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Unhearit Gets that Song Out of Your Head with a Catchy New One [Annoyances]

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:10 +0100

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 »

Wookiee The Chew: Winnie The Pooh Retold With Star Wars Characters

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:10 +0100

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…

Plywood secret compartment

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:10 +0100

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…

Open source phone service for off-grid areas

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:10 +0100

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

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:22:10 +0100

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.

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Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose VideoSong

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:48:24 +0100

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…

YouTube Annotations can now click through to other sites

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:48:16 +0100

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

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:48:16 +0100

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…

agencies suffering from 'cognitive deficit'?

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:48:16 +0100

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…

Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt, 4 Fried Mozzarella Sticks Inside of a Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:54:45 +0100

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.

Trial gear and showers for runners at Tokyo Adidas store

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:54:45 +0100

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

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:54:45 +0100

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…

How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:54:45 +0100

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…

Grocery IQ Is a Brilliant Grocery List Application [Downloads]

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:44:37 +0100

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

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:40:44 +0100

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…

Pure CSS Icons, Pure Madness?

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:07:36 +0100

Pure CSS Icons, Pure Madness?:

Think Vitamin contributor Faruk Ateş recently dropped me a note to let me know about a recent trend he has noticed, that of creating web site icons in pure CSS. Have a look at the…

Moustache Mugs

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:42 +0100

Moustache Mugs:

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Sharpie Liquid Pencil writes and erases like a pencil, dries like a Sharpie (video hands-on!)

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:42 +0100

Sharpie Liquid Pencil writes and erases like a pencil, dries like a Sharpie (video hands-on!):

Doesn’t look like we’ve ever covered a pencil on Engadget before, but this is just too nifty to pass up: the Sharpie Liquid Pencil uses liquid graphite to write like a pen, erase like…

6 Ways Eye Tracking Is Changing the Web

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:42 +0100

6 Ways Eye Tracking Is Changing the Web:

Tracking eye movement is more than just a great way to test website usability. It’s also a way to help the disabled, to remotely drive cars and to reinvent multimedia reading.

From open-source…

Smart Hangers Help Suggest Outfits

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:42 +0100

Smart Hangers Help Suggest Outfits:

A group of Japanese designers have created a different way of tagging real world objects.