Archive for the 'Geek Toys' Category

What? You’re on Twitter but Your Houseplant is Not? Tsk Tsk

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I love ThinkGeek.com.  It’s chock-full of great tee shirts, gadgets, toys and electronics that are sure to fill your geek heart with lust and envy. They seem to have first dibs on some great new technologies and they put them out there for the rest of us to buy. Reasonably priced, too.
This caught my eye [...]

Roll Your Own Multi-touch Display

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Were you totally wowed by Microsoft’s Surface? Trying to figure out how to come up with $10K so you can have one for yourself? Save some cash and build your own instead! Technology Review has an article on Eyebeam engineers who created an open source version, and there’s a nice exploded-view image  of it at [...]

I’m Blogging This

Monday, January 14th, 2008

That’s what my new tee shirt will say when it arrives. In an effort to kill time while I’m not feeling well, I spent a good, long time browsing the ThinkGeek website before deciding on the tee:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/6388/
Here’s what’s new since last time I checked out their site: you can make a wish list. Great idea [...]

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