Hasta La Gadget!

The QR Tie comes in styles such as The Charlie, named for Charlie Chaplin.

(Credit: Kickstarter)

I must admit that I sometimes sorely miss the bygone age of penny farthings, sleeve garters, and neckties that just hung there making you look professional instead of linking to your OKCupid profile.

Those were good times. Then again, times change, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that you can now get your own QR code subtly printed on your necktie (QR codes have been printed on ties before, but usually on the front where they’re painful to see).

Why would you want a tie printed with a QR code? To promote your personal brand, of course.

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There is nothing quite like a confirmation of a particular handset that has been leaked and much talked about for the longest time, and the same applies to the Sony Xperia Z1 f, otherwise also known as the Honami Mini or the Z1 Mini if you prefer) which has just been confirmed that it is about to make its way over to the Land of the Rising Sun. Over the weekend, there were several images of NTT docomo’s upcoming smartphone range, where an image of the handset previously known as the Honami Mini was spotted – although it has been called the Sony Xperia Z1 f now.

What you see above is a photo of the alleged catalogue, and chances are it is legit by all accounts. After all, it would be pretty nuts if someone actually had so much time on their hands to create a fake shot of such a device in the catalogue for Japan’s biggest carrier. So, assuming that the above is the gospel truth, would you want to consider picking up the Sony Z1 f when it finally hits the market? More importantly, what do you think of the name itself? Some folks might prefer the “Mini” suffix at the end to keep in line with general smartphone naming trends.

Sony Xperia Z1 f Should Be Confirmed For Japan original content from Ubergizmo.

A prototype Apple Macintosh with a Twiggy floppy disk drive similar to the disk drive in the Lisa 1. Due to high error rates, the Twiggy drive was ditched in the last few months before the product shipped in favor of a 400K Sony 3.5" disk drive.

(Credit: Jonathan Zufi)

If Apple really had inspired a religious following, Jonathan Zufi would be its high priest.

On his Web site, ShrineofApple.com, Zufi has collected thousands of high-quality images of nearly every Apple product ever made. He did so as a tribute to the company that inspired him and countless others growing up during the advent of personal computing.

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So you’ve got a couple of dead old video game consoles lying around. While you could just throw them in the trash, it’s better for you to recycle them. And what better than to turn your old game systems into Batman’s Tumbler?

That’s exactly what recycling artist Daniel Shankalonian did when he got his hands on a couple of deceased PlayStation 2 systems. He completed his build chopping up the bits and pieces of the consoles, mixing in a liberal dose of printer and hard drive parts, and placing the whole assemblage on a broken down old Dell XPS laptop.

While it’s certainly not as elegant of a job as Lucius Fox did with the original Tumbler, you have to give Shankalonian credit for being able to make lemonade out of the lemons he was dealt. And Lucius had the slight advantage of having millions of dollars from the Wayne Foundation to work with too.

Best of all, you can own this recycled PS2/Batmobile. It’s available over on Etsy for $250(USD). It’s a shame you can’t hook up a DualShock and play Arkham Origins on it.