Those UPS guys certainly spend a lot of effort avoiding us, don’t they! I get those delivery attempt notices so much that I can’t help but think this video is true. More »
An eagerly anticipated package that never seems to come. Frustrating! You track it online, you wait diligently at home—and yet, all you get is a HEY SORRY WE MISSED YA notice. So that’s how they pull it off. More »
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What’s does being shipped sound like? A student at the Royal College of Art in London shoved a dictaphone inside a parcel and sent it off to Helsinki to find out. Here, charmingly animated, is what it heard. More »
Package-tracking sensors aren’t super new, but Senseaware is one that’s unique because it tracks multiple criteria – temperature, location, drops and light exposure – and updates those to the web constantly. Useful when you’re transporting organs and not MP3 players. More »
Modern Warfare 2′s exercise in excess “Prestige Edition” features a book of artwork and character details, a metallic collector’s edition of the game and…a fully functioning pair of night-vision goggles with a creepy sculpted head as a stand.
Wrap rage—one minute your trying to open a new gadget and the next someone is in the ER with a pair of scissors in their chest. I’ve seen it countless times. ZipIt can help.
Mail hoarding is a fantastic phenomenon. Slate explains it as the cases where postal workers stockpile mail/packages in their trucks, then act like they delivered them. I discovered that this happens with Fedex too.
