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‘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, [...]

There was a time when a phrase like the title of this listicle might have been an oxymoron. With the fusing of nerds and cool kids into a srange social super-species, though, the idea of really cool shoes inspired by really geeky themes is a reality. Witness Aleptu’s listicle of The 12 Coolest Geeky Shoes, [...]

As all the keyboards in the Listicles office slowly but surely die off from a combination of spilt coffee in the morning and spilt margaritas in the afternoon, we’re planning on buying up a new fleet sometime soon. Our research for the most versatile and ergonomically appropriate keyboards available lead us to waylou’s listicle of [...]

Funny how with the iPhone takeover now iPods seem a little arcane, you know? And with the new Kindle 2, who needs a Kindle 1, not to mention its predecessors, printed books? Yes, technological cycles of innovation and redundency are accelerating to breakneck speeds, which also makes nostalgia for the technologies of yesteryear widely accessible [...]

A few years back we were at a birthday party for a friend’s younger brother, and one of his friends gave him a turtle made of milk jugs. The boy started to cry, then the girl who gave him the turtle started to cry, and accusatory looks were exchanged between every parent faction and things [...]