"Check out what happens when Mr. Overstuffed decides to give a "full interview" to a hot colonial number named Tawny!"
I thought "chair porn" was obscenely-priced fare from Herman Miller. I was wrong. It's also photos of suggestively-positioned furniture.* FurniturePorn's design is wonderfully atrocious, as are the quality and clarify of the photos. My biggest gripe: not nearly enough content and zero video (hint hint).
Rumors that OQO canceled pre-orders for its Model 2+ ultramobile PC are untrue, according to the company, but it said an online vendor buildyourumpc.com did so after it could not commit to a shipping date.
"While we haven't canceled the orders, it is unlikely that we will be able to produce additional model 2+ units," said OQO senior vice president Bob Rosin. "So it did not seem worth trying to police that story, as it is accurate in a long-term sense."
A highlight at January's Consumer Electronics Show in January, the updated model was planned for summer release. Upgrades included an ultra-bright OLED display, Intel's popular Atom CPU, and up to 2GB of memory -- and a cheaper price tag. At $1,000 and up, however, the pocket-size portable faces a weak market dominated by ultra-cheap netbooks.
The original OQO was announced in 2000, but did not appear until 2004. It was followed by the award-winning Model 02, introduced by Bill Gates at the 2007 CES in Las Vegas.
Rosin indicated that support services were presently unavailable, but would resume: "It is saddening that we are not able to provide repair and support services however there will be a solution to that available soon."
If you love sex but can't find the perfect furniture to do it on, get the Tantra Chair. The web site has a very graphic, NSFW guide on different positions you can try on it. It's $1199, but the things you'll experience on it are priceless.
You work long hours. You're getting old. Your shoulders are stiff, your back is sore from sitting all day or walking all day or exercising at the gym, or maybe just from sleeping. What you really need is a massage--like, ten times a day, at home where nobody can hear you snore or fart. So what do you do? Well, if you have the money, it's worth investing in a home massage chair--they range from a couple hundred bucks to several thousand--but the question is, how much should you spend? And is a $7000 chair really that much better than a $1000 one?
To find out, I tested out three massage chairs--Human Touch's iJoy 2580 Robotic Massage Chair ($999.99), Panasonic's RealPro Ultra EP30007KX ($5,999.95), and Inada's Sogno DreamWave Plus ($6,499). I'm the type of person who will sit go to a department store just to sit in massage chairs all day, or spend an hour and $80 getting a petite but extremely strong woman to push the kinks out of my back. My body is important to me, and I am willing to spend money and time to keep it intact.
The iJoy-2580, which hit retailers this April following the success of its predecessor iJoy-100, is a solid, basic massage chair. It has four major functions--kneading, rolling, compression, and percussion. The chair reclines and the rollers can be adjusted to move up and down along your back. What's really nice about it is that it's lined in lovely faux leather and suede without any weird robotic extensions, so it fits in nicely with the living room furniture. The controls and a cup holder are on the armrests, so you don't have to fumble for a remote, and there's an outlet for plugging in a laptop in case you can't relax without geeking out at the same time. I did find myself wishing on occasion that my arms and legs were getting some love, but overall, it's a great chair to fall asleep in.
Panasonic's EP30007 is huge (it weighs 181 lbs!), and it talks a lot. After 3D scanning my back to create a virtual map of my spine, it started working on my body from all different directions--pressure on my shoulders, air bags squeezing my calves and arms, rollers smoothing out my lower back... it felt like four dexterous robots were working my body. A woman's voice talked to me the entire time--she explained the features of the chair, what the chair bots were going to do to my body next, and how many minutes I had left. It was a slight buzz kill, but my body felt great. When I tumbled off the chair 15 minutes later, my back felt slightly less knotted up, which was awesome.
The DreamWave Plus is like the king of massage chairs. Inada sold the first home massager in 1962, and has been one-upping its competitors ever since with things like voice-activated controls, optical shiatsu point finders, and added functions that help lazy people stretch their back and hips without moving a muscle. But consumers pay the price--this bad boy costs nearly $7K after taxes. As James, the lively Chinese man who owns the little showroom that I tested it out in--pointed out, this one doesn't feel like robot hands, it feels like human hands. I felt like I was being cradled by a very strong but gentle man who wanted to massage me all day. "Ah, this is nice," I said out loud as it kneaded my sore butt.
Were the $6-7K Panasonic and Inada massages significantly more relaxing than the iJoy?* Yes.
Do I have an extra $5000 to spare? No.
