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Buy Original Star Wars Lightsaber for $185,000 – More Available at Auction

Nerd Grind — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:15:36 +0000

If you have a spare $185,000 laying around, and who doesn’t, you can get your hands on the original lightsaber Luke Skywalker used in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. For you cheapskates out there, the fedora hat and bullwhip used by Indiana Jones in Temple of Doom are priced at just $61,000 each.

These items and more will be available at a December 11 auction. Also available will be the original animatronic Gizmo from the movie Gremlins. Here are some more things you can get your hands on:

• C-3PO face for $83,000 and hands for $30,000.
• Mohawk and Brain Gremlins puppets for about $7,000 each.
• The original Jor-El tunic wore by Marlon Brando in Superman for $51,000.
• His t-shirt in Apocalypse Now for $20,000.
• An original set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, bound in red cloth, signed by Tolkien, and containing a fold-out map of the Middle Earth for $124,000.
• For the same amount you can also snatch an 82-inch flying saucer made of wood, steel and fiberglass from Forbidden Planet.
• First editions of James Bond novels inscribed by Ian Fleming, including one that said "To the real James Bond from the thief of his identity", which was dedicated to American Ornithologist James Bond.

In total, over 500 items will be available at the Profiles in History Auction. Get to bidding!

Back scratch fever – this time with cactus

Nerd Grind — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:59:51 +0000

If you recently stood with your back against a row of poison ivy, this might be the back scratcher for you. The tip is 100 percent genuine Arizona cactus, and we all know how sharp those little cactus buds are. This nifty little gadget will get your back feeling normal in no time. It will also get your back bloody in no time. It’s only ten bucks and it has cute googly eyes on it, so you really can’t go wrong. Click the link for ordering information.

And please, for the love of God, this is NOT to be used as a cat’s toy. You really are incorrigible, aren’t you?

Tesla is Most Excellent

Nerd Grind — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:03:22 +0000

Click on the Picutre of Tesla and check out the cool vid.

Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software.

Shower Timer

Nerd Grind — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:33:37 +0000

I live with two women, and let me tell you they take the LONGEST showers in the history of mankind. Well, not really, but you get the picture. But here’s a device that my home definitely needs. It’s called the Shower Timer. This gizmo is a beauty, it can be programmed between 1 and 12 minutes and it gives a visual countdown in both minutes and seconds, ensuring you pick up time management skills while lathering your hair with shampoo.

And on top of that, just in case your shower is STILL running long, an audible alert will sound when the sands of time run out for added emphasis. Don’t be turned off by the $340 price tag though, as the Shower Timer will probably pay itself off within a year when water usage is budgeted properly. After all, it also takes power to heat up your shower, so the longer you remain in there, the higher your power bill would be.

Awesome.

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