Gizmodo: tacky

$37,000 Solid Platinum iPhone Makes Me Want to Smack Someone

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:40:00 EDT

OK, I don't care if it is plated or solid: Enough with the precious metal iPhone case replacements already. Unless... unless you are the kind of guy who actually uses this line (NSFW):

Taking it to the next level will only cost you $37,518. [Stuart Hughes]

Grass Charging Valet Hides Unsightly Cables In Unsightly Fake Grass

John Herrman — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:50:00 EDT

A desktop grass garden is tragic. A desktop artificial grass garden is tragic and pointless. A desktop artificial grass garden that charges phones is the last thing you buy before an office shooting rampage. [RedFerret]

Gold Wedding Ring Box Has 2-inch LCD, Plays Video

Jason Chen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:00:37 EDT

As the married editors of Gizmodo can vouch for, when you ask your wife to marry you she's not going to remember anything about the box the ring comes in, just the ring itself. However, this ring box has a 2-inch LCD that can play back 60 minutes of video or 500 photos, which means you can present her with both a ring and naked pictures/video of her to enhance the mood. With this Euricase Multimedia Ring Box you can be sure your lady knows to judge a book by its (tacky, tacky) cover as well as its contents. Best of all, you can keep on using the ring as an alarm clock and a calendar! You win forever! [Euricase via Everything USB via Oh Gizmo]

Transformers Movie Shirts Are Less Than Meets the Eye

Jason Chen — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:23:50 EDT

As if the Transformers watches weren't cheap and tacky enough, take a look at these Transformers movie shirts. They're actually life-size wearable animated gifs, which light up like the $5 lapdance joint we frequent when CES rolls around.

Although we still have faith in the movie, all these cheap accessories and tie-ins aren't doing much for public confidence. Click on each shirt if you don't value your eyeballs in any way.

– Jason Chen

Ain't It Cool [via Crunchgear]

Fuzzy Mouse Cover

Jason Chen — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:30:17 EST

A gimmicky gift for grandma, this fuzzy mouse cover could be the tackiest thing we've seen all day. It's a mouse cover. That's shaped like a mouse. And comes in a cheese-themed box. Great. If you order 500, you can get'm at a quantity discount.

If we ever buy one of these, please do us a favor and firebomb our homes while we sleep. Thanks.

p.s. Start with the other guys first. – Jason Chen

Product Page [BytesnGrins via Gadgetell]

Temperature, Time and USB Air Purifier, All In One

Charlie White — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:08:51 EDT

The casual observer would never suspect that we've seen an unusually high number of USB powered air purifiers in these parts, where there have been units for the office, for the car, and even for the soul, but now the USB air purifier has been teamed up with the digital temperature alarm clock, in a package that seems to be specifically geared toward slackers from the disco area who tend to fall asleep at their desks.

So let's figure this out: it's powered by USB so you must be someone who has a computer beside or near your bed, or you might be someone who regularly plans to sleep at your desk. Then, you must be either a smoker or someone who emits foul odors, just to need this air purifier. Then, you have to enjoy hearing an hourly beep sound, and lastly, you must be someone who likes a three-color LED disco light flashing in your face. The whole thing looks tacky and absurd. If that fits your lifestyle, shell out $32 and it's yours. – Charlie White

Digital temperature alarm clock & USB air purifier [USB Geek]

LED Fan: Tacky Blinkinlights

Charlie White — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:38:42 EDT

We showed you a programmable spinning LED fan last month, but that was just a prototype shown at Computex that might be available sometime next year. Now here's a lower-end $35 table fan with LEDs inside that's available now, but it won't able to display the customized designs or slogans of that more-sophisticated prototype.

This one's offered in pink, black, or blue, and as its LEDs spin, they display a basic group of designs and motifs. Looking like a tacky spinning dance floor from the 70s, when you consider the design (in)sensibilities of those LEDs together with the kitschy, plastic-y colors, you might end up agreeing with us that this thing really blows. The fan is now available in Japan, no word if it will be shipped stateside anytime soon. – Charlie White

Table Fan with illuminating LEDs [Newlaunches]

USB Good Luck Mamory Drive...What?

gizmodo.com — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:09:10 EDT

The folks at SolidAlliance, who can't speak a word of English apparently, announced their "Yuuesubi Mamory" with a special good luck charm. The charm apparently brings good luck to those who haven't got a clue how to spell "USB Memory Stick". Luck comes at quite the price though. Expect to shell out $150 for the 512MB version and $250 for the 1GB version. Just your basic run-of-the-mill USB drives. If that's a bit too expensive for you and you're the kind of sly cat who's into Fucci instead of Gucci, you can get the bag only for $25, complete with "USB Mamory" written on the side. Now your friends will be jealous and your english professor will cry tears of hopelessness.

UPDATE: Ok I'm a dumbass. Mamori is Japanese for "good luck charm" hence the name. As for the name, it's based on the way Kanji is pronounced.

Omamori USB memory with Good luck charm [New Launches]