Etsy :: laptopwallet butterfingers - handmade in austria. very nice. via jody

Second Rotation. they buy old gadgets like cell phones, game consoles, etc.

Nextfest07: Video of a woman being smacked with a shovel on her knee. and it doesn’t hurt at all.

oobject - “like Billboard charts for Gadgets”. The lists for different types of watches are pretty crazy.

Apple - Keyboard. yup, literally buying this as soon as the apple store gets back up.

nhl + slingbox

Boris just sent me this link from arstechnica about how the NHL made an agreement with Slingbox to let users share video clips online. Slingbox is a device you hook up to your tv which lets you watch tv over the internet (It’s for people who are clinically addicted to watching tv). Anyways, the deal is interesting in that MLB and the NFL have basically told slingbox that they have no interest in partnering with them and that they’ll sue them to the stone age if they use their content.

What’s interesting is the difference in the leagues approach to online content. The NFL and MLB have high ratings and can tell Slingbox to piss off. The NHL’s ratings are abysmal and need things like Slingbox to get some sort of distribution. To give you some scope, NBC didn’t even show the first two games of the NHL finals and then for “those final three games averaged a 1.6 rating, according to NBC, putting it on par with Sunday afternoon golf for a minor tournament. Game 3, televised last Saturday night on NBC, produced an abysmal 1.1 rating—the lowest prime-time rating in NBC history”

Sticker Shock: Video of Bill Gates Showing off his Expensive Table - Gizmodo. though that table is pretty cool, gates still comes off as a huge nerd.

Zettabyte Storage. a box you connect to your network, it does backup and also does encrypted offsite storage to Amazon’s S3. via 3rdparty

Wize. People Know. product review site aggregating customer reviews, expert reviews, and “buzz”. I must say, this is really well executed.

The HP Diet Plan: Buy our cameras - Signal vs. Noise. HP has a new camera with a “slimming function”. maybe next time they’ll include “package enlarger”.

Steam Direct Drive LG washing machine | Appliancist. a green washing machine from LG which uses 35% less water by using steam to clean clothes.

myvu. video glasses which feature a “floating image”, have noise cancelling headphones, and let you look like Geordi LaForge

NES controller mp3 player. Forget the ipod, now this is classic.