A while back, Mimoco approached the Spear Collective with the idea of doing an artist series Mimobot. We hollered at our 26 artists to submit design proposals, and many of them came through with some damn impressive bot mockups. In…
Continue Reading →While it may seem like not much can be done to improve your simple "leave a message," YouMail amps up voicemail with a number of features meant to take it to a whole new level. The free service allows you…
Continue Reading →What did high school students, drug dealers, and doctors have in common 10 years ago? They all carried pagers. Now cell phones and text messaging has made those prior status symbols obsolete but thankfully, the networks that carried all that…
Continue Reading →While most of us can only be satisfied with the latest advancements in digital photography, there seems to be those who like to keep one foot tucked safely in the past. A few companies have recognized a need to meld…
Continue Reading →Thanks to everyone for their input regarding how to best use the floor and wall space in my very empty, very awesome new apartment and as promised, we're giving away -- arbitrarily! okay, only sort of -- the three Ptry…
Continue Reading →New York's alternative watch maker Nooka is known for both their abstract approach to time keeping and their creatively free approach to designing those watches. What better form of collaboration, then, would there be other than to pair up with…
Continue Reading →For the last few weeks, I've been scouring the internet looking for the perfect pocket-sized camera that can go with me everywhere as a supplement to my trusty Digital Rebel -- preferably something with some personality, to boot. I haven't…
Continue Reading →Before I get into why my iPhone is wrapped up tight, on the way back to its maker, let me first say this: I love Apple. I love, love, love everything about them. I grew up on a Macintosh, started…
Continue Reading →In a classically A+B = Cha-ching! moment, the latest way to exploit thirteen year olds and their flailing parents has been discovered: A) Digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light than the human eye; B) The "camera-phone generation" is…
Continue Reading →A lot of holes in your wall: that's something you don't want. Instead of mounting your sweet new flat screen plasma TV directly on your wall"”discoloring your paint and drilling holes in the drywall to keep the screen up and…
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