Now this is what I call a Halloween costume. Leave your unoriginal iPhone costumes at home people, ’cause Awesome Party Guy is on a roll this year as a YouTube video. He even has a comments section, where people can write dirty jokes and draw dicks after slamming back a couple Jello shots.
Dress up as a YouTube clip and let people comment on you directly [MAKE]
Um. I don’t get it. Maybe I’m not as fashion forward as the rest of the world but these don’t look like jewelry to me. LG has launched its “jewelry concept design” line of Shining Stone UP3 S2 digital audio players, which feature “high quality material and the metal body of the five colors including black diamond, crystal silver, ruby red, pink topaz, and sapphire blue.”
Still kinda looks like an MP3 player that you wear around your neck. They’ll come in 1-, 2-, and 4-gigabyte capacities and support MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, FM radio, voice recording, and feature a 65,000-color OLED display. Oh, and they’re only available in Korea. Sorry.
LG to launch ‘Shining Stone UP3 S2′ with a jewelry concept design [AVING]
Sold your soul to Toshiba and cast Sony into the depths of your own gadget hell? That’s OK, because Toshiba is rewarding its loyal followers with the Vardia RD-A301, a new HD DVD player that’s filled with more features than a 9-year-old’s Halloween candy bag. Aside from having tons of inputs and outputs, including HDMI, the RD-A301 has a built-in 300GB hard drive for recording all your favorite shows in HD.
Oh, but that’s not all folks. This player is more equipped than Ron Popeil’s Pocket Fisherman. After you’re done ripping the first season of Hayden Panettiere: Wet, Hot and Uncensored, you can burn it to an HD DVD or regular DVD for your cousin who refuses to shell out the $29.99 for a legit copy. Unfortunately, with the player costing around $865, blank HD DVDs requiring a small mortgage for a 30-pack and no US availability, you’re stuck in the cold until Toshiba releases it here to warm you up.
RD-A301, the New HD-DVD and HDD Recorder from Toshiba [Akihabara News]
Microsoft’s Zune Home AV Pack is expected to retail for $99.99
Just in time for the November 13th launch of Microsoft’s next batch of digital music players will be a virtual cornucopia of accessories like docks, speakers, armbands, cases, FM transmitters, docks, and more docks — more than 60 new products in all.
Not all of us can spend $200 or more on speakers for our computers. For the rest of us, there’s Mirae’s MP-170 speakers. Although these aren’t the best speakers in the world, they’ll do just fine for a PC that’s in a living room. That’s because the MP-170s have a built-in display that allows the user to display pictures during audio playback. Depending on your taste of gadgets, these will come across as a creative way to spice up your desk or another crappy set of speakers you can purchase.
Either way, for $33 you certainly cannot complain much about the price. Look for them anywhere but the US.
MP-170 film speakers are super thin [Ubergizmo]
Hahahaha.
WD’s 320 GB 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista.
I found that funny for some reason. The 5400RPM drive is available now with all the good stuff that WD brings to its HDDs. A 320GB, 3 GB/s, and 8MB cache is pretty spectacular for only $200. Sucks it’s already sold out.
Verizon is really gearing up for what it thinks is the CDMA version of the iPhone – the LG Voyager. Although the device really isn’t much of an iPhone, it’s still very feature-rich with its VCAST Live TV, EV-DO and a touchscreen. So if you’re seeking out the 411 on the Voyager, I present you with this data sheet. Yes, this one.
I’d hardly call a 2-megapixel camera something to get excited about, but hey, Verizon customers are desperately in need of a cool “it” phone right now, so fair game.
LG Voyager gets a datasheet [Phone News]
Nokia’s push into consumer GPS devices is a good thing, if you ask me. Nobody asked me, but whatevs. This GPS system has been approved by the FCC and is slated to begin selling in Europe by the end of the year.
Will the Nokia 500, like Akeem Joffer, be coming to America? The answer is uncertain. One thing that is certain, however, is Nokia’s “definitive agreement” to swallow up GPS software maker Navteq, so expect to see a fair amount of GPS devices from Nokia in the near future.
The 500 features a 4.3-inch touchscreen, support for 16GB SDHC cards, and can handle video, audio, photos, and connects to your mobile to function as a Bluetooth speakerphone. It’s expected to retail for around 300 EUR ($433 US).
FCC Approves Nokia 500 Auto Navigation GPS [MobileWhack]
If this doesn’t make Sprint the best CDMA network in the nation then I’m not sure what will other than the fantastic new phones they have coming. Pretty sure $30 is cheap for a BIS plan that includes unlimted BIS e-mail, IM, Web, Data and text messaging on top of the Sprint services. Yeah, it doesn’t include tethering, but that’s only an extra $15, which is still pretty good. The new plan drops on the 4th.
