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Posted Pop-Up Magazine, Issue 2: Live! to Boing Boing
Tickets for the second installment of Pop-Up Magazine, a live event on Sept. 25 in San Francisco, go on sale today at 12 noon PST. What is Pop-Up? A 75-minute reading/performance highlighting two dozen writers, photographers and filmmakers whose work appears in places like Wired, This American Life, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Harper's. The evening is structured just like a magazine: short front-of-the-book bits, reviews, essays, columns, mini-features, photo essays, and features. Issue 1, which debuted last spring, featured Michael Pollan, the Kitchen Sisters, Larry Sultan, Todd Lappin, Lisa Margonelli and more. While I can't reveal Issue 2's lineup, I will mention that once again I've been handed the Gallagher slot — i.e. the gadget portion of Pop-Up. Tickets sold out fast last time. If you want to attend this intimate event at San Francisco's Brava Theater on Friday, Sept. 25 at 7pm, then I recommend you head on over to Pop-Up Magazine today at, or soon after, 12 noon PST. Tickets are $15. Oh, and If you do attend please be sure to come say hi after the show! UPDATE: Tickets for 9/25 sold out in 1 hour, 44 minutes. To be put on the wait list should any tickets become available and/or to stay tuned for the next Pop-Up, email the following address: info AT popupmagazine DOT com...
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Posted Video: Unboxing The Fleshlight to Boing Boing Gadgets
When I tweeted about needing to get a hold of a Fleshlight, I wasn't entirely kidding. One BBG reader answered my bluff call, put me in touch and, well, now I've got a real-life Fleshlight [NSFW] in my home... actually, TWO: a pink-flesh-colored one shaped like a woman's hoo-ha vagina and another transparent one shaped like a, uh, butthole (!) an anus. To be continued... Previously:Video: Palm Pre Unboxing (I know!) Kindle 2 unboxing Unboxing Atari's 1984 Touch Tablet Video: StevenF's iPhone 3GS Unboxing Unboxing Next Gen: Advair Asthma Inhaler Samsung Omnia "Unboxing Vlog" features Liliputians, fireworks Googlephone unboxing photos A Fleshlight is not a FireWire Audio Interface Device, Amazon Lonely MacGyver: Make a "Fleshlight" from a Potato Chips Tube ... Real Touch: Interactive sex device syncs porn with belt-driven USB ... You can have sex with the Muji Tenga Egg - Boing Boing Gadgets Video: Fuckzilla at Arse Elektronika - Boing Boing Gadgets...
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Posted Kool-Aid Man Is Giving NSFW Tours In Second Life [Wow, There's Still A Second Life?] to Boing Boing Gadgets
Kool-Aid Man has been tearing it up over in Second Life. So much so, he's now offering free guided tours for anyone willing to dive back into Second Life. Of course, it's not really Kool-Aid man, but an avatar created by artist Jon Rafman. Still, seems like it could be quite a trip, especially since homeboy is known for busting through walls wherever he goes. Warning: The above video features NSFW moments; mostly around 08:00 when Kool-Aid Man visits a sex club, then a strip club. See, I told you dude gets wild. [via Beautiful Decay]...
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Posted HOWTO Set Up An Analog TV Station to Boing Boing Gadgets
OMG TV, which bills itself as "the only analog station in NYC," has spent the last two months broadcasting on Channel 14 in New York. So what on Earth are they showing? The station aggregates online video content and then lets viewers vote (online, ha!) on what makes the televised broadcast. Sounds assbackwards, but that's part of the point. According to the founders: On the web, so many options create a panic of possibilities. On OMG TV, there is no fast forward button or other videos to distract you. In OMG TV's simplicity you can sit back and watch one video at a time. The station was created by Jon Cohrs, who also founded the Urban Prospecting movement we wrote about in May. What's particularly cool about the project isn't the content itself, but the fact it shows you could easily do this, too. Jon created an Instructables guide on how to set up your very own local analog tv station — everything from first finding some "whitespace" to locating a transmitter. Here's part of Step 1: Find a Free Channel: Although after the 2009 DTV transition in June a lot of "whitespace"(i.e. unused television bandwidth) became available, most of this whitespace is still legally dubious and many of these channels are still tied to the original owners via legal identity and copyright. However, because of this legal ambiguity a lot of free space is still up for the taking. The best option for finding free space is the FCC's own search engine for these things Thanks, FCC!!! image by georgia.g...
