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Teenage Engineering Just Released a $US250 Toy Car
Teenage Engineering, the Swedish electronics firm, is known for its beautiful but pricey products—the bulk of which amount to functionalist art. Need a $US1600 aluminium desk? TE’s got you covered. How about a $US2,000 set of singing, wooden dolls? Again, the company is there to serve. We also wouldn’t have the Nothing Phone—arguably, one of…
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A Picture-Perfect Christmas Goes Darkly Awry in Horror Short Snow Globe
Snow Globe introduces us to a perfectly pink-clad woman flitting around a festively decorated room. But it soon becomes clear in this short film from Christopher Ryan Laughter — whose work io9 has shared before — that things are much more sinister than they appear. For one thing, the poem that narrator is reciting is…
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eBay Now Lets You Lock Your Trading Cards in a Literal Vault
The year is 2100. Society as we know it has collapsed, taking fiat currency with it. The blockchain imploded long ago, fraught with theft and scams and limited by energy shortages and the creative ineptitude of most NFT designers. There’s no more precious metals. We put them all into our phone microchips and then sent…
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I’m Pretty Sure This Is the Only Car Ever With a Penis on Its Hood Ornament
Hood ornaments are interesting, if kind of archaic things. Normally, they depict the logos and branding (however weird) of a given carmaker, though they occasionally make the leap to actual sculpture, like the stylised bird on an old Voisin or Rolls-Royce’s famous Spirit of Ecstasy. Generally, human penises are not depicted on hood ornaments, at…