Thermo-Sensitive Business Cards Help You Make a Warm Impression

Business cards aren’t just useful for handing people your contact information. If you’re smart about it, then you can actually use them to help make and cement a good first impression unto others.

Take these business cards by design studio Under Consideration, for example.

Thermo Sensitive Business CardsThey’re far from the typical business card in the sense that each card changes upon contact with your fingertips, lips, or whatever is warm enough to leave a permanent imprint. To make the cards, Under Consideration coated Fedrigoni/Ispira purezza paper cards with thermosensitive ink.

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The cards were commissioned by Natalie Daniels, and they weren’t cheap to print. While it might seem that paying $985 for a thousand cards is a bit too much, it looks like it’s paying off since she’s getting tons of exposure because of her extremely unique cards.

[via Bit Rebels]

Here Are the Business Cards of Famous People

Even though business cards seemed like they would be one of the first things to get killed by some fancy techwiznology, they’ve managed to survive even though the use of dead paper is dying. Everybody has business cards—even the super rich and super famous. Here are a few business cards from people you definitely already know. More »

Here’s a Simple Card Trick You Can Learn in a Minute

Our friends at BoingBoing put together a video to show you a simple and fun card trick that anyone can learn in no time: Using a deck of playing cards, make three piles of three cards each. Flip a pile over to note the bottom card and then combine all three piles into one, making sure that the pile you flipped over is on top. After that, spell out the card you saw. More »

Instagram officially kills photo integration within Twitter, leaves no trace behind

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If you’ve taken to Twitter today, it’s likely that you noticed all your Instagram photos that were stored as gallery Cards are gone. Unfortunately, this isn’t a temporary glitch: as of today, the photo-sharing service has officially killed all photo integration on Twitter. So, although links to your photos will function like normal, there is no way to preview them within Twitter anymore. If you’ll recall, it was merely a few days ago that Instagram pulled Card support from Twitter, which made any filtered snapshots display in wonky fashions within the micro-blogging network. While today’s move by Instagram isn’t totally shocking — it would rather you view pictures on its new browser-accesible profiles, after all — it’s a shame that the contents of many Twitter galleries have vanished in a flash.

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Via: Gizmodo, Instagram

Apple updates nearly every app for iOS 6, sneaks in key GarageBand, iPhoto and Podcasts updates

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If you didn’t already know that iOS 6 was out in the wild, Apple just delivered a torrent of mobile app updates to make it perfectly clear. Virtually every app that isn’t preloaded now has explicit iOS 6 support to keep it running smoothly, and some of the upgrades are thankfully more than just skin-deep compatibility tweaks. Among the highlights are Podcasts’ new subscription list syncing through iCloud, ringtone creation with GarageBand and iPhoto support for 36.5-megapixel image editing on the latest devices — you know, for that moment you need to tweak Nikon D800 photos on an iPhone 5. We’re including direct links to a few of the juicier updates, but we’d recommend checking AppleInsider‘s comprehensive list to see everything that you’re missing.

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Calligraphuck Profane Letterpress Cards Let You Curse With Cursive

If someone pisses you off, let them go. Don’t curse, don’t fight, don’t even hope that they’ll trip and fall flat on their faces as they walk away. Instead, go home and whip out your set of Calligraphuck Profane Letterpress Cards.

CalligraphuckYou probably won’t feel like sending it off in the morning, but hey, at least you got it out of your system. But if you do end up sending it, at least you did it with a touch of class. Well, sort of.

I think you sort of already know what to expect from these cards based on their name alone.

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Calligraphucks are beautifully typeset cards emblazoned with a series of curses and profanities that might just make you blush.

Unfortunately, they’re not available – yet. They’re currently up for funding on Indiegogo, where a minimum pledge of $25 will get you a complete set of four awesome profanity-laced cards, including custom string and button envelopes to deliver your message in.

Head on over to Calligraphuck’s project page on Indiegogo for more information.

[via Cool Material]


Google Play gift cards officially announced, now rolling out to Target, RadioShack and GameStop

Google officially announces Google Play gift cards, now rolling out to Target, Radio Shack and GameStop

We’ve seen hints of them in the Google Play app and some pretty clear evidence of them in the wild, and now Google has finally officially announced the availability of Google Play gift cards. Those are available in $10, $25 and $50 denominations, and will be rolling out to Target, RadioShack and GameStop retail stores in the United States over the next few weeks (no word on availability outside the US just yet). According to Google, they’ll also be available on Walmart.com later this month, but not in Walmart stores for the time being. As you’d expect, the cards can be used to purchase anything on Google Play, including movies, music and books in addition to apps (or in-app items).

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Google Play gift cards officially announced, now rolling out to Target, RadioShack and GameStop originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Personalized Facebook Playing Cards for Those Who Want to Play People, with People

Everyone hates a player almost as much as they dislike cheaters. But no one will fault you for playing people and treating it all like a game. Not if you’re just playing Solitaire with these personalized Facebook playing cards.

transThis new offering from Firebox takes the Facebook craze further. The social network has close to a billion users worldwide, and the numbers are still growing, so it makes sense to capitalize on it while it’s still as popular as it is.

If you love playing cards and fancy the thought of having a personalized deck with the faces and images of people from your Facebook friends list, then you might want to commission Firebox to print you up your very own deck.

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It’s a quick three-step process to get some playing cards that feature your actual Facebook friends. Just access their app, pick 54 people to be on your cards, then assign which person will grace which card. Pay up and voila! You’ll never have a lonely time playing solitaire, guaranteed.

The Personalized Facebook Playing Cards are available from Firebox for £11.99 (~$19 USD.)

[via Chip Chick]