Tuesday, September 13, 2011 // Woot
Warm Leatherette Pretty sweet Sena ZipBook Leather iPad Case, right? Yeah. Got it to protect “Daddy’s Little Investment”… No, not my iPad. I’m talking about my Bitcoin mining app! See, it’s the very latest currency, and it’s so awesome, because it allows you to bypass every limitation a normal currency has. You know, like taxes, […]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 // Woot
Resistance is Futile In a galaxy far far away, there was a USB microphone that… oh wait, wrong one? Hey babe! Sorry I’m a little bit late. Still getting used to this whole up-at-5am-to-skype thing! “It’s no problem. I just figured with the me being overseas and your job, this is the best time to […]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 // Woot
Automatic Street Cred Look, there may not be any video hipsters yet, but it’s only a matter of time. And when that time comes, you’re either in or out. Like the trend of taping CDs back onto cassettes. It’s been going on for a couple years, and it’s about to be embraced by the mainstream, […]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 // Woot
You know right now some kid is thinking it: “These guys ripped off Vanilla Ice.” Nano! I’m pushin’ down on you Pressin’ down on your cool new touch screen Usin’ pressure To touch the icons now Plays the songs I want And spawns Genius lists Bah bah bah bay Bah bah bah bay Bew day […]
Monday, September 12, 2011 // Woot
How big a type geek am I? Enough to have annoyed plenty of less-interested friends and relatives with unwanted discussions of typeface minutiae, but not enough to have ever tried seriously designing it. In other words, the ideal audience for Simon Garfield’s new book Just My Type. Less a comprehensive introduction to type theory and […]
Monday, September 12, 2011 // Woot
3-D, right? It’s nice when somebody knows how to use it, but it’s absolutely annoying when they stuff it in a 2-D film for marketing reasons. And now 3-D televisions are catching on. So what’s next, 3-D toothpaste commercials? Oh, hang on, that’s been done. That spiffy 3-D toothpaste ad comes from a […]
Monday, September 12, 2011 // Woot
Crisis On Digital Earths Like the atom, blue laser can be a force for great good, great evil, or great entertainment. The Blue Ray of Earth-B: We’re… we’re here! We’ve crossed the dimensional barrier and arrived on this strange yet familiar alternate world! Look around, Sparky – behold Earth-A! So like our own Earth-B, yet […]
Monday, September 12, 2011 // Woot
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRUESOME FOOTAGE OF OUR CEO’S PERFORATED FINGER. The sun has set on Woot’s first ever Monkey Games, a highly organized, month-long, company-wide effort to depress productivity! Some may question the wisdom of squandering so many workday hours on such frivolity — but from our perspective, we’d have to say the Games […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011 // Woot
The Old Switcheroo A new baby is the perfect reason to buy a camera, even if that baby isn’t yours. She’ll never admit this to you, but it was your mother’s idea. I mean, it’s not like we planned it from the beginning or anything. It’s just that you were our first child, you know? […]
Saturday, September 10, 2011 // Woot
The Hour Of The Wolf It’s late at night, or maybe early morning. You’re alone, but don’t have to be. You could be with your Internet friends. Everyone’s had that night at some point. Can’t sleep, don’t want to get up, the TV’s too far away and anyway there’s only commercials on now besides. The […]
