A commentary on the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on the waves of American veterans returning from tours of duty in Iraq. These toy soldiers — an obvious twist on the ubiquitous green plastic soldiers kids play with the world over — are an art project titled Casualties of War. As creators Dorothy write: “The […]

Seeing as Mundt is lost in the dark jungles of Nicaragua right about now, allegedly working on filing some tales of Mayan adventure, this clock is the just thing his mosquito filled tent might be missing. The World Time Clock from MOMA is a unique and very portable way to quickly figure out what time […]

Does anyone even remember Arkanoid? I sure do. Buy one of these, invite me over, and watch me annihilate you. I’ll bring  a 12 pack of Schlitz just to make you feel better, that way we can truly enjoy these modern revisions of the classic arcade game table. Who needs a new end table made […]

The creation of Russian design studio Podvaal, the Revolve watch uses three bracelets that function as separate pieces but come together to tell you one time. As you can guess there is one bracelet to display the hours, one for minutes and a third one for seconds. The bracelets are magnetic, allowing you to pull […]

As the world prepares for the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King, BBC reporter and professor Geoff Ward visits Wallaces birthplace in rural Illnois and interviews a coterie of his closest friends (agent Bonnie Nadell), family (sister Amy Wallace), contemporaries (Rick Moody and former roommate Mark Costello) and professional colleagues […]

Making the leap from the big screen to the big pages of a Taschen coffee table book is the legendary 1976 film Taxi Driver. One of Martin Scorsese’s all time classics, the movie is set in post-Vietnam War New York City and of course follows the exploits of one Travis Bickle — a confused trigger-happy […]

The world’s first GPS-enabled goggle is here. The Zeal Transcend GPS Goggle features a micro LCD display mounted inside the goggles, so you can view all pertinent information without having to do anything but glimpse downwards towards the bottom of the lens — a key feature when barreling down a double black diamond, or even […]

If you have trouble waking up in the morning, this tantrum alarm clock is the perfect gadget to get you out of bed. In your choice of either lime or yellow, this alarm clock pounds its fists and opens its mouth while “shouting” its alarm. As your selected wake-up time approaches within five minutes, its […]