by admin | December 23, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
Remember those plastic glasses we had as kids, which changed color if liquid was inside? You'd quite often get them for 99c with a kid's meal at a fast food chain. These are the next (grown-up) step in the evolution. While it's just a concept for now, I'm really hoping designer Damjan [...]
by admin | December 23, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
Don Dodge was Microsoft's champion in the startup community, their connection to the crazy world that gave us Facebook and Twitter. They laid him off a month ago. Now we know what he really thinks about Microsoft. It's bad. What's interesting isn't Dodge lobbing the bomb that Microsoft is the new [...]
by admin | December 23, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
I know what you're thinking right now. "Who in the hell is Koyi Matei?" We haven't the slightest clue, but she was probably the chief protagonist in Episode 2, or something. [ThinkGeek via ChipChick] Send an email to Mark Wilson, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@kram > moc.odomzig@kram
by admin | December 21, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
With four faces, this Navigator watch from Storm offers the time, date, temperature and a compass, and even makes you a sandwich if you ask nicely. Ok, we made that last bit up, but it looks pretty neat with its quad-faces, right? Encased in stainless steel, the Navigator comes in either blue or [...]
by admin | December 20, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
James Cameronmay've spent $300m making Avatar, but he must be feeling pretty pleased today with the news that it made $232.2m in the opening weekend at the box office. $73m of that was from the US and Canada, and the remaining $159.2m from around the world was bulked up mostly by Russia, France and [...]
by admin | December 20, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
Remember the all-Lego house that James May had built (and then destroyed)? Well, here's a preview for the show it was for, with the poor bastard trying to fall asleep on a Lego pillow. Send an email to Adam Frucci, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@mada > moc.odomzig@mada
by admin | December 19, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
Looking back at vintage advertising can be a sociological horrorshow. It could never be printed now. But it also seems inevitable that some of today's tech ads will eventually seem utterly backwards, too. The question is, which ones? I'm not talking about obvious screwups like Microsoft whitewashing their Polish advertising campaign [...]
by admin | December 19, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
It took 300 people to construct a 400 square foot model of the USSR's capital city back in 1977. Today you can buy that super-detailed, scaled-down version of Moscow for a mere $3 million. " id="img1013715461"> " id="img1013715475"> " id="img1013715489"> Stunning, isn't it? Apparently every single of the [...]
by admin | December 18, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
Most of us already know that it's NOT socially acceptable to talk during a movie. But to those of us who weren't born in a barn, these rude movie-goers are still a constant burden. It's time to fight back, dirty. With Avatar in theaters, the stakes are simply too high to risk [...]
by admin | December 17, 2009 | under Cool gadgets |
Courting controversy, Danish designer Magnhild Disington has created a range of USB sticks covered in real fur, because without fur they're "neutral in appearance and lack emotional appeal." Err...okaay. Trying to make a point, but failing somewhere in the execution of it, Disington uses leftover pieces of fur which would normally have been thrown [...]