This compact Tykho radio (measuring at 5″w x 3″h x 1.5″d) from the Conran Shop is good indoors or outdoors, whether you’re walking the mean streets, flambeing in the kitchen or showering yourself clean of your sins. But don’t be expecting any fancy MP3 functions — it’s simply an AM/FM transistor wrapped safely inside a […]

In California we can’t just go into any local Quik-E-Mart and pick up a slingshot, but you can if you’re from Idaho (as I discovered last summer to much joy). I miss my slingshots: lining up a rack of fresh G.I. Joe figures on the wooden fence, fistful of metal BBs burning a hole in […]