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DOUBLE BREAK
"Double Break is a gallery and shop located right next to San Diego’s Balboa Park. We feature monthly art exhibitions, books, design objects, gifts, clothing, jewelry, cards, and more!"
glvo  gifts  shopping  california  galleries  art  sandiego  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
BBC News - Japan's obsession with perfect fruit
"Giving fruit as a gift is a common custom in Japan. But this fruit is not your normal greengrocers' produce, complete with bumps, bruises and blemishes. The pick of the crop is grown with exquisite care and attention to detail - and commands an eye-watering price when it comes to market."
2012  gifts  food  culture  fruit  japan  from delicious
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
Rebecca Solnit on Hope on Vimeo
"Despair is a black leather jacket in which everyone looks good, while hope is a frilly pink dress few dare to wear. Rebecca Solnit thinks this virtue needs to be redefined.

Here she takes to our pulpit to deliver a sermon that looks at the remarkable social changes of the past half century, the stories the mainstream media neglects and the big surprises that keep on landing.

She explores why disaster makes us behave better and why it's braver to hope than to hide behind despair's confidence and cynicism's safety.

History is not an army. It's more like a crab scuttling sideways. And we need to be brave enough to hope change is possible in order to have a chance of making it happen."
mainstreammedia  davidgraeber  venezuela  indigeneity  indigenousrights  indigenous  us  mexico  ecuador  anti-globalization  latinamerica  bolivia  evamorales  lula  cynicism  uncertainty  struggle  paulofreire  barackobama  georgewbush  humanrights  insurgency  hosnimubarak  egypt  yemen  china  saudiarabia  bahrain  change  protest  tunisia  optimism  future  environment  contrarians  peterkro  peterkropotkin  worldbank  imf  globaljustice  history  freemarkets  freetrade  media  globalization  publicdiscourse  neoliberalism  easttimor  syria  control  power  children  brasil  argentina  postcapitalism  passion  learning  education  giftgiving  gifteconomy  gifts  politics  policy  generosity  kindness  sustainability  life  labor  work  schooloflife  social  society  capitalism  economics  hope  2011  anti-authoritarians  antiauthority  anarchy  anarchism  rebeccasolnit  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Letters of Note: I know what love is
"Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Children are not only of flesh & blood—children may be ideas, thoughts, emotions. The person of the one who is loved is a form composed of a myriad mirrors reflecting and illuminating the powers and thoughts & the emotions that are w/in you, & flashing another kind of light from within. No words or deeds may encompass it.

Friendship is another form of love—more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting & acceptance of things like thunderclouds & grass & the clean granite of reality.

Art is both love & friendship, & understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking & giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the of the world; the…"
glvo  1937  california  yosemite  1936  cedricwright  gifts  giving  love  art  anseladams  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Tortoise General Store
"When we visited one of the islands in Hawaii, we came across a "general store".

It was very local and community-based, which we rarely saw in Los Angeles. Nowadays with big chain stores spread in the cities, you can get decent variety of products with decent service anywhere you go.

But when we walked into the small "general store" we felt a very friendly, established presence in its local community.
In the "general store", their products were what was minimum required in daily life. Less variety of what big chain stores carried. But we felt that was just enough.

At "TGS / Tortoise General Store", based on Tortoise' basic philosophy, we would like to introduce wider, more "general" service, not just products.

We like to create a "General Store" that may not be "cool" but a place where it feels familiar, or be unique in its own way."

[See also: http://www.tortoiselife.com/ AND http://www.tortoiselife.com/trts/ ]

[Reminds me of Yuzu, once a favorite place in Pasadena]
losangeles  gifts  home  japanese  japan  shopping  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” - Slate Magazine
"These days, almost all the data cartographers use is provided by the government and is freely available in the public domain. Anybody can download databases of highways, airports, and cities, and then slap a crude map together with the aid of a plotter. What separates a great map from a terrible one is choosing which data to use and how best to present it.

