You ever see those those fanciful offices in futuristic movies that look like something sprung out of an 8-year-old boy’s dreams, or the CAD blueprints of a wild genius architect? While it may seem hard to believe, some people do actually work in environments like that. Like us here at LIAS who ply our tireless […]

This morning TAG Heuer unveiled the first teaser shots of its LINK — the very first Swiss Luxury Smart Phone. The world-renowned Swiss watchmaker has been fusing precise engineering with avant-garde design since 1860, and is now extending its savoir-faire to the leading edge of 21st century communication technology for the first time with a […]

The second edition of our Checking In series, Lost In A Supermarket’s quest to cover all things we hold most dear (see our review of the gleaming new Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Hong Kong). In this review we jump continents from Hong Kong’s Ritz — now the highest hotel in the world — to the W Hotel […]

Yesterday internet goliath Google unveiled its Boutiques website – a new portal dedicated specifically for shopping fashion items. As the second largest sector of online shopping (after consumer electronics), it really was only a matter of time till our Internet Overlords dipped their toes into the market of soft goods. As the LA Times reports: […]

A while back, I wrote about Google and Android’s sinister robot plot to take over the world. Well, at its 2010 conference, Google I/O, announcements were made to do just that. I warned you, now take shelter. LIAS went to Google I/O on a reconnaissance mission and here’s what we found: Google TV If successful, […]

Expect the Battle of Software Gargantuans between Google and Apple to only heat up in the future as the market gets more and more tight (throw Microsoft’s hairy beast into that equation as well). As revolutionary as Apple’s touchscreen technology was and is to the handheld market, that doesn’t mean they’ll be kings forever. Google […]

Armed with an Android phone and an olive branch in one hand and a teeny ray gun in the other, these little robots are bent on world domination. They’ve already lulled our friends over at Google into a false sense of grandeur, poor bastards. And what’s worse, the robots have tricked artist and toy designer […]

You don’t have to be a tween to be able to assemble one of these, but it might help. Sponsored in part by Google, the BigShot project was put together by Columbia University grad students as a method of teaching science and engineering concepts to children. It’s just like academia to try and teach someone […]