Annoy Your Friends, Play the Drums on Your T-Shirt
TechDarling — ... I'm a big fan of any silly, seemingly useless tech products, and ThinkGeek is known for making some of the best, so I automatically adore them (it doesn't hurt that they are based out of Fairfax, VA - my birthplace). One of their latest products - the electronic drum kit t-shirt - is hilarious, and brilliant. ...

DIY Halloween contest! This is the BIG ONE!!!!
MAKE Magazine — ... Hack n Mod, IndyMogul, Lion Brand Yarn, MAKE,  Toolmonger,  Plaid,  Ponoko, PopSci,  Singer,  ThinkGeek, and Threadbanger all have come ...

Scarelog: Ten Creepy, Crawly Halloween Gadgets, Part 1
Gearlog — ... ($99.99), via ThinkGeek. The knife set could also make a great gift for your husband or wife: You're supposed to give a gift of steel for your 11th anniversary, so what better way to show you care than with the Ex Voodoo Knife Set? The holder is magnetic to keep the knives in place. ...

The Stylophone
JoshSpear.com — ... You’ve always longed to make beautiful music, the only problem is sometimes the magic comes to you at the most inopportune times. If you’re the type who always has a synth-heavy tune in your head but needs to have a musical outlet at your fingertips, you might want to invest in a Stylophone from ...

UGLY: How Unorthodox Thinking Will Save Design, by Tad Toulis
Core77 — ... complex to be modifiable. Like 2x4s in a lumberyard, an emerging generation of consumers sees the shipped product as little more than a jumping off point for solutions that better support their own specific needs, tastes and whims. So much for the voice of the consumer; say hello to the will of the consumer. The elevation of hack culture from a subversive activity to a pedestrian preoccupation also casts a light on changing notions of propriety. Websites such as LifeHacker , ThinkGeek and Inventables routinely categorize and publish burgeoning catalogs of top ...

What do Google Reader engineers read? MAKE!
MAKE Magazine — ... in Reader) Jake And Amir Dot Com (view in Reader) Just Bento (view in Reader) La Tartine Gourmande (view in Reader) MAKE Magazine (view in Reader) Yay! POPSUGAR (view in Reader) Rock, Paper, Shotgun (view in Reader) The Big Picture (view in Reader) The Kitchn (view in Reader) ThinkGeek (view in Reader) WebUrbanist (view in Reader) ...

Hot towel? Sure, in my pocket.
Gadling — ... A hand towel. But that wouldn't be nearly as much fun. You can get a vial of 10 pills on ThinkGeek.com for just $7.99. It'll be the most fun you've had in the airplane bathroom since you joined the mile high club! Seriously, these would also come in super handy for camping and backpacking. *false Hot towel? Sure, in my pocket. originally appeared on Gadling on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this ...

17 Christmas Gift Ideas for Geeky Kids
ReadWriteWeb — ... of fizz by creating their own bath bombs, haunted balloons, and volcanoes using simple ingredients like glycerine, cornstarch, and food coloring. Recommended Age: 10+ Price Tag: $14.95 2. The Brew Your Own Root Beer Kit This easy to use kit lets kids brew up 4 gallons of old fashion root beer naturally carbonated with real yeast. Recommended Age: 8+ Price Tag: $17.95 3. DIY Sour Candy Factory Kit From sour ...

Gifts for the beginning developer
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... If you've been looking for geeky clothing, then look no further than the wonderfully designed T-Shirts and other clothing from ThinkGeek. ...

Black Friday Deals!
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... will pack lots of goodies, like a Logitech Wireless Notebook Mouse for $9.99, a 40-inch Sony Bravia 1080p LCD TV for $998, and some awesome PlayStation 2 games on sale for $22. ThinkGeek.com Use coupon code FLWS at checkout and you will save $5 on orders of $25 or more, or $10 on orders of $50 or more. They have tons of geeky toys and clever T-shirts for all your favorite lovable nerds. ...

Semantic Gifts Mines Social Profiles for the Perfect Present
louisgray.com — ... , I found the site to be weighted toward offerings from Think Geek (which may say something about me and my friends), but also saw offerings from Urban Outfitters, Toys R Us, and others. ...

Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt
Gadget Venue — ... they actually went ahead and made it to sell. The Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt has a speaker embedded in to the front of it. A wired remote control can then be used to select which soundtrack or sound effects you want to blast out of your chest. The t-shirt also has an SD card slot allowing you to put your own sound effects in to the shirt should you find the ready made ones a bit boring. The shirt costs $40 and is available over on ThinkGeek. ...

