North Face releases sleek iPod Jackets

These Stylish, iPod compatible jackets are full proof to make your snowboarding or any daily winter commute an entertaining moment. The jackets, Hustle for men and Femphonic for women, are fully wired to plug in to any iPod and even have a remote located in the sleeve for switching your tunes with ease.

You can pick one of these up at Backcountry for $348.95.

Freakish, Microwaved Xbox 360 makes me squirm

Artist Kenny Irwin has experience microwaving video game consoles. His latest work is this Xbox 360 Elite; microwaved and placed with numerous, grotesque looking eye balls.

 He is selling it for $31,002 and is donating half the proceeds to the Council on American-Islamic Relations of California.

Here is a link to the auction for the chard console on Ebay.  

Want to know how to do that? Look at this.

Lifehacker has a great post on their best How-To features of 2009.

Some of these features include how to work with Windows 7, how to clean a slow mac, and how to build a great media set up.

Click here for the link to the post.

A Silent Hill play? I'd watch.

I have never payed any title in the Silent Hill series, but I sure plan to. Maybe when I get a new Playstation 2 later....way later. 
I would also love to see the Swedish stage play of Silent Hill.


A cover of it over on Kotaku shows a young man standing in front of what appears to be the infamous Cone Head, a reoccurring enemy in the series.  

Pretty good read

I had picked up a comic the other day because of the title. It was Gears of War.

I had played and finished the two main titles for the Xbox 360, but I hadn't reached forward towards the other media that had been released for the franchise. I just finished reading this copy, it is the 10 comic in the series.

It is a fairly good read, nothing too interesting but it has the gritty, war ridden feel that Gears of War conveys. It is a good read and any Gears fan should definitly pick these up.

The fine art of dual monitors

Recently, I've been finding a number of applications that allow me to make myself a more productive student with the use of my two monitors. I use a Lenovo T400 laptop and a random 26" tv I purchased at Wal-Mart before I left for school.

I bought a cord early in the year that allowed me to connect the two. I hadn't known of the potential of the two items together until now. I downloaded such applications as Edgeless, John's Background Switcher, Virtuawin, and Displayfusion in order to enhance my two screens and my work load.  I learned that with all these apps in hand, my work was actually getting done.

I am still working on my set up. The picture above is from a week ago and I have changed a few things to make it more comfortable and neat, but the wire problem I have under the desk is something that will take me a while to figure out.

The baby breifcase that shouldn't be

Ever wanted a case for your baby that does everything a parent does, other than give love and affection to a needy child? Well you are in luck, dear parent, as Pouyan Mokhtarani has designed a special carriage that is something like a Saw-like death-trap but designed specifically for the child's safety and less work for the parent. 

It has an LED screen so the baby sees you and you see them along with a communicator system to transfer all the googly woogly babble most babies love to hear. The "pod" has several doors to keep your baby confined, comfortable and safe. It even has its own ventilation system to bring in fresh air for the youngster. THERE IS A AUTO POOPER SCOOPER!!!!! This machine is amazing, and I don't even have a child.

You can find the layouts and a better description at yankodesign.com. 

 

Waving in Google Wave

I am currently still testing out my Google Wave account and I just wanted to 1.give a glimpse of a wave and 2.test out my newly downloaded screen capture application, Screenshot Captor.