I’ve seen firsthand how crazy new parents can be, but I can’t think of any I’ve met who would be neurotic enough to shell out money for the crap featured onthis list of the most ridiculous baby products of the year.Fake hands? A crying analyzer? Knee pads so the little guy doesn’t hurt himself learning …
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This Bank Will Self-Destruct In Five Days.
Wow. Toy manufacturer Tomy has invented a piggy-bank to be released in Japan that, if you don’t top it up, will explode, sending your coins everywhere. Then, as you’re gathering up your coins, you are supposed to reflect on your laziness and inability to save. And get ready for this, it’s called “the savings bomb.” …
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USBlasphemy
This list of potentially offensive Christmas gifts is just funny. Christ on a motorbike? A toaster that stamps your bread with the Virgin Mary? A nativity scene including the Israeli security fense, complete with the wise men on the wrong side? Teddie-bear urns? But this is the reason it grabbed my attention. They have a …
Sink Your Teeth Into This
I said a little while ago that we had too many creapy dentists. Well, we must, because a robo-dental patient has been created to be able to let a dental trainee know when something hurts. That’s cool. But, this female look-alike’s sensors include some on her breast area to detect if she has been touched …
And Now, Back To Your Regularly Scheduled USB Absurdity
Did you really think that there would be two useful USB products in a row? Not a friggin chance! Now, if the USB scented oil burner isn’t enough risk for you, its makers have created a USB greenhouse! It comes with some seeds, some soil, a grow light, and a program that will tell you …
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What Do You Think Of This Little Sucker?
Wow, a USB gadget that’s halfway useful. Now you can suck up your crumby post-lunch mess with a little wee USB vacuum. They say it really works. Well, if it does, I think that’s the first maybe sorta kinda useful USB gadget so far.
Roachbots?
I’m going to look like a conspiracy theorist, but this is just weird. A bunch of Washington scientists built robo-cockroaches and sent them out to see if they could infiltrate and influence real ones. They had to spray them with pheromones to fool the little crawling critters, but they did it. They say it’s to …
Knowing Where I’m At Isn’t Where It’s At
I’ve seen these commercials advertising this new GPS service offered by certain wireless providers where you and your friends will always know where each other is. All the people on the commercials sound like stoners or zombies. They just keep pushing buttons on their phones going, “I know where you’re at.” “Oh yeah? Well I …
Just What We Need. Something Else To Distract People While They Drive
Thanks to a new service called Horntones, you, yes you, can have the most annoying car on the road, at least until somebody else with the same idea and complete lack of respect for money as you have comes riding through town. For a mere $300, you can get your hands on the FX550, a …
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The Bad Idea Graveyard Is Expanding
Let’s visit the graveyard of bad ideas again. If you look to your left, you’ll see the don’t touch me cell phone program, and…oh! What have we here? There’s a new resident! Strangely enough, its creators are also from Japan. It is the portable zebra Crossing crosswalk mat. I’m laughing too hard to speak. So …