Archive: July 12, 2012
GIRO-air-attack-helmet

A new helmet from Giro called the Air Attack that offers the weight, ventilation, and streamlined features of a true performance racing helmet (without making you look like a fool for wearing one because you aren’t a professional racer). I really love this.

Core77 has posted this video from the Saxon Leather Upholstery factory in the UK which makes Chesterfield sofas. The hand-polishing stage is rather interesting to watch. I always thought sofas like that were just worn in. But it all seems fake now! Still, an interesting video to watch.

Apparently, this is a viral marketing stunt for AMC’s Small Town Security. An interesting one for sure. [via]

PWAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA forever. It’s like California knew to release this video on the day I arrived to tell me not to move to Koreatown.

if-this-then-that

I’ve had early access to IFTTT (If This Then That) for a while now but only recently begun to use it to really make the web work for me in a seamless and automatic way. In short, IFTTT is one of the best online tools for any sort of automated task involving web services. Setup [...]

Thank goodness for DSLRs because now we have clear footage of what went down at the San Diego fireworks failure this July 4th when a computer glitch caused all fireworks to go off at the same time.