So an app will go only so far these days. Never fear, now your iPhone case can open bottles. For only $20 bucks, it doesn’t seem like a bad deal.

via: coolest-gadgets.com

If you’re a social media junkie, you spend gobs of time online updating your Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.  Since you are investing so much time onlline, have you considered backing up all of your social media? That’s where Backupify comes in. Backupify backs up all of your important online social media. Once you setup a particular service, Backupify handles the rest automatically backing up and archiving your social media.

Twitter backup is free and you end up with a PDF that you can download with all your updates and links intact.

Here is a list of services that Backupify supports:

Flickr Twitter Delicious Zoho Google Docs Photobucket Wordpress Basecamp Gmail

Facebook FriendFeed Blogger Hotmail Picasa Web Albums Google Contacts Google Calendar

Check out Backupify.

I’m a long time fan of Sharpie markers and I have a bunch of them all over the house in multiple colors and sizes. Sharpie just introduced a new stainless steel marker with the Sharpie logo laser etched on the side. It retails for $8.99 but has a unique feature – it’s refillable. That’s right. For a cool $2.49 you can reload this bad boy. This is must have for any Sharpie enthusiast. Buy it here.

So you were the early adopter who stood in line for hours to get your hands on a new iPad. You probably downloaded tons of apps for your latest gadget. Maybe even bragged about the battery life. Now it’s time to get the next hottest iPad accessory. From Thinkgeek.com, comes the iPad Arcade Cabinet. Simply slide your iPad and presto, you have a table top classic arcade game ready to go. It retails for $149.00.

Some features:

• Beautifully retro styled, handcrafted wooden tabletop arcade cabinet and MAME emulator for your otherwise useless iPad
• Hundreds of games available from various online sources – not included in product!
• Professional grade arcade stick and microswitch buttons rated for 10,000,000 uses
• Authentic arcade controls connect to your iPad via a standard 30 pin dock connector
• One and two player select buttons add authenticity and really work!

So get ready to trip down memory lane with Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Qbert, Donkey Kong and hundreds of others. Get one at Thinkgeek.com

A beautiful informatics poster created by David McCandless and Andy Perkins.

According to informationisbeautiful.net, this visualization generates itself from this Google Doc. So when new research comes out, they can quickly update the data and regenerate the image. Check out the interactive version.

The girl featured in this video was stranded in the Pittsburgh International Airport for 10 hours during Snowpocalypse ‘09. She passed the time by video taping herself. Well done!
Via Boing Boing

If you’re like me, you probably have an external hard drive laying around. Now you can it into a USB drive. This simple tutorial at instructables.com shows you how.

Kate Madison – a super fan of the Lord Of The Rings films – set out to make her very own prequel to the trilogy series with £25,000 of her life savings. She wrote, directed and produced the prequel based on two paragraphs lifted from the appendix in JRR Tolkien’s books. The end result was  an hour long prequel titled “Born Of Hope.”

Gone was the elaborate £200million budget and lush scenery of New Zealand trilogy director Peter Jackson had at his disposal. The film was shot entirely on location around England and took over a year to shoot. Incredibly, Madison convinced more than 400 cast and crew to donate their time for the project. She picked up office temp work and earned an additional £17,000 by posting a trailer on YouTube accepting donations. She also played the part of Elgarain the forest ranger herself.

It’s a remarkable effort and most certainly surpasses the modest budget. View the film in it’s entirety at BornOfHope.com.