Keepin' it real fake, part XCV: Old Navy rips the Wiimote and first gen shuffle

Old Navy's going to have to do a lot better than the unholy offspring of a Wiimote and a first-gen iPod shuffle to make us ignore the advertising and buy its KIRF fashions. Anyone know what super awesome tracks are preloaded on this thing?

[Thanks, Steve]

[Jhongerkong @ Nov 19th 2007 11:42PM]

KUKAMANGA!!!!!

[Alex Padilla @ Nov 19th 2007 11:49PM]

lol @ "super awesome tracks"

[Chris @ Nov 19th 2007 11:50PM]

Subiminal messages for teenage girls to drag their moms to waste their money.


Something like that...

[Peter D. Lai @ Nov 20th 2007 1:36AM]

"Yvan (Dlo) Eht Nioj."

[Ian @ Nov 20th 2007 4:08AM]

lol what a good episode

[Andre @ Nov 19th 2007 11:55PM]

Buy a hoodie and you've got a free mp3 player with music. Fake or not, that still not a bad deal. Christmas is coming up and little kids can't tell the difference between this and an iPod anyway, right? :)

[Patrick @ Nov 20th 2007 12:27AM]

Naughty! LOL
They "can't tell the difference"...
Make them that Wee cake on the birthday article, and tell them it's what the Wii actually is... might fool a two year old. :D
"What are these 'games' you speak of, lad? This Wii comes from a recipe handed down five generations! My grandmother used to send canned Wii to the soldiers at the front."

[derX @ Nov 20th 2007 12:49AM]

...Patrick, what the hell are you talking about?

I am utterly confused here. I am somehow finding the part in the quotes funny, but I am not sure why...

[Patrick @ Nov 20th 2007 1:21AM]

I was being utterly silly. :D
He wrote that the little children won't recognize the "fake" ipod. Riding that idea, I suggested that perhaps very little children who see the Wii and like it could be fooled into thinking that the the whole Wii craze really is just about cake. To someone who doesn't know, hey, maybe you could pull it off...
Anyway, the following was where the silliness began; it was sort of what one who wants to lie to a two year old about Wii being a pastry might make up. The ancestral "Wii recipe", the conflict of the silliness of a Wii recipe and the horrible tragedy of war, the distasteful silliness of canned Wee, I feel, is where the ingredients for humor are. Whether I've properly mixed and baked them to make a good joke (or a Wii), is up to the reader I guess. :)

[L.Cyphre @ Nov 20th 2007 3:55AM]

>Wee cake
THE CAKE IS A LIE

[mushrooshi @ Nov 19th 2007 11:56PM]

Are those iRiver earphones?!?

Everyone knows every teenage girl wouldn't be caught dead without their bling jewels on their Dreamy Sexy Troy Crotchrocket iPods, complete with High school Musical 1, 2, and the behind the scenes Zach Efron dates Vanessa Hudgens, the girl who just looked so cute with that pubic-hair sweater on that awesome pic on Myspace.

TTYL

[N30 G30 @ Nov 20th 2007 12:03AM]

The fact that Nintendo owns the directional pad is still weird to me. I wonder if other electronics is included in the patent.

[darren @ Nov 20th 2007 12:37AM]

ugh..why is there pc vs mac guy ads here...oh wait, this is engadget.

[mushrooshi @ Nov 20th 2007 1:04AM]

shut up its paid k? its not engadget's choice. its probably on there because this is a techblog and google finds mac vs pc commercials appropiate

[Deuz Augustine @ Nov 20th 2007 1:18AM]

People are advertising electronics on an electronics blog! Fuck!

[len @ Nov 20th 2007 10:15AM]

Why is there technology confused with fashion here? Oh, wait, this is Engadget.

[derX @ Nov 20th 2007 12:44AM]

Hrm, ripping off several manufacturers in one convenient little product is a technique patented by Samsung.

I smell a lawsuit somewhere.

[shane @ Nov 20th 2007 8:16PM]

Those headphones look awful like my white sennheise mx500's, do i smell 2 lawsuits?!

[shane @ Nov 20th 2007 8:16PM]

Those headphones look awful like my white sennheiser mx500's, do i smell 2 lawsuits?!

[derX @ Nov 20th 2007 8:29PM]

Well, there's the lawsuit from my post and the 2 lawsuits from each of your posts. I'm smellin' at least 5 here.

Urgh, I for one am not doing any Black Friday shopping. You know how there are always those aggressive shoppers, coming in groups armed with get-the-hell-away-from-the-bargain-I-just-found tools (e.g.: pepper spray and small easily-launchable children); things tend to get physical with them...What the hell is wrong with them? It's like they undergo strict training and take goddamned steriods to get ready for this Shoppers' Holiday. And there's always those people who take half the store to checkout and remember: Holy shit, I don't money for this stuff.

Shopping really can bring out the worse in some people....

[Tanner Gregory @ Nov 20th 2007 2:37AM]

Thats the same MP3 player that was sold at Bath and Body Works stores LAST holiday season. I unboxed around 500 of those badboys and I think we sold 50? Even at 90% off (something like $2.50 for that thing) no one would buy them.

If it has the same music preloaded, be ready for some soft-core porno holiday music. I wish I was kidding.

[tim @ Nov 20th 2007 2:54AM]

i can't believe no one has commented on the girl in the picture yet

[L.Cyphre @ Nov 20th 2007 4:06AM]

That's because she's not Asian and doesn't appeal to our fetishes.

[John @ Nov 20th 2007 6:12AM]

ha ha ha seriously. I haven't seen any hot asian models on here in a while

[Abuzar @ Nov 20th 2007 6:45AM]

That girl is bangin hot! I'd like to shuffle her with my wii sometime.

[Justin @ Nov 20th 2007 8:22AM]

See the Asian comment, and also the fact that she's downright skeletal.

[Brian @ Nov 20th 2007 8:52AM]

Personally, I don't like girls from Kansas.

[Matthew Hilario @ Nov 20th 2007 12:23PM]

"check out the nerd with the old navy sweater! he walks around with a wiimote!"
/point
/rofl

[Matthew Hilario @ Nov 20th 2007 12:24PM]

"check out the nerd in the old navy sweater! he has a wiimote attached to his belt!"
/point
/laugh

[Tyler @ Nov 20th 2007 9:26PM]

Ha. I'm gonna buy two. I don't care if they suck, they're cheap gifts for Christmas.

[sevenalive @ Nov 23rd 2007 1:53AM]

I am starting to think engadget does not even own a nintendo wii. Just because it is white and a bar shape does not make it a wii controller clone. That does not even look close to a wii remote.

I have a feeling this is the same guy who thinks that wal-mart $5 toy is trying to mimic the wii controller. When will the insanity end!?

[Madesehyes @ Nov 24th 2007 11:51AM]

Yes it is true, I got up at 4am to go and wait for an hour outside old navy in Camden new jersey to spend 20 bucks to receive a booth leg no screen lookalike a wii control mp3 player. Was it worth it? No.... in hours of bringing it home it started falling apart and its less than a gig 512MB. And also they added some not so popular songs on it and when i try to erase it the sh*t wont erase. That's goes to show you that everything that comes free the quality ain't so great. The best thing in life aren't so free after all... lol.........