Gizmodo: goth

MP3-Playing, Photo Frame Skull Belt Buckle is Gothic Gadget Wrongness

Kit Eaton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:52:18 EST

Sadly this doesn't have "I am become death, the bringer of MP3s" inscribed upon it—it'd chime nicely with the ohmygod tackiness of the Digital Skull Belt Buckle. It's in fact so terrible it's wonderful: A metal belt-buckle in the shape of a skull with interchangeable modules in a cutout in the forehead. One's a cheesy flashing LED light panel, the other's a 1GB MP3 and video media-player that can also be a digital photoframe and comes with headphones. Passers-by will see your headphone cable disappearing apparently into your nether regions, but maybe you'll see that as a plus. There's no pricing info, but it's out "soon" gothic gadget fans. [Chinavision via BBG]

Solid Alliance Goes Goth, Crams 2GB RAM into Skull Ring

Kit Eaton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:20:31 EDT

A skull ring with 2GB of RAM squeezed inside. Scary. What else is there to say? It'll go nicely with your skull-and-bones motif keyboard and mouse... but probably won't cheer you up on a dreary winter's morn. Particularly when you find out one will set you back $145. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews]

Solid Alliance Silver Cross USB Drive is Holy Data Bank, for Goth Jewelry Geeks

Kit Eaton — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:39:00 EDT

Solid Alliance's newest USB thumbdrive will either appeal to geeky clergy-types, or vampire-goth-geek types, since it's an ornate metallic silver-colored drive that comes in a cross-shaped caddy. And it's specifically designed to hang on a necklace. Bizarre: both markets for this product can't be all that big, can they? Still, this gizmo might even contain real silver, since the 2GB drive costs $180. If that's too rich for your blood, there's a brass-colored one, also 2GB, for $145. [Akihabaranews]

Bring the Sweet Stench of Death to Your Desk With More Gothic Peripherals

Kit Eaton — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:41:53 EST

This week's bad-taste webcam has been joined by more goth gear—this time a keyboard, mouse and mouse mat combo. Using the same recipe (take a perfectly ordinary set of computer stuff, liberally sprinkle with skulls, bones, rocks, random greenery and snakes) this time Evergreen has upped the gravestone action. Definitely one for peripherals-of-darkness fans, and any of you whose vehicle has the sticker: "If The Hearse Is Rockin', Don't Come Knockin'" displayed on its rear end. [Akihabaranews]

Goth-style Webcam is So Hideous You Wouldn't Want to Film Your Expression

Kit Eaton — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:41:17 EST

Sweet Baby Jesus and all the orphans, we wonder what possessed the creators of this nightmarish webcam as they slaved away at the drawing board. Something nasty with horns, a wicked headache and really bad taste in art, I reckon. Let's see—take one webcam (pretty standard USB 2.0, 1.3 Mpix little number, with lights and a microphone), decorate it with a plaster surround in the skull and bones motif, add a spot of grass and a few bricks (why?). Then finish it off with a cobra, and bugger off back to the Fifth Circle of Hell. Should appeal to at least one uber-goth teenager with $61.50 to spare. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews]

Body Bag Bean Bags: Dead-On Chic

Charlie White — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:16:58 EDT

If you're beyond emo all the way into Goth, these Body Bag Bean Bags will serve as a macabre decoration for your living room that will make it seem more like that dream morgue you've always wanted. Add to these furnishings a dripping faucet sound effect reverberating through the room, and the effect is complete. The bean bags, crafted in three sizes—dead large, dead medium, and dead small—are part of a "Dark Designs" art show featuring London artist Joe Riley.

Even though from the outside it looks like there's a body inside, snuggle up next to it and you'll quickly discover that it's soft and comfy-cozy. That's just enough to warm the cockles of even the coldest of Gothic hearts. Just a concept so far, but if enough people want one, we're sure the artist would be more than happy to comply. – Charlie White

Joe Riley [Udder News, via OhGizmo]