What’s the difference between an iPhone and a spoon? One you eat with, and the other you use to make and receive wireless transmissions. Get it? You’ve already heard that joke, I guess. Well, the Forked Up Art series has hashed out these differences with iPhone stands made from your favorite cutlery. Maybe not your […]

I know we all love bling and we trust our upper-class to make irrational decisions when it comes to frivolously spending their money, but this is ridiculous. Charging $215,000 for a cellphone seems crazy when you consider that it will fall out of fashion the following year. It’s almost as crazy as buying a diamond […]

When I really need to score some drugs I don’t use my cell phone to do so, that’s how you get caught. Public phones are the way to go when calling your dopeman. What can I say, we are an addicted culture. That’s why when I make my call to the neighborhood pharmacy for my […]

When I was a young lad, life was so much simpler. Clothes weren’t just what kept me from being naked, they also did well to keep me clean. As a toddler, if I dug my face into a bowl of Spaghetti O’s I knew that my little shirt would be there to bear the brunt. […]

Los Angeles-based designer Ramón Coronado has made some furniture that we can really get behind here at LIAS headquarters. We should have the Meadows — our secret, subterranean offices — stuffed with the plastic seating. Mercado Negro, or Black Market, is Coronado’s attempt at reclaiming these devices of corporate consumerism. In making his shopping cart […]

It’s like I’ve been saying for years: fitness technology has been on a steady declining since the 1980s. Sure, you had your Bowflexes and Soloflexes and so on, but there hasn’t been any major developments in exercise science until now. If it weren’t for Luca Schieppati and his Ciclotte, I think we’d still be in […]

DURKL‘s new series, the Capital Collection, seeks to spread diplomacy among capital cities all over the world by collaborating with their designers. Hooking up with London’s own Second Son for the series first, this team produces Sherlock’s cap, a head piece like the one worn by Scotland Yard’s finest. And what homage to Holmes would […]

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Not only am I a top-tier writer for LIAS, the greatest online magazine in the history of the printed word, but I’m also a corporate mercenary. I’m in the assassination game and my skills as an international man of mystery fetch top dollar. My last […]