ThinkGeek is featuring a Star Trek: The Original Series phaser-controlled mood light, modeled after the rocks seen in the 1966 episode “The Enemy Within”. The rock has two modes, Survival (which “heats” the rock) and Atmosphere (which turns it into a light show). It’s a rock-shaped shell with an LED inside that comes with an…
Crystal Pepsi Employee Training Video (1992)
Consumer Time Capsule has unearthed a Crystal Pepsi employee training video that was made for the national launch of the product in 1992. Here’s the Crystal Pepsi launch commercial that premiered on January 31, 1993 during Super Bowl XXVII, featuring the Van Halen song “Right Now”.
Adventures With the Mojave Phone Booth, A Tale of an Isolated Phone Booth’s Rise and Fall Due to Fame
In 2014, we wrote about Godfrey “Doc” Daniels and his Kickstarter campaign to raise money to write a book about about the Mojave Phone Booth, a phone booth that once existed an isolated stretch of California desert and became Internet-famous in the late 1990s. Unfortunately, despite its fame, the phone booth was removed in May…
Filmmaker Seeks Out Macabre Rituals Taking Place All Over the World in New Netflix Series ‘Dark Tourist’
In the Netflix series Dark Tourist, New Zealand filmmaker David Farrier of the film Tickled is on a quest to seek out the macabre rituals, destinations and meetings that take place in every part of the world in order to learn more about the people who participate in them. From nuclear tourism in Japan to…
A Fascinating Explanation About the Confusing Concept of Cousin Removal Within Family Trees
In a lineal episode of Do Online Now Guys (D.O.N.G.), host Michael Stevens of VSauce sat down with a marker and white cardstock paper to verbally and visually explain the often confusing concept of cousin removal within a family tree. Essentially, the process looks at the number of generational levels each cousin has to travel…
A Wonderful Emotionally Smart Mirror That Will Only Turn Itself On When It Detects a Smiling Face
Berk Ilhan, an award winning designer in New York City, has created the “Smile Mirror“, a really wonderful emotionally smart mirror that will not turn on until it detects a smile on the face of the onlooker. A believer in positive positive psychology and inspired by the real-life Patch Adams, Ilhan believes a smile can…
Attachable Smartphone Cases Transformed Into Haute Couture at a Maison Margiela Fashion Show
A post shared by Maison Margiela (@maisonmargiela) on Jul 5, 2018 at 6:46am PDT During the Maison Margiela Autumn-Winter 2018 “Artisanal” Collection fashion show, Creative Director designer John Galliano seamlessly incorporated attachable smartphone and tablet cases into the featured items in the show. Referring to the current generation as “Neo-Digital Natives”, Galliano found a way…
Host Your WordPress Website at Laughing Squid
You may not realize this, but Laughing Squid is also a web hosting company that focuses on WordPress hosting. The revenue from our hosting services helps support this blog. We recently announced that we are now offering Managed WordPress, a hosting service highly optimized for WordPress. We also offer standard hosting, including WordPress hosting, on…