Crapgadget: creepy angel phone, egg MP3 player, sucker web cam, more
By Nilay Patel 
posted Apr 4th 2008 2:36PM
posted Apr 4th 2008 2:36PM
It's taken a few months for our post-CES Crapgadget hangover to fade, but we're back, and we're falling off the wagon with gusto -- or at least fear, because this evil angel-baby phone is creeping us out. Check 'em all out in the links below, but don't linger too long before casting your vote for the crappiest -- this stuff's been known to take an eye out.
Read - USB card reader with clock and thermometer: Nothing hides a card reader like a crappy digital clock!
Read - Crystal ball USB hub: How are you supposed to see into the future when Nemo's in the way?
Read - Marble egg MP3 player: 1000 songs, awkwardly bulging from your pocket.
Read - Mini sucker web cam: Nothing ever happens in that part of the screen anyway.
Read - Angel baby phone: Someone sat down and decided this was worth making. That might be scarier.
Read - Vacuum cleaner mouse: Cleanest mousepads in town, guv'nor!
Props to the crystal ball for Disney trademark infringement.
Disney should send it's lawyers to the red sea. When I went there were hundreds of little lawsuits waiting to happen swimming about.
that suck-cam is clearly teh suck. a close second is the vacuum mouse.
no shit a vaccuum sucks!
Wow, just wow.
your "just wow" privileges are hereby suspended
If you look at the closer up pic of the angel phone at the link, the face is really creepy, I was like "whoa!" lol
*presses link - notices it links to mirror*
huh?
oh snap, dude, you like so totally got him!
*high five*
what kind of idiot replies to replies made by himself?
the kind that uses vista and idolizes steve jobs?
OOOOOOOOOH
i could do this all day.
Hey, it's a good idea to have a webcam stick to the screen. I mean, it's so silly to have to rest it on top of the screen. Besides, I've always wanted to destroy the right top corner of my monitor anyway.
Wish I could find a place to buy that ugly angel phone. I would give it to someone as a joke
The sucker-cam does score well on the idiotic implementation factor, but nothing can compete with creepy angel baby phone. It is hideous and wrong on so many levels.
"He represents all that is soulless and wrong. And you slept with him!"
I find the babyphone a little disturbing.
The webcam doesn't have to go on the screen. I think whoever put it there is stupid not the product.
I thought it was a mic when i 1st saw the pic.
that nemo USB hub isn't so bad.
Yes, because they own everything about the clown fish.
whoa .. these are bad.
isn't that the egg from Ocean's 12? god julia roberts is an awful actor
"Mini sucker web cam" is a dirty, dirty, name for a webcam.
Is it bad to want one of those vacuum mice?
My desk gets covered with crumbs any time i fancy a snack, so having a mini vacuum cleaner might help a lot :P
I think we need a new engadget sister site, "engadget Crap" that is dedicated to the hunt for crappy tech gadgets. Bad MP3 players alone could fill the site with content.
word. and all the crappy replies we come up with can be exiled there
*fast forward to the year 2000*
hey, why is this new page full of anonymoose posts
at least the mini cam has a USB cable long enough to support a 57 inch laptop screen. if you check the website there's also an optional drill mount if you need the extra support or have no saliva left for the suction cup.
One thing good about the suction cup webcam is that it would allow the user to look more directly at it instead of up or down, which is good for web chats. Also, you don't have to have it stuck to a monitor, you can set it up somewhere else for security purposes.
that's what she said. on several levels.
This crapgadget vote was the toughest yet.
So......... crappy...... *brain explodes*.
I'm sure I saw Angel-baby-phone-spine in one of the Hellraiser movies.
Just because it's a clown fish that doesn't mean its "that" clown fish.
disney invented the clownfish?
Tight pair of jeans. One of those eggs shoved deep in each front pocket, with earphone cables coming out, clearly visible to all. You'd look like a very talented boy.
I really want that mouse Vacuum...
Why not geek up my life now and then?
that sucker cam might damage your computer screen of fall on your keyboard. But at least its quite original and innovative!!!
I love how the mouse is sold by the 'rare mono shop.' sounds legit
i want the angel phone. i want to give it as a gift to my grandma. because i know she'd use it.
"oh thanks, grandson. i didn't know you hated me so much."
ya just don't get it scott, do ya?
no i do get it. it'd be for all the years of giving the things she got in the mail to me as gifts. that and one year she gave me a grapefruit juicer...i was like 7.
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
SATANOPHONE!
It must be the vacuum mouse. A crap mouse that accumulates more crap the more you use it? BRILLIANT!
The point of the suction cup webcam is likely to allow for the camera to be placed close to the videochat window, so you don't get the "looking down" effect you do with normal videochats. It's been done before (Google SightFlex), and this just a poor implementation of it.
I can't wait until an enterprising company (come onnnn, Apple) figures out a way to embed the camera directly in the screen so that we can finally look AT the people we're videochatting with, a la all the TV shows and movies about the future.
1.21 jigawatts?!!!
for those of you bashing the sucker web cam, you're just not thinking it through enough. that thing would be a killer spy cam. actually, you'd probably need two of them to really be effective.
"hey! i told you not to record us having sex!"
"what you talkin' 'bout, girl? i just got me some real long nipples."
Why, just why?
wow thanks engadget! i was worried we'd seen the last of Crapgadget. Now I feel much, much better!!!! :D
You'll probably clean your desk a lot better with something designed to just do vacuuming rather than something designed to control your computer and also vacuum.
Only you know the answer...
Yes, StreetStealth, the answer is that Electrolux you rail your keyboard with on the hour. Every hour.
olay? we have the same name? wait...am i allowed to talk to you, or will this create a rift in the time space continuum that will prove to be irreperable?
I thought it was a variation of a certain type of sex-toy at first...
The egg, I mean.
Does your grandma kill babies or something?
dammit... forgetting to click on the date finally got me.
While the angel phone is craptastic, I gotta give it to the suckercam, because it's the only one that looks like it can permanently damage a computer with normal use.
re: Suck Cam...
"Well, it certainly DOES suck!"
ala the "Suck and Cut" from Wayne's World
The egg has a lovely Motorola-inspired wall charger.
Yes, you idiot, I am you. I mean, I am me. And so are you! And yes, Marty, I've told you a hundred times, the last thing we want is a disaster in the space-time continuum. Do you (I) want to end up like your (my) brother?!? You (I) could do this all night. And, if you recall, we do - quite frequently! I guess we need a date or something. But why, when we have each other???
You can't trademark a species.
damn broken comment system...
The suction-cup webcam....beyond beleif.
are you kidding the vaccuum mouse is a godsent for all those times that i need to vacuum my mousemat....
pff get real they all suck.