Monthly Archives: December 2006

Long Live Low Tech

All this hullabaloo about the latest gizmos. What about those less technologically advanced items that stand in defiance of the immersion blenders and robotic bartenders of the world? Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper Foo)

Bibliochaise

The Italians are stylemeisters without peers, and this one’s modest to boot, too (not!), given the company’s irreverent label nobody&co. Its Bibliochaise is again, with impish irreverence, an armchair library. Though less chaise (a long chair for reclining) than the name implies, it’s aptly named since biblio refers to book…. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper [...]

Twilight Tracer Balls

The next time you go night golfing, get ahold of these nifty tracer balls. So maybe your partner might giggle over red-lit UFOs whizzing over the green. But we’re guessing you’ll have the last laugh when he’s the one handicapped, and we’re not talking golf handicap proficiency here. Unfortunately, all good things come at a [...]

SENZ Umbrella

Seems to us the humble umbrella’s gotten its second wind. This one may not project images like the Umbrella Photo Browser, but we were tipped off that it’s apparently the first-ever windproof-designed brollie. We’ve heard of bicycles and planes being put through the windtunnel test for aerodynamic fine-tuning. But this is the first that we’re [...]

Toast Printer

Remember that really weird eBay item of Virgin Mary on a piece of toast? No miracle there. Just gullible bidders who’ve probably never heard of Inseq Design’s Zuse toaster. Quite simply, it’s a printer and the bread’s the medium. In any case, the Zuse allows you to burn custom images onto your toast, going one [...]