Posts by Jack Loftus
Gadgets
A Cylon Mated With KITT, And Out Popped This MK 2 Circuit Watch
10:00AM Jack Loftus | Worthy of a sultry Number Six, but priced at a more common-folk level, the MK 2 Circuit watch from Storm of London is one of those rare gadgety watches that actually displays the time in a meaningful manner. More »
Cameras
ShutterBuddy Attacks Baby Photo ADD Issue With Simplicity
9:30AM Jack Loftus | Babies, while cute, can turn ugly at family picture time. Look! A bit of floating dander. Picture ruined. Any little thing can become a distraction. Enter the ingenious — and head-smackingly simple — ShutterBuddy. More »
Design
Surprise, Cisco Fans Are Pretty Passionate About Their Brand
9:00AM Jack Loftus | Apple products. RED cameras. Even the embattled Zunes. All are categories that I can see getting a person so worked up with devotion that they permanently mark themselves with a corporate brand. Cisco? No so much. And yet, this exists: More »
Games
7:00AM Jack Loftus | So a new, potentially very popular Mario title comes out today. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. To celebrate, let’s revisit all the 2009 NES hacks and mods that have, thus far, utterly destroyed or otherwise corrupted my most cherished memories, shall we? More »
Let’s Count The Ways NES Modders Have Decimated My Fondest Childhood Memories
7:00AM Jack Loftus | So a new, potentially very popular Mario title comes out today. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. To celebrate, let’s revisit all the 2009 NES hacks and mods that have, thus far, utterly destroyed or otherwise corrupted my most cherished memories, shall we? More »
Toys
Etch-A-Sketch Freestyle Seems Like Cheating
6:30AM Jack Loftus | The Etch-A-Sketch Freestyle aims to eliminate those wobbly, pixel-edged circles that occur on the original. It’s cheating. More »
Phones
Motorola Droid Experiencing Software-Related Speaker Issues
5:30AM Jack Loftus | Droid sales are blowing up, but so too may be Droid speakers, as reports are starting to pour in from users who’ve experienced the sound cutting out at inopportune times. Island of Misfit Toys, here we come! More »
Science
Meet The British Man With The “Bionic Bottom”
5:00AM Jack Loftus | What better way to, um, end the This Cyborg Life theme week than a post about a British guy with a bionic butt? More »
Design
Where I Turn An Old Transforming Sofabed Into A Crime Scene
4:00AM Jack Loftus | Detective’s Notebook, November 15: It was raining. The mother? Crying. Timmy, the son, and friend Jimmy turned in at 11. Timmy said he went to bed on a bunk, woke up on a couch. I think I know what happened. More »
Computers
Crunchpad Lives, And So Does The Ambiguous Price Tag
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Last we looked in on Michael Arrington’s ballyhooed Crunchpad, the little guy wasn’t doing so well. Wrong! Well, wrong according to Michael Arrington, anyway. Nevertheless there are assurances today that the tablet is on track and still very much alive. More »
Science
