Tag: Gary Cutlack
The achingly fashionable Electrolux Ultrasilencer
Even vacuum cleaners have to be right fashionable now. They used to be brown. You could kick them and it didn’t matter. Mum had the same one for 19 years. You’d throw them under the stairs and treat them like a Victorian man would treat his servants and children.
Now vacuum cleaners are no longer our humble menial servants to keep hidden away. They are iPod-styled conversation starters for dinner parties..
Support convicted file-sharer Jammie Thomas by… buying a thong
Poor old Jammie Thomas is the woman who was convicted of file sharing and ordered to pay the recording industry $220,000 in compensation.
She is now attempting to make some of the money back – and fund an appeal – by selling t-shirts and underpants on the internet. Here is a photograph of her underpants:
Apple rakes in $831 from every iPhone sold
iPhone’s exclusive American operator AT&T ends up paying out $18 a month to Apple just for the privilege of stocking the thing, thanks to data revealed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
Plus iPhone doesn’t come with any old mobile contract – poor Americans are LOCKED DOWN into it for a full two years, hence all the fuss about unlocking it. Then you’ve got the price of the phone itself on top of that. It all comes to $831 winging its way to Apple…
A Green Goblin Pumpkin Bomb to make Spider-Man PAY this Halloween
If you’re going out dressed as the Green Goblin to try and get some free sweets by terrorising pensioners to tears, try and get one of these first.
It’s a perfect replica of the Goblin’s chuckable bombs…
The DIY helicopter powered by a Honda Civic engine
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi is a 24-year-old physics undergraduate from Nigeria. He might not live to be a 25-year-old physics undergraduate, thanks to his fondness of building helicopters himself out of scrap metal.
The engine comes out of a Honda Civic, the seats from a Toyota…
The quite superb Suzuki PIXY single-person electric car
If you fancy tootling around town while being mocked by the local youths and have a skin think enough to cope, the Suzuki PIXY could be the next-generation vehicle for you. It’s a single-person vehicle which may or may not be legally describable as a “car” – and it’s entirely electric so that all you world-saving environmentalists can tootle around feeling quite superior about that.
Hand-drawn passwords on the way – everyone to start using a drawing of bosoms
Some “scientists” are developing a way to let us all use drawing instead of numbers for passwords. So instead of simply typing “1919” or “BradPitt69” you’ll be forced to fumble for a stylus and attempt to recreate the drawing of your private parts you foolishly set as a pass-drawing.
The idea is that these drawings will be harder to copy and easier to remember, a bit like a signature. The exciting new thing about this version of the technology is…
The Airbus A380 makes it through its first commercial flight
Singapore Airlines pulled off a next-gen aeroplane first yesterday, with the first ever commercial flight of the vast double decker Airbus A380. There wasn’t even one fireball over the Indonesia as flight SQ380 successfully made it all the way from Singapore to Sydney in one very large piece.
“The flight was spectacular, just truly awesome,” said Thomas Lee, one of the passengers – a man who’s so into his planes he was also one of the first passengers on the inaugural 747 flight back in 1970…
Waterproof Freeview LCD TV for your bathroom
Watching TV in the bathroom – the height of luxury. You may as well be eating truffles out of Evangeline Lilly’s belly button, it is THAT MUCH FUN.
Usually the preserve of the rich and decadent, only the finest hotels and fanciest apartments…
Cheap GPS with the advert-funded adNav Boomerang
If you’re fully equipped with “ad blindness” from more than a decade of in-your-face internet advertising, you might be able to bear using the adNav Boomerang.
It’s a GPS gadget, only one that’s cheaper than most thanks the unique way…
