Vacuum Cleaner to the Face = Worst Alarm Clock Ever
If you’re a seriously heavy sleeper living in Japan and alarms don’t cut it, you can hire this company to send a sadistic gentleman to your bedside in the morning. He can then wake you up in any number of creative and awful ways, including a vacuum cleaner to the face, goo poured on the…
TV/Flashlight Could Save Your Life
To plan for an emergency, you need to prioritize. What do you need if the power goes out? Well, a flashlight, obviously. What next? Oh Jesus, well I can’t miss The Wire, so TV, definitely TV. Thankfully the lifesavers at Vector have combined the two most important items you need during an emergency into one…
Cambridge Soundworks PlayDock i: Subwoofer, Very Familiar Design
Due this January, Cambridge Soundworks’ PlayDock i combines the company’s advanced audio circuitry (somewhere, Orwell is crying) with the mass appeal of iPod compatibility. It works only with newer iPods (4G to the nano) but the inclusion of a built-in subwoofer (for listening to Nas, of course) is a welcome addition. Besides its one unified…
Pantech IM-U160’s Display is Too Nice For a Cellphone
Wow, looks like someone was paying attention to all those video iPod mock-ups from earlier in the year. The IM-U160 cellphone might be the last gasp of air for Pantech, since the company seems to be going through some financial troubles. From a feature perspective it’s pretty much a standard issue Korea-only phone: basic multimedia…
Russian Low-Tech Shoe Box PC Mod
Here’s a wacky yet completely useless computer mod that comes to us all the way from Russia. Built out of a shoe box, it’s supposed to stand in contrast to all the high-end fancy PC mods that we see all the time. That’s nice and all, but a shoe box? We were afraid of these…