Crapgadget: creepy angel phone, egg MP3 player, sucker web cam, more
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!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
superfresh @ Apr 4th 2008 2:39PM
Props to the crystal ball for Disney trademark infringement.
Wolfticket @ Apr 5th 2008 5:13AM
Disney should send it's lawyers to the red sea. When I went there were hundreds of little lawsuits waiting to happen swimming about.
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 2:40PM
that suck-cam is clearly teh suck. a close second is the vacuum mouse.
Haikibutsu @ Jun 22nd 2008 11:45PM
no shit a vaccuum sucks!
Matt Ferens @ Apr 4th 2008 2:44PM
Wow, just wow.
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 2:56PM
your "just wow" privileges are hereby suspended
freediverdude @ Apr 4th 2008 2:47PM
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
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 2:57PM
*presses link - notices it links to mirror*
huh?
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 2:57PM
oh snap, dude, you like so totally got him!
*high five*
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 2:58PM
what kind of idiot replies to replies made by himself?
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 3:00PM
the kind that uses vista and idolizes steve jobs?
OOOOOOOOOH
i could do this all day.
Jeremy K. @ Apr 4th 2008 2:49PM
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.
Loonie @ Apr 4th 2008 2:52PM
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.
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 3:05PM
"He represents all that is soulless and wrong. And you slept with him!"
IT-Accountant @ Apr 4th 2008 2:52PM
I find the babyphone a little disturbing.
Pinkbelly @ Apr 4th 2008 2:53PM
Wish I could find a place to buy that ugly angel phone. I would give it to someone as a joke
ReggieXuk @ Apr 4th 2008 2:54PM
The webcam doesn't have to go on the screen. I think whoever put it there is stupid not the product.
billmao @ Apr 4th 2008 2:56PM
I thought it was a mic when i 1st saw the pic.
Daniel @ Apr 4th 2008 2:56PM
that nemo USB hub isn't so bad.
Mark @ Apr 4th 2008 2:58PM
whoa .. these are bad.
Peter @ Apr 4th 2008 2:58PM
Yes, because they own everything about the clown fish.
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 3:00PM
isn't that the egg from Ocean's 12? god julia roberts is an awful actor
waiownsyou @ Apr 4th 2008 3:02PM
"Mini sucker web cam" is a dirty, dirty, name for a webcam.
Josh @ Apr 4th 2008 3:03PM
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
miko34 @ Apr 4th 2008 3:07PM
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.
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 3:08PM
that's what she said. on several levels.
decapitor @ Apr 4th 2008 3:07PM
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.
torqueo @ Apr 4th 2008 3:07PM
This crapgadget vote was the toughest yet.
So......... crappy...... *brain explodes*.
Loonie @ Apr 4th 2008 3:09PM
I'm sure I saw Angel-baby-phone-spine in one of the Hellraiser movies.
gol706 @ Apr 4th 2008 3:11PM
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.
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 3:08PM
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
jon @ Apr 4th 2008 3:17PM
disney invented the clownfish?
facebookfake @ Apr 4th 2008 3:17PM
Just because it's a clown fish that doesn't mean its "that" clown fish.
Simon P @ Apr 4th 2008 3:18PM
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.
Balam Herrera @ Apr 4th 2008 3:20PM
that sucker cam might damage your computer screen of fall on your keyboard. But at least its quite original and innovative!!!
scott @ Apr 4th 2008 3:25PM
i want the angel phone. i want to give it as a gift to my grandma. because i know she'd use it.
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 3:27PM
"oh thanks, grandson. i didn't know you hated me so much."
phanbouy @ Apr 4th 2008 3:34PM
ya just don't get it scott, do ya?
scott @ Apr 7th 2008 12:33AM
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.
burntlungs @ Apr 4th 2008 3:25PM
I love how the mouse is sold by the 'rare mono shop.' sounds legit
John Z @ Apr 4th 2008 3:28PM
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
SATANOPHONE!
STrRedWolf @ Apr 4th 2008 3:30PM
It must be the vacuum mouse. A crap mouse that accumulates more crap the more you use it? BRILLIANT!
Plastonick @ Apr 4th 2008 3:35PM
I really want that mouse Vacuum...
Why not geek up my life now and then?
Matt @ Apr 4th 2008 3:36PM
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?!!!
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 3:43PM
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."
Matt Ferens @ Apr 4th 2008 3:45PM
Why, just why?
henry @ Apr 4th 2008 3:49PM
wow thanks engadget! i was worried we'd seen the last of Crapgadget. Now I feel much, much better!!!! :D
StreetStealth @ Apr 4th 2008 3:52PM
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.
StreetStealth @ Apr 4th 2008 3:54PM
Only you know the answer...
Anonymoose @ Apr 4th 2008 4:12PM
Yes, StreetStealth, the answer is that Electrolux you rail your keyboard with on the hour. Every hour.