Results tagged “gadgets”

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Sale Through Sunday, December 9 12:00 pm-6:00 pm 230 The Fenway, Boston (T: Museum of Fine Arts or Ruggles) Surprise your friends and family with original art instead of the standard old holiday presents like gadgets, bath soap, and socks. Five thousand pieces of art will be on sale at the School of Museum of Fine Arts this weekend, including original art by Ellsworth Kelly, which you...

An employee of the Cambridge AT&T store, which was selling iPhones, said his store sold out of the fascinating new gadgets in one hour flat, between 6 and 7 pm last night. He said that people didn't get too crazy, but a few people started their iPhone vigil at 11pm Thursday night. Boston NOW asked local comedian and Dig columnist Baratunde Thurston, who is kinda pissed with his iPod right now, what he thought of...

Last week was the ebay developers conference/ebay Live!, the week-long series of events for ebay developers and power sellers, took place in Boston. The usual smatterings of self-promoting conference topics were presented. Widgets and gadgets made some noise (including the new box we've embedded here showing items for sale relating to the search term "Romney") and ebay enthusiasts networked and discussed success in hawking their wares. The real news wasn't the official program ebay lined...

Reports came in yesterday that BoingBoing, the directory of wonderful things, had been banned by the City of Boston's free WiFi network. Once again we became the brunt of ridicule for the nation. Banned in Boston and the great Mooninite scare of 2007 were both invoked. Along with mother-ship BoingBoing, Universal Hub, Gizmodo, and Slashdot were among those hot on the case. While many pointed the finger at Mumbles as his name popped up with...

Tweeter started as a Massachusetts store. Some 35 years ago when HiFi was the rage and WiFi was wasn't even on the radar, the electronics chain got its start here in Boston. They opened their first store on Commonwealth Ave next to BU's campus(technically maybe Brookline). The store grew, they expanded to more stores across New England, then went national. Now the retreat begins with the closing of a slew of stores. Tweeter has been...

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the opportunity...

A year and a half ago we first heard about Clocky. It's an alarm clock that would run from you as soon as you hit the snooze. The brilliant idea came from the MIT Media Lab as a project of one of their students. A prototype made the way around the internet in pictures. The shag carpeted festooned version of the clock was a theoretical hit – commercial production was only a promise and a...

OK, we're a little behind the curve on this one, but better late than never. Some enterprising fellow in New York has created a site where you can download T maps for your iPod photo for free. Bostonist thinks this is awesome, although we'd urge discrete use: carrying an iPod on the train has already been shown to be a good way to get said iPod stolen. Add to that the fact that using a...

Once again, Bostonist finds ourself woefully out of touch with the American mainstream. At least this time, it's not about politics or that crazy music the kids are listening to. Instead, it's produce, as in fruits and vegetables. We like produce and we like shopping for produce. Up to now, our only complaint about the purchasing of greens, fruits, and the like came on the rare occasions when the lateness of the hour forced us...

A week ago while Bostonist was watching the Red Sox play the Texas Rangers a little window popped up on the computer - an Instant Message from our buddy, saying, "Holy crap, Manny's wearing Oakley Thump glasses in the outfield." "Excuse me?" said Bostonist. "Yeah dude, you know those Oakleys that have the built-in mp3 player? Manny's got those on!" Bostonist's pal replied. How did he know? Well, said friend is blessed to be...

Last week Bostonist was clutching our iPods on the T. This week we’re clutching our cats and dogs protecting from coyote attacks. In July we’ll be watching out for the Tiger. Really, no bears involved. The Macworld conference has announced plans for MacIT portion of their annual conference. Focus will be on the new version of OSX (10.4) dubbed Tiger and all those other nifty Mac gadgets Steve Jobs can dream up. The details announced...

Those genius engineers over at MIT have developed a gizmo that forces you to find it after the first tapping of the snooze button. The alarm clock, with its cutesy handle Clocky, has wheels and plush carpet padding. When you hit the snooze button Clocky travels, it wheels itself to a new location where you’ll have to find it rather than just extending your arm once again to hit that magic button. Bostonist thinks this...