Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we inspected the geometric beauty of a Linux boot sequence, prefered to pay $50 than deal with an Apple genius and contemplated the creepy uses of a realistic mask of our own face.
Brownlee liked a webcam very similar to a War of the Worlds Tripod. He laughed at Valve Software’s schemes to arrest a hacker by offering him a job. He found a neat iPhone app to measure his blood alcohol level, and he found a 141 MPG scooter that he can’t ride at any time according to that same iPhone app.
Joel remains defiantly supportive of the new Enterprise design and applauded the shutdown of a rogue ISP that reduced spam by seventy five percent. Rob meanwhile sneered at a scamgadget that promises to increase fuel efficiency up to 30 percent by plugging into your cigarette lighter. We made Beschizza a Muppet in his own likeness and Joel contemplated on how little geek grousing changes.
And then there were the reviews: with an arch of an eyebrow, Beschizza reviewed some high-tech bubble wrap, while Joel reviewed a toy helicopter and looked more fabulous than he ever has.