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filed under: gadgets | home entertainment | timepieces
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This really attractive (ahem) digital watch comes with a remote control that you can use to control your TV. Because who wants to use a remote control when you can use this watch instead? It makes perfect sense!..
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posted: May 23rd, 2008
author: karen
filed under: video games
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Here’s the latest, greatest, phoniest knock-off console to surface from China. While the MiWi video game system might steal some of its looks from the Nintendo Wii, that’s about where the similarities end…
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posted: May 12th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech | video games
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The latest gadget to crawl out from the seamy underbelly of the Chinese gaming underground. Not to be confused with the GameBoy, the Cool Boy is a portable game system that plays a variety of old school 8-bit and 16-bit console titles…
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posted: April 15th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: strange and unusual | video games
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Just the other day, I showed you guys a really crummy PS3 knock-off, but I think this videogaming oddity surely trumps that one. This strange little console can’t decide whether it wants to be an Xbox, a PlayStation 2, 3, or something else altogether…
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posted: January 30th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: video games
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You’ve gotta hand it to those cheap Chinese knock-off manufacturers. At least they attempt to keep up with the latest gaming consoles when they crank out their crap. Case in point, this awful PS3 copy known as the PolyStation 3…
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posted: January 28th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: strange and unusual
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Now I’ve seen some cheap speakers in my days, but even the chintziest ones I’ve seen were at least made out of plastic. Not these. These ones are fabricated from thick paper stock.
Xenics Music Cube M speakers offer up some truly low-fidelity sound thanks to their flimsy cardboard construction…
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posted: November 30th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun
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The title speaks for itself. Sound Activated Mini Dancing Monkeys has to be the best product name I’ve heard in a long time.
What more can you ask for than mini monkeys that dance along to sounds? I wonder what would happen if you got these guys together in a room with the Happy Monkey FM Radio?..
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posted: September 20th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: design | timepieces
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For some reason, clock makers keep trying to bring back the magic of Nixie tubes without using any of the actual tubes. First, we had the LED “Nixie” Clock, and now we get this cheapo version that uses LCDs instead…
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posted: September 9th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: gadgets | retro
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The Diana camera was a really cheap plastic camera that was made by the Great Wall Plastic Factory in Hong Kong in the 1960s. At the time, it was just that, a piece of junk. But over the years artists have discovered that the crummy little camera’s flaws ended up producing some really dreamy imagery…
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posted: August 30th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: video games
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You’ve got to hand it to these junkmeisters for their creativity. Check out these slightly familiar video game consoles from a schlock shop down in Mexico…
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posted: August 16th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: media players
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Creative today announced their latest MP3 player, the ZEN Stone. Aimed squarely between the eyes of Apple’s iPod Shuffle, the Stone is a small, flash-based player designed for the low-end of the market…
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posted: May 3rd, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment
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With all the recent buzz about how Blu-ray is leading HD DVD in the high definition “format war,” there’s a new wildcard that could shake things up…
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posted: March 25th, 2007
author: technabob