With just a simple basket and rope, this person built a cat lift that most certainly comes in handy when he/she is stuck on the ground floor. Continue reading for the video demonstration.

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Constructed by Apollo 11 engineer Dennis Schaller, this travel trailer is often mistaken for a spaceship, measuring “56 feet long, 20 feet wide and 17 feet tall.” It was originally intended to be a hovercraft, but proved too costly of a route. Video after the break.

Much of the vessel is constructed out of found materials—like a travel trailer he found in the woods, a former acid dipping vat from the Piper Aircraft plant and an old satellite dish.

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From afar, it may look like a giant toy house, but it’s actually James May’s custom LEGO creation. Consisting of over 2-million bricks, it features two floors with staircase and even a functional bathroom. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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The Tech21 iBand case utilizes a non-Newtonian substance called d30 to protect your gadgets from falls. Basically, “when put under pressure, [it] hardens and protects its precious contents.” Video after the break.

Right now the £15 ($25) iBand is only available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but future gadgets should receive the oobleck treatment soon.

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THE Reserve Bank is pressing for more competition in online payments.

AS the deadline approaches, Qantas staff have been told little about their proposed shift to IBM.

THE telco settles for slow and steady as it builds up its software as a service business.

If two slides leaked to the Eeeuser.com forum are to be believed, ASUS has some pretty interesting — though not terrifically surprising — netbooks on the horizon. The slides, which are apparently the company’s roadmap for US products for the next two quarters, are chock full of refreshed product information. It looks like we’re going to be seeing a brand new Eee PC, the 12-inch 1201N, which will bring NVIDIA’s Ion platform to the line for the first time, with an Atom N270 CPU, 2GB RAM, a 250GB HDD, Bluetooth and 802.11n WiFi, running $499 for release in mid-October. Other than that, we can expect to see the 1005HA-P with the N280 processor and a 250GB HDD option running Windows 7 also arriving in October for $399, and the 1005HA-M with the N270 processor, a 250GB hard drive, and Windows 7 Starter Edition for $349. Finally, Netbook News is also reporting some new 1008HA models not listed on the slides, as well as a multitouch, Windows 7-running T91 convertible tablet with a 32GB SSD priced at $549. There’s no timeline mentioned for this one, but we’ll keep our ears to the ground expectantly. The other slide is after the break; hit the read link if you want the full details on each model.

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ASUS’ Eee PC roadmap leaks: Ion-boasting netbooks, multitouch T91 coming soon? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Santech might not be the most familiar name around here, but the company has a bit of history in the mobile field, and its latest 13.3-inch effort definitely merits a second look. Coming in under that magical mental barrier of an inch in thickness and sporting an Intel CULV processor, it’s slinky and (just) powerful enough to be called an ultraportable. Add in a claimed 12 hours of battery life, and the LV1 would seem like a viable competitor to Acer’s Timeline series, but it falters on pricing, which — once you add the 8-cell battery to the base unit of a SU3500 1.4GHz CPU, 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD — is €701 ($1,003) after taxes, or €100 more than an almost identical Aspire 3810T from Acer.

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Santech LV1 is low voltage and low fat, but not low price originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Those 45nm Intel Celeron 743 and SU2300 CPUs we’ve been seeing on spreadsheets and roadmaps may have found themselves a home with ASUS, if this DigiTimes report has any weight to it. According to the outlet, two new ultrathin portables powered by the aforementioned processors are set to launch on September 7th, with the first markets to get shipments being Taiwan, China, and Europe. Details are scarce beyond that and there’s no mention of price, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see it hit the $700 mark up to maybe even $1,000. Other sources say MSI and Acer will be making announcements of their own ultrathin laptops not too long after. September 7th is mighty soon, so part of us wonders if “launch” here is simply an unveiling, but in either case if there is something going on in a week, we can’t imagine we’ll get through the next few days without new factoids trickling out in the open.

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ASUS debuting two ultrathin laptops with 45nm Intel Penryn chips next week? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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