Cyber Monday Sales 2008: Apple, ThinkGeek and Overstock
PR News: — ... ThinkGeek mainly offer gadgets and today their main promotion is also free UPS ground shipping, their prices are pretty good for gadgets already and knowing there will not be more charges at the end of checkout is not a bad deal. ...

Cheap Geek: Cyber Monday Extravaganza
Gearlog — ... 5. 5. One of my favorite geeky sites, ThinkGeek, is offering free shipping for today only. Use code: CYBERMONDAY when checking out. Currently, the site is offering a sale on Star Wars cookbooks, an MP3 retro speaker amp, and other great finds. ...

Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends
ReadWriteWeb — ... also said that Amazon "does everything right in the world of shopping" - particularly because it recommends products he didn't know he wanted. Eric mentioned Revolve Clothing, and what they're doing with the "category view" - allows you to see a lot more at a higher level. Jack mentioned that he buys books from Amazon and other specialist sites, but he still goes to Google for products that he needs to do search on. Kurt said that ThinkGeek ('stuff for smart masses') is one of his favorite sites and that Zappos is a ...

Last-Minute Gifts for the Linuxy at Heart
LinuxInsider — ... , of course, and ThinkGeek always has an impressive assortment of toys for those of the geeky persuasion. For other ideas, we took to the streets of the blogosphere to find out what real, live Linux geeks are craving. 'Drooling' for Android "An mp3 player that works with Linux and doesn't have a crap interface," Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told LinuxInsider. Others had more specific ideas. "I'm battling with myself over pre-ordering a new phone," ...

What Comes After SourceForge and SlashDot?
ReadWriteWeb — When your company owns the biggest open source code repository online, the most venerable geek news aggregator there is and many geeks' favorite place to shop for wacky stuff - what do you do next? Hopefully we're about to find out, because the owners of SourceForge, SlashDot and ThinkGeek are apparently working on a new project. One of the most interesting ways to get an idea where companies of interest are headed is by watching who they hire. That's one of the reasons why we launched Jobwire (sponsored by VisualCV), our new site tracking who gets hired in tech and ...

ingenuiTEA Teapot Review
The Gadgeteer — ... drink Stash Tea Premium White tea from individually packaged tea bags. On the weekend I’m more adventurous and like to try different loose teas. I’ll either use a French press or a mesh cup infuser to steep the leaves. Recently I reviewed the Teastick, which is a cool idea, but turned out to be a little awkward to use and clean. In a comment to that review, someone suggested that I try the ingenuiTEA teapot from Adagio Teas, Inc. My friends at ThinkGeek sent me one and here are the results of my review. ...

Blogging From 36,000 Feet
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... feet over Colorado, on a Virgin America flight from JFK to SFO. Using a service called Gogo for an almost-reasonable $12.95 for the length of the flight, I can pretty much do anything on the Web that I would do anywhere else. I can watch The Architects Sketch on YouTube. Or I can take in yesterday’s Daily Show on Hulu. Or check my bank balance. Or go shopping for goofy t-shirts on ThinkGeek. And it means I can read Tiernan’s post on Cisco’s ...

Where in the World Is America’s CTO?
BoomTown — ... The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register. BARACK OBAMA [Photo of the t-shirt from ThinkGeek.]

Happy Valentine’s Day: A Geek Love Poem
BoomTown — Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, of course, so here’s a lovely sentiment on a t-shirt from the fine folks at ThinkGeek. (BoomTown is still in an Elmer’s glue coma from making 252 handmade cards with 33 pounds of glitter, which my sons’ school insists on instead of the store-bought kind from Walgreens that I prefer.) In any case, big, sloppy hugs all around to the readers of All Things Digital–except for those who know just who they are. But to make up, please don’t think sending a romantic Twitter to us or ...

New Products From ThinkGeek Include Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, USB Pet Rock
OhGizmo! — ... the bunch has to be this Tauntaun sleeping bag, complete with lightsaber zipper pull and toasty warm faux-intestine liner. It’s not as warm as sleeping inside a real freshly dead animal, but I bet it smells a heck of a lot better. You can get this for about $40, but you’ll have to wait for it to be shipped in from the ThinkGeek wearhouse on Hoth. A couple more new products, after the jump. [ USB Pet Rock ] ...

