Wardrobe mannequins have been around since the days of King Tutankhamen, and have been freaking out people ever since. Hunter Oatman-Stanford of Collector's Weekly has an excellent brief history of… Read the rest of the article: What mannequins say about us

The Astak Neos Touchscreen Smart Display looks like a very large iPad, but it runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, has a backstand, and must be kept plugged into a wall… Read the rest of the article: My 15.6-inch Android device is smeared with food and grease, and I love it

Robyn Miller is one of the most interesting people I know. I first learned of Robyn in 1993 when I was an editor at Wired and I received an early… Read the rest of the article: The surprising truth behind the dapper, impoverished vampire in The Immortal Augustus Gladstone

Streaming live from Kevin Kelly's house right now: the first Cool Tools Show and Tell meetup! A couple of dozen folks are demonstrating and talking about their favorite tools, and… Read the rest of the article: Cool Tools Show & Tell live video! (7:30pm PT 12/4/2013)

I had three, count 'em, three guests on Gweek this week: Dean Putney, Boing Boing's coding and development wizard, who updated us on his wildly successful Kickstarter project to publish… Read the rest of the article: Gweek podcast 123: Kerbal Space Program

I've seen the fantastic documentary, The Wrecking Crew, about the legendary group of studio musicians who played the instruments on a great many of the songs recorded by famous groups… Read the rest of the article: The Wrecking Crew – documentary about the famed studio musicians of the 1960s and 1970s

To remain a member in good standing of the Bozo Boosters, you had to follow five rules. The back of the membership card conveniently listed them. Join The Bozo Army

There's still time to start or join a Cool Tools Show & Tell Meetup in your town. But if you can't make it for some reason, you are invited to… Read the rest of the article: Watch the Cool Tools Show & Tell Meetup

It's appraised at $200,000 to $300,000.

Subscribe to Incredibly Interesting Authors John Durant is a leader of the growing ancestral health movement. Durant studied evolutionary psychology at Harvard prior to founding Paleo NYC and Barefoot Runners… Read the rest of the article: Incredibly Interesting Authors 003: Paleo Manifesto author John Durant

Bob Knetzger says: "The Akihabara Radio Center is closing at the end of November. Sure, there are still maid cafes, gundam shops and other otaku delights in Akihabra, but sadly… Read the rest of the article: Famed Tokyo electronics center to close

I saw All is Lost a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me of Gravity in a way – both movies are about trying to survive on a damaged vessel.… Read the rest of the article: The sound of All is Lost

The great illustrator Danny Hellman joined Josh Glenn and me to talk about his illustrious career, including his tenure drawing covers for Al Goldstein's Screw magazine in the 1990s. Josh… Read the rest of the article: Gweek 122: Save the Adventure!

MacBreak Weekly is one of my favorite podcasts so it was a nice surprise to see Andy Ihnatko and Leo Laporte review Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools book on it. Leo… Read the rest of the article: Cool Tools book reviewed on MacBreak Weekly

My friend AJ Jacobs (author of fantastic self-experimentation books like Drop Dead Healthy and The Year of Living Biblically) says, "My Esquire Google Glass experiment went up today. It's about… Read the rest of the article: AJ Jacobs writes about trying all the things you're not supposed to do with Google Glass

Subscribe to Apps for Kids Subscribe in iTunes | Download this episode | Stitcher Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My… Read the rest of the article: Apps for Kids 052: Edge

Make this weekend extra special by listening to Boing Boing podcasts while you go about your business: breaking rocks, dining at a fancy restaurant with your spouse, attending a SubGenius… Read the rest of the article: Weekend listening: Boing Boing's latest podcast episodes

The folks behind Toymail sent me one of their Mailmen toys to try out. It's a Wi-Fi connected creature that plays audio recordings that you make on your smart phone… Read the rest of the article: Toymail: send mail to toys from your phone

If you listen to Boing Boing's Apps for Kids podcast, you know that Jane and I love the iOS app, Kingdom Rush, and its follow-up title, Kingdom Rush Frontiers (They… Read the rest of the article: Kingdom Rush Frontiers: the best tower defense game now free to play on Web

This Raspberry PI based computer kit looks like a great way to get kids interested in programming. The programming language looks kind of like Scratch, the free drag-and-drop programming language… Read the rest of the article: Kano — small computer to teach kids programming