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,” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]