A couple of years ago, Emma Cossey confessed she'd fallen hard for The Simple Life - a beautiful magazine focussing on the slow life movement and the little things in life. Coincidentally, it's from the same company behind my current magazine crush. Yes, readers of Dork Adore, I am head over heels … [Read more...]
Wacom Inkling – the pen that turns your notebook into a design tablet
The Wacom ‘designer tool on the go’ Inkling (available from Amazon) is a digital pen which records what you draw as you draw it using Real Ink on Real Paper. It lets you create layers as you go and stores up to 10 pages worth of pics which you can then transfer to your computer. Sounds pretty great, … [Read more...]
Pink gadgets grow up. The fashion trends inspiring the gadgets you’ll be buying this winter
The catwalk can be a baffling place for geeks: all that fabric, only interrupted by the occasional button that does nothing when you press it. It's hardly our natural habitat... But we take a very different attitude to haute couture when it's translated into beautiful, functional objects we can … [Read more...]
Weird watches you might quite like
In a world where stopped clocks furnish so many of our public buildings, and mobile phones have become our main method for timekeeping, stopping to strap on a wristwatch has become a more meaningful action. And now that watches have become almost an unusual bit of body furniture, it’s no surprise … [Read more...]