Los nuevos productos de Think Geek, aprobados por el comite nerd de Hipertextual™
Gizmología — Los últimos productos tecnológicos de Think Geek son asombrosos. Camiseta Portal — La idea es genial, una camiseta que puedas usar junto a otra camiseta identica, pero ambas con un portal en el espacio para poder pasar objetos, cubos en su mayoría. Se dice que la tecnología usada en esta camiseta esta desarrollada por Black Mesa. USB Pet Rock — Un clásico entre los clásicos, antes de los Tamagochi o de las Game Boy estaba él, ...

Squeez Bacon: ThinkGeek Offers Up Meat in a Tube
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... is offering a new product called Squeez Bacon this week. The product is described as a “fully cooked 100% bacon paste that could be squeezed from a tube.” Tasty! ...

IMshopping Gives Shopping Advice via Twitter
Mashable! — Shopping online at websites like Amazon or ThinkGeek is generally pretty easy - click, confirm, and pay. But there’s something to be said about shopping in-store, especially when you want to ask whether a product is right for your needs. Even Amazon reviews can’t replace this interaction. A new social service has launched to address the issue: IMshopping. IMshopping is a human-powered shopping assistance tool where users can ask complicated shopping questions via its website or on Twitter. Yes, by @replying IMshopping, you can find out ...

Mother’s Day Gift: ThinkGeek thinks of your mom
Gear Diary — ... If Mother’s Day is approaching too fast, and you still can’t choose the right gift for your geek inclined mom, ThinkGeek can give you some good ideas and save yourself the trouble of choosing. ...

Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends (Redux)
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SourceForge Acquires Open Source Data Community Ohloh
TechCrunch — ... SourceForge owns and operates a number of tech media websites, including SourceForge.net, a centralized location for software developers to manage open source software development; Slashdot, a tech news site; ThinkGeek, a marketplace for tech goods. ...

The Designer Lego Dress Takes Geekery, Bravery
GeekSugar — ... on ThinkGeek. I found it on a regular (and quite posh) shopping website by designer JC De Castelbajac, and you know . . . as geeky as its print inherently is, I quite like it. ...

SourceForge Grows Up - and Out
E-Commerce Times — ... and an e-commerce company ThinkGeek . The company has evolved from one selling hardware in the 1990s to one that had an enterprise software business along with an e-commerce business. Now, it is trying to become a company much more focused on serving the open source community and its e-commerce business. "The community has hung with us the whole way," Sobel said. Brand Counts The early experiences BA Linux had in establishing its employees deep within the Linux community had far-reaching effects on the company SourceForge has become. If nothing else, the reputation it ...

SourceForge Grows Up - and Out
LinuxInsider — ... and an e-commerce company ThinkGeek . The company has evolved from one selling hardware in the 1990s to one that had an enterprise software business along with an e-commerce business. Now, it is trying to become a company much more focused on serving the open source community and its e-commerce business. "The community has hung with us the whole way," Sobel said. Brand Counts The early experiences BA Linux had in establishing its employees deep within the Linux community had far-reaching effects on the company SourceForge has become. If nothing else, the reputation it ...

Wi-Fi detector cap-and-shirt make you a moving status indicator
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women — ... Don't be surprised if kids point at you and scream, "Look Mommy, that cap is lighting up!". Or if people around disperse rather quickly as your T-shirt lights up without warning. The good part? Well, to know that you are near a strong 802.11b/g Wi-Fi network that you can crawl into and shut out the external world. And I think that's a handsome compensation for the trouble you would have taken to dress yourself up with either this Wi-fi Detector Cap($14.99), or the ...

TechSaver Test: ThinkGeek.com Sale Items
Gearlog — ... ThinkGeek isn't your typical online store. Why? Because it sells things like a Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, a Coffee Cup Power Inverter, and an LED Umbrella. Each week I'm blown away by what that store offers--and at just how creative people are when designing products. ...

Lego MP3 Player: Love It or Leave It?
GeekSugar — ... Is it just me, or are Lego-themed products popping up everywhere? I just spotted another: this colorful Lego MP3 player ($40) on ThinkGeek. It has all the functionalities of an iPod, holds 2GB of music (about 500 songs), and features a digital display and USB connection. The coolest part: it's made from actual Lego pieces, so it'll snap together with any Legos you already have. Build-an-MP3-player, anyone? What do you think? ...

Get Black Friday Deals for 2009
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — Photo Credit: jardenberg Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, has become one of the most popular shopping days over the years. With the economic situation, there’s no doubt that more people will be looking for deals when it comes to holiday shopping this year. Looking at the Black Friday circulars that have already been released, electronics--including computers, MP3 players and GPS systems-- will be extremely popular gifts this year. Everyone wants an edge when looking for deals, and for the past few years websites like ...