Archive for the 'General' Category

April 29 2009

Prison Products

posted by Ana Samways at 10:40 am

Ferguson Safety Products makes suicide-safe stuff for inmates and mental health patients — like their ‘virtually indestructible’ Ferguson Original Safety Smock, modelled by a couple with unkempt-prison/crazy-institution hair…

(more after the jump)

April 28 2009

Sleeping Bag Suit

posted by Ana Samways at 8:55 am

As winter creeps up on us, for those living in a draughty, uninsulated New Zealand house, this giant sleeping bag suit seems like a good idea…

November 27 2008

HP 1000 -- Info snacking on the go
HP has added two new, lightweight notebooks to their Mini range — the Mini 1000, and for the fashion-conscious, the limited Vivienne Tam Edition. The HP Mini 1000 features a stylish swirl design on a “piano-black” finish. It’s the size of an A5 notebook, so it will easily fit into a shoulder bag or satchel…

June 25 2008

Action figure collecting has gone way beyond Star Wars and superheroes. Check out this demon-possessed, spider-walking Regan from William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Or Barbie in Tippi Hedren’s famous green outfit, getting pecked to bits in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

April 01 2008

Worn Free T-Shirts

posted by Steven Shaw at 9:41 am

Flying Burrito BrothersNow anyone can be “almost famous” with these reproduction rock T-shirts from the 70s. Wornfree.com is an online retailer selling copies of shirts worn by rock stars like John Lennon, Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, Gram Parsons, Debbie Harry and Joan Jett…