How will you signify elevation and forestation? How will you imply the hierarchy of city sizes? How big must a town (or an airport, or a body of water) be to warrant inclusion? And how will you convey all of this with a visual scheme that’s clean and attractive?"
informationdesign  sweatingthedetails  mapmaking  via:javierarbona  davidimus  us  gifts  cartography  mapping  maps  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
The Aporeticus - by Mills Baker · A Problem with Path
"Path believes that it can make performative, broadcast behavior intimate.

That is: by limiting the number of connections, but shaping their nature, by imbuing the entirety of their product with a substantiality and a quality that emphasizes real human engagement, they can create an intimate network.

But there can be no such thing; real intimacy can never, ever be broadcast. It must be either one-to-one or one-off."

"…rather than email our wedding invitations, we make use of ludicrously anachronistic methods in obedience not solely to tradition, but to this principle: efficiency is the enemy of intimacy.

Path is an incredibly easy way to efficiently share life’s moments with your closest friends and family in a centralized way, and for that reason it subverts its own premise, which always makes me sad; it’s beautiful work in service to a flawed idea. Any broadcast is inauthentic; a general audience kills intimacy; there is no such thing as a static social network of quality."
path  intimacy  audiencesofone  millsbaker  communication  relationships  sharing  gifts  giftgiving  2011  audience  cv  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Oregon Is Awesome: Your Almanac of Wonderful Oregon Things
"Ever get to the end of summer and think to yourself, “Oh! I meant to go to the State Fair this year! And I really wanted to go morel hunting! I missed it!" Or, do you ever find yourself on a dark day of winter dreaming of the coming spring renewal: Wildflowers! Festivals! Salmon!

This calendar covers all* the seasons and events that occur throughout Oregon. It’s organized by date, top to bottom (solstices and equinoxes are marked), and geographically, left to right. Coastal events are on the left, Eastern Oregon on the right. The raindrops represent events or seasons that occur over a period of time. It is designed to give you a sense of the ebb and flow of life here in Oregon; to connect you with where we’ve been and where we are going. You may discover some events and seasons that are new to you!"
oregon  calendars  gifts  infrographic  design  events  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Quarterly Co.™
"…new way to connect w/ the people you follow & find interesting. We spend so much of our lives connecting w/ people online that we forget the value of tangible interactions that happen in the real world. Quarterly wants to bridge that gap by allowing anyone to subscribe to influential contributors and get physical items in the mail from them. It is like a magazine, but instead of receiving words on a page, our subscribers receive actual items that tell a compelling story crafted and narrated by the contributor.<br />
What kind of stuff will I get? A blend of original, exclusive, & consumer items that are timeless, practical, exciting, & fly under the radar. We don’t want to fill up your house w/ clutter, & we’re mindful of the waste that each of us generate every day. But we also recognize that consumption isn’t inherently bad, it’s just a matter of making smarter choices about the things we surround ourselves with.<br />
Each product should reflect on the person who selected it…"
design  quarterly  retail  subscriptions  geoffmanaugh  mariapopova  tinarotheisenberg  swissmiss  alexismadrigal  lizdanzico  shopping  gifts  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design
"“Is it bigger than a bread box?”, I stare at the package in my hands. In it is my father. The man who invented the Macintosh and misnamed what should be the “typefaces” menu the “fonts” menu. He never forgave himself for his incorrect usage of English. He groomed with exacting use of language and considered that mistake a failure of being young and reckless with semantics. The man who invented click-and-drag was now the man who could hardly keep his gaze focused on his son. The box is, of course, smaller than a bread box. It’s a question we always ask. My family smiles out of habit.<br />
“No”, my father says. A long pause. “No”, he says again, “it is smaller than a bread box. Smaller and sharper.” He speeds the guessing game along. Time."<br />
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[Also at: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663156/the-mac-inventors-gift-before-dying-an-immortal-design-lesson-for-his-son ]
azaraskin  jefraskin  language  gifts  writing  design  history  questions  tradition  2011  via:jeeves  shaving  knives  razors  questioning  inquiry  play  has:via  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero - Sharing and Giving, Collections and Gifts
"This is what good gifts feel like. We are educated to the nature of them so that we may appreciate them more fully. This is the point of sharing something…For us to properly value it, we must understand the quality of it & have a story to understand why it is so precious. Something travels from me to you, & in the process, we both gain.