In conclusion, I would say: definitely spend as much as you can on a massage chair. The iJoy is well worth the grand it costs you, but if you have the extra cash, go for the high-end models because they'll save you trips to the chiropractor. Don't have much money at all? The cheapest massager I've ever tried is the Conair $20 neck rest on Amazon, but honestly, with that one, you get what you pay for.
*HumanTouch, the company that makes the iJoy, also has a high-end $3K range massage chair. I just didn't try it out.
Thanks again to Justin, who gives the impression that I know what I'm doing in these videos.
Tonight's meeting will orient mostly around planning upcoming projects: on deck are a bio-diesel-powered go-kart (although electric is also on the table), an evening of building your own theremins, and a lesson on distilling spirits.
It will also orient around drinking beer. I may also break out that new smoker and smoke some dank meats, yo.
Travis Schmidt built an R/C Nerf tank that has a camera on board for remote viewing—and even onboard speakers for "psychological warfare". He's got an Instructable up to show you how he did it—and a video showing how much his girlfriend is willing to put up with.
Run the extension cord with its outlets up the trunk of your tree, then connect each of Harlan's "Trim-It-Quick" light strands to the outlet for easy Christmas tree trimming that won't get tangled up. That's their big pitch anyway. I guess since each of the cords are fairly short, there's not as many chances for snags.
I'll let you figure it out, with kits starting at $60 (and going up to $190), while trimming my holiday tree the traditional way: by spitting rum nog at a dry pine while making it smolder with a green laser. (The laser represents the angel Gabriel's lightsaber.)
Sofas, park benches, and loungers are pretty standard-looking these days, but what will we be sitting on in the future? From meditation pods modeled after anime to a slightly phallic motorized rocking chair, here are eight designs that hint at the possibilities.
1. Novague, a design studio in Prague, imagines a sleek white motorized chair that uses the rocking motion to generate electricity that powers an adjacent LED reading lamp hanging above the head.
2. Jeff Lawber created this concept using Rhino v4. He imagines it as a hybrid between a bean bag and a park bench; I would like to have one in my living room so I could teach my dogs to jump through hoops.
3. These beautiful, assymerical flower petals by Alex Cozma are designed for big open spaces, like parks and museums. Pretty.
4. Tokujin Yoshioka famously made this design-y chair out of natural crystals by submerging a nucleation-inducing fiber structure into giant water tanks. When I saw the installation in Tokyo last fall, it had grown quite a lot bigger than this, but still didn't look comfortable to sit in.
6. This real 80% recycled aluminum bench designed by architect Frank Gehry really exists and will be auctioned to the public in May.
7. Nimbus is great for those who want to meditate, simulate sitting on a cloud, or pretend they're Dragon Ball Z characters. Inspired by the Japanese anime, the chair-- imagined by Bobby Lowe--uses Maglev technology to create the sensation of levitating. It also slowly rotates for those who want to check out the view.
8. Do you wish you could lie on the grass all day without ever leaving your house? Designer Sebastian Pulgar Arata's astroturf-like lounger makes that possible.
Bill Dewald writes: "Thanks to the nostalgia trip induced by the Dork Yearbook, I've been enjoying this program. I think you might, too." Computer Chronicles has been made possible in part by the Software Publishers Association, provider of educational materials to help manage software. "Don't copy that floppy!"
Remember IRQ settings, INITs, TSRs and "out of memory" messages? The early days of personal computers were confusing for most users and so a whole new category of software grew up around solving those problems - diagnostic software. This show looks at several examples including WinSleuth, Quarterdeck's Manifest, QEMM, Mac EKG 2.0, Snooper, QA Plus, and Norton Utilities. Originally broadcast in 1992.
Since Design Within Reach launched its now-annual Champagne Chair contest a few years ago, they've received thousands of handcrafted corks. It's not exactly rocket science, but rendering anything in miniature is a skill worth celebrating (though getting a tattoo of any cork chairs would be kinda nutty). This year's winning entries, including Jesse Menayan's club chair (left), are currently wrapping up a U.S. tour. Can't make it out? No worries: The folks at DWR sent us some of their favorite teency seats from this year as well as contest's past, after the jump...
Big U.K. carrier Orange is to sell a tiny touchscreen dumbphone. With a 1.3MP camera, MP3 player and a no-contract $70 price tag, it could be the perfect upgrade for those who like minimalist stuff like cheap Nokias and the Moto F3, but who also enjoy the fruits of modern technology.
