You can already pick up Minecraft-themed Lego, but your options will expand considerably come November. New sets prematurely showed up on Mir Kubikov’s online store without any official word from Lego; Mir Kubikov is a chain of franchise Lego stores in Russia, according to Gizmodo. In all, the new sets include Cave, Dragon Edge, Farm, First Night and Workbench. The minifigs look...
Okay, everyone sit down and be quiet. It's time for Old Man Sean to tell you about the days before all of your new fangled gadgets… and get off my lawn while I spin this tale. Before all of your gadgets and gizmos, there was a time when toys were more of a physical nature. Board games such as Risk were something you sat down at a table and played with your family, and not something you...
In the future, when our home planet is covered in manmade waste, we all might live in climate-controlled, perfectly manicured bio-domes. Plans unveiled by developers show intent to build an entire indoor city in Dubai, complete with retractable glass roof in what is being billed as the world’s largest shopping center. It sounds like a sci-fi horror movie, but it probably won’t be much...
It's not unusual to see IKEA shoppers in China casually catch some Z's in the retailer's pre-made rooms. Those couches are comfy, and those beds do look inviting, so can you blame them? It seems this phenomenon is slowly spreading, but in a different manner thanks to Airbnb. Through a rather unique promotion, IKEA locations in Australia will rent out beds overnight—and it's free to...
Disney CEO Bob Iger this week said the company has future plans for a much larger Star Wars presence across its theme parks, with an early look at some of the new attractions set to be unveiled next year. A number of Disney's theme parks already feature "Star Tours," though with several new movies set to come out, beginning with Episode VII at the end of 2015, it was only a matter of...
An Uber user was apparently taken on the ride of his life while visiting Washington D.C. this week. According to reports, Ryan W. Simonetti was kidnapped, held against his will and then involved in a high speed chase with police. I think it's safe to say nobody had a worse Tuesday than Simonetti. Simonetti says he was visiting Washington D.C. to meet with clients at the Verizon Center...
"I'm making a potato salad." That's all you need to know about Zack Danger Brown's Kickstarter. "Potato salad" isn't some strange euphemism or clever name for an app; it quite literally means potato salad. As in, the food. You can find some great ideas on Kickstarter, and some truly market-changing products have come out of the crowdfunding platform. But nothing as daring as a man...
When the 2014 World Cup kicks off, starting with the game between Brazil and Croatia on June 12 in Sao Paulo, it'll be a momentous occasion, a spectacle that isn't, and never will be, matched by any sport; it's like the Super Bowl magnified by a hundred. In all, there will be 64 games played, including the final on Sunday, July 13 in Rio de Janeiro. And in the middle of all the on-field...
Starbucks opened a new location Monday at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, Calif. While we don’t normally cover Starbucks openings, this location features something different that the folks at Disney and Starbucks wanted to show off to us. We had a chance to chat with Bill Sleeth, Vice President of Design, Americas who was responsible for designing this stylish new Starbucks Store. Bill...
Wearable interest has never been higher. Between the Pebble, Nike's FuelBand, and even Google Glass, companies are scrambling to make the next breakthrough gadget. And while many very capably improve how we function during our daily lives, they all more or less do the same thing: track our sleep, show us notifications, remind us to move around. SunSprite promises to be different. This...