New line of Mad Catz gaming mice ships in Spring 2010, different models between 50 to 130 euros. The knobs, the color combination, the hidden needles! (via gizmodo)

The robot ad that ROCKS because of the soundtrack, a perfect blend of Boy Robot, Hecq and Lassigue Bendthaus. The rest? Oh, the rest. SingularityHub has a longer article on NAO: movable telepresence, facial recognition, text-to-speech translation sound solid, 15 thousand dollars for it more so. Check the ad in which robots lie and then humans get the moral upper end by literally kicking them in the back.

Case found himself staring through a shop window. The place sold small bright objects to the sailors. Watches, flicknives, lighters, pocket VTRs, simstim decks, weighted manriki chains, and shuriken. The shuriken had always fascinated him, steel stars with knife-sharp points. Some were chromed, others black, others treated with a rainbow surface like oil on water. But the chrome stars held his gaze. They were mounted against scarlet ultrasuede with nearly invisible loops of nylon fishline, their centers stamped with dragons or yinyang symbols. They caught the street’s neon and twisted it, and it came to Case that these were the stars under which he voyaged, his destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome. (via dealextreme)

Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, revindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.

If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating. (ommwriter.com, via electro^plankton)

七味唐辛子 aka seven flavour chili pepper. According to >BoingBoing’s Taste Test, this seven-ingredient Japanese spice is found at home dinner tables and yakitori restaurants and it enhances natural flavours of high quality meat and vegetables. His recipe contains ground chile pepper, black peppercorns, tangerine peel, nori, black sesame seeds, white poppy seeds (or black cannabis seeds) and minced garlic, Wikipedia has a few alternatives for ingredients. (via boingboing)