Modular office design has evolved at a glacial pace since enclosed cubicles became America’s standard-issue workspace in the early 1980s. Today’s cubicles bear an unsettlingly similar resemblance to the cubicles of 25 years ago.
The same cannot be said of modular home design. Sure, factories continue to churn out unimaginative, prefabricated double-wide homes. But a [...]
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Cool your cube with the C2
Posted in Gadgetry, tagged C2, Cool, Cube, eBay, Herman Miller on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does this week’s heat got you feeling beat? Herman Miller has a new gadget that can cool you down the moment you enter your cube. It’s the C2 Climate Control, a PC-speaker-size device that promises to cool or heat your cube, and clean the air in the process.
We’d love to review the C2 for you, [...]
A second life for our friedPod
Posted in Gadgetry, tagged BuyMyTronics, Google, iPod, Lake Michigan on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After we killed our iPod last week, we contemplated the best way to dispose of it. We had a five-year relationship with our iPod, and we couldn’t well imagine just pitching it in the trash. We considered burying it, as though it were a family pet, but ultimately concluded that doing so would be eco-unfriendly. [...]
friedPod
Posted in Gadgetry, tagged Apple, Battery, iPod, Mac, Third Generation on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of ours convinced us that we possessed the technical know-how to replace the dying battery in our five-year-old iPod. Foolishly, we believed him.
On his advice we purchased a new battery for $20 from MacSales.com. The battery arrived within two days from the Woodstock, Ill.-based e-tailer. We eagerly removed the battery from its packaging, [...]
