As I was browsing through Woman’s Day —What? I like their coupons page —I found this collection of 15 vintage household ads . [Or I found it on Serious Eats ]

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15 Vintage Household ads in which women are not entirely condescended to

Their customer service line is closed for the day so I can’t figure out how much these cost, but unless you’re building a warehouse, shopping mall, or post- Final Fantasy IX airship, you probably don’t need to purchase one of these high-volume, low RPM Big Ass Fans . It’s hard to hate any company that features a braying ass in a press hat to draw attention to their PR kit. [via Uncrate ] Update : Reader Andy Nonymous ’s cameraphone shot of a BAF is fetching.

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Guess what the Big Ass Fans corporation manufactures?

Great idea for a spring fling, but surely this can be done more simply than with a single-purpose $13 (plus shipping) “ShotCarver” . A piece of steel conduit? An empty pill bottle? [via Doug Aamoth ]

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How best to turn fruit into shot glasses without a specialized tool?

This little cutie from Donya.jp weds three buttons to a trackball, attached to a retracting USB cable. It screams reclined leisure, although I have no idea how to get it outside of Japan. [via Coolest Gadgets ]

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I wish this tiny trackball was available in North America

Using the headlights of cars as pixels is cute, but it would be far, far cooler if they’d really parked a few hundred cars into the desert. This is surely CG. [via Jalopnik ] Previously: Separated at Cloning: 2010 Honda Insight and Toyota Prius - Boing … Honda Insight is back with an eye on the Toyota Prius - Boing … Honda, where engineers rule - Boing Boing Gadgets

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Honda Insight commercial pretends headlights are pixels

The Objectuals series from Hyungkoo Lee . Many are more terrifyingly space simian than these, but it’s Friday and I’m hoping to keep lunch in your belly. [via Said the Gramaphone ]

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Objectuals by Hyungkoo Lee

Netflix added new features this week to their web site, including “Taste Preferences”, “More Personalized Homepages”, and “Customized Browsing”, all of which sound very nice. But I was most interested to see how engaged the users were in the comments with ideas for improving the service in ways that seem to make a lot of sense. I’m a big, big fan of Netflix, but I’ve always thought their website erred just a skotch past optimal usability. ⌦ “It would be great to sort by release year AND rating level. That way you won’t search for top rated stuff and have to sort through 500 listing from 1934 etc.” ⌦ “I’d like to complain loudly once more and very clearly. The advertisements about piracy at the beginning of each DVD are extremely annoying and insulting to me as your customer. It spoils my movie watching experience and accuses me and my family of being thieves.” ⌦ “What I’d like to see is an option in my account preferences to not show movies that I’ve already rated.” ⌦ “Really love you guys but instead of focusing so much on all this personalization stuff how about working on things like getting Watch Instantly to work on Windows 7 (official release is around the corner, guys!).” ⌦ “Often when I receive a movie, I cannot remember why I put it in my queue. Could you add a ‘notes’ option so that I could type a quick note about why I chose it?” ⌦ “It’d also be cool to have the ability to link in reviews. So if say Salon had a really interesting review I could add it as a publicly shared URL and other users would be able to see it and read why I thought it sounded like a good movie.” ⌦ “I love the new features, but something related to this that I would like to see is the ability to rate not just movies, but also favorite (and least favorite) actors and directors!” ⌦ “Why can’t you show me the names of my friends instead of just initials which might or might not be the initials of their name?” ⌦ “Once again, I’m disappointed by Netflix’ choice of language in the rating system. Why are the choices “Often”, “Sometimes” and “Never”? From shades of gray to pure black. Somewhere between “sometimes” and “never” is a space called “rarely”.”

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Netflix adds new features, but users have even more suggestions

The Concord C1 Quantum Gravity watch, sure to make any Borg feel like a star. We are fabulous. Below, a short video showing the tourbillon bi-axial being constructed, which as you may know is a little geary thing that goes click click whirr .

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Concord C1 Quantum Gravity watch, part suspension bridge, part bomb

Purisme sells this lovely carbon fiber bracelet for a maddening €590. Carbon Mods UK will sell you a single A5-sized sheet of carbon fiber for $14.30.

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Milk the Rich: Purisme carbon fiber bangle

The Samsung Alias2, soon to be on Verizon, uses what appears to be segmented e-paper to change the labels on its physical QWERTY keyboard. A neat solution to a problem that will eventually be solved with something like Apple’s patent for a touchscreen that physically deforms itself. [ Phone Area ]

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Samsung Alias2, QWERTY phone with e-paper keys