…odd when we talk about writing: our modes are at extreme ends of spectrum in size of audience. We typically discuss writing for ourselves vs publishing for many, but don’t spend a great deal of time thinking about what it is like to write for 1 person. We may write for 1 individual frequently thru things like email, but it is not often considered, & hardly ever celebrated. My friend Rob Giampietro said “there’s something about writing for 1 other person, the epistle, the letter, the thought that’s offered to someone specifically—it’s very special indeed.” He said this in an email…makes the point self-referential in the best possible way."
sharing  gifts  collections  storytelling  frankchimero  robgiampietro  audience  audiencesofone  explaining  description  sensemaking  meaning  social  cv  oneonone  2011  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
RAD AND HUNGRY | WHO WHAT WHY
"The Something Mighty Collection by RAD AND HUNGRY is a monthly series of travel-inspired, locally sourced, stylie goods for those who love office supplies as much as creators Sam Alston and Hen Chung.<br />
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“Every time we traveled together, we synched up in a path of mad consumption that would gather momentum during the trip,” says Hen Chung. “One of each postcard at the museum. One of each patterned scarf, and one for my mom. And one for your mom. Two of each beer. Order everything on the menu, we’ll split it. Good thing these pencils come in packs of twelve…"
pencils  paper  officesupplies  glvo  notebooks  stationery  mexico  france  gifts  local  travel  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Gift a Stranger
gifts  giftgiving  googlemaps  random  randomactsofkindness  strangers  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The Boardgame Remix Kit - new ways to play your favourite board games
"Liven up your Christmas by remixing the boardgames in your house to make brand new games.

The Boardgame Remix Kit works with all the great family favourites. It's got twenty five games that you can play using the boards and pieces you've already got.

