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Remember running around the local arcade as a kid, jumping from cabinet to cabinet with friends, blasting aliens, guzzling Coca-Cola and begging your mom for more quarters? Replace the Coke with a Deschutes Mirror Pond Ale and your mom with a bartender, and you have Ground Kontrol, a barcade in Portland, Oregon, where the clanging pinball bumpers, flashing neon and well-trodden carpets colored like whirlpools of graffiti are all intact. And the… Read More

As much as late-night infomercial fodder such as the venerable vegetable slice-n-dicer and the towel-cum-chamois hybrid infuriatingly dubbed the ShamWow have become the subject of intense ridicule, these gadgets have at least one thing going for them – they exist. If nothing else, we can rest easy knowing that someone, somewhere was able to dream up an idea, turn that idea into a product that does what it's supposed to do, and… Read More