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25 Coolest Laptop Covers
These days, laptops have become much like cars -- we take them everywhere, and if you have the same model as someone else, it's hard to tell them apart without looking inside. As a result, we all know that special someone whose solution is customizing their laptop with bumper stickers. Maybe it's an Obama sticker placed over the Apple logo on their MacBook, or maybe the top of their Dell looks as though their eight-year-old daughter decorated it with her sticker collection.
Well, if you or someone on your shopping list for this holiday season has a slightly more refined sense of personal decor, you might want to check out our top 25 picks for the best laptop sticker designs selected from the Web sites gelaskins and infectious. These sites offer stickers perfectly sized for the top of your Mac or PC laptop, as well as decals for your car, iPhone, iPod and wall, or anywhere else you care to stick these latex masterpieces.
25 Coolest Laptop Covers
JP33 - This laptop design is hip like an MTV commercial. It makes us think we're looking at Manhattan from the rosy glow of a rainbow filled forest, located somewhere on a mountaintop in northern New Jersey. If anyone finds this vantage point let us know.
Andy J. Miller - Andy's laptop design is titled "Happy Hippy Clouds", and if there's someone on your list who likes psychedelic owls perhaps this is the design for them.
Beared Fish - Bearded fish is an anonymous art collective based in San Francisco, and they love Nacho Libre. We love their laptop sticker, by the way it translates as "Wings of Faith versus The Rainbow."
Dalek - Dalek is well known in the world of commercial and fine art collecting, and he has emblazoned numerous toys and other products with his signature style combining Takashi Murakami's superflat(his former boss) with a graffiti sensibility. Now he's done a laptop design for infectious, and its necessary for you to add it to your Dalek collection.
Dennis McNulty - This design is called Urban Wallpaper and we think the clean vector graphics and bizarre mix of farmers, weapons, mopeds and animals is pretty swell. Dennis also has two other designs, (a rooster and a piece entitled squarecrows) that are similar in style to his paintings on gas cans and other found objects, which gives you the chance to turn your computer into one of his sculptural paintings.
Devin Lawson - Here's a laptop design for that Burlesque fan on your list the Dita Von Teese inspired Car-tini by Austin based Devin Lawson.
Etsu Meusy - Etsu Meusy's wonderland is a beautiful candy colored retro dreamscape that will look great on the back of your daughter or your wife's laptop.
Andy Harling - Most of the laptop designs being produced right now are targeted toward the kind of audience that likes to cover things with stickers. Andy Harding's cool abstractions combine wood grain and retro Eaames-esque patterns and designs that speak to those with a slightly more refined taste.
Jeremy Evans - Jeremy only has one laptop design on Infectious but the colorful forest shapes have us mesmerized.
Junko Mizuno - Junko is an incredibly popular and prolific graphic novelist whose work adapts western fairy tales to her twisted anime sensibility. Her "Zodiac Girls" laptop designs might be the perfect gift for your astrologically minded anime fan friend!
iBeer Game Creator Sues Molson for Copyright Infringement
You might think that an application that makes it look as though you're drinking beer out of your iPhone is not a serious business. But for Steve Sheraton and his company Hottrix, it's a high stakes game. Hottrix is currently involved in a $12.5 million lawsuit with Molson Coors Brewing Company for copyright infringement regarding a beer-themed iPhone application.
Earlier this year, Steve and his company developed their iBeer iPhone app. In May 2008, they copyrighted and released the app before the iPhone was even opened up to developers. Apple opened up the iPhone to developers in July, which is when Molson Coors Brewing Group contacted Hottrix about using the app to promote its Carling beer. Steve said no. Undeterred, Molson contracted a Swedish company to make a remarkably similar app called iPint with the Carling beer logo on it, and a little game attached. Then it posted the new game as a free download from the iTunes store, right next to the $3 iBeer app.
A cease and desist order has removed iPint from the U.S. iTunes store, but it's still available in Europe. Meanwhile, if you're in the mood for a novelty iPhone app that you'll almost certainly never use after a week, then you can help Steve with his lawyers fees and download iBeer (or the kid-friendly iMilk app) today. [From: The Register]
10 Funny Pet Web Sites
Perhaps one of the most popular things to do on the Internet is upload and broadcast pictures of your beloved animals. Everything from pictures and videos to podcasts of pet shenanigans have found ample homes online. Unfortunately, the vast majority of pet sites are of the nausea-inducing "cute" variety. Since pets can induce hours of laughter (regardless of whether they're wearing Groucho glasses or ladies' hats or not), we here at Switched decided to scour the Web for funny pet sites, and we found quite a few. What follows is a sampling of our favorite funny pet sites, some old, some new. Funny, of course, depends on the mind of the beholder, but we'd be lying if we didn't admit that we pretty much guffawed at every last site on this list. Check them out....
1. Lolcats
Lolcats are funny pictures of cats doing dumb things with broken, misspelled English captions placed over them. The result is often hilarious, such as a cat jumping out of a toilet with the following caption: "I'M IN UR TOILET USIN' UR FACILITIES." The central hub for all things lolcat, icanhascheezburger.com, is currently enjoying a resurgence of popularity after a few months of hype-trend-overload. The site has been online for two years and now includes a constellation of sites for lolcats, loldogs and political lolz -- the same thing, but for dogs and politicians.
Sega Releases Plant That Nods to Your Voice
Move over Aibo, take a seat, creepy humanoid robot doll, Pekoppa has arrived! Sega's eagerly anticipated nodding robotic plant is finally here, at least in Japan, though we expect that it will soon be turning up in children's bedrooms and on the window sills of retirement homes stateside, delighting the immature and the elderly with its fantastic capacity to acknowledge that it is listening/ Garden-variety sound sensors, presumably, enable the doodad to move its leaves as you sing or speak to it.
Only in the high pressure society of Japan, where 1 in 5 people have considered suicide, would a robotic plant that nods be billed as a good listener (we're basing this claim on a translation of the promo song in this video). In fact, we'd like to say that if you're talking to a robotic plant because that's the only thing that will listen to your problems, you might need to seek more professional help. [From OhGizmo!]
Project Runway's Christian Siriano Designs Scarf for LG Lotus Phone
The Lotus is a small square phone explicitly marketed to a fashion forward crowd, and Mr Siriano's wool knit scarf follows suit. Featuring an "understated plaid" pattern (apparently the latest trend for winter), the scarf has a subtle and seamless pocket designed to snugly fit the phone, and hold onto it, while you wear the scarf casually draped across one shoulder.
We love the blend of tech and fashion. Who knows, maybe the scarf pocket is going to replace the pants pocket as the way to carry around your phone this winter.
We just hope Christian designed a button for that pocket, because it's hard to look "fierce" when your phone keeps falling out of your scarf. [From LG]
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