Hasta La Gadget!

Check out these awesome window shades that put spaceships on your window and at the same time help isolate you from sunlight, with only your action figures and DVD collections to keep you company. I kid. I would love to have these on my window too, since I’m a huge science fiction nerd too.

You can choose from a variety of blinds that feature wireframe images of some of the most famous ships in sci-fi.

There is a TARDIS, the Millennium Falcon, the USS Enterprise, a Klingon Bird of Prey, a BSG inspired Viper and Boba Fett’s Slave I ship. But which do you choose? They are all amazing. Maybe if you have enough windows, you can have them all.

They cost £99 (~$152 USD) and up over at DirectBlinds, depending on the size of your windows, and any options you add.

Now that you’ve seen these, you’ll want to redecorate and try to convince your wife that spaceships will look good in your windows.

If your career choices have you moving from city to city every few years, you might want to consider furnishing your pad with IDI Studio’s new Roadie line inspired by the rolling travel cases musicians use to transport their gear. More »

Back in January 2011, TomTom partnered with Nike to launch the Nike+ SportWatch GPS at CES. Today, the Netherlands-based company is releasing its own GPS watch lineup, and the first products are the TomTom Runner and the TomTom Multi-Sport.

The recent advances in wireless and sensors, in connection with the components and app development price drop, have enabled the democratization of wearable technology. The recent launches of the popular Jawbone Up and the Nike+ Fuelband are good examples of this trend which is becoming mainstream.

With the in-cars GPS receivers market going down, due to the efficiency of the smartphones in that area, TomTom had to find new revenue streams in the consumer market.

TomTom paid an extra attention to what sport-enthusiasts want to monitor when they run, bike or swim without interrupting their workout.
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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung Smartphones Drive Record Profits, LG Display Teases Its Display Lineup For CES 2013,

Sometimes, things aren’t what they seem. For example, what looks like a wall to you might look like an ad to someone else. This might sound like a strange occurrence, but it happens more than you think.

In fact, it happens every time to people who chance upon HomePro’s ad campaign where they’ve put up a bunch of temporary billboards that have ads on one side and a wall on the other.

HomePro is a hardware store based in Thailand and they’re trying to do something different with their Other Side campaign. Instead of just putting up a bunch of billboards to advertise their stuff, they’re also showing off their wares by constructing a wall on the other side of the ad. But these aren’t designed just to be ads. As many people in the country live in underprivileged areas, they’ve been know to recycle old billboards and use them to create improvised walls for their shelters.

These billboards help them out a little by providing them with a ready-to-install wall on the other side, so when the campaign is over, the wall will continue to serve a useful purpose.

[via Pop Up City]

Foursquare just launched a neat new tool that allows you to view the last year of your life in Foursquare check-ins. Don’t worry! It’s more than a depressingly reductive view of your life as the summation of activities on a social network. It’s actually really cool. More »