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Time for a new name.(Selling it: goofs / glitches / gotchas)(Brief Article)
The Hover Crafts Clock may be "awesome," as the catalog says. It may use "scientific principals of magnetic levitation and electricty to create counter-intuitive and magical modes of motion." Each piece may even be "exquisitely carved." But the clock doesn't perform one particularly clocklike function. See below.
Hover Crafts Clock
* Awesome Desk Topper
A woodcarved clock which utilizes the ...
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