If your Mac doesn't have optical audio out, you can still enjoy Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound from your system. The Griffin FireWave is a firewire connected breakout box that delivers six discrete channels as 1/8″ mini jacks. These in turn get connected to your amplifier and then to your speakers. This unit is great […]

It's incredibly easy to now create your own ring tones for your iPhone without paying the 99c. Here are a few different ways to accomplish it. 1. Use GarageBand to load a track from CD or an MP3 file. Trim the song down to a reasonable length. If it's short, it's a good idea to […]

Oscar Myer is currently promoting a new mini-sized food product and thought it a good idea to down size their wiener mobile. The new set of buns is a MINI Cooper S with the traditional red and yellow paint job with a ginourmous bun and hot dog on top. Catch the video for a quick […]

Brit electro synth-pop Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke Yazoo are back together to promote a new 4 disc box set of their early and short-lived work together. They have announced U.S. tour dates, two of which are in New York July 16 and 17, 2008. Link to Yazoo's official site.

Check out these photos by Bernard Zee from the 2007 San Francisco Fleetweek airshow. There are some really stunning pictures like the one to the right which shows visual distortion from the shock wave of the aircraft. Amazing! Link. Thanks, Jim!

Thanks Flickr, you always come through.

The Mosquito Ringtone came about after a crafty British man who invented a device called The Mosquito, the Mosquito is a device that emits a very high frequency tone meant to annoy teenagers (adults are unable to hear the tone). Some crafty students decided to convert the same technology into a ring tone that only […]

I've heard stories that this was possible, but never actually saw evidence of it. High voltage power lines carry such an enormous amount of power that they give off a large magnetic field. In this case, large enough to light florescent tubes. I read a little backstory on this; the tubes don't glow very bright, […]

Sometimes you see a demonstration for something seemingly impossible that is a bit mind bending in the simplicity and elegance of the solution. In the following two videos, you'll see how you can safely transport a computer without interrupting the power or shutting it off as well as dispelling the myth of RAM memory loosing […]

A series of dog-themed products available at Cafe Press, in the style of OBEY. Link. Thanks, Jeff!