Etsy Finds: To My Beloved Geek
Today we present a Holiday Shopping List for the geek in your life. We've found nine unique items to make great gifts — perfect for a science teacher, a gadget-obsessed buddy, or anyone who appreciates Geekery! Microchip cufflinks Keep your cuffs looking extra smart! By digiBling, $12. View item | View Shop | Add …
Fresh Shops: Aula46
What can I say, I'm a sucker for electronic geekery. I'm also a sucker for Pounce, which is how I discovered today's Fresh Shop. First of all, the moment I see resistors in a listing image, the seller becomes a contender. Perhaps it's a weakness of mine, but I like to think of the ability to spot dorktacular oddities as …
Etsy Street: ITP's 5-in-5 Challenge
I was invited to participate for a day in the 5-in-5 Challenge, a competition to complete a creative project every day for five straight days. The 5-in-5 Challenge takes place at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, a Master's program at New York University. If I could go back in time, I would be …
Fresh Shops: tinyminds
Preface:There I was, just minding my own business, writing an exciting Storque Fresh Shops article, when the technology mainstream media scooped up the story out from under my nose! It took only a matter of hours for tinyminds magical little Etsy shop to trickle up from Technabob's blog all the way to Corey …
Geekery Abounds at NYC's Internet Week Maker Faire & Beyond
Last week, we attended a special Maker Faire here in NYC. There have been rumors of trying to get an East coast Maker Faire going and perhaps Internet Week was a good time to give it a test run. The event, held at Saatchi & Saatchi, was full of fascinating gizmos and the friendly people who make them. Phil Torrone …
Handmade Music Night Featured on Current TV
Current TV visited Etsy, Make Magazine, and CreateDigitalMusic's Handmade Music Night at the Etsy Labs this spring. It's an experience of wonder and geekery! Their video has been posted...Perhaps it will make it to their TV channel if you give it some love on their site! Here are some more posts about Handmade …
Etsy Finds: Recycled Circuit Board Key Chain
Hey all you lovers out there in the webbed world of intergalactic communication, this is Jakob aka vonmilan. I am new to Etsy and this is my first Storque article, so go easy on me. My Etsy name is vonmilan and I am the new receptionist/office-manager/office-geologist. I found this super cool recycled …
Fresh Shops: thesupremes
This edition of Fresh Shops is all about gettin' your learn on while stuffin' your face. Enter thesupremes. I was cruising through Pounce when I caught a glimpse of these melamine plates (okay in the dishwasher, but not in the microwave), and then these words from thesupremes shop announcement, "...to make the …
Etsy Finds: Vintage Vacuum Tube Necklace
I'm George (aka Georgyo ), new to the ETSY engineering team. I started working with computers when I was 12 years old, and have always admired how things in the past looked. One reason why these things look so cool is due to vacuum tubes, the transistors of the past. These tubes single-handedly paved the way for …
