Gadgets and lawn equipment — not something you’d normally hear in the same sentence. While I’m sure there’s some techie riding mowers out there, the two things don’t normally well up feelings of excitement in me. But I hate eve mowing my 5-minute yard, so I’m clearly biased. Maybe my opinion of lawn work would be different if I could drive around in a tractor with wheels covered in spikes such as these. The purpose is legit — aerating your yard with 1.5″ spikes while cutting those ever growing blades of grass down to size. But I’d be far too busy racing up along side people and brandishing my moving death impalement machine.
If I was faced with the task of mowing 5-10 acres, it would be full on riding mower for me. Even though I’m young and fit, walking would take way too long. If the yard were smaller though — say 1/4 acre — I’d be much more inclined to walk. Besides sometimes being faster than riding in smaller yards, walking also helps prevent your body from aging too quickly. For someone that sits on their ass in front of a computer all the time, I can attest to this fact.
But what if you didn’t want to walk, and you couldn’t afford a large riding mower? Well then, you’d pick up a lawnmower scooter. Yes, a scooter with a blade — albeit a tiny blade. Looking at the yard the scooter is framed in, I sure as hell hope they aren’t marketing a yard of that size to a mower that small.
On the other hand, my Grandma would love this thing.
Gizmodo
- January 20, 2010 12:00 pm
Like going fast and mowing grass? Then hop on in and take this 85km/hr tractor for a spin. Designed and built by a company called “Bison”, this tractor is quite the speed demon. 85km/hr may not sound fast (for all the standard people — roughly 54 MPH) but remember, the driver is only a couple feet off of the ground with nothing but sweet mother nature’s breath to shield him from the pavement below.
Sadly, you can’t really mow and go barreling down the yard at full speed as these tractors are special “racing tractors” — not mowing tractors. Even still, how cool would it be to pull up at your friends house and say: “Hey, check out my tractor…that does freeway speeds”?
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Do you walk or ride your lawn? Simple question. Easy answer. An equally easy answer should come pretty naturally when showing any “Man’s man” a 100mph lawnmower — Yes, a lawnmower that moves at triple digit speeds. Obviously, such a unique and special machine is built for a special purpose. Since the lawnmower travels faster than pretty much every other lawnmower, I’m sure you can gather that a speed record is in order. Project Runningblade as it has been called uses a custom built Countax-based machine with more sophistication and developmental costs stuffed under the hood than most average cars.
Just in case you were thinking of using such a lawnmower to actually mow your lawn you can be at peace. After lapping the flats at 100+ mph, you can bring your mulching goddess home where she can get back to doing what she does best — eating grass — as one of the major requirements for record attempters is that the lawnmower have blazing speeds and mow grass on the same day.
100mph even in normal terms is fast. But just how fast is it really if one were trying to figure out how long it would take them to mow their yard at 100mph? Obviously, turning a lawnmower on grass doing 3 digits is impossible. But to answer the “what ifs”, a regulation sized professional soccer field could be completely mowed in 2 minutes and 42 seconds. Another way of putting it: 13,000 sq. yards in under 3 minutes. Cut. Wow. Sign me up!
I would love to take the Lightningblade past the century mark for sure. But can you imaging though how nerve wracking it must be to be riding something as unstable as a lawnmower at such speeds? Godspeed RunningBlade driver. Godspeed.
[Project Runningblade]
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It’s that time again. Time for another nerdy item that isn’t a gadget but none the less gets our minds a buzzin’. Being the gadget freaks that we are, we’re often dealing with screens of various sizes and technologies. Often times, these displays offer less than stellar performance in the sun meaning we spend a lot of time indoors, sometimes even with the lights off. If you yearn for more of that earthly feeling but can’t seem to untether yourself form your digital world, the Grass Coaster is just the thing to give your life a more “free” touch. Free from the confines of an electrical outlet that is. I know times are tough and you may not have all the money in the world to squelch your digital appetite, but is £4.99 ($8 USD) really that much? I don’t think so. You’re a geek. It’s ok. Go ahead and give a few dollars to the cause at the link below.
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In the world of unique and innovative charging solutions for gadgets, one fraught with endless amounts of tangled cords and copious amounts of frustration comes a gadget that seeks to bring peace, happiness, and a little privacy to your life. Introducing the Grassy Charging Station, a charging unit that aims to make your gadget refueling sessions more covert and less conspicuous to the average user. In fact, to the average user, the Grassy Charging Station doesn’t look like a charging station at all, but a weird planter box containing fake grass that you just so happen to toss your gadgets in. There is a hidden electric cord right below the lush over growth that you can attach multiple outlet extension cords to in order to charge your vast assortment of digital happiness. The cost of such ease, sophistication, and coolness: $24.99. Piqued?
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Source: Technabob
