Entries for July, 2008

Incase Releases SlimSleeves, Laughs at iPhone Users

I have no problem with the fact that the Incase SlimSleeve for various incarnations of the MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are about $35, but why on earth, then, are their cases for the iPhone only about $5 less? Assuming both products took about the same amount of time / effort to design & […]

TRU Kindly Offers Countdown to Wallet Emptying

A long time ago, in this very galaxy, there were Star Wars toys. Lots of them. And they were good. They were very, very good. And then everybody wanted them. And then they were worth a fortune. It was the late ’70s / early ’80s and there was no eBay. Then in the mid-’90s we […]

OMG! Own Your Own WALL-E!

Did you leave the theater having fallen in love with WALL-E and wishing that you could have your very own garbage mashing robot? Well now your dreams have been answered! Disney’s shopping site just started taking pre-orders for their Ultimate WALL-E Remote Control Robot! Read more about it after the clicky thingie…

Mamma Mia Breaks Box Office Record!

Okay, so it got absolutely murdered this past weekend by The Dark Knight, but Mamma Mia actually broke the box office record for highest opening weekend sales for a musical.  So, there you go…now we never have to hear about Mamma Mia again.

Our Favorite (non-time-wasting) iPhone App So Far!

Sure there are a zillion (read: ~900) iPhone apps in the App Store in this, the first week of the store’s existence. And sure, there are some great things in there like OneTap Movies, Bejeweled 2 (despite its tendency to reset the iPhone every other time it runs), G-Park and, of course, PhoneSaber. But these […]

New Acer Laptops Great for Gaming, Breaking Backs, Shutting Down Tractor Beams

First there was the conference table that the Galactic Empire tried to sneak into our office. Then there was the mouse that they thought they could get us with on our very own desktop. Well now our revenge is at hand. Acer’s just released their Gemstone Blue line of desktop replacement-class laptops, including the 8920G, […]

Your Swanky Home Office Just Got Less Swanky

Think you have the coolest home office on the block just cuz you plunked down a grand for an Aeron and another $4k for a MILK desk? Think again, caveman! Hit the clicky thingie to read more…

Fallout 3 Trailer Proves Nuclear Holocaust is Fun!

Over at CrunchGear, they were nice enough to post the official Fallout 3 trailer shown at E3. If you’re one of those silly folk who’s allowed the media to sucker you into believing that nuclear bombs are bad, this video will prove otherwise. Also not bad: Levitating, multi-armed robots that look dangerous but kindly hand […]

LEGOLAND Goes Green. And Tall.

Do you yearn for the good ol’ days in LEGOLAND? No, I don’t mean the amusement park in Denmark. I’m talking about the real deal. The Town sets that LEGO released between ’78 and about ’96 when everything started to get “juniorized”. If you’ve fallen into your second Dark Ages because of a lack of […]

HP TouchSmart PCs Available at Retail

HP announced this morning that their new line of touch-screen TouchSmart PCs are available at retail nationwide. We’re looking forward to seeing the TouchSmart in action for ourselves. Hopefully, getting our new iPhone 3G near the TouchSmart won’t cause some kind of space-time rift. Then again, that might be kinda cool. Stay tuned for more […]