Geekology
While we wait for the iPad (ugh… I can barely say the name without wincing) to get with the times (no flash? really?) we’re happy to stick to our trusty Macbook Pro as a primary portable computing device. So, in honor of the good old dog, get yourself a BookBook, the stellar
invisibility cloakslaptop covers by Twelve South.
Love this! Love this! Woodtec’s handmade cedar docking stations for iPhones and iPods are made-to-order, meaning each one is unique with it’s own knobbies and marbling. The docks are compatible with all iPods (except the shuffle) and use a standard USB wire…
The other day, on our Williamsburg P’tit Louis gift excursion, YZ and I sidetracked into Dijital Fix (in the Bedford Mini-Mall) for a quick peruse… Faced with geeky accessories galore, I couldn’t help but buy these two office helpers from ever-innovative Kikkerland. The Hubman is now smiling happily beside my Mac, charging the iPhone, connecting my zip drive, powering the keyboard light and serving as a nifty mouse-cord-extender when Goobie the Cat decides to snooze in one of his favorite spots: right in front of my computer screen…
We’ve been waiting for these slick iPhone accessories for a good few months now and are thrilled that Poddities straps and loops have arrived just in time for us to crown them as THE perfect stocking stuffers this holiday. Available from always-reliable Amazon, the straps come in natural and black leather or red, orange, yellow, green, blue, gray, and white seatbelt-weave styles. Get rid of that nasty case and flaunt your newly pimped iPhone!
“We used to learn our alphabets by reading those classroom banners that associated each letter with an animal or object. These days as kids become increasingly computer dependent at an early age I thought it was about time to adapt an old method to a new medium.” – CMD
These keyboard stickies by Christopher Monroe Delorenzo are retarded cute and, aside from teaching munchkins their ABC’s, could be a wonderful tool for type training. Although not currently available online, you can email the designer here for further instructions on how to buy the $15 sticker set.
Frogger, Space Invaders, Pacman, Arkanoid, Centipede… The hours I spent at the crazy, cat-tormenting Australian neighbor’s house just to hone my ability to cross the pond, kill the fleet, and evade Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde for yet another round. Little did I know, decades later, I would still fall into a strange trance when placed before an original Arkanoid arcade game (they’ve got the whole lineup at Barcade…
Nope. Not a bug fan. Somehow, I’ve been designated the official role of Bug-Squasher at home and am certainly not fond of those duties either. Oh! What’s that there? A shiny, bits & pieces, watch-innards mechanical bug? Well, that’s a whole different cup of tea!
Thank you Mirko Humbert of Designer Daily, for putting out the funniest (Godwin’s Law-inspired?) meme I have seen to date…
Just stumbled upon this jaw-droppingly accurate pixel map of Hong Kong! It functions much in the same way as Google satellite maps but so much more fun to explore…
“Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he’ll wear metallic clothes!”
- Shigeru Miyamoto, circa 1991
This great new widget from Uniqlo provides for endless hours of comfortably numb relaxation. Watch time lapse video clips of dancers in a Shizuoka parade, A cricket practice warm-up in Tokyo, and lapping waves in Okinawa as well as 29 other scenes including four more Japanese cities (Kanagawa, Hyogo, Tokushima, and Kyoto) in Japan…
SwitchEasy has come out with these spunky ThumbTack microphones created for the iPod Nano and Touch. Just plug the little tack into your headphone jack and, using whichever recording application you have on your iPod, you’re good to go!
Happy 25th birthday to my absolute favorite procrastination tool! Tetris, which was designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov on June 6, 1984, is so ingrained in my visual vocabulary that even now I catch myself staring into space, turning the shapes around me into the game’s iconic Tetrominoes and arranging them on my subconscious’ Game Boy screen…
I don’t know whether it was yesterday’s visit to DJ Neil Armstrong’s Transformer-filled apartment or the natural nostalgia that our generation seems to have for all things toy, but this USB drive is at the very top of my things-to-buy-while-wasted-and-lacking-self-control list…