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People aren’t always very good at linking what it is they desire with the things they choose to buy. The custom-built suburban house is a good example, with all its ‘personalized’ variations, tiers of

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What made Pogs so desirable for that brief period during the nineties? They were easy to obtain, but more a little more difficult to amass. Poker chips for kids. They also must have been sold at a pre

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Ghost Train takes place aboard a train and at each station along its route. The plot is loosely based on the Choose Your Own Adventure novel of the same name. A smartphone app provides the starting lo

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Nike Free Hyperfeel What a name for a shoe, eh? The Nike Free Hyperfeel is high tech, expensive, and eye-catching. I desire them because they look better than most running shoes, and because I think t

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Pro-Ject turntables, though poorly named, are really pretty and are supposed to be very good. They are in the “budget audiophile” range, which is apparently around $400. I would like one, please.

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eBay is desirable because it provides an opportunity to obtain other desirable things that would otherwise be out of one’s price range (and an exciting way to get them).

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Odwalla Original Superfood: lots of nutrition without any work! It’s more expensive than other juices, green (green things = healthy), and it tastes good. I thought Odwalla was a pretty trustworthy br

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Moleskine: you’re not legit without one. Somehow, the company was able to create a strong brand association with great artists of the past, even though the first Moleskine wasn’t produced until 1997.

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The Sony Alpha A7 is a game changer. It might be the last camera you’ll ever need. A full-frame sensor in a mirrorless camera. And look how sexy it is.

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The Cosmonaut is a tablet stylus by a small design studio. They made it thick like a marker, because writing on glass is more like using a dry-erase marker than using any pen. Clever, and I want one.

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I like Zuriick shoes because they’re simple, well-made, and thin-soled. And less expensive than other brands like it.

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Swiffer is often cited as one of Continuum’s most successful product designs. It’s one of many new disposable alternatives to existing products. It’s too bad that so many of these more desirable produ

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(image from the App store, not a screenshot from my phone) Mobile banking apps are great when they allow you to deposit checks without having to go to the bank. A major life improvement.

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Doodle polls can really simplify and speed up the process of finding an agreeable meeting time for a group of people. It almost couldn’t be easier to use.

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Pinocchio’s seems totally undesigned, and thus totally authentic. Plus, the pizza is really good.

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I only recently discovered laserdiscs. They’re like CDs, but the size of LPs and they have movies on them. They have higher quality video and audio than VHS tapes, but were more expensive, so VHS won

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Ticketmaster makes it pretty easy to buy tickets for any show (like the Robyn+Royksopp in Boston on August 22), but there are always so many fees. How is it able to maintain its near-monopoly on ticke

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Current is an app that dynamically organizes your idiosyncratic ways of remembering events and to-do activities, and it coordinates your schedule with other people and groups. Connect to other schedul