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To be honest, Christmas is the time of year when you DON’T want to be spying on the neighbours. They’ll only be having blistering arguments about who forgot to defrost the turkey / why the kids don’t deserve a Wii / who invited smelly old Aunt Elsie anyway. It’s not exactly fascinating stuff. Nevertheless, if [...]...More
Shooting ducks in the real world is cold, laborious work. Translation: Brandish can’t aim straight with a powerful weapon in our hands. Stop giggling at the back. Anyway, far easier is to shoot up some poultry from the comfort of your desk, with Iwantoneofthose’s Duck Shooting Gallery. A bunch of plastic ducks scroll along the [...]...More
Skateboard decks have always been a great canvass for great design with some stunning artwork getting the shit grinded out of it. Well, news reaches us of some ace boards from the great RetroToGo of some gorgeous retro guitar skateboards from the hand of Evan Hecox. Hecox is a renowned US artist who has designed [...]...More
Playboy have recently done a feature on this splendid item. This brilliant travel bar can make sure that, if your good book hipflask doesn’t hold enough booze and drink related items, you really can get hammered anywhere in the world. It’s pretty much got everything you need for the ultimate party (apart from a DJ) [...]...More
As George Michael might have sung, ‘Last Christmas I gave you my heart, the very next day it was on eBay.’ Yes, a recent survey shows that 15 per cent of UK online shoppers plan to sell unwanted Christmas gifts online. A further 35 per cent are considering it – with women more likely to [...]...More
This eminently affordable shot tender, available from Urban Outfitters, is a fine way to spend £10 at this time of year. You can easily mount it on a wall and its leak-proof dispenser pours exactly 1.5oz of whatever it is you fancy. Absinthe, Baileys, meths… the decision is yours. Of course, you’ll have to supply [...]...More
‘Love’ was conceived by legendary Beatles producer George Martin (and son Giles) as a stageshow soundtrack to Cirque de Soleil’s Las Vegas spectacular of the same name. It’s essentially a mash-up (or audio collage, for those of you too old to know what a mash-up is) of some of the best Beatles tracks – I [...]...More
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/sowear_1928_58471458 For the first time this year, I stepped outside and my teeth began to chatter. Yep, the cold is beginning to bite and I need something to keep me warm. Well, I've already got myself a nice Gloverall Duffel coat, so now I need something to keep my hands warm... and these Bennie and Olive...More
Millions of people are using the Skype application to make calls for free over the internetweb, but how many of them are honest, hmm? The KishKish Lie Detector plug-in aims to let you know when you’re getting Porkies Over IP, by analysing the stress levels in their voice. Once downloaded, every time you make a [...]...More
Last year, I went to San Francisco full of romantic expectations of seeing the place where Flower Power first dawned. One trip to Haight-Ashbury later, I found… lots of beardy people hitting drums with a random rhythm. It was like one of those stalls at Glastonbury that you instinctively avoid after the first day. Anyway, [...]...More
And it only cost a fiver, according to my Nan (who bought it from a passing charity salesman last week). Which doesn’t make it easy to recommend where you should get one. But nevertheless, it’s ace. Bigmouth Billy Bass has nothing on this Chrimbo pup… Oh, also, in uploading it to YouTube, the audio got [...]...More
Heavy sleepers in Japan can pay good money (around £5) to be woken up by an attendant with a vacuum cleaner. Other methods include wasabi up the nose, cake in the face and wax on the nipples. More vids of bizarre Japanese alarms after the click… [Via Gizmodo]...More
Owning a Vertu mobile (Nokia’s luxury mini-brand) is a sign that you have more money than sense – so it’s perfect for Premiership footballers, soap stars and other C-listers. Anyway, Vertu has decided to package all six of its Ascent Racetrack Legend phones into a specially crafted box-set. The collection includes the four current...More
The amazing Dolmette (pictured) is a concept motorbike powered by 24 chainsaw engines. It’s made by German company Dolmar (they make chainsaws, strimmers and other destructive things) and it’s quite a beast – the combined power of those two-dozen chainsaw engines is fed into to a 5-speed Harley-Davidson transmission by a series of...More
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