gulp when you check out yelp
here is an interesting story via gawker and venture beat. seems that the contributors on yelp! tend to use similar rating when reviewing a restaurant. apparently, when they rate a dining experience “they award four or five stars 69 percent of the time”. venture beat says “there are so many reviews that it’s virtually impossible [...]
check this out!
soon, the iphone really will do anything. usaa, a private bank with only one branch in san antonio, tx and with customers all over the world will update its iphone application to allow customers to deposit checks. users will be able to take a copy of the front and the back of the check and [...]
but how’s it going to look as a tattoo?
out with the old, in with the new. bokode will soon be replacing barcode if the scientists at m.i.t. have anything to do with it. the new bokode system is a teensy-weensie l.e.d. that that “encodes visual information at various brightness and angles…the out-of-focus image, which can be stamped onto just about anything, holds thousands of times more information [...]
all that without copy and paste…
artist jorge colombo created the cover of the new yorker using an iphone application called “brushes”. we here at sacredbird think the gadget is pretty cool but know that some people think it’s a little too cool. one of the consistent complaints about the iphone is the ability to copy and paste things like urls [...]
it kinda looks like something else to me?
here’s what promises to be the next big thing after the snuggie: the jumpsnap, a rope-less jump rope. it costs $40 (twice as much as the snuggie) but there seems to be good reason– it’s easy to use (you won’t hit any objects d’art, you can just bend your knees instead of jumping up and [...]
laziness breeds creativeness
what some people will do for a drink. apparently some fool created a motorized barstool and it’s growing in popularity. you can now buy motorized barstools online and barstool racing is growing in popularity. however, one needs to learn a lesson from kile wygle. wygle was recently charged for drunk driving his barstool in columbus, [...]
what a thrill(er)
last year nokia held a design contest that asked people to design a nokia bluetooth headset inspired by their favorite music. weird thing is, the top 5 had featured 3 songs from michael jackson and 1 song by r. kelly (both are exra-ordinarily creepy). the picture here was inspired by r. kelly’s “i believe i can [...]
