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Meet the gadget hackers

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Gadget hackers have created an underground network that stretches from Argentina to New Zealand.

Linked by a curiosity about how things work, they salvage old toys and modern gadgets to create new gizmos.

One of the largest of the UK's nine groups is London Hack Space, which has attracted more than 200 members since it launched in January.

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