Everywhere you look you see blocks. Everywhere you go you hear “Korobeiniki”. Every step you take, you know that the ground beneath you could cruelly disappear, though at least you’d have some bonus points to show for it… More »
Bloxels. Bloxels bloxels BLOXELS. If you say the word, you can kind of understand where designer Jinha Lee got his inspiration from for this special-looking display prototype which adapts depending on which blocks you stack next to one another. More »
Wooden blocks and rocking horses are all Santa’s elves, with their stupid hammers and chisels, have been able to make for a while now. And now, by sticking magnets inside of blocks, we’ve even made those too advanced for them. More »
Get this for tech-overload: the SH Stompin’Bass from Shadow Electronics is made of chosen rosewood, comes with a velcro-attached extender block for comfort during long sets, has a high-quality NanoMAG humbucker pickup and a shielded case with low-impedance output to reduce hum. All of which basically disguises the fact it’s a wooden block designed to amplify the sounds of folk-music style foot stomping. Which’ll cost you $US200. And if you excuse me, I’m off now to belt out a few verses of Donald Where’s Yer Troosers, and make do with tapping on my wooden floor. [Product via Musicthing]
It’s always a kick in the nuts waiting for a page to load in mobile Safari when you know like half of it is for an ad. Luckily, there’s a way to block most of them using this method from James Is Bored. It requires a jailbroken iPhone and bit of voodoo, but it’s not overly complicated. Once you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone, you need to install OpenSSH from Cydia. And that’s where the work starts.
