Wired Magazine has created a superb visual guide on the history of the manga phenomenon in the US. The guide itself has been created in the style of a manga comic and chronicles the growth in popularity of "Japan’s coolest export" to the US. Read how Japanese TV shows, movies and pop culture icons popularized [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Wired Magazine on How Manga Conquered the US
Published October 30th, 2007 in Comics and Download. 0 CommentsThis cute and cuddly laptop sleeve is available for $50 from Barry’s Farm.
It is foam padded underneath and is supposedly rugged enough to protect your precious laptop/notebook PC. The sleeve comes in various sizes to fit all popular models.
Link to Barry’s Farm.
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Overhaulin is one of my favorite reality shows on television. It is similar to MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” show, only longer and has an interesting “candid camera” element to it. The owner of the car is oblivious to the fact that his “missing” car is being customized and worked on upon by design genius Chip [...]
This Pull -Cord Generator from Potenco can not only supply enough juice to power your all your portable gadgets, but also give you a small workout.
To get it running, you will have to pull on the cord, which instantly charges its internal batteries. A minute of pulling can power your mp3 player for 3 [...]
Watch a great compilation of retro crash test videos set to the music of “Maximize” by Rex The Dog.
You can call me a fetishist, but there is something beautiful in seeing them old cars crash.
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I am back, folks. Refreshed, recharged and raring to go. Sorry to keep you all waiting.
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Dear readers, I am taking a short break to recharge my batteries. I was feeling completely drained, so I really felt the need to take some time off. I will be back in action after a week.
See you soon !!!
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Take Gigapixel Images With The Gigapan Imager
Published October 14th, 2007 in Gadgets and Photography. 0 CommentsA lot of you might have heard of ultra-high resolution gigapixel photography and the Gigapxl Project. Gigapixel images are composed of a minimum of one billion pixels, and the amount of detail in each photograph can be mind-boggling.
So far, the technology has been out of bounds for the average consumer, as it was simply [...]
The Machine is Us/ing Us - Final Version
Published October 14th, 2007 in Technology and Viral. 0 CommentsThis is the final version of ‘The Machine is Us/ing Us‘ video. It was created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University. He examines the phenomenon called Web 2.0, and comes to the conclusion that we are the cogs which run the machine. In effect, we are the [...]
Maopost.com has a huge collection of retro Chinese propaganda posters. The people behind the site have painstakingly cataloged posters from five decades of communist rule in China.
The Chinese propaganda juggernaut, enabled the communist dictator Mao Zedong to tighten his vice-like grip over the people of China. Images of bountiful harvests, pretty girls, good health [...]
Ukulele Orchestra Plays the Theme of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Published October 12th, 2007 in Movies and Music. 0 CommentsThe Ukulele is often an underrated musical instrument. While it may never get as popular as the guitar, it has enough potential to go mainstream . Watch the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (stop laughing) play the unforgettable and memorable theme of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
The clip is from their DVD [...]
Best selling author Tim Ferriss recently interviewed AJ Jacobs, agnostic Jew, serial experimenter and author of the book "The Year of Living Biblically."
The book was about Jacobs’ attempt to live by the Bible and follow every single rule in it, for one whole year. And that meant dressing in white clothes, growing an untrimmed [...]
JazJaz brings you the most interesting posts of September 2007.
Android 207 - Award Winning Animation Short
Android 207 was the winner of the Audience Favorite & Honorable Mention awards at the 2006 Milwaukee Internationa l Short Film Festival.
Save The Girls Aviation Art Project
Save the Girls is a project to preserve and restore the [...]
This Tshirt from ThinkGeek, detects Wi-Fi signals and intimates you by lighting up the bars on the front decal. The bars dynamically glow on and off, depending on the Wi-Fi signal strength. It detects both 802.11b & 802.11g signals and runs off three AAA Batteries.
The folks at ThinkGeek assure us that "geeky chicks" will [...]
What’s Inside A Tube Of Colgate Whitening Toothpaste ?
Published October 10th, 2007 in News. 0 CommentsWired Magazine analyzed the chemical composition of the contents inside a tube of ‘Colgate Whitening Oxygen Bubbles Brisk Mint‘ toothpaste, and the findings were disturbing to say the least.
Snip from the article:
Hydrated Silica
You know those packets of silica gel that come with electronic gear? The ones that are clearly labeled DO NOT [...]
The Telegraph reports that, Oasis and Jamiroquai are the latest bands contemplating a free release of their upcoming albums on the Internet. This follows the spectacular pre-orders for Radiohead’s pay-as-you-please album ‘In Rainbows‘, which was unleashed on the unsuspecting music community, used to rampant illegal file-sharing and hefty lawsuits by the RIAA. Amazingly, according to [...]
The folks at Fifth Gear test the new BMW M3 in this video. This car has a 4 Liter V8 engine, 420 HP, top speed of 155 mph and does 0-62 in just 4.8 seconds. And that’s not all. It reportedly has the most advanced engine (for production cars) in the world. The engine has [...]
Brian Detter, an Atlanta based artist, creates stunning pieces of art by literally taking scissors to paper. The pages and contents of great works of literature are cut and manipulated into forming a three-dimensional collage/Diorama.
The innards of the bound book are revealed to the observer, hinting at the hidden treasures within. Though the book "dies", [...]
Watch the complete video of Leslie Feist’s hit single ‘1234′ from the album ‘The Reminder’. The song was featured in the latest ipod Nano commercial. Leslie’s songs have been featured in advertising campaigns for many companies like Lacoste, HSBC, Verizon/LG and ofcourse, Apple.
The single ‘1234′ was her first single to break into the top [...]
Eco Group Deflates Tires of Over 1000 SUVs In Sweden
Published October 8th, 2007 in Automotive and Green News. 0 CommentsAn eco group, calling itself ‘The Indians of The Concrete Jungle’, deflated the tires of over a 1000 SUVs in Sweden. The group has alleged that Sweden has the ignominious distinction of being one, if not the most Carbon Monoxide emitting countries in Europe. They started by deflating the tires of 60 SUVs in the [...]
