Obama Takes Requests for Spotify Playlist; Romney to Follow Suit?
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governer Mitt Romney will go head to head in the 2012 presidential election, as you’re probably all too aware, given that this campaign already feels like it’s been going on for five years. The two contenders also doing battle as DJs on the fields of Spotify. No, we are…
The iPad Is Dangerous In Bed
This Taiwanese girl just learned the laws of gravity from her iPad. Not the apps inside the iPad, but the iPad itself. While holding the tablet over her head in bed, she dozed off. That’s when Newton decided to deliver his first and second laws directly to her face, in the form of a mouthful…
12 Awesome Designs from the Guy Who Invented the Jambox
From the looks of it, Swiss-born Yves Behar may have beaten Apple at its own minimalist design game. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of his best creations. When you’re done drooling over these, be sure to check out these Jacob Jensen gadgets, 12 Raymond Loewy designs, and 15 Dieter Rams classics. Clever Little…
Change the Shape of This Lamp With the Pull of a String
Overhead lighting is possibly the least flexible way to illuminate a room. Flip a switch, the bulb goes on, and light shines down. End of story. It you want to switch up the lighting for, say, a little more mood, you’re out of luck. Unless you’ve chosen the impossibly clever Greta pendant lamp, which can…
Would You Let a Bouncer Check Your Facebook to Get Into a Club?
The stakes are high for bouncers—letting even one underage person into a bar or club could mean a hefty fine. That’s why they have so many tricks to suss out fake IDs. They’ll ask what your sign is, or what the address on the card is, or when your appearance radically changed. But recently, UK…