Kevin Noki got tired of the same interruption that ruins a stretch of real work. His phone would light up, his hand would move, and the next half hour would vanish into a screen he never meant to open. His answer was a handset that can take a call while the phone that owns the number stays somewhere else.
Most people shopping for a desk chair in this price range are not looking for a racing bucket or a showroom piece. They want something that holds them up through a long evening of games or a full day of work, and the N-GEN GAMING high-back does that job for about $80. Amazon lists the all-black model around $79.95, down from a list price near $89.
Nineteen feet and eight inches separates the nose of this car from the trailing edge of its rear fins, and almost none of that length came from a single factory chassis. Custom builder Carl Casper and his shop, Hollywood Productions, cut two Chevrolet Impala frames apart and joined them into one long backbone, then wrapped the result in a hand-shaped fiberglass body finished in gloss black. That body still wears the paint it carried when cameras rolled on Tim Burton’s 1992 film Batman Returns. Julien’s Auctions calls this example the number one hero car, screen-matched to most of the driving scenes Michael Keaton shot, and says it has never been offered at auction before.
RayTriangle built a game console small enough to live inside a 9.5 mm Goobay antenna plug, the sort of screw-terminal adapter once used to join old 300 ohm ribbon cable to a 75 ohm television socket. Battery included, the whole machine screws into the antenna jack and puts DOOM on the screen.
Midtown foot traffic slowed this week in front of an arcade cabinet tall enough to stand inside. Paramount parked it in Times Square to sell the new Street Fighter movie, and the usual field of pixels had been swapped for two people. Stunt performers in Ryu and Ken costumes took their marks behind the glass and waited for someone in the crowd to pick a side.