I’ve slowly been collecting a number of geek-worthy designs from Nuda and was just waiting for the right time to post them. Then, low and behold, Nuda goes and has a sale. For all you lucky, lucky people all Nuda shirts are currently $8. While their designs really cover quite a bit of ground you’ll find more than enough good stuff there to fill up your geek wardrobe. Some personal favorites:
Sometime between its edge-of-your-seat pop culture domination and its slow, ponderous decline the X-Files had a flashback episode. In that show, set sometime in the late 80’s, early 90’s, Mulder reaches into his ever present trench coat to make an important call. Instead of the sleek, reoccuring cell phones of the show’s fictionalized present he pulled out this beauty of a door stop and I nearly snorted Cheeto out my nose. If I recall it was shortly thereafter when even my sensual Scully induced suspention of disbelief subsided and I took up basket weaving. Ahhhh, the memories.
If you cherish those huge honking phones of yesteryear or want to show an iPhone n00b what old sk00l is all about Public Domain Clothing has you covered. The shirt only comes in one color (palm) and the price is $25. But - like the iPhone’s fanboys prove - when it comes to what you want the cost is really something secondary.
Hat tip to TCritic for the heads up on this T-Shirt.
Diligent surfers of this site may have noticed that over the weekend we put a slick eBay widget in the sidebar. Sometimes the best geek t-shirts aren’t new but the vintage stuff off in someone’s closet. Whether antique corporate shwag, handmade tech homages, or kitschy promotions gone bad our ‘Today on eBay’ piece will highlight those T’s that we’ve linked to in our sidebar.
You’ve got to hand it to Apple’s Steve Jobs: he’s elevated the practice of product pitching to an artform. The problem, however, is with art comes an awful lot of expectation. So when the 2007 Apple Developer conference was a bit of a snoozer geeks were quick to pile on - including Rick from MacMerc who let his sentiments be known in T-shirt form.
The shirt has gone to be something of story itself. Crunch Gear has linked to it. Gizmodo also has a post. Even the T-shirt connoisseurs are getting into the act.
Timely tech news + wearable spite = great Tee!
The iGasm is a clever little product tie in. Take an ipod, plug in the ‘marital aid’, and just like that you’ve got ABBA rocking your unmentionables. However, the legion of black turtlenecks from Cupertino aren’t so happy with the ad campaign which has hit a little to close to familiar territory.
Jacqueline Gold, boss of the sex toy company, received a legal letter from Apple (let’s face it, the symbol of original sin) asking it to cease and desist with its promotional posters, a juicy rip-off of the iPod silhouette campaign—only this time, instead of the white wires going into her pocket, they are disappearing into her scanties.
Ms Gold’s only response has been humorous. “Perhaps I can send them an iGasm to put the smile back on their faces.” Er, I don’t think it will work on Steve, as I think he is lacking the correct—how shall we say this?—plumbing.
A transgender Steve Jobs aside, the legal claims would seem a bit dubious. Is Apple claiming that any silhouette on pastel backgrounds is infringing? I could understand how it might cause some brand confusion among residents of Po’dunk, RedState. But honestly, how many people had even heard of the iGasm until the Apple lawyers went and made it a story?
Any clique worth its stereotypes has its good and its bad sides. Often its these less glamorous, darker passions that go unspoken about. For marketing its a Machiavellian streak. For management its the deep-seeded fear of loosing control. And for geeks? Well, as this editor for Gizmodo demonstrates, its the desire to see who would win in a cage match between Optimus Prime and an iPod (hint: the Apple device scratches easily).
A gem of reality imposed by istartedsomething.com. It illustrates just how ‘feature-rich’ the iPhone (due in June) is compared to already available smart phones:
With all the great Mac products out there ever wonder what happened to the Power PC? That Apple computer with the cool name and non-Intel chipset? Well, wonder no more:
What happens when you take the pretentiousness of an Apple product unveiling and combine it with current geopolitical events? Why, the iRack. Make sure to watch till the end for the revealing of Apple’s follow up to the iRack, the iRan:
Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy
For anyone that has been following the string of Apple OS names the compulsion for big cats is puzzling - Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and Leopard. Sure, maybe Steve Jobs just has an unhealthy love of whiskers. Or perhaps, Apple has been naming their operating system after German armored vehicles. From blog-for-a-homepage:
But why does Mac OS X and german tank models share the same naming convention and other similarities? Could it be something having to do with the shared, well deserved, feeling of being the best in engineering on the respective fields? Maybe the tendency of both parties to respond well to strong leadership? The desire for total control over the different territories and the need to enforce this with great tanks, well organized armies, DRM and operating systems locked to run on specific hardware?
Of course, the naming could be a run-down of a clone-maker’s product line that was conveniently crushed back in 1997. Somehow Steve Job’s rubbing a former competitor’s nose in trademarked spoils seems a tad more scandalous than the German tank bit. However, how often do we get to use the phrase ‘Mein Gott’ in a post title?
