With the release of Google Maps 2.0 (Mobile), Google announced a new feature called My Location. It’s still in Beta (as are most Google products) but the idea is that your phone can now locate you on the map without the use of GPS.
How does it do this?
The My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map - it’s not GPS, but it comes pretty close (approximately 1000m close, on average).
It’s not exactly going to replace your Garmin, but it’s designed to help with finding local restaurants and gas stations and the like, so I think it’s definitely a cool technology with a lot of possibility.
If Guitar Hero’s five buttons and a strum bar overwhelm your beat-less brain, but you can Photoshop like a master, then show off your skills with the Photoshop Hero shirt from Penny Arcade.
Note:
The back does exclaim that one has “Filter Power,” but this is only one of several earned abilities. In actual play, one might also choose to create a “New Layer,” in addition to several font-related “boosts.”
The words manly and mixed drink are not often used together.
However, if you’re not going to drink it straight, then there’s still hope, as Double Viking has put together a list of the six manliest girly drinks for your sipping pleasure.
Remember: If it’s manly enough for The Dude, then it’s manly enough for you.
Though it probably makes peddling a bit harder, these mobile sound systems put the party on wheels.
A new trend in Queens, bike stereos give those that are too young or can’t afford an auto a chance to rock out on the go, with car batteries powering thousands of watts of amps, subs, and speakers.
It might not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
With about $75 worth of materials (a tub, an old liquid propane tank, a gas bottle, and some stainless steel tubing) and a weekend’s worth of work, you can create your very own wood fired hot tub.
Plus, you can cook food over the fire for your hot tub party guests!
Other People’s Love Letters is a collection of things you were never meant to see.
Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates.
Titillating text messages.
It’s-not-you-it’s-me relationship-enders.
A heaping helpful of honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability-written for a lover’s eyes only.
In the style of PostSecret, Other People’s Love Letters is filled with found messages and lost notes, and provides a look into another life; a behind the scenes glance into another world that is often not unlike your own.
Give it as a gift, or keep it for yourself, but be sure to see what OPLL is all about, because love is a terrible thing to waste.
The new Challenger, which will debut in 2008, is scheduled to arrive in SRT8 trim at a comparatively cheap $37,995. (Comparatively, because the 6.1L HEMI V8 will be making an estimated 425 horsepower.)
Initially available in only three colors (black, silver, and HEMI orange) the Challenger SRT8 will also feature the concept car’s carbon fiber hood stripes for extra style points.
Though the original is going to be tough to beat, I wouldn’t mind parking one of these in my garage in between stoplight sessions:
To officially reveal the box art for Grand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar put a bunch of artists in a warehouse and had them create a giant poster of the new cover.
It’s a time lapse that’s shot in HD, so you know that it’s going to be good. (And that it’s going to get posted here.)
The words manly and mixed drink are not often used together.
Think you have trouble traveling lightly?