Wired's Charlemagne Sorrel writes at Wired:
This got us thinking. Once you have a touch screen, is it easier and cheaper to add features? After all, once you have the internal in place, its just software, right? You can churn out all manner of handsets at different prices and differentiate them with functions. A smartphone no longer needs to be made with a keyboard, just a better OS inside.
He too finds it odd that such a basic machine is being called "The Vegas."
OQO's handheld computers are the best anyone's ever made, making history of Sony's similar Vaio UX and still outperforming most of this year's rival "mobile internet devices." Though one of the highlights of this year's CES, however, the latest 2+ model now seems doomed: pre-orders have been canceled.
Twittered UMPC Portal's Chippy: "All OQO 2+ pre-orders will be canceled. Looks like receivership to me. Waiting for official OQO feedback still." This follows earlier reports that it was seeking a buyer.
This is a terrible shame. The OQO Model 02 was widely renowned as the world's first pocket computer that could actually get a gentleman laid, and it will be sad to see it go.
At $85, it's not exactly a recession special, but Substrata's zebrawood iPhone 3G case is among the prettiest. Here's the pitch:
It is designed to add a natural aesthetic to your iPhone 3G, while protecting it from scratches when it is in your pocket, purse or bag. The contours are shaped and sanded to compliment the curves of the iPhone and the interior is sized to hold it snugly. This one of a kind case would make a wonderful gift for the iPhone user.
When Alkali Media's "CrudeBox" was submitted to Apple for inclusion in the AppStore, it got rejected. The selection of rude sounds it makes -- click an icon to make it fart, sneeze, belch, "wet fart," ans so on -- was "offensive."
So they just resubmitted it with a different name and bright, colorful graphics, and it was approved.
... we received word that once again Crudebox was too obscene and offensive for the iTunes App Store. After moving past the inevitable feeling of frustration towards Apple, we decided to poke some fun at Apple's app approval team. What if we were to submit the same sounds as before, except this time around we make the app look extra flamboyant and change the name to the ironically appropriate, Prudebox?
Eight days later we would received an e-mail from Apple stating that our recently submitted application, Prudebox, has passed the approval process and is now ready for sale.
This is perhaps why Apple has to black-box its Appstore process: because it would be simply be heaped with ridicule if people saw the specifics of each approval.
Denon's DP-200USB turntable converts, encodes and saves MP3 files directly to hard disks or thumbdrives inserted into it: no computer necessary. Be sure to read the sole review, however, from an S. Trudgen of California, who writes, "My first impressions of this turnable have been mostly favorable....the "autosplitter" function breaks up your music into tracks [but there are] things that are really annoying/dumb."
A few days ago, Joel linked to NFGForum's articles on why oldschool games don't look the same on LCD displays -- it's because old CRT sets' light guns created inadvertent anti-aliasing effects, scanlines created an illusion of greater detail, images could be arbitrarily scaled, and so on.
In Enduro, the color bleed effect is evident again. Here you see not only how much more realistic the car sprite would have appeared on a television, but also how the multiple colored lines on the horizon would have blended with one another, creating a more credible sunset.
Despite being mighty impressive, the results in a live game are far more remarkable. Edward and his colleagues have done a fantastic job.
They are currently working with the maintainer of the free, open-source Stella emulator to patch their changes into the main build, where the effects will be available as a configurable option.
The debate over how to view these old games -- with the presentation technology emulated vs. "As the creator intended" -- serves as backdrop to vigorous discussions, over the technical minutiae of pixel rescaling.
Apple's refusal to discuss how and why it approves applications for the iPhone works with us geeks, because there's no stake beyond our own curiosity and the business interests of developers. But in refusing to discuss how and why it approved Baby Shaker, it's come up against an organization that just isn't going to take that sort of nonsense. From Information Week:
Apple's refusal to disclose how the application found its way onto the App Store was one of several complaints the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation had with the company's apology, which the group called "stale."
"Who is this apology directed to?" said Patrick Donohue, founder of the foundation. "It's directed at the media to kill the story. This is the most cynical apology I have ever seen."
Donohue founded the SJBF after his three year-old daughter was shaken by a nurse as an infant and left brain-damaged: one can well imagine that Apple's isn't the first apology he's ever heard.
SJBF insists that Apple offer an accounting of the circumstances that led to it approving the $1 program, in which the user shakes a crying baby until it is dead. Apple has denied approval to racy novels, TV show South Park and many other candidate applications on grounds of potential offensiveness.
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