Here's something to ask Santa for this Christmas, your own little aeroplane the ICON A5. Perfect for nipping to the shops for a pint of milk or even the school run.

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A snip at $139,000 USD. I'll take two...

http://www.iconaircraft.com/

2 Seats, Bet it would struggle to lift more than 1...But I definately want one.


One thing that worries me however, is the way the wings are folded out. Looks to me to be quite a weak spt, in such a small plane. Regardless of speed etc, it will still experience the full brunt of Aero and thermo dynamics while flying... Hope nothing happens to it..


AWESOME LOOKING THOUGH

that looks brill. ye looks weak when wings are out

A nice shiney new boat to play with.

Oligarch Buys £200 Million Super-Yacht,
Then Sails Off to Collect Monet Paintings
Built by German Company That Constructed
Battleship Bismarck, the Pride of Nazi Fleet
LUCY COCKCROFT / The Telegraph (UK) 16jul2008

A £200 million super-yacht has set sail on its maiden voyage to Norway, where its Russian billionaire owner stopped off to collect three Claude Monet paintings.

The futuristic vessel, which has enough room to sleep 56, is even bigger and more expensive than the pride of Roman Abramovich's fleet, Pelorus, which cost only £100 million.

It was built for a fellow Russian oligarch, Andrey Melnichenko, 37, who is worth £4.6 billion and was ranked 172 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.

The yacht, named "A" after his catwalk model wife Aleksandra Nikolic, docked in the Norwegian port of Kristiansand, where three paintings by the French Impressionist artist Monet were loaded on board, amid an impressive security operation.

The trip came just weeks after one of Monet's famous Water Lilies paintings 'Le bassin aux nympheas' sold at Christies auction house in London for £41 million, a record price for the artist at auction.

It was bought by an unnamed buyer and its whereabouts today are unknown, raising speculation Mr Melnichenko may have been the buyer.

Mr Melnichenko is understood to have travelled to the Scandinavian country on board his 400ft super yacht because it is outside the EU and exempt from import tax laws.

He took the trip on board his 400ft super yacht, which features a swimming pool, a large master suite, six luxury cabins for up to 14 guests and enough room for 42 crew members.

Other details of the interior have been kept strictly secret by its German builders Blohm and Voss, who constructed the battleship Bismarck, the pride of the Nazi fleet in World War Two.

But it is rumoured to have helicopter hanger and two 30ft long speed boats which are kept in hatches on both sides of the hull.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich owns four super-yachts, the most impressive of which is the 377ft Pelorus, 23ft smaller than "A".

However, he has ordered a fifth boat, to be named Eclipse, from the same company as Mr Melnichenko. It is believed to be 482ft - the world's third largest yacht.

Mr Melnichenko was a founder of worldwide MDM Bank and went on to become its president from 1997 to 2001.

He also invested in a number of Russian industrial businesses, including Siberian coal company SUEK and mineral company Eurochem.

Source.http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2008/Motor-Yacht-A-Melnichenko16jul08.htm

You'd think they might have show it flying in the advert - $140k is a lot of money for something that has foldy wings

An origami AK47 rifle.

For a new art project, the designer Martin Postler has investigated the history, the aesthetics and the lethal seductiveness of the Kalashnikov. He has freed the AK-47 from its terrible capacity to injure and kill by deconstructing it into a paper model construction set. At the end of the construction process each person can decide if they would like to hang their own AK-47 on the wall, paint it, customize it with stickers or simply burn it. Then ultimately this AK-47 thankfully remains a piece of paper.

http://www.gestalten.com/nonbooks/detail?id=d7f6f0d812b4ab860112bd75cb760057#moreinfo

..pretty realistic for a paper gun

(Needs painting of course)

Oh and a tatooed pig. Obviously. Everyone needs a tatooed pig.

Warning! Artwork not to everybody's taste.
http://www.wimdelvoye.be/artfarm.php#

...could be entertaining if you turned it in to chops - you could tatoo obsceneties on the pig and see who gets what

lmao

and.... a retro style arcade videogames machine please.

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/08/18/retro-space-arcade-takes-it-back-to-the-essence/

a 6ft blonde please

Pigs get slapmarked with what looks like a ping pong bat covered in spikes dipped in ink. They have a thick layer of skin and would never have felt that tattoo!!

Same as Scott

I'd like my car to be finished

Damn..i already got me one of them!!!

Rememeber boys and girls...buy the silver one...get the blonde one free!

and which christmas was you thinkin about

:r:like it

and... I would like a pong watch please, (2 player games might be a bit difficult admittedly).

http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2008/09/03/2184-pong-watch

and I think I probably deserve a medal for all my hard work since the early 80's playing videogames...

http://www.supermandolini.com/acatalog/console_wars_veteran_II.html

How about a 6ft blonde tatooed pig who's into retro gaming?

haha, one of those mightn't be so difficult to find...