As well as smoothing out or speeding up a standard game, the kit can turn Monopoly* into a family poker tournament, Trivial Pursuit* into a surrealist parlour game; Scrabble* into fight between a wasp and a robot, and Cluedo* into a zombie invasion."
games  remix  boardgames  gifts  play  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
KIOSK - Interesting things from interesting places
"ARCHIVE: JAPAN, SWEDEN, MEXICO, GERMANY, FINLAND, 8 for 2008 + 1, HONG KONG<br />
AMERICA 1, 9 for 2009, AMERICA 2, Provence, Portugal, Groundhog Day, Iceland, America 3"
art  culture  design  accessories  gifts  shopping  japan  sweden  mexico  germany  finland  iceland  us  international  global  provence  france  hongkong  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Gravel & Gold
"Gravel & Gold is a shop in the Mission District of San Francisco run by three ladies, Cass, Lisa, and Nile. We sell useful goods from stand-up makers—hand-picked vintage and new things to wear, to adorn, to hear, to read & write, to furnish, and to love up. We like to know where our things come from and to directly support the people who create them."
sanfrancisco  shopping  gifts  boutique  diy  fashion  design  clothing  retail  glvo  via:robinsloan  art  handmade  make  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
San Diego Space Society
"The San Diego Space Society (“SD Space”) was founded in 2008 with the purpose of raising awareness and educating the general public to the benefits of human exploration of space and San Diego’s role in space development, as well as to the idea of creating a spacefaring civilization within our lifetimes.<br />
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General meetings are held regularly at the Serra Mesa library, and SD Space members participate in many other local space events. Details of each meeting will be posted to the calendar. The general public is welcome to attend any meeting or event listed on this site.<br />
SD Space is headquartered at the Space Travelers Emporium [http://emporium.sdspace.org/], a storefront and workshop in the South Park neighborhood."
sandiego  space  southpark  spacetravel  travel  hackerspaces  education  organizations  gifts  shopping  lcproject  workshops  glvo  edg  srg  local  exploration  spaceexploration  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
This is Uncommon
"Uncommon makes the most well-designed, highest quality customizable products available. Our proprietary 3D TATT™ (Thermo-Active Transdermal Technology™) process ensures durable, long-lasting, high resolution imagery on every product we imprint. We then package your art with care and ship it quickly and safely to your door."
iphone  ipod  accessories  gifts  uncommon  shopping  products  printing  illustration  diy  design  custom  art  fabrication  webdesign  via:russelldavies  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Rare Device / good stuff for you and your home / San Francisco
"Rare Device is, simply, good stuff for you & your home. Rena Tom, the founder, is a former jewelry & graphic designer who loves design. She was so inspired by all of the fabulous, creative designers she met along the way, both in person & online, that she decided she had to share her discoveries, & she opened Rare Device in Brooklyn in October 2005. The webshop opened in December of that year &, combined with a lively & generally topical blog, has developed into its own microcosm of design.<br />
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The storefront is a place to promote designers, artists & artisans plus help them grow by taking on new projects & collaborations. Every object in the store has its own story, & has been chosen because it is either handmade, well-designed, useful, beautiful or all of the above. The aesthetic is modern & quirky while remaining warm & inviting - design that is accessible to all. Influences range from comic book art to entropy in nature, laser-etching to hand-lettering to nautical lore."
sanfrancisco  nyc  lisacongdon  craft  brooklyn  clothing  gifts  furniture  art  design  crafts  glvo  shopping  boutique  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero — Anonymous asked: What advice would you give to a graphic design student? [This is not just for graphic design students.] [Book list: http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/993864785/you-put-together-the-remarkable-text-playlist-along]
"Look people in the eyes when you are talking or listening to them. The best teachers are the ones who treat their classrooms like a workplace, & the worst are ones who treat their classroom like a classroom as we’ve come to expect it… Libraries are a good place. The books are free there, & it smells great… beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free & burns on time & empathy… The best communicators are gift-givers… Don’t become dependent on having other people pull it out of you while you’re in school. If you do, you’re hosed once you graduate. Keep two books on your nightstand at all times: one fiction, one non-fiction… Buy lightly used. Patina is a pretty word & beautiful concept… Learn to write, & not school-style writing… Most important things happen at a table. Food, friends, discussion, ideas, work, peace talks & war plans. It is okay to romanticize things a little bit every now & then: it gives you hope… Everyone is just making it up as they go along."
