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  • Pac-Man | Design Icons

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    While a nascent games industry was laser focused on emulating the success of Taito’s Space Invaders, one designer tried to make something completely different – and ended up creating our second design icon: Pac-Man. Brilliant.

  • Bulova offers more gimmicks

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    The first of the models in the Bulova Frank Sinatra Collection, the Bulova My Way, starts with an Art Deco style rectangular stainless steel case sized at 29.5 mm by 47 mm. Finished in either polished stainless or gold tone,… Read More ›

  • Inside Twitter’s Decision to Fact-Check Trump’s Tweets

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    Within 48 hours of the fact-check, Trump was preparing to issue an executive order that would ban federal spending on social platforms that exercise certain editorial powers and encourage the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to launch investigations… Read More ›

  • Spiderman-inspired wearable sanitiser

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    The designer wanted to solve the behavioral perception and usage when it came to traditional sanitizer bottles. He wanted to create something that was innovative, ergonomic, easy to carry, and made it hassle-free to sanitize frequently when you go outside…. Read More ›

  • Ressence & Sotheby’s Design Competition’s Winning Watch

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    Speaking about the competition, Ressence founder and CEO Benoît Mintiens said, “Letting our community have the final say and be part of our project felt like the right thing to do. During the selection process, we discussed the feasibility of… Read More ›

  • A £339 anti-5G USB stick

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    A device costing more than £300 promises to protect your family from the supposed dangers of 5G, using ground-breaking quantum technology – but does it work? Of course not. The rollout of the new 5G mobile networks began in the… Read More ›

  • The Tutima M2 Coastline Chronograph

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    The deep-set dial features a sloping chapter ring for the minutes/seconds with clear white markings and Arabic numerals. The thick rectangular hour markers printed on the dial are shortened at 12 o’clock to accommodate the 30-minute elapsed time counter, at… Read More ›

  • Trying to buy a Nintendo Switch

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    I expect to see silly prices on eBay when a product is hard to get, but even Amazon is allowing all sorts of price gouging on the Switch at the moment. We have been pondering one for a while, we… Read More ›

  • Too Smart for Their Time

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    In the late ‘90s, Microsoft’s research division started work developing the SPOT platform, which it planned to integrate into everything from GPS navigation units to coffee makers. To expedite its arrival, instead of working with big telecommunication companies to implement… Read More ›

  • The ’80s watch is back

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    Instead it was a time of simpler pleasures. As it was, 1984 bequeathed us some memorable milestones in popular culture. It was the year in which colour television finally got the show it was waiting for, Miami Vice: all pastel… Read More ›