I'm beyond jealous that Unplggd made it to one of my favorite stores in the world, Ikea, and discovered a new in-store feature called Ikea Mobile. Unplggd's investigation (in the Seattle location) uncovered its use: Using your cell phone to scan barcodes, Ikea Mobile hooks you up with coupons and discounts via text message.
Since it's not yet widely publicized aside from our intrepid blogging spies, here's hoping it's going to do a lot more. Ikea already pleases my geekiness with cheap charging stations and electronic self-checkout, so I look forward to them pulling something cool out of this.
I haven't heard any rumblings of this being used in the Bay Area, but I'm always looking for a good excuse to get out to the Swedish wonderland!
It's high time that tech manufacturers take responsibility in the eco-friendliness of their designs and impact! The Greener Gadgets Conference took place in New York last week, and Core77 joined in for a green gadget design competition. See the winners — as judged by some geeky heavyweights as Ryan Block of Engadget and Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat — in the slideshow!
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Gotta love it when you're waiting for a picture to upload on a site and then all of a sudden you get that annoying blank white box with the tiny box of doom — the broken link box. Now you can display your love (or hate) for this box by wearing a broken link necklace by i love blocks. This piece of geek jewelry costs $25 and comes with a 17" leather cord plus a sterling silver clasp. And if you're ordering it for a gift, the necklace is said to come in a sexy gift box. What are your thoughts? Way too techie or kinda geek chic?
We went, we saw, we even touched at MacWorld. . . But we left hungry for more. Finally, the long-awaited moment is here, the MacBook Air has landed!
As you can see, we couldn't keep our hands off it, in awe of its beauty and sleekness. We did everything but. . . kiss it. Check out the video and photo gallery below!
It looks like Engadget has gotten a tip that San Francisco's BART is currently running a WiFi trial. If it works, it could be a model for other public transportation systems across the country, meaning you could be surfing the internet on free WiFi during your morning commute. As someone who uses trains and buses often with an iPhone, I'm really excited about this possibility (although it still stings that we don't have free citywide WiFi yet!). What about you guys? Would all you subway and public trans riders use this?
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