feast your eyes on these pictures folks! i give you… the iRING

union between .. human and machine

ladies…. for you

in all fairness, this gadget does have some function and can be useful (to some). don’t let its stylish design fool you, it features wireless Bluetooth connectivity with your iPod and iPhone and allows you to control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices. iRing also features a bright OLED status display with touch-sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days! you can recharge your iRing using the included cradle.

yay, truly ingenious! what will these tech savvy guys come up with next? the iRAN? (oh something anything… someone save their stock prices please.. i want to cry)

Oh when the weather outside is frightful, stay inside and toast some marshmallows

winter started quite early this year and it’s been oh so cold.  the warm thoughts of California – the beach and bonfires – keeps me sane.

if you can imagine what 30 degrees feels like, then you can understand why having bonfires and roasting marshmallows is impossible

luckily, while sulking in my heated room, I came across this nifty discovery – the electric marshmallow toaster.  YES! roasting my own marshmallows in the comfort of my room (ignore the risk of starting a fire for now). and for all you socal folks… *sigh* don’t even start…

so instead of studying for the two finals i have today i’ve decided to blog again…

i just saw this on yumsugar and thought it was pretty cool. it’s called an iceorb and it is the “first vertical ice tray.” it reminds me of a hello kitty ice tray i recently got that makes 3d hello kitty and friends shaped ice. i like the iceorb because if you watch the video, it shows you things you can use it for; dip or wine or ice cream and so on. i always hate having things sitting in bowls of melting ice because i feel like the water gets into the food. and i really don’t like runny, diluted dip… so for $16, you can have a funny looking container that serves mutiple purposes. it bothers me that this thing makes 21 ice cubes and the container only stores 51. why 51? why not 42 or 63? if you make 3 batches of ice what do you do with the extra 12? kind of like the whole 10 hot dogs and 8 buns in a pack thing. or something.

this site also has the poachpods that june reviewed before and i’m really fascinated by all the foodloop things. much cooler than twist ties.

i really love handwriting fonts. in high school i spent far too many hours downloading fonts on 1001freefonts. i loved the friends font, dad’s hand – just to name a few. i just love the way different handwriting looks and how different styles reflect every individual. i came across the fontifier website recently and thought it was so cool.

all you have to do is write all your letters and numbers and punctuation marks and what not in the template. scan, save, upload, preview, purchase, download, then install and voilà! your own handwriting ready for you to use on your computer. pretty nifty to have a truly personalized front for just $9.

does anyone else kind of hate plastic wrap? not only do i hate feeling wasteful every time i uncover something to throw away, but half the time when i rip it out of its container, it gets stuck to itself and i have to pry it apart before covering a bowl. i’m probably just un-talented.

these reusable bowl covers are very economical and let you easily cover bowls without the hassle of plastic wrap! they come in a set of six, ranging in size from 3″ to 10″ (diameters). for $7.99 from always brilliant you can get 4 sets (24 tops)!

nothing much to say, these piggy headphones are just super cute, available at geekstuff4u. you can purchase them in pink, black or white for $31.50 starting july 31. then you’ll have a piggy running through your head!

so when i think of a doorman i think of men in black suits standing guard in front of ritzy park avenue apartments and also the aladdin look-a-likes that open the doors to the hotels i stay at whenever i’m in thailand. when i saw this little guy i thought, “hey, i can sorta have my own ‘doorman’!” … not so much.

this ‘doorman’ doorstop is pretty interesting, standing almost a foot tall (11.5″) and made entirely of stainless steel. but my goodness, let me cut off my right arm for it! why is this $926??? i googled the designer, gaby klasmer, to see if she’s worth anything and i couldn’t find much except for this page that has more pictures of the doorstopper.

and june thought her banana peel doorstopper was pricey.

whenever i type in the url for the envie de neuf website, i can’t help thinking it says “envied enough.” anyway, i think that all of their skincare products are awesome, but their gentle exfoliating gel II goes above and beyond. it squeezes out of the tube as a transleucent, smooth gel that looks like it could simply be aloe vera gel, but after rubbing it on your skin for about 5-10 seconds, it starts clumping up and removing all the dirt and dead skin cells from your skin. people always say it’s a good idea to exfoliate, but all those harsh exfoliants with beads inside the products aren’t really that good for you.

you know this product works because if you use the gel in the same place too often you don’t get the same effect. you can literally see what the gel is taking off your skin in the way it clumps up. it gently rubs off the layer of your skin that shouldn’t be there anymore, so if you use it again, nothing more comes off. i’ve tried it on my elbows too, and it makes my skin so much softer in those rough areas.

at $47, i think it’s well worth the price. if you’re looking for a new moisturizer, their fullerene c60 youth recruit complex is really great, but costs $177 for a 3.4 fl oz bottle. however, it does it all — it’s the only thing you’d need to put on your skin.

i’ve had at&t (originally sbc) for phone and internet for four years now and i’ve always felt they weren’t the greatest but i’ve always been in some sort of year long contract and when the year is up i’m always in the midst of finals and simply too lazy to shop around for other service providers. i have three phones in my house, one in my kitchen, one in my bedroom, and a phone/fax upstairs. the fax machine is basically the only phone that doesn’t have a persistent static/buzzing noise when i try to call out. i have a cell phone so i pretty much just use that all the time and gave up trying to have my phones fixed.

anyway. i just received a bill that is nearly $80 over my regular monthly charges because they decided that they needed to charge me $30 for installation of something i didn’t ask for, $39.02 for federal universal service fee, and a bunch of other service charges that i didn’t ask for. naturally, i called to yell at them and i’m still on the phone with them right now after initially calling two hours ago. the first time i called i was on the phone for half an hour when the guy said to me “there’s nothing i can do for you. i can’t speak to you because you are not the account holder.” i told him i’m not the account holder because when the account was established i was underage so we used my dad’s name but my name is on the account so that i can make service changes and if they check all my bills my name is on the checks that get mailed every month, on time, paid in full. i still got, “that’s too bad, i can’t help you. click.” long story short, nothing could be done because apparently the at&t billing department “can’t handle external charges” – whatever that means.

thank god i’m done with school because now i’m definitely going to cancel my service with at&t. i have cox for cable, maybe i’ll change to them. anyone else know of good deals for internet? i only keep the phone line to have dsl but it’s not imperative to have.

p.s. thanks for reading my rant!

i know it’s not the most popular or girliest accessory to tote around, but both jennell and i carry a swiss army knife with us pretty much all the time. i’m not sure if she has this same one, but i have this exact model with a different design on the front. this is the swiss army classic sd and it comes with a pink breast cancer awareness pin. it sells for $14.95 from the swiss knife shop. for each knife sold, $1 will be donated to susan g. komen for the cure. what a great cause!

features: small blade, nail file with screwdriver tip, scissors, toothpick, tweezers and key ring. i’d say the most useful part of the knife is the scissors.. i use mine all the time to cut off pieces of thread that have come off my clothes.