Of course iPods naturally look cool but if you feel the urge to trick one out, you can do so with some of these cool skins.
AudioCubes offers quite a few Japanese-themed iPod skins by GelaSkins.
One of the artists behind some of these cool skins is Aya Kato from Aichi, Japan. Her partial bio [...]
You can forget about your dad’s classic piggy bank because Facebank is here.
The Banpresto Facebank is a fun little innovation in moneybox technology. Yeah, leave it up to a Japanese designer to find a way to make coin storage cool again.
How does it work? Simply feed it your coins and watch it eat.
Facebook? How [...]
Quite a bit has happened so far this month dealing with the Space Race 2.0 or whatever you want to call the recent surge of interest.
First off is the most exciting, Google and the X Foundation just teamed up. They are offering $30 million in rewards for the first privately funded rover to [...]
SparkPlugged’s quick guide to typing Korean
It’s one thing to write Korean but if you’re like me, you want to be able to type it.
The problem: The placement of Korean letters on keyboards is not the same as QWERTY keyboards. The order of the letters is different and not equivilent to the Latin alphabet. [...]
Imagine if your PC had no hard disc drive. Instead, the hard drive would be a large flash memory chip.
I was recently amazed by Micro SD chips but this takes it to a new level. Samsung Electronics will begin shipping 64GB SSD (solid state drive) hard drives.
There’s no motor, no head and actuator, no [...]
Check out this retro photo of a super cool robo:
This is photo taken in the early 1930s of Mitsui Yasutaro and his “own steel humanoid”. Very impressive. The robot is the one on the left by the way.
…the fascination goes back this far? Oh yeah, much much further. I have some questions though. What [...]
Free Photoshop brushes are a great thing. They are little clippings of artwork for you to use in your projects. While overuse of these brushes is evident and looks silly, a good Photoshop brush can add depthcharacter to many projects. [...]
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head that you didn’t know the title of?
The folks and midomi.com are here to help you. While it’d be most useful for them to somehow magically erase the tune from your mind, they do the other best thing: help you find out the name of [...]
I don’t understand a lot of things about other cultures. And one of these things that I don’t understand is humor. I have never understood British humor, and I don’t know if anyone has. I don’t understand whow our humor here in the the States is funny either.
Apparently there [...]
Like many college kids, I went back to my hometown to my parent’s house for the Christmas break. Sadly though, I forgot to bring home my watch with me. Without it I am a lost soul.
After a couple of days of stumbling through time without any idea of time whatsoever, I found [...]