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Posted "Sorry, sir, but Twitter is down... Yes, again." to Boing Boing Gadgets
August 17, 1955. photo from Adolph B. Rice Studio via The Library of Virginia...
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Posted Tweet (#3694717831) to Boing Boing Gadgets
Internet at my home is screwy. Troubleshot w/@comcast and it's clearly my router. 2nd Apple Airport fail in the last year #fml...
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Posted Celebrity Hard Drives to Boing Boing Gadgets
For only $20, you can have a racy graphic of Kim Kardashian added to your hard drive. Or a skin of Domo. Or Wu-Tang Clan. Or even Bob Marley. One love, Seagate. [via Gearlog via New Launches]...
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Posted Review: 16 Months w/Belkin's 300W DC/AC Inverter to Boing Boing Gadgets
Why ALL automobiles don't come equipped with at least one, built-in 3-prong outlet is beyond me. And why more drivers don't keep an inverter like this one from Belkin in their cars is also a mystery. Emergencies alone make a simple inverter a super worthwhile item (we also keep a tub filled with spare clothes, shoes, MRIEs, water, etc. in the trunk, you know, "just in case."). But apart from the once-in-a-blue-moon, doom-and-gloom scenarios where we'll be stranded in our car and need to tap the battery to charge a phone or radio, having an inverter available for daily use is a true no-brainer. Since last April, I've stashed this 300-watt DC-AC inverter in one of the rear seat pockets. I've used it to charge my cell phone and replenish my GoBe battery overnight while car camping. In addition, I've charged up a range of devices en route on car trips — long and short — way too many times to count. Here's the short of it: Easy to Use: Just pull out the thing, plug the business end into the cigarette lighter, flip the switch on the device, and plug in up to two devices. (Dr. Obvious says: There's no need to have the car turned on.) Easy to Carry: The whole thing weighs just 2 lbs.; it's not as if you'll ever need to take the device backpacking, but my point is that it's never a hassle to pull out, put back, ad nauseam. No Outside Juice Required: Requires no batteries, no charging, no sunlight because, you know, it runs off the car battery (Dr. Obvious says: Triple duh). One Caveat: The inverter's internal fan hums rather loudly when in use. Not enough to disturb phone calls or music too much, but it's noticeably audible. Verdict: Get one. If not this particular device, then be sure to pick one up that's got at least two 3-prong outlets... and, perhaps, even a USB. You'll rely on your inverter more than you'd expect. ~$40 from Amazon. Previously:Review: A month with Belkin's Mini Surge Behold! A styrofoam coffee cup power inverter Review: GoBe Solar Briefcase & Power-Hub Porta-Jump: Tiny Cube Jump Starts Your Car - Boing Boing Gadgets Review: A year with Monster Cables' Outlets to Go BoltBus fleet has free Wi-Fi, power in every seat...
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Posted HOWTO Make A Cheap Version of Muji's CD Player to Boing Boing Gadgets
Ariel Schlesinger put together a guide on how to fabricate a cheap, homemade version of the wall-mounted CD player Nato Fukasawa designed for Muji. Per Ariel's directions, here's everything you need: a CD-player with an access to the batteries compartment from the front (disc side), a pair of portable speakers that have a built in amplifier, a pull cord light switch with a cotton thread, circle cutting knife. for nice circle cuts. epoxy glue, cardboard glue and some wires. Or you could buy the original for $178. Previously:You can have sex with the Muji Tenga Egg Muji Blackboard Globe A drinking straw made from ... straw! Flat-Pack "Eco" Speakers Made from 100% Recycled Materials...
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Posted Computer Repair Flowchart to Boing Boing Gadgets
From Morris Rosenthal's Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts. Bonus: On his site, the charts are interactive, so clicking on a diamond jumps you to the text for each decision step. After the jump, check out all the branches up close... [via Tech DC]...
