Archive for August 2011
Restaurant Kicks Lady Out for Tweeting that Bartender was a Twerp
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I have been in a restaurant before when someone was generally making an ass of themselves complaining about everything. I have also been in a restaurant before when I have leaned over to my wife and noted that the waiter was a tool. A lady named Allison Matsu was at… |
August 18th, 2011
Norwegian Design Studio Prints Pic of Your Dead Pet Using Their Ashes… Seriously
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Some people take their pets very seriously. For instance, this little old lady down the street walks her dog and talks to it like a person. Generally, she’s telling the dog to hurry as it drops a deuce in my yard. I can understand that people can be very attached… |
August 18th, 2011
Pixel Galaxy Game Boy Book: Turn Page to Start
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If you’re one of the millions of gamers who have fond memories with the Game Boy, then you’ll love Sergio Ingravalle’s book, Pixel Galaxy…. It’s a tribute to Nintendo’s Hall of Famer handheld and to pixel graphics in general. |
August 18th, 2011
Air Swimmers: Floating Fish for Family Fun fand Freaking Felines Fout
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Oh hey folks. Didn’t see you there. I was just admiring this article’s title. But on to the topic at hand: floating fish! Air Swimmers are remote-controlled, inflatable nylon balloons. Fill them up with helium, fire up the remote control and let ‘em swim through the air.… |
August 18th, 2011
Ozaki iSuppli Gramo iPhone Speaker Still Needs to be Plugged in
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If you’re looking for a unique dock and charger, look no further, because the Ozaki iSuppli Gramo iPhone Speaker, on top of having a quirky name, will do the job nicely. The speaker is designed to look like a gramophone, and from the description, it will only need to be… |
August 18th, 2011
Marvel Digital Smart TV Enabler Makes Dumb TVs Slightly More Intelligent
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While the idea of a set-top box is nothing new, this box will allow you to stream digital content and to smarten your ‘dumb’ HDTV thanks to Android. It’s something useful if your TV isn’t ‘smart’ yet, and doesn’t yet allow you to access your home network to stream files.… |
August 18th, 2011
Disembodied Head Can Sing You a Lullaby or Two
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Don’t worry, it’s not the disembodied head of a real person, although it definitely looks like one. This humanoid head is smarter than it looks, because it can actually read simplified music scores before singing it to you (or your child.)… |
August 18th, 2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on the Run After Robbing Wendy’s
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You’d think this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would go pull a fast one on a Pizza Hut or something, but he defies everyone’s expectations by hitting on Wendy’s instead.… |
August 18th, 2011
Star Wars TIE Fighter Pinata: Beat the Candy out of the Imperial Fleet
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It’s always fun to swing a stick and hit something. Especially when the reward for such violence is some sweet sugary candy. And hey, we all have a grudge against the Empire right?… |
August 17th, 2011
Flybox from Skybotix: A Hexacopter for Science
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The aptly named Flybox [opens PDF] is just that, a thin flying box shaped six-blade helicopter. It comes from Skybotix, an offshoot of the Autonomous Systems Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.… |
August 17th, 2011
