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Thursday, August 19th, 2010Taste your next stout, ale, or pilsner from the proper glass using the Classic Beer Glass Connoisseur Collection ($35). Unlike most 4-piece glassware sets, each one of these goblets is a different style — there’s Belgian, Wheat, Imperial Pint, and Footed Pilsner glasses — each designed to enhance your beer drinking experience, and it even [...]
Personal Submarine
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Want to see how the cleanup is coming along up close and personal? Hop aboard your Personal Submarine ($2,000,000). This two-person submersible vehicle features a transparent, climate-controlled acrylic pressure sphere, a 120- and 24-volt battery bank good for up to six hours of adventuring, two 3-hp main thrusters, two 3-hp vertical thrusters, [...]
UpTempoAir.com has a NEW Look!
Monday, August 24th, 2009New Look @ the homepage!
I’m liking the new colors. Although UpTempoAir has always been known for it’s use in money colors . . . the new more patriotic look is a great facelift.
Now if only Steve would add a picture of his favored Tom Brady
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I kid, I kid
He’s a STEELERS fan
Enjoy the new look along with [...]
This 9th Century Stepwell Gives Vertigo: Over 3,000 Steps!
Friday, August 7th, 2009Those are 3500 steps, spread over 13 stories, with one vertigo inducing view. At 100 feet deep, Chand Baori in Abhaneri, India is the world’s deepest stepwell. No railings and a 100 foot plunge into water?
The Book of Beer Pong
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Nothing like an argument over beer pong rules to drag down a party atmosphere, so settle your disputes with authority using The Book of Beer Pong: The Official Guide to the Sport of Champions ($12). This 160-page hardcover, written by the creators of the CollegeStories.com and GetBombed.com, features information on everything from basic pong etiquette [...]
Recession means NOTHING to billionaire with MEGAYACT!
Monday, June 15th, 2009aIronically, even in this economy, the title of world’s largest yacht lasted less than a month, as Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich finally launched his record-setting 557-ft. megayacht “Eclipse” in Hamburg, Germany.
The launch bests the lavish $350 million Dubai that set sail from, yes, Dubai. At 551-ft. in length, the Dubai had been the longest yacht [...]
The Study Ball will enslave your kids but doesn’t guarantee good grades
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Now here’s something that comes right from the gallows. This is a modern ball and chain that’s made to get those stubborn kids pinned down, especially when the exams are approaching. It’s got an unlocking mechanism that works in accordance to a timer that can be set up to four hours (guess the makers are [...]
5-Year-Old Amputee Fitted with High Performance Carbon Fiber Legs
Thursday, April 16th, 2009In 2005, Ellie May Challis lost all of her limbs to meningitis. In 2009, she’s become the youngest person ever fitted with carbon fiber legs.
Her original prostheses never fit perfectly, causing her pain and great difficulty when walking. So, with the financial help of their community, Ellie May’s parents took her to Dorset Orthopaedic where [...]
ROBO-CROC: Croc can’t keep its head together (Literally)
Thursday, March 19th, 2009He’s built with a pair of metal rods that run down his face, and over forty screws are bolted to his head holding his jaw and skull together.
Surgeons were forced to construct the biotechnological terror now known as Robo-Croc after a car crushed his formerly ordinary-but-endangered crocodile head last year. He’s not eaten in three [...]
Onitsuka Tiger Lawnship Sneaker
Thursday, February 26th, 2009These classic tennis trainers are perfect for pre-Spring styles. First debuting on the courts in 1976, the Onitsuka Tiger Lawnship Sneaker ($79) features an obvious retro vibe, leather lining, and an optimum traction sole and anti-slip control for crashing the net or crashing parties.
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