The Puk is a wrist rest that glides along under your arm as you move the mouse. It’s hard to appreciate until you’ve tried it, but when you consider that regular stationary gel-rests stop you moving your arm and make you do the annoying pick up the mouse and lift it backwards thing it all begins to make sense.
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The “Barcode” is a united flag for Europe developed as part of the visual language of Brussels, official EU capital since 2001. Rem Koolhaas of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) came up with it by combining all the flags of EU members. It solved the problem of having to change the flag when new members were added to the union as the barcode can grow indefinitely to include their colours.
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I was looking at the Asono MP3 player today and was a bit surprised by Hannah’s response to it:
“Ew that’s disgusting it looks just like a mermaids purse. I don’t mean a mythical mermaid’s purse, I mean the little creature things that actually exist. And they’re gross so that’s what I think of that.”
I’d never heard of Mermaid’s Purses before, but it turns out not only was she was right, but we can scientifically link Asono to sharks.
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Mighty Sites
- Macheist is an online scavenger hunt from the My Dream App crew featuring weekly challenges on a trail to free mac apps. This weeks heist (the second one so far) was difficult, but well worth the reward. Cha-Ching said the thief when he cracked open the vault. - #