"They turned the damn thing into a paperweight," Mr. Semenoff said.
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"I have a Lucite paperweight with one in there," she said.
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But maybe he just thought of it as a really wordy paperweight.
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Without a working controller, a PlayStation 4 is just an expensive paperweight.
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He didn't say why the trapezoidal vehicle resembles a 22nd-century paperweight.
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A paperweight in the colors of the French flag weighed down one pile.
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All sales are final and you would hate paying for a NSFW paperweight.
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Editorial One kept a paperweight model of an electric chair on his desk.
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No one should be paying hundreds of dollars to have a heavy paperweight.
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A startup called Timeular is building a strange new Bluetooth paperweight for time tracking.
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But who could blame a novice for using orange calcite as a decorative paperweight?
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The agency conducted a sting operation on Davis in 2011 to seize the paperweight.
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The rose-petal paperweight was there when he began to play his Chopin preludes.
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It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight.
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A functional and entertaining paperweight will add a sense of whimsy to your boss's desk.
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"It is now an enormous, gigantic, expensive paperweight," said one customer who missed the deadline.
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Otherwise you might lose a lot of features and turn your iPhone into a fancy paperweight.
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A paperweight-sized crystal ball rested on top of the various files and outdated storage devices.
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But a pretty camera is just a big beautiful paperweight if it's not great at taking photos.
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Place your favorite dish, bookend or paperweight back on display for a luxe look, minus the grime.
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Are you intrigued by the idea of using Darth Vader's melted helmet as an extremely imposing paperweight?
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There are also dimpled teapots crawling with painted ants and paperweight-size sculptures of horses and birds.
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My upper body is made of glass and can barely lift a paperweight, but my lower body?
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It resembles a giant paperweight and is rented only to women who pass Edward's creepily stringent requirements.
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It's enough time to turn what was once considered a beyond-cutting-edge smartphone into an antiquated paperweight.
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You could easily mistake this thing for a paperweight, the way it flattens a stack of old Harpers.
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A glass paperweight containing the last surviving prop pebble from the set of David Carradine's Kung Fu rests nearby.
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Authorities had been surveilling the thief since 2016 when he listed a 19th-century paperweight for sale on eBay.
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Regardless, you should contact Apple support if you fell for the evil Easter Egg and now own a $700 paperweight.
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He stokes the paperweight absentmindedly with one hand, while his other traces down a long list of actors: Leonardo DiCaprio.
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One person's paperweight is another person's creative inspiration—the only thing that separates the former from the latter is information.
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Without a properly paired controller, your Xbox One is little more than a very expensive (and rather too large) paperweight.
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Gold, then, may serve an important function as a "portfolio paperweight," refusing to bow to the moves of the equity market.
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She started throwing things, including a glass paperweight that if it had hit Pam on the head would have brained her.
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You'll want to disconnect the power and turn your keyboard or laptop into a paperweight before doing any kind of cleaning.
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Bloomberg spoke with several investors who were disappointed that their money went to what is essentially a $400 Wi-Fi enabled paperweight.
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What exactly is "smart" about turning my phone into a maddening paperweight every time I try to watch a video on YouTube?
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There's always a chance that the company behind the device will stop paying the server bills and leave users with a paperweight.
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Zach brushed against a side table and knocked over a glass paperweight, but he was quick and caught it with one hand.
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Within a particular radius, I am quite sure everyone's grandmother had a jewel-toned knock-off Murano glass paperweight on a coffee table.
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As I sat down with him for the first time in his office, I couldn't miss a unique, handmade, in-your-face paperweight.
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To her left, a stack of her recent pieces was held in place with a paperweight in the shape of a bird. Mrs.
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For every record you know they've listened to a hundred times, there's an old paperweight or a photograph of a friend you never met.
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But the mammoth document is largely sidelined to being a symbolic paperweight on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have ignored Trump's previous calls for cuts.
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In addition to the paperweight that was listed on eBay, he is connected to other objects stolen from the crystalware museum in Saint Louis.
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At my desk, it works as a paperweight to hold books open, reflecting ceiling tiles the way a dentist's mirror reflects an upper molar.
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Priced at $1, plus another $213 for speakers and $22014 for cables, the Nexus Q was incredibly expensive for what amounted to a gimmicky paperweight.
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It's made from sustainable European sycamore, and perhaps could find a 2018 reuse by a creative D&D Dungeon Master or just as a handsome paperweight.
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"It is now an enormous, gigantic, expensive paperweight" In Casper's defense, the number of testimonies claiming customer service was helpful and easy outweighed complaints like that.
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Your goal is to incapacitate the person with a blow to the head, using a blunt object like a fire extinguisher, a trophy or a paperweight.
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The operation was orchestrated after she tried to sell a paperweight containing lunar material which, like Cicco's moon dust, was gifted to the family by Neil Armstrong.
