Gizmodo: emo

Emo the Emoticon Brings Annoying Animated Gifs Into Meatspace

Adam Frucci — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:40:00 EDT

Emoticons are already pretty annoying, but making a physical emoticon that changes expressions based on emoticons in Windows Live Messenger? That's really, really annoying. Keep this thing the hell away from me. [Megagadgets via Random Good Stuff]

Insecure Emo Robot Musician Needs Our Attention

Dan Nosowitz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:30:00 EDT

Cybraphon is an interactive, internet-connected musical art project that's sort of a riff on insecure emo bands—when more people online discuss it, it plays happier music, and when it's not getting enough attention, it gets melodramatic.

Created by Scottish musical collective Found, Cybraphon is basically a collection of mechanical instruments in a box, including some acoustic instruments and a whole lot of junk machinery. It constantly searches the internet and adjusts its "mood" between depressed and ecstatic by such vapid statistics as number of Myspace friends and Facebook invites. Its mood is then demonstrated by the tone of the music it plays, from dirgey melodrama to perky upbeat tones.

It's a really cheeky and fun project, and we're in a unique position here to overflow the Cybraphon's happiness sensors by bombarding its social networking pages with hits. Let's make the cabinet-sized whiner as cheerful as it can possibly be. [Cybraphon]

X-Games Branded iPod Skateboard Speakers Are Extreme to the Max Shelving

Jack Loftus — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT

I ripped a sick backside fakie 360 ollie and shotgunned a Mountain Dew when I saw this $179 X-Games skateboard shelf and iPod stereo today. Then I cranked some All American Rejects just for good measure and sighed heavily. The sounds of pure emo moods spewed forth from the player's two 5" speakers, and I quickly fired off an abbreviated text message to my friend sitting on the couch next to me about how much I hated my parents and materialism. My vial of midnight black hair dye vibrated with barely contained malice for our consumer society on the skateboard shelf above. It was just another Sunday. [PB Teen via 7 Gadgets]

ElmoSapien: The Scariest Robot Ever

Jason Chen — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:20:24 EDT

Holy shit. Robots Rule developed a new Elmo personality for the ElmoSapien, essentially turning the RoboSapien we love so much into an Elmo doll that haunts our every waking and non-waking moment. To install it on your own RoboSapien—although we don't know why anybody would—just download the instructions, sound files, and follow the guide on their site. Christ, why not make a GoatseSapien instead? That's the only way this could get any worse. [RobotsRule]

Maxfield MAX-IVY: Karaoke Gone Brooding

Mark Wilson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:33:12 EST

Maxfield has a track record of some sexy MP3 players - a dark, brooding style that we'll probably see from Apple when Jobs goes emo. Are black mock turtles emo?

Their new MAX-IVY is their newest flash MP3 player coming in sized up to 4GB. Just a bit thicker than the Nano, the IVY supports DRM 10 and all your favorite music subscription services. It also taunts the iPod with the potential of voice recording while reading lyric files. What we like more is its tough magnesium casing and touch buttons that still manage to make us feel like we're in the future. But what is with that plug on the bottom? No word (can't find) pricing yet. – Mark Wilson

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