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Yesterday, while reading a couple of New York Times pieces about e-books–one about how users claim they read more now, and another about Barnes and Noble’s new model–we began to think that one way we might ease into the experience of using an e-reader would be to find one that’s retrofitted to look less sleek [...]

Summer is clearly over early this year (at least that’s the way it looks in New York these days), and just like we did our annual bathing suit shop a few months back, now we’re thinking about our annual umbrella shop. We’re going to start by consulting mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Weird and Wet Umbrellas, [...]

It’s the season (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) for drinking under birches, drinking at beaches, drinking on benches, drinking on bleachers, drinking on roofs one has gained access to semi-legally and drinking on stoops of buildings one has never been into. With all the running around we tend to forget bottle-openers at least [...]

It’s July 4th weekend, and you know what that means: shopping! After all, there’s nothing more patriotic these days than spending all your green to keep the stars and stripes afloat, and so we suggest that in preparation for your weekend barbecuing, hanging at the beach, losing your memory at the kegger, or celebrating however [...]

‘Tis the season to be grilling, and the biggest grill-fest of them all (July 4) is just a couple weeks away, so it’s not too soon to start thinking about supplies and equipment for that delicious day.
And though it’s still too early to shop for the stuff you’ll be grilling (whether veggie or meat), you [...]

Our old friend the radio was patented exactly 113 years ago. Long the province of dad and son duos working their ham radios before it became a giant box in your living room and, eventually, a portable box to prop on your shoulder while walking in the ‘hood, the radio has come a long way, [...]

It’s been about five years now since we’ve worn or even owned a watch on anything resembling a regular basis because, well, why not just use your phone as a watch? We’re so accustomed to this now that it would take a really cool watch to get us out of the habit, something like one [...]

It’s taken us so long to accrue the most standard kitchen appliances and integrate them into our food prep routines that we can’t really imagine what we’ll need next. Ultimately, the things missing from our kitchen tool kit tend to be very rudimentary – whisk, bottle opener, spatula, etc. – so we’d be at a [...]

In our ongoing efforts to turn the Listicles office into the coolest “new media” work/play funspace, we’ve been shopping around for minimalist chic objects and furniture. At first, all our computers were snazzy Pano Logic units (seen at right alongside its ugly desktop cousin), but after about a week of getting nothing done we decided [...]

We’re still plotting our first solar-powered product purchase, but with all the wacky doodads made to run off sunlight we have to admit the choices are a little bewildering. should we get something useful like a solar-powered mouse for our computer? Or, do we get something that’ll really impress all the folks at the office, [...]