This is my 'fantasy' christmas wish list after all...

Just hang around GameStation in Birkenhead - I'm sure you'll find her.

I'm all for space saving gadgets so I'm going to need a Super Genintari Console to play my retro games on.
Its the old Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Genesis consoles shoehorned into one.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/14/super-genintari-project-is-finished-and-ready-to-make-you-enviou/

looks to me like it only plays the american snes games there

and a F**k The Rain umbrella.

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/fook-the-rain/

I like vodka and would like to try a bottle of Dan Ackroyd's Crystal Head Vodka.

Shambo - they are 2 cracking finds!!! I love them both

Thanks Jay. I'm still buying those lottery tickets.

In the morning, I want to use a 'Scan Toaster' to burn soothing pictures on my bread and ease the despair of having to get out of my warm bed.

Electrolux Scan Toaster

Want one!

That's me!

I think you're the wrong gender he was looking for...

Fantastic!!! They do male ones too

I'll have one of those for christmas please!

You're too good to me MissG!!! A bit too blonde for me though, a bit too Darnell-ish

Christ, that -does- look like that Darnell!

wow, deffo want one of them this christmas


an a dumper truck



not a cardboard cutout like that one though

If you take a few letters out of Darnell-ish you get Danish - quite apt for a large pig - mmm bacon

back to the bacon tree (see jokes)

uncanny eh?

life is one big spiral round and round ......were it stops no one knows

Dear Father Christmas

Please bring me a bacon slicer.

ive got one i action on my phone...lol.....havent i stuy

you can slice ham with a mobile?

no but it can show you how

butchery how-to's on a mobile - very useful - what company are you with I must try them next time.

only on contract iam afraid

how dare you!
do i look like a 'pay-as-you-go' kind of girl???
do i look like some chav who plays music from their mobile out loud at the bus stop!!
do you think i carry a phone that can change its outer shell?
do you think i 'top-up' in the co-op?

how very dare you!

wot contract has an 18 month scratch off voucher then...lol

i have no idea what you're talking about

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I'd like these for Christmas please

i would like a zorse! half horse half zebby yay!

I think I might need a bottle of Captain Blackbeard's Beard Dye in, erm... black.

and a sun seeking solar plant-bot...
http://www.theplaycoalition.net/projects/project_8/project-8.html

STOP Everything !!!!!!!

Ive just come back from razzing a Racing Hovercraft round a track...including jumps..hairpins and a small lake...

YOU ALL NEED A HOVERCRAFT FOR CHRISTMAS...NO JOKE....

Quick Vid of Barney on the Hovercraft before me.


Clicky....

i want one of theese bad boys

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http://www.remote-island.co.uk/video/Radio_Controlled_Amphibious_Tank.wmv

I bought it on eeee-baaay! (actually I didn't - just wanted to sing the song)

alls i want is fire fox f7 / and astro wars what can i say im stuck in the 80s baby

I would really like this Hiranao Tsuboi digital watch.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/ca...iranao-tsuboi-of-100-at-design-tide.html

My car to be on the road

Oh and a Koala faced mug isn't too much to ask for... is it?

...and a Godfather spaghetti measuring device.

http://charlesandmarie.com/lifestyl...etti-measuring-device/?tx_ttproducts_pi1[backPID]=321&tstmp=1226937531

which christmas is that

Maybe we'll get some snow this Christmas?

http://greenupgrader.com/4566/concept-ice-vehicle-by-lotus-explores-antarctica/
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Next year, doing the laundry won't be so boring with a Re-Cycle Laundry Centre.

Chewbaca was my first love

I've never seen Pandor absinthe before, but it would look nice next to the crystal head vodka.

I would like a Key of Rock for my front door.

Not this christmas maybe the one after but if thats not possible 2020

Is that young lady's corset made of whalebone or alder wood? Does that carriage's strongbox contain spices from the Orient, or merely a vain man's truss?

Your vision can pierce any mystery when you are accoutred with Professor Ocularo's X-Ray Monocle!

Astonish your friends by diagnosing consumptive lungs from across a crowded train platform! Titillate your work chums by describing the ankles of any comely lass, no matter how tightly cinched her boots!

If I had a Houndround, I might consider getting a puppy. Basically a giant hamster wheel for dogs.

I don't quite know why I need a Toasting Charger, I just know that I WANT ONE!

Perhaps in this years smellies will be some 'Flame' deodorant from Burger King. What sort of person this attracts though...

Inbreds from Dudley.

christmas came early for me scott







Now all i want it a respray wider rearfenders carbon roof 2way diff roll cage 2jz 650bhp better bucket seats more rota gtr's 17s different fmic better/brighter light

Thats it really

not much then

No

84 hrs weeks for the next 12 months should do it

and no social life

I am married so dont have one

how about some pollyfilla for that dent in your forehead from wifeys thumb?

The dents that big i'd need a plate welding across