Cheap Tech
PleaseDressMe: A cool search engine for T-shirt geeks
What happens you get one of the world’s savviest social media entrepreneurs behind an awesome online business idea? A hella cool — and useful — service.
Gary Vaynerchuk, the ultra-enthusiastic entrepreneur best known for his free Wine Library TV video blog, is currently talking up PleaseDressMe, a new business in which he’s a partner. Created by [...]
The Kaosillator: Superweapon, or super-awesome beatmaker?
The mad geniuses at Korg recently released its brain-meliting “Kaosillator” into the wild. Sadly, it’s not a superweapon built to create destructive chaos … and it won’t literally melt your brain. It’s actually something far cooler: an ultra-portable synthesizer, designed to give everyone from professional DJs to musical hobbyists a way to lay down some [...]
5Sep2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
Aliens invade your keyboard: WorkSpace Invaders
The good folks at UK-based company Electro Joe just released a fun computer keyboard, branded with Space Invaders villains on every key. The peripheral is made by Bendi Board, a manufacturer of travel-style keyboards; it’s made from a flexible plastic that can be “rolled up” and easily stowed.
You can snag one of these spiffy keyboards [...]
Chronogasm: Slick, lickable sci-fi watch makes us drool
There was once a less-enlightened era — not too long ago, we might add — when reading and watching science fiction & fantasy made you a square, a pariah, a social untouchable. Thankfully, that wyrm has turned. These days, sci-fi is cool, man. Gobs of the most successful movies of all time are sci-fi and [...]
27Aug2008 | MINE admin | 3 comments | Continued
Great resource for iTunes movie lovers
iTunes isn’t just for buying music and subscribing to podcasts anymore — these days, folks can also rent movies in the iTunes store. Now you iTunes-savvy peeps know that ain’t exactly news, what you might not know is that once a week, the store offers one movie for $.99 instead of the usual $2.99 to [...]
30Jul2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
Tools that’re too cool for school
We MINERS are constantly digging through the ‘Net to find the coolest things in the known universe (or at least the Milky Way galaxy), but even our eagle eyes we can’t look everywhere … yet. So, sites like Cool Tools are great for plugging the gaps. Here is just a sprinkling of the amazing things you [...]
30Jul2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
Keyboard slobs, have hope: Silly Putty for clean freaks
Cyber Clean is best described as a cleaning solution designed for keyboards and other electronic devices — but it’s so much cooler and weirder than that. As this picture attests, it’s a yellow glob of awesome that squelches between your keyboard’s keys and absorbs the funk living under that well-used plastic.
Cyber Clean’s website claims that [...]
Fumpr your photos!
If you have a picture on your computer that you simply have to share with your friends right frickin’ now, there’s a new service in the online photo-sharing space that’s right up your alley.
In the days of yore (meaning, six months ago), to share a photo with pals meant you had to join one of [...]
What iPhone Apps should you buy?
Now that Apple seems to have (mostly) appeased geeks by allowing them to install third-party applications on the iPhone, the Next Big Question is, which ones should they purchase for their phones?
While most of us MINERS are too broke to buy an iPhone ourselves, Gizmodo has a constantly-updating Liveblog which may help iPhone fans hack [...]
Hellboy and Myxer.com join forces to combat evil
Try reading this paragraph in your best baritone “In A World…” movie guy voice: There is a mystical membrane separating our world from the realm of fantasy and myth. It is held together … by an ancient truce. But when that truce is shattered … Hell itself … is about come to Earth…
That’s the world-ending [...]
1.1 million new ringtones coming to Myxer.com
Full disclosure moment, MINE readers: MINE is a side project of Myxer.com, a site that provides hundreds of thousands of ad-supported (read: free) ringtones, wallpapers, videos and games for your mobile phone. That said, if you’re already a Myxer user — or are a fan of indie music — get ready to Snoopy dance.
Last [...]
Flip Mino: Small camera, low price, huge value
In the past few years, Pure Digital’s Flip Video went from being a joke to taking the low-end consumer video camera market by storm. These days, the Flip Video and the improved Flip Ultra accounted for about one-third of video cameras sold in the United States.
Several of us MINERS swear by our Flips — we [...]
Where to find free college e-textbooks
Anyone who has spent at least one semester in college knows that required books can sometimes cost as much as the class itself. But in the ever-changing digital age, some students have taken to downloading their textbooks via torrents. Understandably, textbook publishers aren’t supportive — after all, these are copyrighted works –and have been sending [...]
9Jul2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
We will, we will Roku
Further proof that the Internet and affordable technology is not only awesome, but is rocking our little MINE world: Thanks to NetFlix and a company called Roku (pronounced roh-koo), you can now connect a gadget to your TV that permits you to queue up to 10,000 movies and TV series … and watch them any [...]
8Jul2008 | MINE admin | 0 comments | Continued
Coming to a campus near you: Kindle-powered textbooks
Are you ready to ditch your insanely heavy backpack for the coming school year? According to Inside Higher Ed, Princeton University Press will offer some of its textbooks in a form compatible with the Amazon Kindle, and will sell them on Amazon’s website. Since the Kindle’s black-and-white screen doesn’t render graphics very well, diagram- and [...]
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Very cool. Now I know what influenced Katey Segal's bad ass biker mom style. 
Excuse me if I do not get a gushy about a game that celebrates killing more brown folks. 
That was pretty cool. I even retraced several times going back and forth from one picture to the other and ...
As a quick followup--that's why he forbids diagonals as a clear instruction. If we could use the diagonals, we ...
an awesome motivation 
This video kicked off our Toastmaster's meeting last night