Yesterday at Boing Boing Gadgets

John Brownlee 1:27 am Tue Feb 3, 2009

Yesterday on Boing Boing Gadgets:

• We learned that we had easy access to 626,369 free songs.

• Implored you to stop paying attention to megapixels.

• Casio decided to go head-to-head with the iPhone.

• We lusted after an awesome shirt of a Helvetica robot.

• An army of creepy mannequins pimped the Vaio P.

• Professor Rubik announced his successor to the Rubik's cube.

• We did not consider very seriously the possibility of paying $26,000 for a glass pool table.

• Joel posted another entry in the Optimist/Pessimist series, this time about T-Mobile offering loans for new phones.

• We dug a lot of green design gadgets concepts, but especially a used coffee ground printer.

• Timex's new WS4 series of watches is plenty swank.

• Asus announced a new netbook with a ten hour battery life.

• GoDaddy's SuperBowl advertising featured a lot of T&A, and that's causing a surprising amount of controversy.

• Speed Dating came to the iPhone, and Joel was the first in line.

• Rob reviewed a host of gadgets: the Pharos smartphone, a Mickey Mouse speaker and the Pyramat speaker.

• We promised to post more about awesome medical equipment with lasers.

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