The Day My Xbox 360 Was Resurrected
Welcome to part two (of two) of my Xbox repair experience. See part one here. 6.19.2008 – My Xbox arrives unannounced. I become excited as I realize what is in the box, and the UPS guy backs away...
View ArticleStop with the Plastic: The Sigg Oval Bottle with Cup.
Since I learned about the Pacific Trash Vortex I’ve drastically cut down on my bottled water consumption. Instead, I treated myself to this handsome metal bottle from Sigg that nestles into a stainless...
View ArticleNo, it’s not kevlar: The Built Laptop Backpack
I like backpacks, but I usually travel light. I had been using a bulky North Face number (the Recon), which was a great bag despite it’s habit of getting snagged on things, until I saw this minimalist...
View ArticleSave some gas with carefully selected new tires…
Well, it was time for me to get some new tires. With gas prices being the way they are, I figured I’d try something to increase my fuel mileage. What I ended up doing was getting a tire that was...
View ArticleConcept time: Making the world pretty one person at a time.
Frog Design has piqued my interest with their “A Digital Escape” concept, which is a mask that makes you look like a robot, but more importantly makes the world look and smell however you wish it to....
View ArticleMore sweet SIGG bottles
Like Max, concerned about the accumulation of plastic rubbish and also BPA leaching into my water, I picked up two new sigg bottles. One as a gift, the other for myself. Pretty sweet lookin eh? The...
View ArticleYou’re Welcome, Steve Jobs.
This post is brought to you by the letter “H”. “H” is for hiatus. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted and for that, I apologize. My last couple weeks have been busy with about 42.4% of that time spent...
View ArticleIf only I could afford to fill it: The Timbuk2 Steve Sleeve
Whatever you think of the MacBook Air, you have to admit that producing one from a manila envelope was and is undeniably cool – trouble is, there’s not much reason to do so these days. Enter the...
View ArticleLike MagSafe for your Guitar: Belkin BreakFree Connectors
If you’re anything like me, you love the MagSafe power ports on the MacBook laptops as much for the cool factor as the lowered chance of pulling the laptop off the table when you trip over the cord in...
View ArticleCute as a bug, and sounds: Vestalife Ladybug
Okay, so there are about a gazillion iPod speaker docks out there these days. And to be honest, most of them aren’t worth your time or money. Sure they allow easy playback of your iPod’s music over...
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