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Unhearit Gets that Song Out of Your Head with a Catchy New One [Annoyances]
Unhearit uses a fight-fire-with-fire approach to getting annoying songs out of your head by barraging you with new and catchy tunes. More » 
Plywood secret compartment
This veeeeery devious concealment, which opens with a detachable magnetic clasp, is one of eight produced by design student Yi-Ting Ching as part of her Master’s thesis called Secret…
Wookiee The Chew: Winnie The Pooh Retold With Star Wars Characters
“Wookiee The Chew” is a new book by James Hance featuring his wonderful illustrations of Winnie The Pooh retold using characters from Star Wars. ‘Wookiee The Chew’, in the style of…
Open source phone service for off-grid areas
Mobile phones are increasingly viewed as a critical means of improving life for those in the developing world, whether through employment, healthcare or social connections. Such…
Selgas Cano Builds Their Office In The Middle of a Forest
Iwan Baan shot some amazing photos of the Madrid based architecture firm Selgas Cano, which built an amazing office for their company in the middle of the forrest. …
Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose VideoSong
Take one part rock music legend, one part writer extraordinaire and two parts talented internet sweethearts and what do you get? One amazing song featuring Ben Folds, author Nick…
agencies suffering from 'cognitive deficit'?
I recently read Clay Shirky’s ‘Cognitive Surplus’. He argues that for decades, technology (i.e. TV) encouraged us to squander our time and as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up…
YouTube Annotations can now click through to other sites
YouTube Annotations is about 2 years old. It’s a system that video uploaders can use to direct traffic to other videos, and has been used in lots of fun ways, including ‘choose your own adventure’…
Home energy monitor for less than $30
We’ve looked at a variety of home energy monitors in recent years, including Google’s offering, the attractive Wattson device and a smattering of others we recently rounded up. We…
How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks stores nationwide now have free Wi-Fi, but details around the second piece to the coffee retailer’s digital strategy — the Starbucks Digital…
Trial gear and showers for runners at Tokyo Adidas store
First we saw Gap partner with fitness chain Crunch to turn its rotating New York City concept store into a workout haven for a month. Now, sports brand Adidas is pushing the idea even…
Giant metal people deliver electricity to your house
Most big public works projects get opposed by the people living near them. So one group of designers wants to fight NIMBY (not in my back yard) opposition by turning giant electricity pylons…
Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt, 4 Fried Mozzarella Sticks Inside of a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Denny’s new Fried Cheese Melt consists of four fried mozzarella sticks inside of a grilled cheese sandwich. See Also: KFC Double Down via Eater This is a blog post from Laughing…
Grocery IQ Is a Brilliant Grocery List Application [Downloads]
iOS/Android: Grocery iQ builds and manages your grocery shopping list with an impressive feature set. You can search and add items to your list manually or by scanning barcodes,… 
Microsoft Research reveals RearType, puts QWERTY back where it belongs
We’ve seen a few wacky split keyboards in our day, and even the occasional back-typing peripheral, but Microsoft Research has just congealed the core ideas into a…
