cards

Design

Wallet Bulge Wouldn’t Exist With This This All-In-One Credit Card

4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Sure, some of that wallet bulge comes from old-fashioned cash, but let’s face it, credit cards and receipts are the big contributors. With the One Card concept though, you’d have everything accessible by turning a nob on a single card. More »
Design

Hotel Guest Room Built Entirely From Key Cards

3:45AM Dan Nosowitz | A Holiday Inn in New York City, with the help of master house-of-cards builder Bryan Berg, has built a guest house (lobby, bedroom, bathroom) out of 200,000 key cards. That even extends to the undoubtedly-painful key-card toilet paper. More »
Design

Mixtape Generation Card Requires Obligatory “It Rocks” Headline

11:30PM Jesus Diaz | Koji Sueyoshi, you are a genius and your Mixtape Generation business card could have only been more perfect if it actually played a selection of 80s rock ballads and disco themes. [Direct Daily]
Random Stuff

Half Of Tokyoites Prefer To Swipe Instead Of Counting

11:40AM Rosa Golijan | According to an online survey polling 2250 Tokyo shoppers, over half prefer to use electronic money cards instead of cold hard cash or other tender. Will a similar trend follow in Australia when such cards become commonly issued? More »
Games

Princess Peach Will Love You Forever for This Nintendo Controller Card

11:00PM Jesus Diaz | Nothing says Happy Birthday better than a bathtub full of chocolate pudding, five bottles of champagne, and Prada high heel boots. Failing that, you can always send $US13 NES controller multilayered collage cards. More »
Design

All-In-One Card Stamp Wishes You Get Well Happy Christmas Thanks Easter

7:00AM Mark Wilson | Fact: 99% of holidays were invented by Hallmark back in 1623, and since then, yearly life has been punctuated by needless festive ceremony. Well here’s the stamp They Don’t Want You To Know About. More »
Games

Wii to Support SDHC, Not a Hard Drive

3:54AM Mark Wilson | During Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s GDC keynote today, the company revealed that the Wii will finally get SDHC support (that means compatibility with bigger SD cards) through an update that’s available now.
Gadgets

Topps 3D Live Brings Augmented Reality to Baseball Cards

8:50PM John Herrman | After recently buying the venerable trading cards company, Disney Michael Eisner is making a seriously cool bid to keep collecting alive, debuting 3D, augmented reality baseball cards complete with tiny players, stats and games. More »
Design

Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever?

1:00PM Adrian Covert | This business card idea is undoubtedly clever, visually suggesting to people that they just Google your name for contact info. But do you want to encourage people to do so? More »
Peripherals

Elecom MicroSD Reader Is a Barely Noticeable Nub

3:00PM Elaine Chow | Elecom’s MicroSD USB reader takes advantage of the storage format’s miniature size to ensure that the only thing poking out of your computer is a colourful— and dare I say stylish— little nub. More »