How to Disappear
Ever wanted to disappear? No literally, but remove yourself from the grid, big brother, and clean up your digital footprint. Frank M Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan have written the book How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace. "Frank M. Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan are known […]
Whipped Lightning Alcoholic Whipped Cream
The perfect way to get drunk while eating an ice cream Sunday, add some Whipped Lightning. Whipped Lightning is basically a flavored alcoholic canned whip cream, flavors include white chocolate raspberry, tropical passion, and amaretto (pumpkin pie for a limited time). The alcohol content of the whipped cream is 36.5 proof so it isn't too […]
China Gets An Apple Online Store
Not exactly sure how the new store.apple in China snuck through, China hasn't had an Apple store until very recently., I just bumped in to it accidentally while surfing a few Chinese sites., Weird! Very cool, go buy something in RMB at the new site – http://store.apple.com/cn
BMW Car Rental By The Hour
BMW has begun a pilot test to see how renting their full line of BMW cars by the hour will do. Just like those sketchy motels in Reno, rooms by the hour. Most cars spend 90% of their time parked and sitting idle. BMW wants to try and cash in on the car rental, by […]
Microsoft Office Mac 2011
A chocolate and peanut butter moment all over again. Take the Apple/Mac, great hardware and software integration but weak on the office (email, spreadsheets, etc,) side of things. Take Microsoft, they have one great product which is Office. Ta da. Office 2011 for Mac for around $175 and life is good. Don't get me started […]
Mark Boyle The Moneyless Man – Could You Live For One Year With No Money?
This story isn't fully gadget related, but Mark Boyle does rely on a few crafty gadgets to survive. For example, the handmade stove above which is made from large olive cans. He also used solar panels to charge his laptop. Long story short Mark Boyle decided to live without money for one year. Mark […]
258 MPG Single Seater VW
This is not a concept car. This 258 MPG (some say 282 MPG) single seater VW will be on sale starting next year for only $600! That is the good news, the bad news is that is only going to be selling in Shanghai for the time being. The new one seater Volkswagen will have […]
OTI Report – US & Canada Most Expensive Cellphone Plans, Hong Kong & China Cheapest Cellphone Plans
The chart above gives a quick visual to who is getting raped on expensive cell phone plans (US & Canada) and who has it good (Hong Kong & India). The New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative did a detailed study to show the total cost of phone use including data, voice, and text. Want to […]
Violight UV Ultraviolet Cellphone Sanitizer
As you may know by now, I am a bit of a cootie-phobe, and I tend to like all things that kill cooties. With that said, one of the most germy things that we carry around, and really don't think about as germy, is our cellphone. We press our cell phones to our faces, stick […]
Why I Rarely Eat McDonalds
In college I survived on a healthy diet of McDonalds and Taco Bell, basically went to whichever had the best promotions running. I was poor. Now that I am out of college, still poor, I try and avoid McDonalds, to much talk of GMO, weird food processing, and stuff like the video you are about […]