life On Land With Three Levels Of Luxury
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | Pool deck, helicopter pad…elevator? I guess that when you own a 300 foot monument to phallic imagery like this, taking stairs just won’t do the trick. (Nor would walking around the pool apparently, since there’s a bridge over it.) More »
Vehicles
The Deep Flight Super Falcon Sub Is A Private Airplane For The Sea
11:30AM Brian Lam | I’d never been envious of Tom Perkins’ giant sailboat, the Maltese Falcon, until it received a deployable submarine in its belly. The sub, called the Deep Flight Super Falcon, is a 6.5m electric vehicle, bringing aerodynamic principles to the sea. More »
Design
What If Apple And Chumby Designed A Surfboard?
12:28PM Brian Lam
Thomas Meyerhoffer used to work at Apple and helped design Chumby. These days, he’s reinventing the classic shape of the surfboard. Looks more like a snowboard, with that midcut radius. Or a spaceship. I like it. More »
Regulars
What Do You Think She’s Listening To?
1:40PM Brian Lam | I think she’s going to get some sand stuck in that thing. More »
Phones
Virgin Mobile’s Helio Ocean 2 Is Official, Being Launched By Britney Spears
2:00PM Jason Chen | MobileCrunch has lots of photos of the Helio Virgin Mobile, which we last saw in a spy shot a few months back. It’s definitely real now. More »
Vehicles
Oculus Yacht Mimics a Giant, Man-Eating Fish
9:20AM Mark Wilson | It’s almost cruel of us to post about the Schöpfer Oculus, a 250-foot luxury yacht inspired by an oceanic fish. More »
Phones
Pantech Matrix Dual Sliding Phone Has More Buttons Than Sense
7:30PM John Herrman | Formed from the same genetic ooze as Pantech’s Slide Duo smartphone and rebranded Helio Ocean handset, the Matrix is a mildly frustrating device: spec’d with the best, but dressed in the worst. An HSDPA-enabled handset with GPS, a full QWERTY keyboard in addition to a dialpad, and two cameras should have the software to leverage the hardware, but AT&T and Pantech have chosen to stick with an in-house OS rather than opt for Windows Mobile as they did with the Duo QWERTY smartphone. Still, it doesn’t look like a bad feature phone for people who message more than they talk, and it’s available today at AT&T stores. [Crave] More »
Vehicles
A Look at Steve Fossett’s Super Secret Flying, Diving, Space Bound Submersible
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Unbeknownst to most of the world, the late super rich adventurer Steve Fossett had started work on an amazing flying submersible that would one day theoretically touch the stars. More importantly, however, was that the design would have allowed adventurers and scientists alike (and most importantly Fossett himself, of course) to venture into the deadly depths of the Mariana Trench, some 36,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. Sadly, the design was put on hold immediately after Fossett went missing about one year ago, but that hasn’t stopped San Anselmo inventor Graham Hawkes from detailing the project that Fossett tapped him to create two years before his death. More »
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