We ooh'd and ahh'd when Google Maps announced the satellite view on its mapping system back in 2005, and wasted hours flying the world over with Google Earth. Mapping technology has given us a lot in recent years, offering the opportunity to virtually discover the…
It's real, people. Well, almost -- The Abduction Lamp is in its conceptual stages for now, but we've got a hunch this one will get picked up for production quickly. Lasse Klein got the idea for the abduction lamp one night as he was driving past a lighting store…
The classic wooden porch-sitter has a new twist -- Finnish designer Eero Aarnio offers up the Keinu rocking chair, a refined take on his original 1980's model. The sleek design promises to conform perfectly to your body shape with a model plastic seat…
The good folks over at method let us test drive their omop wood for good starter kit this week, a product that promised to retool the 5 second rule. With a house full of heavily trafficked wooden floors and an elderly dog obsessed with licking them, I liked the idea of…
Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing, just can't catch a break these days. First the Treo gets generally slammed by the public for failing to be as sexy and modern as its competitors in the handheld device arena, and then he releases "the most exciting project…
Summer 2007: No Wipe Outs! They look a bit like skates on steroids, but who am I to question Olympic champs that dance on TV? LandRoller has created a new skate with Ohno's help (yep, red was his choice) and are making full use of his Dancing for the Stars win…
I did the math this morning. Assuming at the end of a good cup of coffee, when you get down to the bottom to find a sickly sweet sludge of settled remains, you toss roughly a tablespoon of wasted java down the drain, AND assuming you have a few cups during your daily…
I was over at my friend’s house the other night admiring the shelf-sized speaker system that his iPod was plugged into — mint-green with a wooden face, trapezoidal, and ever so clever in its throwback simplicity. And, as function doesn’t always follow form, it…
This is almost as good as the red Tasco miscroscope kit I got from "Santa" in 3rd grade. Check out the Dino-Lite USB Digital Microscope, ready to jack into your computer and coax your curiosity for a cool $200. "Yeah, but my camera has a MACRO setting, I can…
The kid in me loves this; the wine lover is worried. Both sides are delighted, though, to have found this little gem -- who doesn't love messing with friends? Don't Break the Bottle is a wooden wine puzzle bent on frustrating porch sippers and dinner guests this…
Bad mornings are pretty formulaic: you spill coffee on your pressed shirt, the dog knocks over the kitchen trash, news reports have it that highways are gridlocked, and oh yeah, where'd you put those stupid keys again? I don't know about you, but I've probably wasted…
I don't know if it's the best bendable product since crazy straws, but LG.Philips LCD got my attention yesterday by announcing the release of their new flexible 14.1-inch color screen. The A4 size screen, maxing out at 4,096 colors, can be viewed from a full 180…