advice  design  education  frankchimero  empathy  thoughtfulness  patina  beausage  teaching  learning  interestingness  libraries  books  work  life  careers  glvo  tcsnmy  writing  craft  whatmatters  meaning  mindfulness  hope  truth  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  gifts  self-directed  self-education  relationships  discipline  graphics  graphicdesign  tools  wisdom  toshare  topost  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Unique Gift Ideas, Creative Gift Ideas, Product and Video Reviews - Daily Grommet
"At the heart of it, we're a bunch of regular folks with a passion for finding Grommets; wonderful products--with interesting stories--that people would love to know about. We're independent—no one pays us to select a product. In fact, the best thing is, lots of people help us by sharing their own favorite discoveries. We're enabling Citizen Commerce™. Our “team” is anyone who believes that we can make a difference by celebrating the useful, innovative, and beautifully crafted Grommets we collectively discover." [See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08proto.html]
dailygrommet  diy  invention  marketplace  gifts  crowdsourcing  shopping  business  entrepreneurship  ecommerce  design  products  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Julio Cortázar: Instrucciones para dar cuerda al reloj
"...cuando te regalan un reloj te regalan un pequeño infierno florido, una cadena de rosas, un calabozo de aire. No te dan solamente el reloj, que los cumplas muy felices y esperamos que te dure porque es de buena marca, suizo con áncora de rubíes; no te regalan solamente ese menudo picapedrero que te atarás a la muñeca y pasearás contigo. Te regalan -no lo saben, lo terrible es que no lo saben-, te regalan un nuevo pedazo frágil y precario de ti mismo, algo que es tuyo pero no es tu cuerpo, que hay que atar a tu cuerpo con su correa como un bracito desesperado colgándose de tu muñeca. Te regalan la necesidad de darle cuerda todos los días, la obligación de darle cuerda para que siga siendo un reloj; te regalan la obsesión de atender a la hora exacta en las vitrinas de las joyerías, en el anuncio por la radio... Te regalan el miedo de perderlo, de que te lo roben... No te regalan un reloj, tú eres el regalado, a ti te ofrecen para el cumpleaños del reloj."
time  clocks  ownership  freedom  gifts  juliocortázar  possessions  fear  slavery  obsession 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Krank Press by krankpress on Etsy [blog at: http://krankpress.blogspot.com/]
""Two-dimensional wondercabinets for the rural cosmopolitan."
elinornissley  friends  letterpress  etsy  paper  gifts 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Zombie Dice [via: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/06/zombie-dice-is-a-double-barrel-of-dice-game-fun/]
"Eat brains. Don't get shotgunned.
zombies  gifts  dice  edg  games  humor 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Galco's Soda Pop Store
I'm bookmarking this mostly to see how many people have already done so. Galco's is on of the gems of Los Angeles, especially for soda lovers (not me). Update: I was number 150.
losangeles  nostalgia  drinks  gifts  food  retail 
june 2010 by robertogreco
kaoiro | gung
""Kaoiro" (which means "facial expression" in Japanese) is japanese emoticon stamp pretending to be the date stamp. This stamp that mixing digital culture with a old style stationary has 7 belts and around 20 symbols. You can create real kaomoji (japanese emoticon) of 2000 or more by combining them. If you always have it ready on your desk at school or office, you can share your emotion to your lover in real world with a secret . \ (^ о ^) /"
emoticons  japan  japanese  type  stamps  via:britta  design  gifts 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Chairless by vitra.
"seating device for the modern nomad...sturdy strap of fabric allows user to sit down in relaxed manner – but w/ neither seat nor backrest...a solution par excellence for times when chairs are in short supply...so light & compact that you can carry it with you wherever you go...relieves spine & legs, so that hugging your knees or using a support is no longer necessary. because the pressure is taken off so many areas of the body, you feel relaxed all over. now your hands are free...
alejandroaravena  architecture  furniture  backpacking  design  fashion  vitra  nomads  neo-nomads  portability  fabric  gifts  glvo  srg  edg 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Shop: Frank Chimero
"It’s a print. It’s a letter.
design  gifts  frankchimero  collaboration  socialexperiments  meaning  play  conversation  dialogue  wishidthoughofthis 
april 2010 by robertogreco
The easiest way to print photos on canvas | CanvasPop
"The easiest way to print your photos on canvas.
design  photography  art  canvas  flickr  diy  posters  printing  print  enlargement  glvo  house  gifts  decorating  services  prints 
january 2010 by robertogreco
The high cost of ugly, useless Christmas gifts - The Globe and Mail
"Scroogenomics author says bad gifts cost the world economy $25-billion ... “A spectre has been haunting the rich economies of the west, and that spectre is wasteful gift-giving.”...His favourite option is giving to charity – he is a fan of a gift card in the United States that allows the recipient to choose which non-profit gets the money, “to act like a rich person,” he says. He proposes that gift cards should come with an expiry date, after which the unused balance would go to charity rather than just back into the retailer's pocket. But he concedes: “I am told by some shrewd people that's as likely as world peace.”
