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Ocean Breeze is an undulating segmented worm-like light that's shaped like a dolphin, is lit up with blue LEDs, and makes strange undersea noises complete with dolphin squeaks. Yes, it actually moves and flaps its tail up and down like a dolphin. Or something.
It's marketed as some sort of romantic talisman, but we wouldn't fire this baby up the next time Flipper gets a backache. It just looks weird, and it sounds like a faucet's leaking in the bathroom next door. We've heard similar sound efffects in morgue scenes. Don't miss the video of this $79 wave motion dolphin in action. You may be as unimpressed as we are.
Product Page (Japanese, with video) [Tomy, via Audio Cubes]
Comments
I was expecting it to be kinda cool, but it looks like the dolphin is trying to hump something, not swimming.
actually i get what they are aiming at, it needs to be a little more versatile, more range of physical motion, more variety of sound effects so as not to be to repetitive.
If I buy something with "wave motion" in the description, I better be able to use it to make something blow'd up real good.
If you like Dolphins, check out http://www.scubaology.com/archives/2007/02/16/dolphin-gets...
where they put an artificial fin on a real Dolphin.
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