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Old books, maps and more offered at the Antiquarian Book Fair
From the sunny west coast of Florida to the cloudy and rainy weather of London, booksellers traveled far and wide to make an appearance at the 40th anniversary of Florida’s Antiquarian Book Fair in St. Petersburg’s historic building, the Coliseum. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair is known for being the oldest and largest book fair in the Southeastern United States. Booksellers from 75 different…
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Local used bookstore tackles a new project: a Banned Books Bus
Shelf Indulgence is a local used bookstore located in the Sarasota area, known for its cozy study space, wonderful cafe, amazing staff and wide selection of used books. However, Shelf Indulgence (affectionately nicknamed Shelf) has found yet another way to set themselves apart from other bookstores in the Sarasota-Bradenton area: they have announced their purchase of a bus that will be used as a…
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Coffee Hotspots (though some like it cold): Walkable, locally-owned coffee near campus
Coffee Hotspots (though some like it cold): Walkable, locally-owned coffee near campus
College is costly, but a running start in the morning doesn’t have to be. Sarasota is dotted with a variety of local businesses ranging from curio shops to cafes. Many of these businesses are just within reach of the New College campus, given one doesn’t mind using their legs or riding the Sarasota County Area Transit (SCAT) bus, which is free for New College staff & students. A critical piece of…
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10 Insanely Expensive Gifts We Wish Someone Would Buy for Us
Shopping for others is difficult. Happily for modern consumers, there is a colossal holiday advertising industry dedicated to the dilemma. Shopping for yourself, however — that’s easy, especially if you’re basically daydreaming and not actually spending the money. Here we run down 10 pricey gifts we’d love to have if someone else bought for us this season, in ascending order of outrageous price tag, from $500 to $50,000.
Glenn McDonald writes about the intersections of technology and culture at glenn-mcdonald.com and via Twitter @glennmcdonald1.
Sonos PLAY:5 wireless speaker ($500)
Here at Yahoo Tech world headquarters, located in an abandoned missile silo in central Kansas, we like to play our music loud. Most wireless speakers can’t party as hard as we do, so we'd like to get ourselves one of these $500 price-point setups, like the Sonos PLAY:5 with its six-speaker architecture and Wi-Fi connectivity. Expand the system with soundbar and subwoofers and you've got a wireless home-theater setup. We'll pretend to buy those next year.
Crazy Cart XL ($700)
A few years back, the design team that came up with the wildly popular Razor scooters developed a kind of souped-up electric go-cart for kids called the Crazy Cart. Its patented drive system — you could drift backwards, diagonally, and everything in between — was so undeniably, empirically fun that parents demanded their own version. So Razor designed a version for adults: the $700 Crazy Cart XL. It's maybe the single best toy for grownups put to market in the last several years, and we would like one, please.
Pepper Robot ($1,700)
Billed as the world's first emotionally intelligent robot, the humanoid 'bot Pepper went on sale earlier this year in Japan for around 200,000 yen — about $1,700 U.S. Totally worth it, if you're in the market for a prototype social android programmed to converse, learn, adapt, and read the emotions of humans through analysis of voice, body language, and facial cues. Look, it gets a little lonely in the silo, OK?
Octane Mega Sofa ($1,800)
The modern home-entertainment activity known as binge-watching requires dedication and endurance. Without the right equipment, you could get hurt. That's where gifts like the $1,800 Octane Mega Sofa come in. Under the leather upholstery are motorized "power recliners" — a phrase like poetry — plus adjustable headrests, USB ports, power outlets, and reading lights atop that pull-out center console. In case you were wondering: Yes, the cup holders are illuminated with sunken LEDs.
Pac Man’s Arcade Party ($2,900)
Survivors of the 1980s will remember these names: Galaga. Rally X. Dig Dug. Xevious. Galaxian. The throwback hardware mashup known as Pac-Man's Arcade Party recreates the classic cabinet-style arcade game with 13 old-school titles on a 19-inch diagonal screen. You can even adjust game settings like difficulty and number of lives. The replica cabinet costs $2,900, but on the upside — no quarters required. Rad.
DJI Inspire 1 drone ($4,500)
High-end commercial camera drones used in professional filmmaking can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. We’re not that greedy, we just prefer not to monkey around. This $4,500 DJI Inspire 1 drone features some serious technology, including GPS positioning, full 360-degree camera rotation, autopilot options, and even a built-in flight simulator. That last bit is for, you know, practicing — before you put your pricey quadcopter up 20 stories in the air. Good thinking.
LG OLED 4K HDTV ($5,000)
Having a big-ass TV on your living-room wall, circa 2015, is the modern equivalent of having a big-ass Buick in your driveway, circa 1955. It’s conspicuous and it’s glorious. There are plenty of display technologies out there, but OLED — that stands for organic light-emitting diode — generates unparalleled images. Top-of-the-line models like this 65-inch 4K TV from LG feature all the bells and whistles (surround sound, 3D, smart TV options) for $5,000 retail.
Emperor workstation ($6,000 to $21,500)
It’s like my grandma used to say: If you're going to spend eight to 12 hours in front of a computer screen, you may as well do it in a science fiction pod straight out of H.R. Giger’s nightmares. (Grandma was a singular woman.) The Emperor line of workstations from Canadian manufacturer MWE Lab feature ergonomic design, therapeutic lighting, integrated surround sound, and an ionic air-filtering system. The 1510 model on the left retails for $6,000, but why not splurge for the $21,500 LX model on the right? Why not, indeed.
Melchior clock ($33,000)
Swiss watchmaker MB&F specializes in timepieces that transcend timekeeping. Released in a very limited edition earlier this year, the Melchior is a precision clock disguised as the planet's most formidable toy robot. Built from 480 stainless steel and brass mechanical components, the Melchior provides hours and minutes in two breastplate flywheels, with seconds counted off in the eyes. Retail price: Around $33,000 U.S. It's precious, it is. We wants it.
Orpheus headphones ($55,000)
Germans, as you may be aware, don't mess around when it comes to engineering. (Well, sometimes they do.) Luxury audio purveyor Sennheiser recently unveiled the world's most expensive headphones, the $55,000 artifact known as Orpheus. Each handcrafted set features quartz vacuum tubes, gold-vaporized ceramic transducers, and Italian marble casing. The costly components aren't just cosmetic — they contribute to the widest audio range and lowest distortion ratio ever measured in a sound system. Under international agreement, you are not allowed to play the Dave Matthews Band on the Orpheus.
Librarians and Order: Special Collections Unit ep.2
This has been a time of review for all of us. Since the team here isn’t huge for this project, it’s been very important to step back and see what we have, what we need and what condition everything is in. I had a meeting with Matt this week and more plays were added as supplementary material for the collection we’re doing. It seems as if we have a lot of rare Dion Boucicault items that should definitely be digitized, but the struggle is finding the time to get everything done successfully. We’re working on aligning the scanned documents and preparing them to be put online, and I’m trying to shuffle all of the introductions into place and write new ones.
Previously, we were working on a google drive that contained multiple files for each document. In essence, there were usually 3+ files titled “The Vampire final” “The Vampire no more edits” “The Vampire finished” “The Vampire USE THIS ONE.” Each of these files looked very similar, so it took about five hours to settle on one version of each document that looked the best and most complete before moving that file into our new collection folder. Once everything was moved over as a single document-type (we stick to ‘transcript’ and ‘introductions’) per play, it was easy to distinguish that some plays didn’t have introductions at all.
All of this shuffling back and forth took some time, but it was worth it to get everything on track and identify the gaps where they existed. Now, it’s time to get writing....
