With 2012 being that absolutely 100% verified official year of the zombie apocalypse, we’ll be posting some helpful hints throughout the year to help you get prepared. Our first tip is, of course, to spend all the money you have on clothes at TruckerDeluxe.com (since after the apocalypse, all forms of paper money will be useless). Secondly, however, you’ll need to start considering weapons. Guns are certainly tempting. But as the folks at the Slingshot Channel (yes, there’s a Slingshot Channel) point out, “Gunshots are just too loud, veritable dinner bells for the Undead” not to mention that ammo will be in short supply once shit really hits the fan. The solution? The Slingshot Zombiehammer with Skull Ejector. Check the video, and don’t forget to thank us when you’re dominating the post-apocalyptic landscape this time next year.
Dev Updates & Geek Stuff
Cool tech and gadgets plus updates from the TruckerDeluxe development team.
TruckerDeluxe is now on Instagram. If you’re a fellow iPhoner, find and follow us to get your fill of our stupidity, and by stupidity I mean AWESOMENESS!
So maybe you’ve got your eye on something on TruckerDeluxe.com, but you’re looking for that extra way to save a little dough. Well…how about this? Cruise over to Facebook and “like” the TruckerDeluxe.com Facebook page, and you’ll get yourself a handy little discount code for $5 off your next order. You’ll also then be able to stay up on our newest arrivals, our newest contests and all the stupid crap we find on the internet on a daily basis. So get your liker good and warmed up, give us a go and get yourself $5 in the process. Not bad for a couple of clicks.
As you might guess from their name, Casio G-Shock watches are built tough. Actually, tough might be something of an understatement. Nearly unbreakable might be more like it. To achieve this industrial ruggedness, G-Shock puts their watches through a battery of tough tests, from eletroshock, to underwater submersion to hammer and piston tests. Check out a video documenting this rigorous routine, above, and if you want to try one on for yourself, peruse our selection of mens G-Shock watches, including the GDF-100 Twin Sensor Watch (below), at TruckerDeluxe.com.
Along with their amazing clothing and accessories, Swedish apparel-maker WeSC has also made a name for itself making high quality,superbly styled headphones. They made waves at this years Bread and Butter Berlin show by announcing their latest collaborative headphones project with none other than Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA. Hypebeast TV recently sat down with the RZA himself to discuss the process behind this collaboration, and High Snobiety grabbed some images of the headphones, officially called the “Chambers by RZA.” These headphones will be dropping in spring/summer 2012. In the meantime, check out our ample selection of WeSC Clothing and Headphones at TruckerDeluxe.com.
Facebook, the thing created by internet nerds to compensate for having awkward social skills and no real friends, has now officially been taken over by successful, popular people, which doctors warn is causing a new form of “Facebook Depression” among teens:
There are unique aspects of Facebook that can make it a particularly tough social landscape to navigate for kids already dealing with poor self-esteem, said Dr. Gwenn O’Keeffe, a Boston-area pediatrician and lead author of new American Academy of Pediatrics social media guidelines. With in-your-face friends’ tallies, status updates and photos of happy-looking people having great times, Facebook pages can make some kids feel even worse if they think they don’t measure up.
It can be more painful than sitting alone in a crowded school cafeteria or other real-life encounters that can make kids feel down, O’Keeffe said, because Facebook provides a skewed view of what’s really going on. Online, there’s no way to see facial expressions or read body language that provide context. The guidelines urge pediatricians to encourage parents to talk with their kids about online use and to be aware of Facebook depression, cyberbullying, sexting and other online risks.
So I guess losers are gonna have to create something else awesome to have as their own since bros keep crashing their party. Thanks for all the hard work though guys, really.
I, for one, welcome our new tablet overlords:
Apple Inc is hosting a media event next week to show off the next-generation of the iPad, as it prepares to take on new rivals in the fast-growing tablet market. Apple, which sent an invitation to reporters on Wednesday via email, will host the March 2 gathering at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the same venue where Apple unveiled the original iPad in January 2010. The characteristically succinct invitation featured an image of a calendar page with a giant “2″ emblazoned in the center, peeled back just slightly to reveal the familiar form of an iPad. The invite teased, “Come see what 2011 will be the year of.”
2011 is sor far the year of people rioting in the streets, so hopefully the iPad 2 can make it the year of something a little better. And if, as promised, it includes a front (and possibly rear) camera, Apple’s new Retina Display and a beefier OS and chip, it will definitely brighten some people’s days. I mean, who needs unions or freedom or any of that stuff when you’ve got Angry Birds on a Retina Display?
i-Guns don’t kill people. Real guns kill people. I guess maybe we should all be glad that Kevin doesn’t have a real gun. Yet.
It seems like human nature, especially when you’re particularly bummin’ out or failing ultra hard at life, to look at those around you and assume they all live awesome, joy filled, perfect lives, thus amplifying your personal feelings of sadness, failure, isolation, etc. And a study of college students by a Stanford PhD candidate postulates that Facebook, by virtue of people’s carefully crafted online image of themselves, is amplifying this natural tendency:
Jordan and his fellow researchers asked 80 freshmen to report whether they or their peers had recently experienced various negative and positive emotional events. Time and again, the subjects underestimated how many negative experiences (“had a distressing fight,” “felt sad because they missed people”) their peers were having. They also overestimated how much fun (“going out with friends,” “attending parties”) these same peers were having. In another study, the researchers found a sample of 140 Stanford students unable to accurately gauge others’ happiness even when they were evaluating the moods of people they were close to—friends, roommates and people they were dating. And in a third study, the researchers found that the more students underestimated others’ negative emotions, the more they tended to report feeling lonely and brooding over their own miseries. This is correlation, not causation, mind you; it could be that those subjects who started out feeling worse imagined that everyone else was getting along just fine, not the other way around. But the notion that feeling alone in your day-to-day suffering might increase that suffering certainly makes intuitive sense.
As does the idea that Facebook might aggravate this tendency. Facebook is, after all, characterized by the very public curation of one’s assets in the form of friends, photos, biographical data, accomplishments, pithy observations, even the books we say we like. Look, we have baked beautiful cookies. We are playing with a new puppy. We are smiling in pictures (or, if we are moody, we are artfully moody.) Blandness will not do, and with some exceptions, sad stuff doesn’t make the cut, either. The site’s very design—the presence of a “Like” button, without a corresponding “Hate” button—reinforces a kind of upbeat spin doctoring.
The moral of the story: your friends are all just as miserable as you. Except me, of course. My life is non-stop awesome. But as far as everyone else: don’t believe the hype.
