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    10 Gadgets With Too Many Stupid Features

    Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly

    Unintended Gadget Fusion Puts It Where It Doesn't Belong

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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/24/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets With Too Many Stupid Features
    i must admit that there is one gadget in the world that does just about everything i wouldn't trade for anything and that's a woman.


    let us begin the list of functions:


    - companion

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    04/24/09

    @Nick: Explains to me why Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton are famous.
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    Image of .357 .357
    04/24/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets With Too Many Stupid Features
    I actually think the Swiss Army knife is pretty badass. I wouldn't mind having one of those in the pocket of my mp3 lederhosen.

    I guess the knifegun brings a new meaning to brining a knife to a gunfight.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/24/09

    @.357 [Advertise Here For Only One Gold Star!]: If only that poor fella brought that against Indy.
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    04/24/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets With Too Many Stupid Features
    Sounds like the Sharper Image method of product design. The Hummer-design clock radio television set with the iPod dock that also charges your Norelco shaver which has a built in First Aid kit which comes with a handy all-purpose seasoning kit for camping meals which double as a fine incendiary weapon for the military along with its GPS with the awesome halogen lamp mounted on the front which also has a black light mode for parties. Oh, and a dip dispenser. You know, for the party.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/24/09

    In reply to 10 Gadgets With Too Many Stupid Features
    The gun knife might be useful. If your super meter is full, you can stab someone and twist the knife while simultaneously shooting him. If only they built in a taser as well. 4x combo attack!
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    Image of Spero Spero
    03/16/09

    In reply to Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
    Figures that it's starting in Philly... and that we don't even have an Apple store downtown yet. This nasty city is getting exactly what it deserves.
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    Image of Papercutninja Papercutninja
    03/16/09

    @Spero: What do you mean?? Philly is a GREAT city. it's just like NYC in the 70s! AIDS, drugs, crime, Center City smells like urine EVERYWHERE, cops getting shot every other day....oh wait. Never mind. You're right. Philly is horrible and so are their accents.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/16/09

    @Papercutninja: Who cares about how horrible the city is? They have these:




    Cheesesteak.... aaahh... drool...

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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    03/16/09

    In reply to Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
    I need to go downtown and check this out. I've been wanting to swing by Comcast One anyway...
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/16/09

    In reply to Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
    Comcast and Sony have joined forces to bring consumers a new line of retail stores called Commy Style...
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: hahahahahaha. i laugh at that joke.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/16/09

    In reply to Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
    SonyStyle: an exercise in how not to have a retail store.


    Small, cramped, harshly lit, staffed with know-nothings and not enough of them, poorly laid out, inadequate pricing signage, and with no conspicuous signage outside to let you know the store exists.


    That's okay, Sony. You don't have to advertise your non-PS3 products. I'm sure everyone knows about your products without any promotional materials.

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    Image of Xjep Xjep
    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: So basically an Apple Store except you have one person who knows what there talking about there.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/16/09

    @Xjep:


    Small: Apple's 57th Street and SoHo stores are not small.


    Cramped: They're not as cramped as the Sony Plaza store either


    Harshly lit: Apple stores are brightly lit. Sony's Plaza store is lit with blinding track lights.


    Staffed with know-nothings and not enough of them: Apple's tealshirts do know their products. They're well indoctrinated.


    Poorly laid out: I'll take the big open space of an Apple Store over the narrow winding walkway of the Plaza store any day.


    Inadequate pricing signage: I don't recall seeing any pricing signage at Sony's Plaza store


    No conspicuous signage outside to let you know the store exists: There's a large window display but the flagship plaza store is in some office building. The 57th Street Apple Store is impossible to miss.

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    Image of EBone EBone
    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: They've been readying a new Sony Store here in La Jolla near my office. The preparation has been taking longer than usual for a retail space. My guess is the downturn in the economy has slowed them down a bit.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: There's something about the Sony Stores that make me want to not buy a thing. It's like entering a mausoleum of electronics. All the salespeople wear those corny headphones to communicate with each other like security agents - and the stores seem so bloodless and cold.


    I was in a Sony Store recently and asked about a TV and everything seemed so stilted, as if I were Oliver Twist asking for more porridge. It's like you just want to get out of there as soon as you can, like you're in some unfriendly person's unlived-in living room.

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    Image of Titus_Andronicus Titus_Andronicus
    03/16/09

    In reply to Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
    they had done this a year or so ago with circuit city. it worked beautifully. except that it was with circuit city. it's more a place to get stuff from sony and learn about things you didn't know you had with comcast. you'd be surprised at the number of ppl who find this useful. obviously its' not aimed at any of us. we already know what we're doing.
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    Image of baltwade baltwade
    03/16/09

    @Titus_Andronicus: You know what's great about Comcast? They really are doing some innovative things. The problem is that even though I have Comcast I still can't get these new services. My local area has a contract with Scientific America and their cable boxes don't do all the neat new stuff.


    I hate Comcast.

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    Image of dirtybacon dirtybacon
    03/16/09

    @baltwade: I think it's crazy that I live in Philly - comcast's home town - and I can't get the uber service yet. what the hell?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/16/09

    In reply to Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
    All I saw in the headline was "joint retail store". Needless to say, the article wasnt about what I thought.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/16/09

    @Curves: Same here.


    Mahoney, please repost this at 4:20.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/16/09

    @Curves: No doubt it would positioned as close to the food court as possible if such a store were ever opened..
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    Image of Hank Scorpio Hank Scorpio
    03/16/09

    @Curves:

    Stoner's Pot Palace

    Otto: Man, that is flagrant false advertising!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/16/09

    @Hank Scorpio:


    Otto: They call 'em fingers but I've never seen them fing.

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    Image of morcheeba morcheeba
    02/09/09

    In reply to Unintended Gadget Fusion Puts It Where It Doesn't Belong
    None of these compare to the awesome (and functional) Blenderphone!




    (Yahoo pick of the week in '96)


    Yes, it blends when the phone rings. And, no, the phone does not detach from the glass part - you hold both to your head.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/09/09

    @morcheeba: Question is, will it blend the phone?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/09/09

    In reply to Unintended Gadget Fusion Puts It Where It Doesn't Belong
    I have a gadget that I want to put where it doesn't belong...
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    02/09/09

    In reply to Unintended Gadget Fusion Puts It Where It Doesn't Belong
    Maybe in a few hundred years people will look at these on display at the Louvre and say, "Zut alors!"


    But I have grave doubts about it.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/09/09

    @ScottRose: I think it's more likely that they'll say "oh god, I'm glad we nuked them".
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    02/09/09

    In reply to Unintended Gadget Fusion Puts It Where It Doesn't Belong
    And the best part is he's probably selling these for thousands of dollars to people that don't realize it's just one big joke.


    Modern Art - Fooling people into thinking it's deeper than it really is since the 1900's...

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    Image of Pi-face Pi-face
    02/09/09

    I@Thats Dr Bear to You: That's the real depth to it. It's a commentary on how shallow and uninteresting other art is, and mocks the viewer for imagining that it's got a special meaning.
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    02/09/09

    @Pi-face: Ahhhh ok, so how much for your rubberband and paperclip interpretation of "Man's Inhumanity to Man"...
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/09/09

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: It comes free for guaranteed satisfaction:
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    02/09/09

    In reply to Unintended Gadget Fusion Puts It Where It Doesn't Belong
    I've seen some really, really weak art in my time. (Hell, I've made some really, really weak art in my time.) But this...


    * stupefied and speechlessly bored *

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/09/09

    @bosskev: I'm trying to think of the message it's portraying. Eehhhhhhh... Ok I got nothing.
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