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Computer Keyboard Pants: Neither Fashionable Nor Geeky

Lambert Varias — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:20:59 +0000

I was considering filing this under ‘Cute or Stupid?’, but my common sense prevailed. Designed (?) by Erik De Nijs, this pair of pants called “Beauty and the Geek” has no ounce of cuteness or any redeeming factor whatsoever.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly am not cool with poking my crotch every now and then in order to type. It’s too impractical for geeks, and not even the blind would call this thing beautiful.

[via Yanko Design via puremodern]

Youme Will Let You “Control” Real People in Real Time

Lambert Varias — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:41:49 +0000

A company called DomsNetwork will launch a weird amalgam of servants and gaming with their Youme platform. Basically customers, the you, can send requests to a character, called a me. Yous can select mes based on “several demographic fields such as age, location, sex, height, weight” and so on. The request can be anything – talking to people, playing a game, going somewhere – as long as it doesn’t require you “to break the national laws of your country, or put you in danger.” The mes will be equipped with a bluetooth headset to receive instructions and a camera to stream footage to their yous. If you ask me, I wouldn’t want to be a me. I just don’t think this will work.

Obviously if you want to be a you you’ll have to pay a fee, and as a me you’ll take a cut from that fee. But as I said, this concept has so many things going against it. For one, they’ll have to put a price on all requests, which, going by their definition, have infinite variations. Also, once you’re under contract as a me, what if you’re given a request that isn’t illegal or dangerous but is humiliating or painful (but not lethal, like say slapping one’s face 5 times)?

Would you want to be a you or a me? Will there be a we? Will there be us vs. them battles? Will there be hes, shes or its? Is this the best or the worst idea ever?

[via The Next Web]

Gamestop Summer Fun Bundles: Wii, Water Guns, and Wtf?

Alisha K. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:09:39 +0000

I’m not sure who decided that water guns and rubber duckies were just the thing to help sell the console that has never spent more than a few days at most sitting on the shelf, but that seems to be the thrust behind GameStop’s wacky new Wii bundles.

The GameStop bundle: when it’s important to buy a water gun and a gaming console at the same time!

Some of the retailer’s bundles make a little more sense, and by some, I mean one: the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games bundle includes a console and the aforementioned game. It’s a bundle; it’s made up of things that go together.

The Take a Bath with a Buddy bundle? Includes a Wii and a rubber duck. Let’s just hope no one thinks that the buddy who goes into the bath is the Wii. Somebody’s gonna get sued.

[via Destructoid via Joystiq]