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Sharpie™ Pencil

In: Geek Finds

9 Aug 2010

Coming in September: Sharpie the pen makers have created a Liquid Pencil that contains an “ink” made from liquid graphite. Its liquid graphite “ink” allows the user to erase at will for up to three days. After three days the liquid graphite will then turn to ink and will become permanent, to a degree… hat tip

A helpful process map for the best use of Comic Sans font.

Google Dunks

In: Geek Finds|fun

27 May 2010

Brass Monki makes some boss sneakers, they recently did a custom pair of Nike Dunks with a Google theme.  I want them.

USB Cufflinks

In: Geek Finds|fun

27 May 2010

So James Bond. Designed by Ravi Ratan, 2GB USB Flash Drive Cufflinks (2 GB each, total 4 GB) and can be engraved with up to 8 characters, available in gunmetal and gold finishes. $195.00/per pair.  Feature functional USB drives making it possible for you to keep all of your must-have presentations and important documents with [...]

iStat

In: Geek Finds

12 Apr 2010

iStat Pro is a handy (and free) widget for Mac OS X that shows key stats about your machine at a glance: CPU & memory usage, network stats, temperature, fan RPM, and power usage.  It’s particularly handy to see your IP, both internal & external, as well as the temps of key hardware.  iStat for [...]

LEGO Escher

In: Good Stuff

14 Feb 2010

Andrew Lipsen has made several of MC Escher’s lithographs into Lego constructions.  Relativity and Ascending & Descending are my favorites. Lipsen’s process for creating the optical illusions is interesting and well documented on his site (which, btw, did you know about PartsRef? The definitive Lego catalog and dictionary).  See Pilsen’s other Escher creations, Belvedere and [...]

Paper iPhone Dock

In: Good Stuff

8 Feb 2010

Print & Fold iPhone/iTouch dock. via cubeelog

This is quickly making it’s way around the series of tubes known as The Internet and I didn’t want to miss the bandwagon. To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935. Except for the dayglow-ski-jacket-inspired burst [...]

A geek find from last week: Dragon Dictation is an iPhone app (free) that accurately captures voice and converts to text.  Press the record button, speak your speak, press done, and watch the text appear.  So far the only mistakes I’ve run into are with words like on, in, an being misheard, but that’s probably [...]

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