The Gas Powered Daiquiri Whacker
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 07.17.05
So many readers thought that the human powered bicycle blender was excessive and conspicuous consumption that we feel in necessary to point out that for about the same money you can purchase the Daiquiri Whacker- a blender powered by a 23cc noisy, polluting gasoline engine. Someday we will introduce the Treehugger award for the most conspicuously useless waste of money and energy and this will be up there.(After we carefully check out the quality of the daiquiris , of course....) ::gasblender via ::National Post and ::Gizmodo
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Have you seen the hand crank blender from GSI Outdoors? Crushes ice on low speed and makes great margaritas on high speed. No gas, off grid, just a bit of elbow grease! Check it out at gsioutdoors.com.
By the way I am the designer of it, so I guess that I am a bit partial.