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We are all for advances in robotics, all for slowly but surely giving all human jobs to purpose-built cybernetic beings with just enough of our circuitry missing that they will not try to wrest control of the world from us. But those things are so complex; at times like these, when we need stuff to [...]

We used to love getting milk delivered to our house by the kindly milkman, until one day, instead of taking the empties he left with our auntie Lou (or, “the milkmaid,” as he called her), and we never saw either of them again. We’re told that the first ever milk bottle delivery took place on [...]

We remember learning in one of our Art History classes that museum studies and exhibition design really only became disciplines in their own rights after the first department stores opened in Paris and Berlin, and people started thinking about the ways objects are displayed in more sophisticated terms. Maybe this is why we’re so disappointed [...]

We’re getting a little tired of the cold, to be honest, and we might have to resort to drastic measures in order to keep toasty warm for the next couple months. Our first course of action will be to start sleeping on the radiator. If that doesn’t work out, we’ll fill our bed with a [...]

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, [...]