I want one for no other reason than the fact that it is uber-cool. the icon battery pack for iPhone by Essential TPE.
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Say hello to Ceres, my new 13-inch MacBook Pro.
In continuing a tradition of naming the machines I own after planets and constellations (which is, in turn, naming them after figures in Roman or Greek mythology), I christened her a name that compliments those of her fellow stablemates Tethys, the jinxed 15-inch MacBook Pro she replaces, and Cyrene, the Lenovo S10 netbook I’d hackintosh’d.
The USB flash drive is one of those things which should be ubiquitous in our daily lives. So where better to attach one than to the bunch of keys you’ll always have on you, right?
Kudos to French design firm 5.5 Designers (Cinq Cinq) and LaCie for the LaCie iamaKey and itsaKey USB Flash Drive. This is what I call designing to context.
Too cute! Must buy!!
Product description from the makers:
The DigiDude is your own funky, portable camera tripod and keychain with attitude. Simply screw off your dude’s head and pull out his retractable legs for the perfect on-the-go camera mount.
Choose from one of five dudes: Pinky Scorsese, Snot Buster, 1iChomp, BoltBot, and G-bling-Money-Son, each with their own personality and attitude.
All DigiDudes come fully equipped with retractable and bendable legs for adjustable camera height & grip as well an included key ring.
Pre-sale price is US$19.99, usual price US$24.99. Get them from Quirky.
iPhone accessory maker More Concepts has just unveiled two more colors, Merlot and Titanium, for its Noel collection of metallic-colored hard cases for the iPhone 3G.
Other than the stupid hole that so many accessory makers insist on having—why, I’ll never understand—aren’t they pretty?
Over a quick round at Durty Nelly’s three Saturdays back, Eddie and Violet came to the conclusion that I have two of just about every gadget I own.
It began with my blatant attempts in cajoling Eddie into getting an iPhone instead of an iPod touch, something I did after a month with the iPod touch he gifted me.
“Then you don’t have to carry an iPod and a phone around,” I said.
“But I already have two phones!” he exclaimed while waving his Sony Ericsson K800i and a company-issue Blackberry. “I’m becoming like you!”
“I don’t have two of everything!” I protested.
Violet snorted. “Yes, you do. You have two phones.”
Eddie chimed in, “Two iPods.”
“Of which I’m gonna sell one off,” I said in defense. But they continued as a tag team.
“Two digital SLRs.”
“Four lenses; that makes two pairs.”
“How many film cameras?”
“Two,” I grudingly replied. “But they’re tools of the trade!”
“Two video camcorders.”
“You even have two laptops, for fuck’s sake… ”
“Fine. I like things in pairs, okay?!”
Which I do, if you know what I mean…
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34, male and very Cancerian. Often irascible, even if he is prescient to his emotions. Lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. Dabbles in fiction writing, photography, sketching and daydreaming in his free time, even though he is paid to do just those in a professional capacity.
He is, in other words, quite a geek.
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