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Last year's featured item, the paperweight, is another example of a once-ubiquitous thing that has been phased out over the years largely due to lack of need.
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To use it, you first pick a secret physical object like a book or a paperweight and take photos of it with a mobile device, creating reference photos.
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Packaged with a DNAinfo sweatshirt, an Awl-branded paperweight, and a bootleg Hipster Runnoff beer koozie, this discount Oath swag should be enough to make a tidy profit.
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In 1984, it's the paperweight that contains the beautiful little thing, and it's the rather unpleasant piece of the forest, the piece of nature that they go to.
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But Beauvoir is a mere paperweight compared to the 35-story concrete obelisk (one of the nation's largest) in a state park in Fairview, Ky., to mark Davis's birthplace. .
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"I would recommend that a dropped glass toy be retired and used as a beautiful paperweight if it is dropped on, say, a tiled or cement floor," she writes.
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Other toys on the list are more likely to look like a "blooming flower" or "a paperweight from the MOMA store," as its writers had it, than a dick.
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The best phone chargers you can buyWithout a charger, your smartphone is nothing more than a pricey paperweight, so we've rounded up the best phone chargers of all kinds.
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It was already often a sculptural object, but now that there are fewer and fewer papers to weigh down, the paperweight has achieved a nearly transcendent level of redundancy.
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The Paperweight Show features small sculptural works by more than 100 artists and designers in every imaginable medium, from ceramics and stone to wood, metal, glass, and even paper.
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"Water weight" sounds like it could mean anything, like, the amount a person weighs sopping wet, a person's relationship to gravity in water, or a paperweight made out of water.
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"A nice drink that doesn't take itself too seriously" is how Gibson describes it, standing beside a ceramic dog and below an old crystal paperweight on shelves groaning with bottles.
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We've even had it happen to us, where we give a loaner phone to a customer, they don't remove iCloud, they leave the store, and we have an expensive paperweight.
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" But that wasn't all: "Barbara, her daughter who was always like a sister and a best friend to me, gave this glass, clear paperweight heart, and the heart was gold.
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The weird Dial peripheral (the one that looks like a cross between a paperweight and a weed grinder) will run an extra $100 and the ergonomic keyboard variant is another $120.
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His 2016 Paperweight, which depicts an elderly writer at his desk engulfed in a torrent of shredded paper, takes the theme of accretion even further, in its sinister devolution into farce.
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Get the Nintendo Zelda 8-Bit Pom Beanie for $29.95 See Details Perfect as a functional and nerdy paperweight, this lets you wield Link's Master Sword to slice away at pesky envelopes.
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Today, stolen or lost iPhones are typically locked down by theirs owners using the Find My iPhone app, which can leave thieves in possession of nothing more than an over-priced paperweight.
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In this respect, his most recent film, Paperweight, recently on view at Lesley Heller Workspace, feels like a personal breakthrough, pushing key themes and techniques further than he has taken them before.
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Given its unique shape—it looks kind of like an expensive cone-shaped paperweight in someone's fancy office—this 100 percent silicone vibrator may have you wondering, How exactly does this work?
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To prevent this, Hill slid the man's nearby iPhone onto the bill to act as a paperweight, but his finger tapped "pause" in the process and the Rick Astley instrumental abruptly ceased.
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The stagnant state of paperweight practice is precisely what inspired Fisher Parrish Gallery to devote its first exhibition (in the space formerly occupied by 99¢ Plus Gallery) to these obsolete objets d'art.
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For iPhone users, trade-in prices for an iPhone 6 Plus will float around $350 and you can actually still get $100 or so if you trade in your iPhone 4 edition paperweight.
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Then a curator at the National Gem and Mineral Collection at the Smithsonian Institution examined the rock, declared the color "awful—it's just kind of muddy gray," and now that sapphire is a paperweight.
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Tip-in, righty hook, elbow turnaround jumper, face-up from 20 feet, stepping out for three: he performed the evolution of the contemporary big man from painted-area paperweight to agile terror in four minutes.
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Critics of Bodega are already comparing the startup to Juicero, the highly investment-valued cold-press-at-home juice company that collapsed spectacularly after its $400 juicing machine was revealed to be a pricey paperweight.
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"I cannot accept that you produce criminality," Mr. Orlando said in an interview last month in his grand office, surrounded by gilded Islamic manuscripts, a letter from Pope Francis and a paperweight of the Dalai Lama.
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Photo: Patrick Lucas Austin (Gizmodo)The saving grace of the Ionic was its incredible battery life, which meant going a day or two (or six) without a recharge didn't turn your smartwatch into a wrist-mounted paperweight.
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The reality of satellite design is that if pretty much anything goes wrong, the thing sits in orbit like a million-dollar paperweight (although absent gravity it is technically a papermass) and eventually burns up on reentry.
