Damn… I think I need to go have a cold shower. Mind you, the price tag’ll have the same effect…

What, I hear ye mutter, am I blathering about? Well, I’ll tell ye. But first, some background details.
Years ago, I worked in a warehouse fer electronic components. Among other things, we weren’t allowed to carry electrical items with us in case of static problems. This included non-mechanical watches. My next job wasn’t much help in the time department either. In a dairy, you were allowed the clothes they told you to wear and that was it. However, we could keep a phone in our pocket if it wasn’t flaunted too much.
With that in mind, it’s hardly any surprise that I don’t possess a wristwatch, is it? Not that I don’t like the idea, but I like an unencumbered wrist these days.
Then I saw this sweet bit of kit and knew I was right.

Wow… I could feel and hear the nerdgasms from over here…
This, my friends is the Celsius X VI II Remontage Papillon, a brand-spanking new mobile phone and watch combo that is so new it hasn’t been released for sale yet. It’s being premièred at the Baselworld watch fair next week. According to all the sources I could find anyway; the Baselworld site is very flash-heavy and was grinding too slowly fer me to stay with it.
Fancy another pic? Thought so.

{sigh….}
Anyway, not only does it look sexier than Christina Hendricks in a cocktail dress*, it’s also a top-notch bit of engineering too, as the article on Cool Hunting tells us.
Cheers also to Watchismo fer ruining my dreams by telling me the fiscal ruin I would face in owning one (roughly $275,000 a pop).

*I’m lying. Nothing could be that sexy.

This is a must have.

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Buy one.

This great mashup is exactly the reason why I wasn’t interested in seeing Alice in Wonderland.  The film looks so over the top in treatment and style that I think it would distract me from the overall plot.

If I wasn’t so utterly destroyed from the lack of sleep or the soul-crushing feeling that my 4 year old job to nowhere gives me, I’d probably orgasm over this video. OK, that was going too far. Everyone knows I am too cynical to feel pleasure of any kind. Anyway, my two favorite things Battlestar Galactica and the Beastie Boys.

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Although it does have to be said that there is a fairly major difference between Bill Bailey and the subject of this blog. Namely that B.B. is a classically trained musician, skilled in the use of various instruments. Beardyman, on the other hand is, on the whole, his own instrument.

With the exception of a keyboard, Beardyman is a beatboxer par excellance, using electronic trickery to loop, combine and warp his vocal acrobatics. Not only that, but he’s also possessed of a fine, dry wit.

Take a look at this film, although be warned on two counts: First, it’s long. At just a minute or so under an hour, yer best advised to set this up in a window of its own while it loads. Secondly, he – and the audience – are Scottish. Hence, much of what’s said may not be clear – apart from the frequent f-bombs…
So yeah.. NSFW, methinks.

Many thanks to Stuart fer finding this one. I think I’ll be subscribing to this guy’s Youtube channel.

See this?

It’s a tiny, postage stamp-sized piece of paper with some cool shapes and colours. Except that, to someone in the world, those funky shades mean the difference between life and death.
Developed by George Whitesides, a chemist from Harvard University, it has the ability, with one drop of blood from a patient, to show whether said patient is suffering from diseases such as malaria, HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis. Not only that, it can also tell the severity to which the disease has developed.
With the third world countries in mind, this potential life-saver costs a penny to make. Incredibly, the secret ingredient is nothing more nor less than the coloured inks used in comic books.

Superman to the rescue once more!
Visit the Inhabitat page for more info, plus a little clip on how it works.

I had no idea which one of these to share. They are all pretty entertaining even if I didn’t recognize the logo. Go see the other 14 at Buzzfeed.

thanks Birch