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This Rocking Chair Charges Your Apple Devices

By Caroline Stanley on

Talk about the perfect marriage of old vs. new: iRock, a new chair being developed by the Swiss furniture retailer Micasa, charges your iPad or your iPhone as you rock. “Movement is energy and to collect as much of this energy as possible is one of our future challenges,” they explain. “iRock is a attempt to collect some of this energy and put it to real use. If you use iRock for 60 minutes you can recharge an iPad 3 to 35%.” The chair, which is handcrafted out of Swedish pine wood, includes an iPad dock and a set of built-in speakers in the back rest. Pretty nifty, but we’re not sure it’s worth forking over $1,300. Click through to get a better look at the rocker, and let us know what you think of the concept in the comments! … Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Alison Nastasi on

Today at Flavorpill, we read an open letter to Rihanna asking her to please use more words. We looked at pictures of Halloween-themed weddings. We appreciated this Lisa Frank-style Romney poster. We listened to a few dads sing songs from Little Mermaid. We dug this … Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Alison Nastasi on

Today at Flavorpill, we met an adorable baby elephant who was raised by humans. We explored a real-life replica of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, which is currently for sale on eBay. We caught every Arrested Development joke in the new song “Maeby One Day.” We loved one… Read More

Tech

Should You Upgrade to the iPhone 5?

By Caroline Stanley on

Apple’s vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, says the company’s freshly-debuted iPhone 5 is “the most beautiful product we have ever made.” It’s also their thinnest and lightest phone yet. But do you really need to invest in one? Before you start making plans to set up camp outside of the Apple store for its release on September 21, you might want to check out our roundup of what various tech writers are saying about the new product. Be sure to let us know what you think of the iPhone 5 in the comments! … Read More

Tech

Things Apple Geniuses Aren’t Allowed to Say

By Caroline Stanley on

The gadget-obsessed writers over at Gizmodo recently got their hands on Apple’s Genius Training Student Workbook, a “top secret” employee training manual that essentially teaches the company’s employees how to perform Jedi mind tricks on its customers in order to keep them happy. Among the more fascinating things that they uncovered: There are… Read More

Tech

Venture Inside of Russia’s Apple Museum

By Marina Galperina on

Feeling nostalgic? There’s a little place in Moscow where you can go and see pieces of retired Apple technology, and consequently, there’s now this posted collection of Olde Mac porn on LiveJournal. Here they are, relics laid out and fully operational, if you feel like playing with 60 various Apple releases, the oldest being a vintage Apple II circa 1977 with a 1 MHz processor, 4K of RAM, in Apple DOS. It’s so old! What a fossil! Is that an iMac? Ha-ha-ha. Let’s pretend we’re there and take an Instagram of it. Spotted by Nerdcore, here are a few choice shots to giggle over while there’s probably a wink-operated Apple processors being installed inside test craniums somewhere. “Back in my day, keyboards had keys!” Whoa, grandpa. Whoa. … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Charlie Sheen has pledged to donate at least $1 million of profits from his new TV show Anger Management to the USO. It might be a calculated move in the name of image rehab, but at least it’s going to benefit a lot of American troops. [via ABC News]

2. We now… Read More

Design

The Shocking Original Logos of 10 Major Companies

By Caroline Stanley on

Regular Flavorwire readers know that we’re completely obsessed with logo design — from the fascinating back stories on how companies’ logos were dreamed up, to what they would say if they were really telling the truth. Now thanks to a post over on StockLogos, we’ve gotten an interesting glimpse at the original (and much less recognizable) logos of some of the world’s biggest companies, juxtaposed with the visuals that we associate these brands with today. From an Apple logo featuring a drawing of Isaac Newton perched under an apple tree to a McDonald’s logo with nary a golden arch in sight, click through for a slideshow of some the most surprising makeovers that we discovered. … Read More

Fashion

The World’s Strangest Perfumes and Colognes

By Jennifer Lewis on

There are some bizarre fragrances out there, folks. Our most recent discovery? Superhero cologne. That’s right — Marvel has released a series of Avengers scents for those of us who aspire to superhuman scent. Intrigued by these new products, we decided to do a little research and round up some of other bizarre perfumes. Enjoy the smell of bacon? We’ve got a cologne for you. What about vaginas? Yup, that fragrance exists, too. Check out 10 strange perfumes and colognes after the jump, and hit the comments to let us know if you’re intrigued or repulsed. … Read More

Photography

Strangely Cathartic Photos of Demolished Apple Products

By Judy Berman on

We love our iPhones, sure, and owe much of our livelihood to our MacBooks. But that doesn’t mean they don’t also sometimes drive us crazy. Whether they’re malfunctioning or simply demanding too much of our attention, it’s only natural that, every once in a while, we just want to take a sledgehammer to the devices that increasingly control our lives. Perhaps it’s that ambivalence that drove graphic designer Michael Tompert — both a former employee of Apple and a longtime fan of its products — to team up with photographer Paul Fairchild on a series of pictures that show iPhone, iPads, and MacBooks smashed to beautiful pieces. As a substitute for throwing your own gadgets at the wall, page through some of their strangely cathartic shots after the jump, and visit Fubiz to see more. … Read More