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  1. PeterS

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    #1 PeterS, Apr 9, 2006
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    I cracked up this afternoon while cleaning out some old boxes. I came across a box of my brainstorm, 'Technoswat', a high-tech fly swatter I came up with in the early ninties. It was the 'High-Tech' way to kill a fly, the swatter with a Byte'!

    I bought 10K fly swatter handles from a fly swatter manufacturer in AZ, 10K 5.25" surplus floppy disks and 10K stickers that I drafted the artwork for. I had a guy assembly them at his house in San Jose. I remember only selling about a thousand of them through a catalog company before they sent half of them back!
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  2. Stephanie

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    #2 Stephanie, Apr 9, 2006
    That's just because it wasn't big enough to swat people, too. :p
     
  3. KingOfCars

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    #3 KingOfCars, Apr 9, 2006
    You need some electricity running through that thing. I have a fly swatter/bug killer that looks like a badminton racquet. You trap the bug into the racquet and then press button several times. The button zaps the bug. My record is 32 zaps on a spider before it burst into flames. good times.
     
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    #4 DavkeG, Apr 9, 2006
    Wouldn't the flies go through the whole in the middle half the time?
     
  5. Simon^2

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    #5 Simon^2, Apr 9, 2006
    should have put a sexy logo on it and marketted it as a sex toy.
     
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    #6 Stephanie, Apr 9, 2006
    LMAO!!
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    #7 wax, Apr 9, 2006
    How many do you have left?

    Retro-Kitsch stores go for stuff like this.

    Like this store - they sell a lot more crap than T-Shirts.
    http://yque.com/index.html
     
  8. PeterS

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    #8 PeterS, Apr 9, 2006
    Maybe a hundred or so. I'll just give them away! PS: If anybody wants one, the box and shipping will be more than it's worth!
     
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    #9 PeterS, Apr 9, 2006
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    That's been on the market for years!
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    #10 PeterS, Apr 9, 2006
    Is that an 'I like toys' grin?
     
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    #11 ^@#&, Apr 9, 2006
    it actually stings to be shocked with one.
     
  12. Stephanie

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    #12 Stephanie, Apr 9, 2006
    Probably
     
  13. PeterS

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    #13 PeterS, Apr 9, 2006
    Where's Lamour when you need him!
     
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    #16 Dino Martini, Apr 9, 2006
    lol, keep out of reach of children..like thats ever going to happen.
     
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    #17 Etcetera, Apr 9, 2006
    I do. I invested a ton of money into the company. I guess you can say that I was blinded by the hype.
     
  18. PeterS

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    #18 PeterS, Apr 9, 2006
    That's as bad as the horrible accident my optometrist had........... He fell into his lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself!
     
  19. Stephanie

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    #19 Stephanie, Apr 9, 2006
    Hahahaha THAT'S CUTE! I like that. :D
     
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    #20 Dejan, Apr 10, 2006
    You know that is a cute idea. Did you talk to Think Geek people? I'd try to get this thing on Slashdot and I can't imagine you not having a bunch of sales. I'd buy few for the office.

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    #21 ryalex, Apr 10, 2006
    I had a buddy in college who got a crate of those from Taiwan and sold them on campus...
     
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    #24 BT, Apr 10, 2006
    My youngest daughter refers to the fly swatter as a 'gnat snapper'.
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