Gizmodo: sticker

Apple Apples Are Not from Apple

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

Risking a spacetime paradox that could destroy the entire Universe, a Japanese guy has devised a way to naturally grow Fuji apples with the Apple logo on them. His technique is very simple: Apply an Apple sticker (or iPod or Appleish Heart) a month before harvesting.

I knew girls who apply stickers while tanning to get temporal sun tattoos, but I never heard of this technique to do the same thing with fruits. As much as I like Apple and apples, though, I prefer them on suntanning girls. [Nobon via Cult of Mac]

Microsoft Tells Hardware Manufacturers to Start Testing Windows 7 ASAP Or Face Sweat of Ballmer

Jason Chen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:33:52 EDT

Everyone knows how much of a bunglefart the "Certified for Windows Vista" sticker was in determining whether computers worked OK or completely lousily with Vista. Microsoft doesn't want to repeat this, which is why they're telling hardware manufacturers to start testing their products with Windows 7 as soon as the first beta is out, unless they don't want to qualify for Microsoft's new Windows 7 compatibility sticker. Microsoft's going to check up on them too, making sure companies' current Windows Vista submission "include a complete CPK with test logs from Windows 7." [Information Week]

Smelly E-Books for College Students

msparkes — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:02:20 EDT

Apparently 43% of college students identify smell as the thing they most love about books. CaféScribe have taken this odd statistic and run with it, creating the world's first smelly e-book.

Starting in September the company will send every e-book purchaser a sticker to put on their laptop that has an 'old book' smell. Of course, college students are fully backwards-compatible with real books. [CafeScribe]

Hello Kitty Privacy Sticker Hides Your Phone's Texts, Emails

kthompson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:47:44 EDT

Privacy screens make sense for laptops and PCs, devices with large screens that are used for extensive periods of time in open areas. The Sanrio "Hello Kitty Mail Peeping Block and Display Protect Sticker," or HKMPBDPS as I like to call it, makes less sense. Sure, it prevents people from reading your precious texts by peering over your shoulder, but is that really something you worry about? Maybe the website says it best: "4. Kitty is shiny with lame." $8 [Hello Kitty Privacy Sticker via ShinyShiny]

Professor Invents Fruit Ripeness Sticker

Jason Chen — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:15:48 EDT

As a guy who can't hear the difference between knocking on a ripe melon, knocking on an under-ripe melon and knocking on my own ass, a "ripeness" indicator sticker on fruit would be awesome. This sticker, invented by a University of Arizona professor, can display to shoppers whether a fruit or vegetable is ripe, under-ripe or over-ripe.

The RediRipe stickers change from white to blue as the fruit ripens by detecting ethelyne gas emitted during the ripening process. The color change is on a 24-48 hour delay, depending on how fast the fruit ripens and excretes the gas.

Not all fruits make enough gas, and there's still a lot of research to be done, but soon we'll all be reading stickers instead of knocking on melons. – Jason Chen

Professor invents 'ripeness' sticker [Yahoo News]

Do Not Disturb iPod Shuffle Sticker

gizmodo.com — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:50:01 EST

Team Gizmodo is mostly male but the one of us that isn't regularly gets hassled in the NYC subway system, even when she's got her earphones in—which you'd think would clearly signify to people that she's in her private space and not to be bothered, but no.

Maybe she needs something that makes more of a statement, like artist Marco Siebertz's proposed DO NOT DISTURB sticker for the iPod Shuffle. One side of the Shuffle becomes an invitation to communicate, the other a request for some alone time.

Shufflesome: DO NOT DISTURB
Germans Pretty Up Shuffle [Gizmodo]