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Category Archives: In the Pipeline

Spring for some Field Notes

It’s that time of year again, the time when Field Notes releases their fresh colorpacks designed for the season at hand.  What do we have this time?  The coolest pack of Field Notes I’ve seen them put out yet.  For the same usual price of $9.95, you get a 3-pack of graph paper field notes.  That’s not all, folks.  This cheerful edition also contains not only the cheerful sunny yellow memo books, each printed with a different vibrant ink color, but they’re packed in a string-tied, top-loading kraft envelope that is inspired by vintage American seed packaging.  Well, actually it is a vintage American seed package, because aside from the three memo books, each packet of sunshine includes Marigold seeds of the “Crackerjack” variety direct from Bay City, Michigan along with notes on growing them!  Order now!

Fatman iTube Red-I Valve Audio System for iPod

5Arriving Monday the 13th is the newest addition to the Fatman iTube line of products…the Red-I edition which features 25 watts per channel of pure analog audio bliss via vacuum tube.  It sports an iPod dock, as well as 3 independent inputs.  In addition, it has video out for use with your television and videos stored on your Apple portable device.

If you have a chance, come in and check it out to see how it sounds on our new and quickly-growing set of unpowered speakers, including the new AP4s from AudioEngine!  You can buy the Red-I here.

A full gallery of photos and specs of the Red-I after the jump.

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The StudioDesk from Bluelounge

View 1If you’ve ever tried searching for the perfect desk, you may understand how frustrating it can be.  Not only are there very few desks designed to look great (unless you spend lots of money on designer brands), but very few desks in general seem to be designed for the modern needs of todays life.  Namely, the fact that the vast majority of us no longer use desktop computers.

While a simple desk may do for most people, you’re left with all sorts of cable mess running to your printer, power strip, scanner, speakers, etc…  Bluelounge has designed the first desk to solve all of the problems I’ve ever had with desks.  To solve these problems myself, I’ve drilled holes in desks and made compartments underneath the tabletop.  Essentially, this design takes that idea and makes a highly polished version of my “table with a hole in it” and truly becomes a gorgeous multi-function piece of first-rate furniture.  Now, there’s a place where you can put your laptop away when you’re not using it, or any of your peripherals, and looks great to boot.

All peripherals and excess cables are hidden just under the sliding desktop surface. The storage compartment is therefore conveniently accessed from above. An elongated slot across the width of the desktop allows the necessary peripheral & power cables to enter/exit at any point, thereby keeping the desktop clear of clutter.

A traditional table with a modern twist, this quality built timeless design features solid mahogany legs and details. White laminate is used for the desktop surfaces and storage spaces for durability.  It comes in one flat box, and only the legs need to be attached.  A removable faux leather mat covering the sliding portion of the desktop is incuded.  Available for pre-order now with free shipping (pre-orders only)!  Ships in late June.

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Stephen Hawking, for kids.

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Can’t find the right words to explain the Universe to your curious child? Or have an old copy of A Brief History of Time and still never really understood it yourself? Never fear, Stephen Hawking is here – this time explaining things in even simpler terms.

He and his creative writer daughter, Lucy Hawking, have recently published the first two of a series of children’s books, featuring a young boy named George who goes on intergalactic physics adventures. But who cares about kids? Weeellll, Papa Hawking puts it this way,

I believe everyone can, and should, have a broad picture of how the universe operates, and our place in it. This is what I have tried to convey in all my popular books.It is extremely important to me to write for children. Children ask how things do what they do, and why. Too often they are told that these are stupid questions to ask, but this is said by grown-ups who don’t know the answers and don’t want to look silly by admitting they don’t know. It is important that young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why. I’m a child myself, in the sense that I’m still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in simple language. And it is nice to think a few of them might grow up and read A Brief History from cover to cover.

I think that this might actually spawn a whole new generation of smart, scientifically informed children.  Go Hawking!

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My best advice would be to go over to your nearest bookstore and pretend that it’s a present for a nephew, buy it, and read it yourself.   And there’s always no-questions-asked Amazon shopping.

Hey, Yale, give me back my Great-Grandpa’s skull that you stole, please. Mmk, thanks.

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Harlyn Geronimo, a direct descendant of, legendary Apache medicine man Geronimo, has sued Skull and Bones, the super-secret society at Yale University.  Allegedly, in 1918, Skull and Bones member Prescott Bush (George W.’s dear grandpa) and his fellow buddies of the society took a little trip to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and removed Geronimo’s head (they removed the hair and flesh using acid, of course) and several bones from his grave.  They also stole a silver bridle that had been buried with him.  With these new acquisitions, the Yalies decorated their “Tomb” – a building owned by the secret society.  

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In 2000, Apache leaders finally got a chance to meet with the Skull and Bones, under the agreement that Geronimo’s remains would be rightfully returned, in exchange for incriminating photos of their “Tomb.”  But oh wait, never mind – the Skull and Bones gave them the skull of an Indian child instead, hoping to deceive the Apaches.  

Those boys just won’t learn to behave.  

So now, after years and years of being pushed around by the Skull and Bones, Harlyn Geronimo and his family have decided to sue the secret society (who still refuses to acknowledge its own existence).   Owned!

Via [HuffPost]

Getting dysentery is fun again

Well kids, we’ve been able to play Lemonade Stand for some time now, and for fans of lo-fi games like Oregon Trail, we’re in luck…it’s coming to the iPhone on February 28th.  Look for it on the App Store on or after that day!  And lets hope all our friends don’t die of Cholera.  And maybe, just maybe, they’ll make this a multi-player game that is hooked up to the net?

LA Times via NOTCOT

The Need for Speed

About a month ago, Sony and SanDisk announced their joint production of 2TB memory sticks, scheduled for a 2009 release.

Ok, that’s pretty mind-blowing.  

So today, we learned that the South Korean government and the Korea Communications Commission are spending $24 billion to acquire 1Gps downloading by 2012.  That’s one gigabyte per second.  That’s an entire feature-length movie downloaded in a literal blink of an eye.  

Tickets to Seoul from JFK start at $914.

 

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{Gizmodo] via Far East Gizmos

pico chooo with teeny tiny, water resistant, pico flash drives from Super Talent

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“One day storage devices will be so small that you’ll be able to store one trillion geobytes on a piece of hardware the size of quarter.”

I’m sure we’ll all blow ourselves up before that gets to happen…still we’re certainly having a good crack and whilst the 31mm 16GB pico flash drive from Super Talent isn’t going to store your HD movie collection, it will sure as hell hold most peoples iphoto library and documents which for the most of us is all that matters. Not only that but these are incredibly good value, at more than affordable prices.

SuperTalent Website

One Word…Awesome

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