Call me cynical, but I’m finding it hard to believe these miniature Amp and Boom Box speakers provide anything other than a tinny, low-quality listening experience. Each one is barely larger than a quarter, but include a mini-USB port for charging the battery and a 3.5mm aux-in jack for connecting any external audio source. On a full charge they’re good for about 2.5 hours of playback, but something tells me the novelty will turn to annoyance somewhere around the 7-minute mark. ~$25 from BB Shopping.
I guess I lucked out at university since I didn’t have to share a dorm room with anyone, but if you get to school in September and happen to find yourself hilariously mismatched with a sketchy roommate, you can at least ensure your expensive new laptop (or other slim gear) will be safe. The DormVault, available from ThinkGeek for $79.99, is a rugged steel laptop case that’s designed to go nowhere. Instead, you’re supposed to use it to lock up your laptop, up to 17-inches in size, and thanks to an included set of bolts and mounting brackets it can be permanently attached to a large piece of furniture (like a bed) that isn’t going to get pinched while you’re at class. At the least it looks more secure than those useless braided steel security cables.
It’s interesting how much fun $579 can buy you these days. For this modest sum, you can purchase this handbag from designer James Piatt called “The Pursuader”. It looks like an automatic rifle and hey, the clip doubles as a handy cell phone holder! It’s made from interlocking laser-cut leather and has no stitching. It also has the added advantage of being covered in completely inconspicuous gold to make sure not to attract the attention of the completely good-humored TSA folk, should you choose to travel with it.
A lot of people are pissed at Apple right now. This guy is shoot-it-with-a-gun-and-burn-it mad. Don’t watch the video if you loves them Apple. Oh, who am I kidding, this stuff is fun to watch!
If you’re unaware of this by now, there’s a growing anti-Apple sentiment going around the interwebs. It has a lot to do with their dictatorial and somewhat monopolistic practices in their running of the App Store. Apple decides which apps get in by a process that is not transparent, not consistent, not logical and often anti-competitive. The latest uproar is over their refusal of Google Voice, an app that could have fundamentally changed the way you use your multiple phone lines. The FCC is looking into it and if there’s any good in this world, things may get straightened out without the need for more iPhone-busting bullets.
There’s been a lot of LEGO this and LEGO that on OhGizmo! recently, and instead of giving you a break, I figured I’d just keep it coming. I mean is there anyone on Earth who actually dislikes LEGO? The obvious answer is no, but I have to say I’m less than impressed with this official LEGO clock radio.
Sure it’s got the LEGO logo plastered everywhere, and a couple of giant knobs on top that serve as volume and tuner dials, but it appears to be completely incompatible with actual LEGO bricks. I mean the top of the radio couldn’t have been made brick-friendly so that ‘kids’ could accessorize and personalize it with their own LEGO creations? I’m all for the company branching out with gadgets like this, but LEGO isn’t about the brand name, it’s about the building blocks! $29.97 from Walmart.
I don’t know what’s worse. The chance that one of the pressure points mapped out on this tee might actually work, like ‘anterior solar plectrum’ which supposedly stops the heart for 8 seconds, or the fact that anytime you wear this tee out in public you’ll be continuously poked by anybody and everybody who’s curious if hitting the ‘inferior axoradialis medii’ will actually cause your bones to explode. $18.50 from TopatoCo, available in mens and ladies styles, shipping in late August.
You see what all the cool kids are doing these days? Getting drunk and taking regrettable pictures of themselves is what. And Samsung just made the task a little easier with the release of the TL225 and TL220, both of which feature a smaller LCD in front for those times you got no one but yourself to hold the cameras. That’s really the only innovative feature here, although the other specs and features are pretty decent too.
For instance, to turn the camera on you simply touch the LCD at the back, and to delete pictures you swipe an X over them during playback (you have to confirm, so no accidents). There a 3.5 inch LCD for the TL225, and 3.0 for the TL 220. Along with that, you’re looking at a 12.2-megapixel resolution, HDMI output and 4.6x optical zoom, though the lower priced TL 220 loses the HDMI output.
It’s not even close to Sony’s 2TB Memory Stick but at least it’s not a proprietary card. Toshiba’s just announced a 64GB card that employs the new SDXC (XC for extended capacity) memory standard. Problem is it won’t be available until spring 2010 and price is unknown yet as it’ll depend on market prices for flash memory at the time of launch. Toshiba claims write speeds of 35 megabytes per second and a read speed of 60 megabytes per second.
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