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Scale this thing up, I need an adult sized one for the beach.

The Neatorama store has got a particularly deluxe version of the kid’s pirate bath-towel, complete with hook, parrot and belt (it’s cooler than the one Poesy runs around the house shouting “arrr!” in after bathtimes!).

Pirate – Hooded Towel

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If you’re tired of tent camping, this might be your chance to start a summer building project.

Jay Shafer from Tumbleweed Tiny House Company is offering their Vardo Construction plans for sale for 10 days only. Starting today, the plans for the Vardo are $15.95. Normally, $29.95 so almost half off. The Sale ends July 8, 2011.

Tumbleweed Vardo Plans – $15.95

The Vardo is not officially a tiny house but more of a sleeping camper, great for getaways to the mountains or the beach or as a guest room for your tiny home. There is no …
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Put that in your pipe and smoke it Skype! Of course, I’d be even more impressed if I had an invite.

Team Lifehacker has been playing around with Google+ all morning, and so far the coolest innovation we’ve seen—particularly from a productivity standpoint—is the Hangout feature, which creates rooms for you to hang out with your friends, coworkers, or any of your social circles. It’s great.

We’ve tried out various video conferencing solutions before—like Skype’s subscription-required, clunky group video calling—and they’ve never really worked that well. Google Hangout, on the other hand, has so far been really …
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I know more than a few terrible tikes that would LOVE to have this… also several adults.

It’s summer, and a lot of us will be spending time at pools, lakes, and the ocean.  Life jackets are a requirement for many activities, especially for little kids.  Why not make wearing them fun for the kids – and for us, too.  With the Sea Squirts life vests and swim assist vests from Opa Cove, you can turn your little swimmer into a Grrreat White Shark (shown), a Blue or Pink Dolphin, a Killa Whale, Clown Fish, or an …
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If the stares my key-smashing typing style attracts is any indicator, I might even be able to sell my energy back to the grid.

Self-powered laptops and everlasting batteries could soon become a reality thanks to a new study from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology that measured a piezoelectric film’s capacity for turning mechanical pressure into electricity. Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon already at work in small devices such as cigarette lighters, which use a piezoelectric crystal to create a charge when struck by a spring-loaded hammer. Piezoelectric materials such as crystals or ceramics are nothing new, …
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