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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 [...]

Thank the Father it’s Freudian Fridays! In this edition of our weekly psychoanalystical where we turn Sigmund loose all over the fields of contemporary pop culture we’ll be looking at technological doo-dads that are more than they claim to be. Living in a technophilic age as we do, it’s no surprise that the imagery of [...]

When we were young all we had was an impossibly wimpy little boombox and we couldn’t understand the device’s appeal (granted, we didn”t live in a street-centric subculture where public display was the referred mode of music-listening.
Then we saw Kazaam and our dislike of boomboxes seemed all the more justified. Now we get it, and [...]

This one time a press kit arrived in the Listicles office for the New Museum, and along with the pictures and press releases there was a really cool USB flash drive in the shape of the Museum’s iconic SANAA-designed stacked-box building. We thought it was really cool, but clearly someone else did too and they [...]

As we follow the various newsbits about soon-to-be-impeached Illinois Governor Ron Blagojevich, we’re slowly realizing that miniature voice-recorders and other spy gear – presumed extinct after Watergate – is still helping us catch crooked politicians. And with ever-smaller designs being released, keeping an eye or ear on your local representative, boss, spouse or pet is [...]

Fans of product design and strange gadgetry that we are, our fashion sense tends to be a few micro-seconds behind the very tippy point of the cutting edge. That’s why Listicles’ seizes upon every opportunity to marry our love of the obscure and bizarre to high fashion and style. One such opportunity recently fell right [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]