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Our laptop used to overheat every five minutes, which was great when we needed an excuse not to do an assignment, but also made for some of the most fast and furious work sessions in the history of computers. We would sit in the middle of a room full of fans, hoping the extra air [...]

Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

October, in case you weren’t already aware, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get aware. And more so than just about any other medical cause, the folks behind breast cancer awareness have some really spectacular merchandising and licensing ideas, which is how they’ve come up with the items listed in Comedy.com’s 15 Strangest Breast Cancer [...]

Call us huge video game snobs/product design nerds, but every time a new gaming system came out one of the things we were always most excited about was the controller design. After all, it tends to be the most iconic and creative-looking part of the system, and there’s something so seductive in the tactile object, [...]

In our ongoing quest to remodel the humble Listicles office into an epic design showroom with nothing but the coolest, slickest objects and items, we’ve made some… questionable purchases. Seriously, though, how were we expected to know that the Jurgen Bey tree trunk work bench (pictured below) was actually just a tree trunk with chair [...]

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, [...]

We all make mistakes when coming up with brand names, that’s just a fact of our product-saturated lives. For instance, a few months back (just over five months, to be exact) we had what we thought was a brilliant idea for a weblog where we would aggregate and create lists (because everybody loves lists). People [...]

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 [...]

Last week Milan’s annual furniture fair – the world’s biggest – wrapper up its 48th edition in fairly typical style. Although, if one thing about this sexy showcase for new furniture designs seems to be changing it’s the proportion of green and environmentally friendly models being unveiled every year. 2009 was another big year for [...]

Today, we’re told, is the anniversary of the zipper (the clothing technology, not the amusement park ride), though we weren’t able to find any evidence to back this claim up.In fact, the original zipper was patented on November 7, 1891, so our zipper listicle will have to wait a few months.
Not to worry, though, because [...]