Availabots are your friends. Visual interpretations of your friends, that is. To be even more technical, Availabots are "physical representations of presence in instant messenger applications" that "stand to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when…
Continue Reading →Must you wear one? I'm not personally a huge fan of the bluetooth headset craze. Yeah, they're convenient, but I just can't get used to seeing people walking down the street talking to themselves, er...someone. It's weird. New York has…
Continue Reading →Warning: do not pop Contexture's cassette tape nano cases into your boombox hoping to hear all of those sweet tunes you taped off the radio back in 1985, because they don't work like that; while they may look like the…
Continue Reading →A couple of great stills from an animation of the King and Queen meeting on the Mimobot we just released for the 2007 artist series. Along with the super-sexy USB drives in many different capacities, the über-bot is full of…
Continue Reading →Information is gold -- and that's what seems to have inspired the idea behind the blinged-out design of LaCie's new Golden Disk hard drive, the latest in its designer series. Packing 500g's (gigabytes, that is), the digital storage unit's wavy,…
Continue Reading →Mike Heisler, the artist behind the Slobot robots that we've gushed about here before, designed this Bart Qee figure for the Toy Tokyo leg of the Bart Simpson Qee show in NYC. The 10'' tall Bart comes equipped with positionable…
Continue Reading →In between occasionally eating cake for dinner and cookies for lunch, I do make an effort to be healthy. I'm an avid swimmer, logging hours of laps in the city pool each week. I switch up my routine with the…
Continue Reading →An Italian company has made it even easier for MySpacers to nab that perfect picture with a portable tripod alternative. Called Klikk, the tiny device allows users to snap away at artsy angles and in less-than-perfect settings. A better example…
Continue Reading →After Wednesday's drastic iPhone price reduction, it came as no surprise when the phone's early adopters collectively responded with a succinctly stated "WTF." After all, the iPhone's success -- and subsequent price reduction -- was partially in thanks to the…
Continue Reading →Our pals at mimoco are now loading an exclusive zine onto their newly dispatched blood-thirsty monsters/flash drives. Core Series 2 mimobots ordered after today will arrive pre-loaded with mimozine Issue 1, featuring music by Art Brut, comedy by Poykpac, mimobot…
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