You'll have to pardon our ignorance for a moment. You see, up until now we couldn't even remotely fathom slot cars being used as works of art -- they always just seemed like the perfect recreational tools for NASCAR fans…
Continue Reading →When Energizer came out with the Energi To Go -- the battery operated chargers that can perk up your cell or iPod "on the go" -- mobile tech geeks found it a fair solution to their energy crisis. But, the…
Continue Reading →R.E.M. didn't really sing about the world ending in a fashinable way, but Dutch clothes hounds Ontour have come up with an interesting spin on the hipster t-shirt: impending disaster. They descrbe their work as: "a pandemic combination of Bermuda…
Continue Reading →It's amazing to us how Craigslist can be all at once indispensable and cumbersome. Browsing through tons of irrelevant postings takes a lot out of a man who just wants to sell a pink 1956 Philco refrigerator in Chicago, find…
Continue Reading →Unlike most of IKEA's offerings, the French furniture designers at Domestic makes plywood sexy. These functional birch-wood pieces are reminiscent of those balsa wood model kits you used to make dinosaur skeletons out of. Vases, occassional tables, birdcages, hanging planters...there's…
Continue Reading →It's our party and we'll use a mass invite site if we want to. Preferring the superior Crusher to the mind-numbing Evite, yet another option in the e-invitation scene has emerged. Pingg (you can decide what the extra consonant is…
Continue Reading →I'm in Chicago right now, and it's cold. Really, really cold. That means two things around the JS headquarters: lots of hooded sweatshirts, and warm drinks. Thanks to the folks at Two Leaves and a Bud Tea, we've been enjoying…
Continue Reading →Our friends at Friends With You are being super productive lately. Their "Tickle Party" made us giggle a few weeks ago, and now they're getting ready to launch a new line of toys at the end of the month called…
Continue Reading →If we know anything about you, it's that you're probably the type who's forever sworn off the notion of purchasing a tube top. What if we told you you're about to reconsider that notion? Would you think we're just plain…
Continue Reading →Most people think the name ADIDAS is merely an acronym for dreaming about something that starts with an 'S' all day. However, there is a bigger story behind those famous three stripes and that story began with the dreams of…
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