Bean flavored water manufacturer Starbucks is not comfortable with just having more corners than Barksdale & Bell Associates, it wants to take over your house too—just not in the way you think. Instead, Starbucks wants to turn coffee grinds and old baked goods into laundry detergent and plastic More »
Eoin is a poor guy who was walking while watching TV and juggling multiple things in his hands (his phone perhaps?) when he fell straight through the floor. Like, literally. A trap door in the ground was left open and he didn’t notice until he plunged completely through the hole. More »
Start stockpiling all the Pimp Juice you can fit in the attic, because a new study from a real actual doctor that didn’t print out a degree from the University of Phoenix online suggests that energy drinks are actually good for your heart. More »
This isn’t even a joke! Serious musician Will.i.am is premiering a new song tomorrow. On Mars. Broadcast through the Curiosity rover. And the name of said song, which also just for the record is not actually a joke, is “Reach for the Stars.” More »
Dictionaries exist in between a rock and a hard place: jump on new words too late and they look like a dinosaur, add in words too early and they’re made into a mockery. Words are hard, yes, but some words don’t exactly need defining like some of these just added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online. More »
Best Buy, who must think that if people are silly enough to shop there, they might be a big enough sucker to get ripped off on HDMI cables, is offering a “diamond” “high-speed” 2-foot HDMI cable for the most ridiculous price of $940. What a steal! More »
AT&T has the following chart on their webpage which outlines roaming rates while outside the U.S. We’re going to concentrate on the text messages row, also known as SMS messages. More »
People put terrible things on the internet. Very terrible things. And it’s someone’s job to make sure that regular people don’t run into them. But that is a terrifying job, and it understandably scars a lot of people who do it. Buzzfeed talked to one former employee who told the story. More »
If you were told you could listen to the radio at a reasonable level in your cubicle and that you were going to be allowed to keep your stapler, this is probably the tape dispenser for you. The T-EM50 by Kokuyo will spit out tape at pre-determined lengths again and again, ensuring a perfect piece of tape every time.
Why would you need this? I suppose if you want to save tape or need a specific length for closing envelopes. Otherwise, this kind of absolute precision seems like a bit of office overkill. However, considering some Japanese ballpoint pens cost $57, it’s clear that the land of the rising sun is definitely serious about their supplies.
The T-EM50 costs about $200 and will be available in September.
The only reason why summer sucks? Sweat. It gets everywhere—your pits, your face, your back, your crotch—and turns summer into a slimy, sticky, smelly season. How do you stop it? Deodorant? Air Conditioning? No, mere mortal, a magical microwave sweat zapper gun! More »
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