remove the labels – Gadgets and Life

A glass of water sat on St. Peter’s gold-trimmed marble desk. On the
surface of the water sat a small box-like structure, made by folding up
the sides of a piece of ordinary window screen. Eyes a-goggle, St.
Peter stared in wonderment as the screen boat lazily floated across the
water.
“I give up, Don,” St. Peter finally laughed. “Why
doesn’t [...]

Tommy Baritoni watched the photo print roll out of the HP Photosmart 3210 All in One Printer. Ah, that’s the stuff, he thought, admiring the full-color portrait of his favorite band in all their early-’80s glory, headbands, keytars, and all. They stopped making bands like Journey anymore, but I still believe.
Tommy checked his watch and [...]

Sadly, the classic 1980 motion picture starring the Village People got it wrong: sometimes, you can
stop the music. Especially if your name is Low Battery Power, and said
music is played by an iPod. In that case, you’ll find the music
eminently stoppable.
The Nyko iBoost may not completely
fulfill the promise made by the Indian, the Cowboy, the [...]

Yeah, I got the face of a Tom Waits hero but she still sits next to me at the bar. A woman like that, a woman like that makes a man feel like a Belkin 2.4 MultiMedia Keyboard w/IR. She makes me feel so full of life, just like the built in USB cord means [...]

It’s the time of the season
When hurricanes run high
In this time, you need a flashlight
You can power with batteries
Or your hands
The WeatherX Dynamo
Just in case the big one hits
It’s the time of the season for hurricanes
What’s your name?
Where’s your flashlight?
Is it hand-cranked like mine?
Have you listened
To the NOAA band
That tells you what to do to [...]

Saturday night at Club Panther. The waitress set the Bacardi &
OJ on the table in front of Hamilton Beach, private dick and stone
righteous brother. “You read my mind, baby,” Beach said, “But unless
I’m higher than I thought, I didn’t order this.”
“Compliments
of the lady at the bar,” the waitress explained. “The one in the green
velvet [...]

Don’t be fooled by the superficial peace in your office right now.
Sure, everything might seem nice and placid, for the moment. Boring,
even. But make no mistake: as you blissfully type away, your enemies
are out there somewhere, waiting for their chance to invade your
cubicle and destroy your way of life, to sprinkle unfamiliar orange
snack-food crumbs into [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice if the real implements of war were more like today’s USB Missile Launcher: too weak, squishy, and small to do any real damage? A society where all disputes – between nation and nation, between worker and co-worker, between husband and wife, between plaintiff and defendant – were settled by recourse to [...]

A glass of water sat on St. Peter’s gold-trimmed marble desk. On the
surface of the water sat a small box-like structure, made by folding up
the sides of a piece of ordinary window screen. Eyes a-goggle, St.
Peter stared in wonderment as the screen boat lazily floated across the
water.
“I give up, Don,” St. Peter finally laughed. “Why
doesn’t [...]

Tommy Baritoni watched the photo print roll out of the HP Photosmart 3210 All in One Printer. Ah, that’s the stuff, he thought, admiring the full-color portrait of his favorite band in all their early-’80s glory, headbands, keytars, and all. They stopped making bands like Journey anymore, but I still believe.
Tommy checked his watch and [...]

We come before you in atonement. Looking at it in the hard light of day, it seems our contest 126 theme – Show us some unexpected ways to make sound effects – was a little on the lame side. We were disappointed that the vast majority of the entries basically pasted a boom mic into [...]

Sadly, the classic 1980 motion picture starring the Village People got it wrong: sometimes, you can
stop the music. Especially if your name is Low Battery Power, and said
music is played by an iPod. In that case, you’ll find the music
eminently stoppable.
The Nyko iBoost may not completely
fulfill the promise made by the Indian, the Cowboy, the [...]