Photo: mivanov/Flickr The Sharper Image filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy last night, after three years of overall losses, poor consumer confidence, and ongoing litigation concerning the usefulness of its Ionic Air Breeze air purifier. As a result, you might soon…
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The Sharper Image filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy last night, after three years of overall losses, poor consumer confidence, and ongoing litigation concerning the usefulness of its Ionic Air Breeze air purifier.
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Cheap bookshelves always end up bowing in the middle. The difference with Arianna Vivenzio’s Elastico Bookshelf is that it’s meant to bend. Two metal posts form the brackets, and a giant elastic band is stretched between them. We like the…
Cheap bookshelves always end up bowing in the middle. The difference with Arianna Vivenzio’s Elastico Bookshelf is that it’s meant to bend. Two metal posts form the brackets, and a giant elastic band is stretched between them. We like the easy expandability, but if this concept design ever winds up in the Gadget Lab, we can see ourselves using it as a giant catapult.
Product page [Arianna Vivenzio via Oh Gizmo!]
Via [wired.com]
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Forget the traditional jewelry weapon of choice, the sovereign ring. Next to the Killer Diamond Engagement Ring, it looks like a Nerf gun. This concept, from Tobias Wong, takes the diamond and reverses it in its setting, leaving the pointy…
Forget the traditional jewelry weapon of choice, the sovereign ring. Next to the Killer Diamond Engagement Ring, it looks like a Nerf gun. This concept, from Tobias Wong, takes the diamond and reverses it in its setting, leaving the pointy and extremely sharp side facing out.
Apparently the ring will “cut skin down to the bone” and is the perfect gift for a loved one.
It’s romantic because it means, “Will you marry me” but it also means, “I can’t always be there to protect you so if some jerk won’t stop bothering you, puncture him with this.”
A beautiful sentiment. Also useful for vandalism (scratch tagging and car “keying”).
Product page [Yanko via BoingBoing]
Via [wired.com]
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Video: Laptop Catches Fire at LAX, Foreign Woman Freaks Out [Laptop On Fire]
We’re not sure if this video is of the same Dell laptop that caught fire at LAX about a year and a half ago during the laptop blaze of ‘06, but we’ve watched the thing three times already with our carpet-matching CSI kit out. It looks different. Nevertheless, if it is the same laptop, you’ve now got a video of the somewhat-scary fireballs that emit from the Sony battery-infested body of this Dell. The people in the terminal sure are freaking out, screaming “OH MY GOD” and jumping up on those vinyl seats. That’s probably what we’d do too—not reach in an try and save his porn like the dude halfway in the clip.
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Backstopp Destroys Your Data When Your Computer is Moved [Protection]
Look, I know that you’re all about protecting your most sensitive of data, but a program that will destroy it if your personal is moved seems more prone to result in accidental deletion than actual protection. Sure, if you install it on a tower you’ll probably be OK unless someone moves it to clean or plug something in, but the first time your kid moves your laptop into the living room and erases all of your banking info from the last decade you’ll probably wish you had just chosen a really good password. [Pocket-Lint via New Launches]
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Sirius-XM Merger Still Hanging After a Year
Pardon us a little nostalgia trip as we hearken back to the heady days of Q107, when Amy Winehouse had only been involuntarily committed a few times and the future of satellite radio seemed to be a dreamy image of…
Pardon us a tiny nostalgia trip as we hearken back to the heady days of Q107, when Amy Winehouse had only been involuntarily committed a few times and the future of satellite radio seemed to be a dreamy image of cooperation and customer attention.
Yep, its a full year since satradio competitors XM and Sirius rolled out their merger proposal, and there’s still not the slightest hint when federal regulators will decide whether or not to grant it. For me, a positive ruling can’t come too soon, so as I can secretly select an ala carte programming plan that “accidentally” excludes the Sirius Blue-Collar Comedy channel the missus has grown so fond of. Git ‘er done, FCC!
Sirius-XM: One year later and still waiting [CNNMoney]
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