“Celebrate Craftsmanship” and getting Mocked in Public with The New iPhone Pocket

Apple, famous for it’s innovative products and “design so clean it hurts,” has now unveiled… a knitted phone sock. Yes, the iPhone Pocket, which is basically a fancy yarn strap made with Issey Miyake so you can give your phone its own little sweater. “Born out of a collaboration between ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple, iPhone Pocket features … Read more

drone vs cute neighbor’s car

Last night I piloted my new mini quadcopter out my backdoor and beyond my deck. That’s when I lost reception, and she plummeted forty feet. Normally that would be no big deal, this sucker is invincible, but I heard the distinct, unmistakable sound of the body of a car being struck by a small drone. … Read more

The iWatch we can all afford!

Hine Mizushima is a designer and illustrator currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She recently posted this set of pictures that I’ve now seen in a few places online. I have 2 great-nephews, 3 and 1. I know their mother and grandmother have iPhones. I may have to make a few of these. Time to learn … Read more

California Traffic Signs Warn Pedestrians about Facebook

Should we call this Wednesday humor? Perhaps not since it isn’t a joke at all. California, always conscious regarding the safety of their residents is concerned for the pedestrians have recognized a growing potential for crosswalk danger. It seems that many Californians have been too busy on social media, particularly Facebook to concern themselves with … Read more

Pepper Spray Stings! Ouch!

In my younger days of diminished common sense I gave a girl a can of pepper spray for her birthday, a party with a dozen girls, indoors, tight space. She opened the packaging and I guess a little squirted out and, well, let’s just say that that’s one way to wrap up a boring birthday … Read more

Learn Cantonese, Google Translate!

Google’s wonderful translation service speaks eighty languages. Eighty! Stunning voice synthesizing and speech recognition in both lingual directions too, it’s crazy. Eight languages. Among those languages is Latin. There are zero native Latin speakers in the world today, and it is estimated that only ten thousand or so speak it fluently as a second language. … Read more

Google’s WebM Eviscerating GIFs (at least on 4chan)

Animated GIFs have long severed the Internet adequately for short, low-quality animated cat and sleazy porn videos. Google improved on the decades-old GIF technology with WebM, a format that has better compression, lets you watch cat videos in true color instead of a crappy 256 color pallet, a higher frame rate (like 60fps), greater CPU … Read more