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Look before you leap - that’s one common piece of advice that many have taken for granted. However, with the plethora of diseases and danger assailing the average homo sapiens from all sides, it doesn’t hurt one bit to be extra cautious these days, hence the 15 Second Pool Water Tester.

This is the handheld device that automatically measures your pool’s water conditions within 15 seconds. It removes all the guesswork employed by systems that require you to compare a test result with a reference chart. Dipping one of the 25 included test strips into the water and placing it into the tester delivers a precise reading of the three most commonly tested pool water parameters: free chlorine, pH, and total alkalinity. The easy-to-read LCD provides a clear digital readout of results, indicating if each of the readings are high, low, or within recommended levels–it also stores up to nine previous test results.

Powered by a couple of AA batteries, folks who do a fair bit of traveling while bringing their swimsuit/trunks with them wherever they go might want to consider investing $69.95 by picking this up.

What is your kid doing cooped up in the living room with the Xbox 360 throughout the entire summer? Banish that thought by introducing him to the great outdoors known as your backyard, and make the entire experience all the more interesting and interactive with the Patriot Paintball Gun Twin Pack.

Aim, fire, SPLAT! This serious adults-only set of paintball pistols is not for the faint hearted! Complete with safety goggles and two tubes of biodegradable water soluble paintballs so they wash off your clothes, this is quite possibly the most fun we’ve ever had with a couple of pint-sized pistols. Take a few pot shots at the wipe clean target or unleash a multicoloured messy attack on your enemies! The high powered paintball guns are pretty accurate and shoot well over long distances; just pull back the loading lever, push back into position, aim and fire! Your paintball guns require no batteries or CO2 making them very easy to use and lots and lots of fun! All you have to do is make sure your paintball pistols are locked and loaded with paintballs and you’re ready for a quick firing frenzy! Extra paintballs can be bought separately.

Who knows? Instead of playing a paintball simulation on the Xbox 360 itself, your teen might pick up a love for the sport and end up being a professional one day instead. The Patriot Paintball Gun Twin Pack retails for £29.95.

Some of you might remember at the end of The Dark Knight, where Batman is made into an outlaw, and Commissioner Gordon takes an axe to the bat-signal. I couldn’t help but think: “Dude, just take out the stencil. You’re ruining a perfectly good spotlight.”

Well, I’m certain that another Batman film is on its way, and if Gotham City really wants to call Batman, they can order another Electric Bat Signal from Entertainment Earth.

It is powered by a plug-in, UL Adapter and two ultra-bright light bulbs, and it has a swivel feature so you can put it on whatever wall you desire.

Some of you may have noticed that this Bat-signal looks nothing like the one from the comic books or movies, as there is no huge Batman insignia stuck in the middle. In all honesty, I never tried putting a signal on a spot light, but I don’t think that would work in real life. Maybe if you shined it up against something, like a wall, but if you’re just aiming it at cloudless night sky, I think the only superhero you would summon is Blotchman. Can anyone confirm whether this does or does not work? Leave a comment, please.

Anyway, if Gotham City wants to call Batman, then they can order this Batman JLA Trophy Room Electric Bat Signal Replica for just $258.39. Yeah, that is pretty expensive, but it is $40 off its current price and a limited edition collectible. Maybe Commissioner Gordon can borrow the money from Bruce Wayne.

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When I first saw this guy using the Rescue Reel, I couldn’t help but think that he was some sort of Daredevil. That, or the photographer used that same effect from the old Batman show where they turn the camera on the side and Adam West and Burt Ward climb up the building without straining their arms and legs.

The Rescue Reel is designed for the user to hook the Rescue Reel in a secure place, put on the harness, and they lower themselves down with automatically controlled centrifugal braking. I would imagine that the experience would be like repelling down a mountain cliff, except it probably won’t be fun if you ever really had to use it.

Still, designer Kevin Stone is clearly on the right track when it comes saving lives from tall buildings. Something tells me that it was designed to combat the horrific images that we still have from the Trade Center Tower attacks. Unless someone designs the next 100 story building with massive fire escapes, history will repeat itself when disaster befalls a skyscraper again.

Of course, this is one device that had better have plenty of line, and designed to hold some overweight people. Also, do you really want to be in an emergency situation where you have to learn how to use it in the next few seconds, or else you will die?

I am guessing that OSHA would be all over these devices if they ever become reality. I would also imagine that Rescue Reels would be located on the walls under red-framed glass, like firehoses or axes.

Yeah, I can see a definite future for the Rescue Reel, and it can give others a future.

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I have just seen Terminator Salvation, and I was somewhat impressed by what I saw. It certainly wasn’t the same quality as T3: The Rise of the Machines, but that is a very, very good thing.

I am not revealing any spoilers by saying that there is a scene where a gigantic robot scoops up humans, and then puts them in one of those flying ships that are seen in previous Terminator films. Of course, it isn’t explained why the heck these humans are being rounded up, nor why they are being stored at their main headquarters.

It cannot be denied that this new ROBOTOPS from Japanese company Tadano Ltd. bears a strong resemblance to the aforementioned people-snatching robots from the well-known Warner Brothers science fiction franchise, but this robot is designed for construction, to pick up very heavy objects such as girders and the like.

In fact, it has a high quality three-chip CCD camera, so it can be operated from a distance. In fact, it can go places that humans cannot go with 29 functioning joints, tank treads, hydraulic lifting legs as well as its grabby arms.

In other words, the ROBOTOPS is a machine designed to help humanity, not hurt them. Can we get over the nightmarish, dystopian images from science fiction and embrace an age where robots don’t take over the world?

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