One hand in my Poketo

I had a bag from Poketo that I loved. (Still love. Unfortunately a toddler dragging it down the sidewalk didn't really make it any better.)

But I digress from my main point, which is that Poketo has fun stuff.

What's on telly dear?

Saw this decal in one of those flash sales - by RoomMates. I like the idea of putting it right over a table.

Not shower curtains

I keep trying not to like stuff at Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. There are a million reasons why, many quite obvious, having to do with silliness/price. But really, they do have some good stuff.

What I was looking for was a new shower curtain, but what I saw was this.





And this.

Boom car

The MoMA store rocks; the MoMA catalogue, on the other hand, does not. But it's not the products inside, it's the way they select them. Too many scarfs and notecards - this ain't the Met.

Anyway.

Love this. It's more a wristlet size and I'm sure the sound quality is awful, I just like the way it looks.

Snap Zip

I got this camera case at H&M today. Of course I'm taking this photo with a camera that won't fit in that tiny bag, but I love it anyway.

Robots obey what the children say

Okay, actually having to play this would drive me crazy (it's something about not touching the wires) but I find the box itself appallingly cute.

I feel like I'm not out of bed yet

So when I first found out about Tivoli radios I was actually looking for a clock radio for my mom. I ended up getting her a Model One, which is not a clock radio but is such an awesome radio that it doesn't matter.

Of course, now I see this. The Model Three.

An analog clock, too! The speaker is on top (that confused me for a while).

Footnote

I like this one. I think House Industries needs to make laptop skins.

Robot parade

I got a new laptop, which means I can blog again about laptop cases and skins! Just in case you didn't get enough before.

This site has a lot of those big-head "artsy" line drawings that are so popular these days, but I do like these two:

Speak to me

These are great. I've seen them on a bunch of blogs.

Crank it up

This little ipod amp is nice to look at, plus you can charge it by crank or solar panel. Probably pretty low quality sound, but it's cute. I love the way crank energy is coming back. We have an ancient, pre-war flashlight that works that way, only it drives the dog crazy.

AM/FM

OK, so nothing beats a Tivoli, as we know.

But I do like the way this looks, although I suspect it's (like those Target ones) pretty cheap in construction.



This one totally looks like a Tivoli knockoff -- but, you know, I'd prefer people found inspiration in awesome-looking stuff rather than making more of those radios with the funny lights.

Ain't nothing but a retro thing

I have a new favorite blog, Retro Thing. (The name says it all, really.)


From Retro Thing I got to RadioSalon, which is a site to make your mouth water. Check it out.

And also Marshall Alexander's foldable art.

Cherry season

The owner of Skyn sent me a link to her site -- I like this laptop skin a lot. It would work best on a light-colored laptop like the one in the picture, I think.

Check baby out

Greg at Daddytypes posted about this baby monitor...with his usual erudition he went into the designer and the auction price and all that, but I just stared at the screen and coveted. I'm such a philistine. But seriously, could a baby monitor look better?



I mean, compare this to this!

Nerd patrol

The fantastic, covetable robots at Nerdbots are so sweet I can't stop thinking about them.





They're decently priced, but still certainly something to save up for.

Via io9.

What's a pinder when it's at home?

Some anonymous commenter told me to check out this site - Pinder Bags.

This is a great bag -- sort of a sleeve, sort of a bag, just how I like 'em. Apparently the sale ended yesterday, though.

Crumple

Hmm, I'm getting intrigued by Crumpler bags. (The website is alternately lots of fun and headbangingly hard to navigate. Yeah, design guys, I'm sure everything is there and so, so intuitively placed...)

Anyway, I like this one -- called Skivvy. (All the names are mad cool, as some people say.)

I wouldn't choose black, myself, but this is a good bag -- not too professional, not too unprofessional.

Which one?

OK, these are the ones I'm looking at, on eBags.

This one is kind of cool by being vertical. It comes in a lot of colors -- I think yellow is unusual for laptops.





Timbuk2 is well made -- that handle looks thick for carrying this thing around. (Just realized, the laptop weighs more than my daughter did at birth.)




This one is kind of interesting. It also comes in green (no pic, though). It looks roomy.




This one is almost perfect -- it's just a sleeve, not a bag, but has a long strap, which could be really useful. But this pretty nutso design is actually the best of the bunch. (Silver skulls? Piled up cars? Sunset w. palm tree?) Usually I want stuff to be more colorful and patterned, but right now I'm wishing this just came in plain red or something.

Another post about laptop sleeves? Sheesh.

My laptop died. So I inherited another one, which is huge and my good old BuiltNY sleeve no longer fits. So I need something else -- with a handle, because this thing is enormous.

This doesn't have a handle, but I like it.