By David Ponce After an absence of a few weeks, here’s the optical illusion column again. That picture above? Four circles. No spiral. Yeah. In other news, we’re thinking of starting anot...
By David Ponce Perhaps fuelled by the phenomenal success of the Pebble Smartwatch (which went on to raise $10,266,845 on Kickstarter after seeking only $100,000), we have news of yet another watch th...
By David Ponce If the success of Victorinox and their Swiss Army knives has proven anything is that multi-funtion tools can be popular. The above pizza slicer also incorporates a server so you can go...
By David Ponce Well this is interesting for a change. Today’s deal is no piece of hardware; no phone, TV, laptop or desktop. Instead it’s a $10 voucher for tunes on eMusic, with a 7 day t...
By David Ponce Things have gotten to the point where you’re able to track a multitude of quantitative points when you go out cycling: your position, speed, and elevation for example. But one me...
By David Ponce The top photo was taken with NASA’s Terra satellite with its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. No points for guessing in which part of that shadow was the eclipse most com...
By David Ponce We live in a time where genuine human-to-human interaction is a dwindling activity. It still happens a lot, but just think about the amount of time you spend interacting with a digital...
By David Ponce We often talk about lenses that you can add to your iPhone camera to extend its usefulness. There is the case with the polarizing lens. Then there’s the case with the dial that l...
By David Ponce We were talking to an LG representative last winter at CES and he was going over how awesome the 55EM600 is. How thin. And then we saw it and couldn’t quite believe our eyes: the...
By David Ponce Getting Ketchup out of a bottle that isn’t the plastic squeezable type is an exercise in patience. Countless ads for the product have pointed this out, and have almost romanticiz...
By David Ponce Part of Apple’s design ethic is cleanliness. Its products’ lines are simple and elegant and there’s not much clutter for the eye to be sore over. Which is why it̵...
By David Ponce We often talk about styluses for touch based devices here, mostly the iPhone and its ilk; turns out there are situations where they’re desired, despite Steve Jobs’ reported...
By David Ponce There are times when you need something printed on a good ole piece of dead tree. It happens. And the Star Micronics SM-T300 is a small and rugged little printer that can get it done f...
By David Ponce There are those who believe we’re hardwired to think that something that’s good at only one thing is better than something else that does several duties. That’s why t...
By David Ponce The motion sensing abilities of Microsoft’s Kinect are… adequate for a few things like playing games while being drunk. But it’s laggy and imprecise and it gets tedio...
By David Ponce The Inspiron line of laptops from Dell are not exciting, but they’re not meant to be. They’re good value machines, and today’s model is a prime example of this. The 1...
By David Ponce There’s a growing trend where companies marry new technology to old instruments in order to help us learn how to play them. There’s a few examples: Ion Audio’s plasti...
By David Ponce We’ve seen our fair share of creative marketing campaigns. There was the photoblocker beer cooler that encouraged cheating. There was also the iPhone “Xray” applicati...
By David Ponce It’s not about to change practices in offices worldwide, let’s be honest. But there is a growing number of places that are relaxing the business attire for something a bit ...
By David Ponce We’d like to inform you guys that our longtime partner Energizer is sponsoring a contest for anyone that likes to take pictures with Instagram. After its acquisition by Facebook,...
By David Ponce Whether it’s a detailed walkthrough or a demonstration of your insane killstreak acquiring abilities, putting videos of gameplay online is a popular business. There are several w...
By David Ponce Some of you may know that LEGO has a website called Cuusoo where would-be customers are allowed to vote on reader-submitted concepts. If any particular submission gets at least 10,000 ...
By David Ponce Plugging your iDevice in for the night with no lights on in the room is easier said than done. And since a nightlight is not always an option, the CordLite presents a solution to one o...
By David Ponce I have a strange internal thermostat. It’s picky to no end. Most of the time, I’m sweating, no matter how cool the place is. So what I end up doing is making my apartment g...
By David Ponce Custom painted toys are nothing new under the sun. Very often however the paint chips off or you’re stuck with bad quality stickers. We’re told the guys at CitizenBrick off...
By David Ponce There are those that learn guitar and there are those that play it. Or at least pretend to play it. Or at the very least make an attempt to appear to play it… We’re not sur...
By David Ponce The Datastroyer Model 1000 Disintegrator sounds almost made up, like something Wile E. Coyote would have ordered from an ACME catalogue. As it turns out, it appears you can order this ...
By David Ponce It’s unfortunate but accurate to say that people who wish or need to wear bulletproof vests do so at the cost of sacrificing their comfort. This is true most of all in warm weath...
By David Ponce 27 inch screens are still not that cheap. Most of the great price cuts have happened in the 22 to 24 inch range, so when you see the above 27 inch model from Planar going for $209 afte...
By David Ponce If you’re going to buy an Ultrabook, the common wisdom is to get a Macbook Air. That’s what this article is being written on and it’s definitely a solid machine. But ...
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