Psst… rest of the world. Come here. Don’t tell Japan. OK. We need to stage an intervention or something because this stuff is getting crucial. We were OK with eht cosplay and the tentacle porn and the robot fetishes. Hell, some of us can even accept the blurred out naughty bits in their many and various forms of pornographic representation. But this is freaking nuts.
Sure, it looks like a can of ramen. But it’s ramen that you, in no uncertain terms, are supposed to screw. You pop open the top, drop the wanger in, and do your business. Then you — what do you do with a spent cup of noodles containing your main seed and your dignity? Give it to your mom to throw away? Hide it behind your futon? I’m hoping to Jeebus that this is a gag gift and that something was lost in translation but knowing what I know about Japanese sexy time, this has to be a serious tool for getting it on with a freaking noodle bowl. So we all need to stick together on this one, guys. We need to sit Japan down, give it a good talking too and maybe send it to rehab. If we don’t, expect sashimi-shaped vibrators and a Mario real doll [NSFW] in the next few years.
Cup Nude [DannyChoo]
Typically, wireless is not considered to be as reliable as wired. Dropped signals and diminished fidelity are typical problems that have plagued this technology.
Rocketfish designed this system to eliminate the need for running wires around your walls or under your floors (the latter is even more difficult if you do not have a basement). It comes with a sender unit (sending at 2.4 GHz), receiver unit, stand for the receiver unit, power adapter, and two 2-foot speaker wires. The setup is very simple. After connecting your surround cables to the sender unit from the amplifier, you will connect your surround speakers to the receiver. The cables that come with the system have terminals instead of wires, which is nice. It makes it extremely easy to connect. The only negative is that it doesn’t come with another set of cables, so you will still need to have some on-hand for your receiver unit.
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This, my friends, is a poorly named product. But you know what they say; you can’t judge a donut making machine by its ridiculous hyphen-happy name.
When money gets tough and you want to add a sub-woofer to your 1998 Hyundai Tiburon with the rims you got from that dude off Craigslist, you’ll need something on the cheap. After all, those “professional” boxes made from things like wood and plastic cost way too much for any college student. So it makes sense that some dude instead opted to pound Miller Lite all night and throw a speaker into the leftover cardboard box.
Bet it gets the ladies too.
So my question to you is: will a sub-woofer made from a 30-pack of beer and some wires actually work well? I was going to test it out myself but I kept purposely messing up the box so I had an excuse to buy more beer.
Miller Lite Subwoofer Will Get Stolen Quickly [Geekologie]
This is just plain creepy and weird. I love my Mac and at one point I loved my PC, but…but…WTF is this?! It can’t be a photoshop job, can it?
Boobs. We love em, right? Of course we do and so does Western Digital. Not to downplay the importance of supporting breast cancer research or anything, but pink products make me barf. I hate pink. I hate guys that wear pink and think they look cool. You’re a tool, dude. Girls and pink are fine. It’s a feminine thing. Totally don’t know where I’m going with this. Anyhoo, the latest external drive dipped in pink is the Passport, which I own and has become invaluable since the HDD on my MacBook is all but tapped out. Plug it in and start moving _________.
The 250GB pink Passport is available online now and hits Best Buys next month for $199.99.
Little is known about these spy shots of a new interface designed for Sony-Ericsson’s UIQ. What I see is a touch-based interface that is half iPhone, half HTC Juno. You would think a guy snapping photos during a corporate presentation would be willing to cough up a little more information!
Here come the outrage mongers. As you’re well aware, Manhunt 2 comes out today. Predictably, all sorts of family-oriented “leaders” are up in arms over the game’s release. (Never mind that these “leaders” would be out of a job if they didn’t complain about anything.) The big, scary claim now is that children, my God children, could log onto the Internet and download a copy of the game, exposing them to all sorts of pornographic violence. Don’t forget regular pornography!
Whatever, these guys calling for the game to be divorced from America need to calm down. It’s rated M, it’s not for kids. That kids might get their hands on it is irrelevant; kids can download all sorts of horrifying things from the Internet. I say we hand out copies of the game to the little trick-or-treaters tonight and see what happens.
Child advocates upset over `Manhunt 2′ [AP/Miami Herald]
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I just got proof I am not the dorkiest nerd on the planet. First I read this post and had no idea what he was talking about (other than the game WoW), so I went on to read the Craigslist posting and had even less of an idea what THAT guy was talking about, and then I decided that that was a good thing and that I still have a chance to de-nerdify myself and become a decent human being.
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