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They scare the shit out of everyone by throwing a paperweight designed to look like a grenade into the cab, stealing it and discovering that it's Varga's mobile office where all his deep, dark secrets are kept.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Even before the advent of our increasingly digital and progressively more paperless era, the paperweight was often held up as the paragon of dumb utility, its only purpose to hold papers down.
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Gloria Steinem wrote in the Times that once, Graham was so infuriated with a Post executive for doubting that women could deliver the newspaper (essentially have papergirls, as well as paperboys) that she threw a paperweight at his head.
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There's a picture of Secretary Hillary Clinton at her desk, featuring a decorative paperweight that says, "Never Never Never Give Up." Malala Yousafzai gazes at us alongside Joan Didion, Lena Dunham, Serena and Venus Williams, and many other amazing human beings.
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Did you find yourself staring at a fancy executive Newton's Cradle clicker paperweight on a big desk with some powerful bald middle aged white guy behind it while you negotiated your…Hope: I absolutely did not have have to do that.
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NASA's declaration that a citizen cannot own lunar material stems from the case of Joann Davis, the widow of an Apollo engineer, who attempted to sell a paperweight with lunar dust inside of it given to her by her late husband.
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"I have found, as I'm sure you can see, if people have a choice of giving you $25 or giving you $25 and getting a signed paperweight in return, they'd rather have something they can hold in their hand," Stone said.
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Purell bottles come in every conceivable size: small enough for your going-out clutch, big enough for a paperweight, stashed within a wall-mounted dispenser you need only shove your lower palm at to receive the promise of salvation from disease.
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Without a 4K capable card, that new GoPro Hero 7 Black is nothing more than $400 paperweight (not exactly the best use of a GoPro.) Just make sure to act quick if you need a microSD for any upcoming holiday travel plans.
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Too many children die every year because of guns that are left unsecured, and too many police officers are needlessly placed in harm's way by guns that would be no more deadly than a paperweight if they were outfitted with smart-gun technology.
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In the lobby, members of the audience — some of whom came on free shuttle buses that picked them up from nearby coal towns — created an index of their own, writing about their mining ancestors in a small leather notebook held open with a coal paperweight.
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With no way to navigate around the operating system and download a replacement driver, let alone roll the system back to a previous restore point or even reset the device to its original factory settings, the little Hewlett-Packard tablet was reduced to being an expensive paperweight.
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Howard's repayment plan isn't simple — nothing in this careening, pinball game of a plot is — but it all revolves around a paperweight-size chunk of rock Howard has just received in the mail from Africa, containing several raw black opals: the uncut gems of the title.
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Van Buren's interest in materials has led him to use Thermoplastic, as well as to incorporate actual seashells, glitter, ostrich feathers, metallic paint, costume jewelry, dry pigment, wallpaper paste, and many other unlikely materials into the resin, which holds these things like a glass paperweight full of flowers.
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Davis, then 74, was set up to meet a prospective broker at a local Denny's, but when she presented the paperweight, she and her second husband were pulled to the parking lot and held for two hours by Norman Conley, a criminal investigator for NASA's Office of Inspector General.
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The capsule collection is made up of luxurious takes on things that people use all the time, like a $9,000 paperweight made to look like a ball of yarn or a $575 sterling silver cup modeled after the paper cups that customers use when they're shopping in-store.
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By now, you've likely heard about some of the more luxurious takes on everyday objects from Tiffany's new home collection, including a $9,000 paperweight made to look like a ball of yarn and a $575 sterling-silver cup that resembles the paper cups customers get in the store.
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A mock newspaper page includes a Knipl comic and the illustrated vintage ads that line the book's cover interiors — a fresh addition that complements the original strips, in which Katchor's photographer pores over headlines at a luncheonette and brushes past neat piles of paperweight-ed broadsheets at corner newsstands.
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Stealth, as its name would suggest, is more discreet; the $120 system that arrived at my doorstep consisted of what appeared to be a finger puppet, a silicone paperweight, and two latex sheaths that seemed to have been fished out of a dumpster at the Tom of Finland house.
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Ms. Norris is a keen believer in talismanic objects: the paperweight she found under the Williamsburg Bridge, a pine cone that survived a fire on the island of Thassos in northern Greece, the small figure of a goddess from Corfu and a small wooden block bearing her initials that she found on the street.
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Estimated retail price: $179Estimated resale value: $9,900Value increase: 5,530%Nabbing the spot as the pair with the highest resale value, the Nike MAG sneakers were based off the pair worn by Marty McFly in the 1989 film "Back to the Future Part II."Conway said that the high resale value of this specific pair is because of the limited edition add-ons, such as the Nike Mag Plutonium display case, which includes a charger, special edition T-shirt, commemorative Nike Air Mag pin, paperweight, commemorative booklet with DVD, and Tinker Hatfield drawings.
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