Category: Toys

  • Useful Christmas Gifts #4: Something From Apple

    Let’s face it. You’re gonna be either buying or considering buying an Apple product this Christmas, either for yourself or for someone else. Epicentre, the premium Apple reseller, is making it more fun with an in-house personal shopper who’s gonna help you buy more stuff and then you’ll go home and curse him later. Santa/Personal…

  • Useful Christmas Gifts #1: Frozen Sausage Stylus for iPhone/iPad

    If you’ve got friends and family in colder climes, you might want to think about sending this gift their way, because apparently when it gets too cold to go gloveless, it might get a little difficult to operate a touch screen device like an iPhone or iPad. So, people in Korea have been buying frozen…

  • Boldly going

    I’m blogging in bed using my brand new Blackberry Bold. It’s slow going cos I’m sleepy, so it’s a case of smartphone dumbuser. It also doesn’t help that the Blackberry Internet Service isn’t activated yet. Apparently it takes 2 to 3 working days on Starhub. It would’ve sucked a lot more if not for the…

  • Shrinking Singapore

    The economy is shrinking, so what better time than now to muck around and shrink everything else with some special photo effects. I recently learned about something called ’tilt-shifting’, which is a photographic technique I haven’t been able to wrap my brain around, but which allows you to ‘fake’ miniturizations. Photographer Keith Loutit manages to…

  • Elvis goes to IKEA

    Qik is simply awesome. PM Lee used it, and so must I. Actually, like mrbrown, I was alerted to Qik by an email from a Singaporean who works at Qik in Silicon Valley. My channel is http://qik.com/miyagi, and I’m thinking of ways to use this damn thing. So fun. Elvis goes to IKEA My Live…