Weekly App Store Picks: Aug. 29, 2009
Aug 30, 2009 Technology

Snow Leopard isn’t the only exciting release this week, as ever there are tons of new additions to the App Store. Here are my top picks from the week’s releases.
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Tags: Art, enterprise, game, iphone
Eraser with built-in brush for eraser bits – absolutely brilliant
Aug 26, 2009 Technology

How many times do you think you’ve used a pencil eraser and then brushed off the little rubber bits with your pinky? A million times? — a billion
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Tags: Art, cooladio, eraser-on-one, even-tastefully, getting-reports, Headline, life, picnic-plus
Personas Turns Vanity Searches into Keyword Art [Fun]
Aug 25, 2009 Technology

Want to add a novel twist to your vanity searches? Personas is an art installation that turns a vanity search of your name in a spectrum of keywords associated with it.
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Tags: Art, Fun, online, personas, results, Search, social-search, virtual
How Video Games Are Really Made [Gaming]
Aug 20, 2009 Uncategorized

You may think that video games are forged in development studios on fancy computers. You’d be wrong.
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Tags: Art, created-these, cunha-lopes, gaming, latest, left-image500, offworld, past-couple
Future Robots Are Scumbags [Robots]
Aug 13, 2009 Uncategorized

If photographer Markku Lahdesmaki ’s vision is correct, humanoid robots of the future are going to be Bender-esque scumbags. I mean, on one hand they enjoy bike rides and do their laundry like everyone else—but in their spare time they get loaded, loiter, and pick up robo-hookers
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Tags: Art, bender-esque, future, like-everyone, posts-tagged, robot-snob, Robots, their-laundry
Zune HD’s Packaging, Release Date Leaked: September 15th [Zune Hd]
Aug 12, 2009 Uncategorized

We got exclusive leaked shots of Zune HD ’s packaging. It’s final: It will be available on September 15th . It’s a little later than we thought (we had guessed a week earlier) but we suppose we’ll wait.
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Tags: Art, exclusive, little-later, posts-tagged, september 15th, zune, zune hd, zune hd release date
Art Lebedev Navigarius GPS Concept Really Belongs In a Spaceship [Concepts]
Aug 12, 2009 Uncategorized

Art Lebedev ’s concepts don’t always come to fruition, but they’re great eye candy even if they’ll never actually exist. This round-screened Navigarius GPS concept is one of their prettiest.
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Tags: Art, art lebedev, concepts, gps, navigarius, round
Zune HD Release Date and Packaging Leaked, Will Hit Stores September 15th [Zune Hd]
Aug 12, 2009 Uncategorized

Some loyal Giz readers and Best Buy employees sent us a couple shots of the much-anticipated Zune HD ’s packaging, and they clearly state that the gorgeous PMP will be available on September 15th . Break out the wallets, people. It’s a little later than we thought (we had guessed a week earlier) but we suppose we’ll wait.
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Tags: Art, digital music, music, riaa, savior, september 15th, zune hd release date
Zune HD Release Date and Packaging Leaked, Will Hit Stores September 15th [Zune Hd]
Aug 12, 2009 Uncategorized

Some loyal Giz readers and Best Buy employees sent us a couple shots of the much-anticipated Zune HD ’s packaging, and they clearly state that the gorgeous PMP will be available on September 15th . Break out the wallets, people. It’s a little later than we thought (we had guessed a week earlier) but we suppose we’ll wait
Read the whole story on Gizmodo
Tags: Art, posts-tagged, september 15th, zune, zune hd
Pixel Light Adds Bloom Lighting to the Drab, Analog World [Furniture]
Aug 8, 2009 Uncategorized

There comes a time in every geek’s life when he must unplug. While ingenuity, like carrying a laptop to the bathroom, can often stall such inevitability, it cannot thwart all of the social pressures of friends and loved ones.
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Tags: Art, beer-or-two, left-image340, pixel, pixel lamp