via:migurski  giftgiving  economics  waste  christmas  value  gifts  cv 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Buy Food Gifts and Sell Artisan Food on Foodzie
"We are an online marketplace where you can discover and buy food directly from small passionate food producers and growers."
food  design  craft  cooking  culture  diy  local  gourmet  shopping  etsy  retail  gifts 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Lomo Notebook / Cover [via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaeru/3588000391/]
See also: http://shop.lomography.com/shop/main.php?cat=&pro=lnb AND http://shop.lomography.com/shop/main.php?cat=&pro=lln AND http://www.amazon.com/Lomo-Cameras-739-Lomography-Hardcover/dp/B000Q5UA22/
srg  gifts  lomo  lomography  notebooks  design  art  photography  sketchbooks 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Whitelines® - the new writing paper
"Writing paper with dark supporting lines has been around since medieval times when iron gall ink was used for its lasting dark colour. It took until our recent time before the idea of making a writing paper with white, “non-conflict”, lines got known from an idea of the designer Olof Hansson. Writing paper with white lines is now a patented solution."
via:migurski  paper  notebooks  srg  gifts  writing  whitelines  design 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Places To Buy | Notebook Stories
srg  notebooks  gifts  writing  sketching  drawing  glvo 
february 2009 by robertogreco
How To Be An Explorer Of The World Helps Readers Tune Back In | Geekdad from Wired.com
"We're all blind. Overwhelmed by a thousand stimuli, busy as hell, we tune out the world. Who has time to appreciate the beauty of the world around us when we're always in a hurry? How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Art Life Museum aims to help busy people find a creative outlet in the midst of their routines, rather than cramming it all into special creative times. Written by writer and artist Keri Smith (author of the Guerilla Art Kit) the book features a number of "explorations" to help people reconnect with the oft-ignored detail around them."
books  kerismith  glvo  gifts  edg  srg  tcsnmy  observation  looking  senses  collections  italocalvino  cities  creativity  serendipity  collecting 
december 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: Holiday Gift Guide: Robots!
"For our MAKE Robot Gift Guide, we've put together a sampling of robot-related offerings from the Maker Shed, as well as some other robots we fancy. If you give or get any of these bots for the holidays, or especially if you or your recipients, hack them, we'd love to hear about it."
robots  robotics  edg  gifts  make  electronics  diy 
december 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: The Chemistry gift guide - Celebrating chemistry and inspiring the next generation of chemists!
"Each year at MAKE we put together a few gift guides: open source hardware, electronics, science, wood working and this year we've added chemistry. Before we dive in to *the* chemistry gift guide - here are some excerpts as well as an interesting look back at one Christmas morning by Robert Bruce Thompson, author of The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments All Lab, No Lecture."
education  learning  gift  edg  srg  chemistry  make  diy  homeschool  gifts  technology  engineering  howto  science 
december 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: The Culture Jamming gift guide at MAKE - hack, stick, throw, jam and inspire!
"Ok, folks, I know not all of you approve of culture jamming shenanigans, but here are some gift ideas for that mischief maker in your life!"
make  gifts  culturejamming  jamming  diy  culture  hacking 
december 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: Open source hardware 2008 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2008
"What is open source hardware? Briefly, these are projects that creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source hardware like Linux, but hardware centric. ... You can also call this guide... "The Open source hardware gift guide - The one and only, 3rd annual celebration of open source hardware!" - we think these are some of the best things to consider for the holidays and it supports an exciting development in hardware design."
howto  reference  electronics  arduino  microcontrollers  opensource  projects  make  diy  hardware  open  embedded  hacking  gifts  edg 
november 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: Arduino Gift Guide!
"The Arduino open-source microcontroller platform can be programmed and equipped to perform a nearly endless list of functions. It's likely the best all-around centerpiece to a modern electronics project. But one of the tasks Arduino is best used for is straight-up fun - the open design means there's an Arduino board suitable for almost any project, and a wealth of add-on "shields" extends its abilities with ease."
glvo  arduino  edg  microcontrollers  processing  diy  make  electronics  gifts  hardware 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum: Keri Smith: Books
"Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.
books  kerismith  tcsnmy  observation  interested  art  life  glvo  edg  srg  gifts 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Sparkle Labs DIY Design Electronics Kit
"Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys, and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more! Once you master the basics, you'll be ready to create your own! Everything you need to get started is right in the box, including switches, buttons, diodes, capacitors. transistors and regulators. Learn the amazing concepts of resistance, capacitance, voltage and current with the step-by-step project manual. Soon, you will be the electronics wizard! Great introduction to electronics for all ages. By Sparkle Labs."
make  diy  electronics  education  learning  edg  srg  engineering  gifts  tinkering 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Buddha Machine 2 released: Ambient device - Digital Tools
"The Buddha Machine is a small audio-gear, some kind of "multipurpose ambient device". It is a small portable device with batteries, a speaker and some build-in audioloops. You can select the soothing loops and they keep on playing. With two controllers you can select the volume and (this is the special part) the pitch of the loop. Nothing really special, compared to the things you can do with audio-software, but this device is very charming and inviting to some nice uses."
music  ambient  gadgets  gifts  sound 
november 2008 by robertogreco
drawdio - a pencil that lets you draw music
see also the following * http://develop.gamewaredevelopment.com/files/html/2ne1/drawdio/ * http://ladyada.net/make/drawdio/ * http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28&products_id=124
edg  make  electronics  drawdio  tcsnmy  adafruit  gifts 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Meggy Jr RGB
"Meggy Jr RGB is a handheld platform for developing your own pixel-scale video games.
gaming  electronics  edg  make  programming  arduino  hacking  games  development  processing  education  technology  gifts 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Arduino Starter Kit
"Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board. Arduino is open source!
arduino  edg  electronics  processing  microcontrollers  physicalcomputing  hardware  gifts 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Field Notes — “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”
"Customize Field Notes for your event, company, website, youth soccer team, birdwatching club–you name it, we’ll custom-print it. We’ll accept custom orders anytime, but since we’re going on press soon to print more AEA books, the economies of sca
gifts  notebooks  projects  make  writing  shopping  studentsupplylist  classideas 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Maker's Notebook
"Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We've also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conve
gifts  howto  notebooks  projects  make  writing  shopping  studentsupplylist  classideas 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Rands In Repose: Sweet Decay
"halfway through those pages of horrible cursive, I stopped expecting to be graded and started writing for myself...primary goal of a notebook is to get out of the way...I needed lines in 3rd grade when I was learning how to write. I’m good now, thanks.
writing  notebooks  moleskine  productivity  paper  journals  reviews  tools  notes  notetaking  process  howwework  children  schooliness  deschooling  unschooling  homeschool  creativity  gifts  srg  glvo 
june 2008 by robertogreco
textually.org: Sending gifts via text message helps break down social barriers
"SK Telecom says that the carrier has almost 300,000 young users a month sending about 1 million dollars' worth of the "gifticon" brand coupons, which are good for sending small gifts like coffee and ice cream via their friends' cellphones."
mobile  phones  trends  korea  gifts  social  coupons 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Kid O
"dedicated to enriching the play and learning experiences of preschool children at home. We provide families with the products, tools, and experiences they need to support their children's journey toward becoming life-long learners and confident, independ
nyc  objects  children  play  learning  education  gifts  shopping  toys  retail  development  creativity  montessori  design  baby 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Supermarket – Great design, straight from designers.
glvo  gifts  stores  entrepreneurship  design  gadgets  products 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Maker Store from MAKE and CRAFT Magazines
"Hand picked by our Makers this kit features everything you need to get started with electronic construction."
electronics  make  gifts  shopping  diy 
august 2007 by robertogreco
Summize - Summarized product reviews
"Over 6 million user reviews on 1 million products — visualized, summarized, simplified, fructified."
aggregator  amazon  books  cameras  color  visualization  visual  tools  readwriteweb  infographics  information  shopping  services  product  products  gadgets  gifts  graphics  graphs  hardware  consumerism  comparison  research  reviews 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Crafts Collection - Textile Stones
"The cushions are round shapes of fulled wool with a number of non-identical ‘sliced blobs’ in various colours."