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Posted Swarm Bots: Now W/Solar Power, Complex Behaviors! to Boing Boing Gadgets
I-SWARM robots are three-legged solar-powered droids which are less than 4 mm long, wide, tall. Two things to note: 1) I-SWARM stands for "intelligent small-world autonomous robots for micro-manipulation." Physorg explains: ...a single microrobot by itself is a physically simple individual. But many robots communicating with each other using infrared sensors and interacting with their environment can form a group that is capable of establishing swarm intelligence to generate more complex behavior. Like foraging... 2) it's now possible for them to be mass-manufactured. Physorg explains: The researchers, from institutes in Sweden, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, explain that their building approach marks a new paradigm of robot development in microrobotics. The technique involves integrating an entire robot — with communication, locomotion, energy storage, and electronics — in different modules on a single circuit board. In the past, the single-chip robot concept has presented significant limitations in design and manufacturing. However, instead of using solder to mount electrical components on a printed circuit board as in the conventional method, the researchers use conductive adhesive to attach the components to a double-sided flexible printed circuit board using surface mount technology. The circuit board is then folded to create a three-dimensional robot... As this was the first test of this fabrication technique, the researchers noted that they encountered some fabrication problems. The single largest problem was to connect the naked integrated circuit to the flexible printed circuit board by the conductive adhesive. Also, some solar cells did not stick due to weak adhesion... Many of these complications could likely be corrected, with the important result being that the microrobots can be assembled using a surface mounting machine, whereas prior robots have usually been manually assembled with a soldering iron... In the future, the researchers hope to move from building academic prototypes to manufacturing the robot on a commercial basis, which is necessary for overcoming some of the technical issues. By mass-producing swarms of robots, the loss of some robotic units will be negligible in terms of cost, functionality, and time, yet still achieve a high level of performance. Currently, the researchers hope to find funding to reach these goals. "Right now the robots need a new ASIC [application-specific integrated circuit] and some other redesigns to be able to work properly," Edqvist said. "We have, however, (in a not yet published article) shown that the robot would have been able to walk at 3.0 V (the solar cell delivers 3.6 V), so with new funding, they could be up and running and be produced in large numbers." Be afraid. Be very afraid. [via BotJunkie]...
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Posted Apple iPod Announcement: Sept 9th to Boing Boing Gadgets
Apple's set to show off its latest iPod on September 9th @ 10am PST/1PM Eastern. So what's up Jobs' sleeve? [via Gizmodo]...
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Posted Power On Self Test: Beech Wood Flashlight to Boing Boing Gadgets
[via gnr8]...
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Posted Tweet (#3627404651) to Boing Boing Gadgets
Solar keeps getting cheaper! Link...
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Posted The Venn Diagram of Social Media to Boing Boing Gadgets
Available on a t-shirt for $20. [via Kevin Kelly]...
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Posted Full Moon Credenza Glows In The Dark to Boing Boing Gadgets
Designer Sotirios Papadopoulos developed "ELI" (Eco Light Inside) a material that glows in the dark and, previously, was used on this illuminating mirror. Beats using a night light. Maybe. [via Generate]...
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Posted Ryan Adams Reviews Gorf, Rides Tangents to Offworld
Singer and serial celeb-dater Ryan Adams is now a columnist for The Awl. Above is some footage of him playing and musing about Gorf: Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wasted: It's loud,...
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Posted BirkenCrocs!!! to Boing Boing Gadgets
Birkenstock's Birkies shoe was developed by fuseproject. Simple, slip-on clogs you can wear gardening, at the beach, or even while cooking, just like NY chef Mario Batali. Looks familiar, no? [via Bike Snob NYC]...
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Posted Sony's Waterproof Universal Remotes to Boing Boing Gadgets
Sony is set to release a new line of waterproof remotes next month. Bad news: Japan-only, at least for now. Good news: You probably don't need a waterproof remote. [via New Launches]...
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Posted Power On Self Test: Spooky Lamps to Boing Boing Gadgets
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Posted The Evolution of Game Faces to Offworld
Playface is Sony's latest ad campaign for the re-tooled PS3. Created by ad firm Wieden+Kennedy, the concept is cool, if not a little obvious. How so? Well, first of all, it's been done before. Like, two+ years ago by...
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