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You gotta love the ingenuity of people sometimes. One Dave Wiggins was sitting around one day wondering what he should. After a little bit o thought, some inspiration and a trip to the local Dewalt factory service center, Dave came up with this most excellent rendition of a Dewalt M-16 Nail Gun.

Dave says, “I’d just picked up a new (to me) M-16 and was in the process of fixing it up a little. It needed new furniture anyway, so I sourced the safety yellow stock, guard, and grip. Then, I went down to the DeWalt factory service place a few miles from the house to get a sticker. There, I saw they had brand new battery casings, so I picked up one of those too. I got home, found a short magazine , and got to work.

That’s freaking cool stuff right there.

via: Toolmonger

I don’t do a lot of cars and few exotics really get my attention unless of course it’s a Ferrari, but the 2008 Aston Martin DBS is one hot ride and one that would make James Bond lush with envy. In fact, I believe this is the production model of the car 007 wrecked in Casino Royale. The curves on this coupe are as sleek and slender as any you’d find on the most curvaceous Bond girl and it’s certain the driver can easily get lost in a moment with this car.

Sporting a high performance 6.0 litre race engineered V-12, sleek lines, a mix of performance technology and hand crafted design, the Aston Martin DBS is sure to get any car enthusiasts motor running. Here’s a few photos from the Aston Martin website to get those juices flowing.

Aston Martin via Crave

While not on the scale of the LEGO Aircraft Carrier, this model is still pretty neat. It’s a replica of the Batmobile, called The Tumbler, from the last Batman movie (Batman Begins). It’s pretty neat, check out the images below.

Brickshelf via: TechEBlog

This was just too good to pass up. If you live in the Memphis area and your not into the whole yard work thing, preferring rather to hire a professional to keep that lawn looking fresh and green, you might want to check out a company called Tiger Time Lawn Care whose lovely ladies will give your yard a hell of a bikini cut. Here’s a few photos from the companies website of the ladies getting serious about their work. If you think about it, it’s a great marketing gimick. There’s dozens of bikini car washes around during the summer but babes and mowers, not so much. It would definitely cause people passing by to take notice and probably remember the name as well. Landscaping or mowing services is a high profile niche so being able to separate your service from the competition is important. Brand building, being noted from something unique, that’s a key to being successful right there.

And a couple of videos from recent news coverage after the jump

LEGO’s! The greatest toy ever invented. I built all kinds of things with them when I was a kid and my son has tons of them too. Some of the newest models are wickedly cool but this has to be one of the coolest, if not the coolest model I’ve ever seen. Created from an idea, weighing roughly 350lbs, using 300,000 LEGO bricks and taking over a year to build, it’s a scale model of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman complete with electrical lights on the deck, hangar, aircraft, movable elevators, radar dishes and a motorized catapult.

via: TechEBlog

More photos at Brickshelf