design  fabric  textiles  furnishings  make  gifts 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Boing Boing: Dangerous books for boys (and girls and men and women)
books  diy  boys  gifts  experiments  fun  make  howto  learning 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Wire & Twine : Momergency Kit
gifts  parenting  children  play  fun 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Cool Hunting: Start Here Notebooks
"For those who are the multiple notebook type, the Start Here line of notebooks connect together by sliding and linking covers, increasing organization and functionality."
notebooks  drwaing  writing  design  gifts  shopping  productivity  organization 
april 2007 by robertogreco
www.Bioject.org » Blog Archive » Pico Cricket
"It is called pico cricket and allow to program simple behavior to sensor and actuators in the context of Lego bricks systems. It comes on the form of a box with different kinds of props inside."
electronics  gifts  programming  robots  toys  children  make  diy  controllers  microcontrollers  gadgets  interactive  education  learning  coding 
january 2007 by robertogreco
PicoCricket (microcontroller)
"A PicoCricket is a tiny computer that can make things spin, light up, and play music."
electronics  gifts  programming  robots  toys  children  make  diy  controllers  microcontrollers  gadgets  interactive  education  learning  teaching  projects  glvo  coding 
january 2007 by robertogreco
The New Yorker : THE FINANCIAL PAGE: The Gift Right Out
"We might actually be happier—and we’d certainly be wealthier—if we exchanged small, well-considered gifts rather than haunting the malls."
economics  gifts  relationships  sociology  shopping  psychology  money  culture  business  holidays  wealth 
december 2006 by robertogreco
MAKE: Blog: The Open source gift guide - Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays
"a lot of time you actually don't own it, you can't improve upon it, you can't share it or make it better, you certainly can't post the plans, schematics and source code either. We want to change that"
opensource  gifts  technology  gadgets  software  computers  electronics  projects  glvo 
november 2006 by robertogreco
unclemark2007.pdf (application/pdf Object)
design  gifts  guides  technology  shopping  lists  tips  filetype:pdf  media:document 
november 2006 by robertogreco
Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
art  comics  community  creativity  education  fun  gifts  humor  nyc  shopping 
september 2006 by robertogreco
F e M a l e d i c t i o n s - human heart shaped soap
"Smaller than an actual human heart, but fits in your hand perfectly!"
gifts  humor 
january 2006 by robertogreco
BAAS
"Your best kitchen-mate! Product: kniveblock (prototype)"
design  cooking  gifts 
january 2006 by robertogreco
FURILLA
toys  plush  gifts 
december 2005 by robertogreco
thorsten van elten solitaire olive bowl
"First one to arrive at a party? How about a game of solitaire until the other guests arrive. Designed by Barnaby Barford and Andre Klauser."
gifts  food  homes 
december 2005 by robertogreco
Treehugger: Solabeast Solar Robot Kit
"This kit allows you to assemble your own solar-powered "Beast" machine. It comes with a solar cell and pre-punched wooden boards, gears, shafts and motors."
robots  gifts  make  toys 
november 2005 by robertogreco
LineChaserz - Toy Cars
"Hi=tech sensors track the line and follow it wherever it goes. You can draw straight lines, curvy lines or twisty lines and the LineChaserz cars will follow wherever you lead them."
toys  gadgets  children  transportation  fun  gifts 
november 2005 by robertogreco
Tetran gobbles up earphones - Engadget - www.engadget.com
"A creative way to store your earphones called “Tetran” comes from TUNEWEAR."
gadgets  gifts  music 
november 2005 by robertogreco
Ninja Hood
clothing  gifts 
november 2005 by robertogreco
Uncle Mark Gift Guide & Almanac (assorted tips)
"is simply the very best guide for anyone vexed about technology, in search of good purchases, or who simply wants to know the answers to life's incessant questions. Free."
technology  computers  gadgets  society  gifts  howto 
november 2005 by robertogreco
QOOP
"flickr users can now print their images into Photobooks or posters through QOOP's integrated printLinQ system."
photography  print  tools  books  gifts  web  internet 
october 2005 by robertogreco
outowear.com
Finnish teenage snowboarder, Ville Lahtinen, crochets beanies
clothing  gifts  diy 
october 2005 by robertogreco
... humawaca | 100% cuero vacuno ...
saw these at the MALBA shop in Buenos Aires --> productos --> mujer --> bkf --> Mochila BKF
design  gifts  argentina 
october 2005 by robertogreco
Threadless T-Shirts - Designer Clothing Submissions - Tees, Tshirts and T shirts!
"Threadless is an ongoing tee shirt design competition. Browse, submit and score designs to help us decide what to print!"
t-shirts  clothing  design  gifts  graphics 
september 2005 by robertogreco
Defunker: Tshirts that make you happy.
clothing  t-shirts  gifts 
september 2005 by robertogreco
Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
"Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true."
tools  design  gadgets  blogs  gifts 
september 2005 by robertogreco
Gardens-in-a-Bag
food  design  gifts 
june 2005 by robertogreco
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