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NASA Says Checklist Jim Lovell Sold Was Not His to Sell
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Back in December, we talked about the checklist that was put up for auction by Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell. The checklist was the item that Lovell used to make calculations needed to get his spacecraft home after an explosion ended the trip to the moon. NASA has now contacted… |
January 7th, 2012
Buy a Whole Houseful of Robots, Just $55k!
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How many times in your life will you have the opportunity to buy an entire set of life-size robots to take over your home? Well, if you happen to have $54,900 (USD) lying around gathering dust, now is your chance.… |
January 4th, 2012
Own Your Own WORKING Terminator Arm
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We were just saying how you might be able to output your own robotic limbs using 3D printing, but if that’s too advanced for you, why not buy yourself an already fully-functional Terminator arm instead.… |
January 4th, 2012
Man Spends $16,000 on Virtual Sword for a Game That Isn’t Even on Sale Yet
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To get more publicity for its upcoming MMORPG Age of Wulin…, developer Snail Games held an online auction of one off in-game items. And more publicity they got, thanks to one die-hard and deep-pocketed fan, who paid $16,000 (USD) for a sword. Bits of data that he can’t even |
December 30th, 2011
Got $1,000,000? Then You Can Become the Next Human Slinky
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If I had a million bucks to spare, I’d probably open up a business, or invest it in something that could make the money grow. Then I’d eventually donate a percentage to charity, set aside some money for a vacation with my family, get a whole new wardrobe, and probably… |
December 22nd, 2011
35mm Camera Used to Film Star Wars Sells for over $600,000
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We will never see another movie like the original Star Wars… again. The plot, writing and the directing were amazing. Not to mention the groundbreaking models and visual effects (that they had to work hard for, instead of using CGI) that gave it an amazing look and feel. Now a |
December 7th, 2011
Far Out Space Nut Drops $380,000 on Apollo 13 Checklist
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If you are the sort of geek that likes space travel, you have to be enamored by the manned missions to the moon in the 60′s and 70′s. Of all the missions slated to put astronauts on the moon, the one that famously didn’t make it was Apollo 13. Apollo… |
December 1st, 2011
Apple Founder’s Contract Signed by Jobs, the Woz, and Ronald Wayne to be Auctioned
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This is really bizarre to me, but I bet some rich Apple geek will snap this right up. Apparently, the original contract from April 1, 1976 that established Apple Computer Corp. is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s. The auction house expects the contract to go for some very big… |
November 29th, 2011
Back to the Future Props Hit the Auction Block
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If you’ve got some deep pockets, and are looking for something that you know nobody else will be getting as a holiday gift this year, then you might want to head on over to Los Angeles this December, for a chance to own some original props from the Back to … |
November 12th, 2011
Why Buy a Real Car When You Can Buy a Model Lamborghini for $4.7 Million?
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I guess it’s true that money can buy almost everything but happiness. You can buy a $92,000 frog-inspired watch, a bejeweled pen that’s priced at close to a million, and an 11-foot iOS dock with a price tag of around half a million dollars.… |
September 14th, 2011
