Art Lebedev lets loose Plastinkus scratch pad

Sure, you could whip out your iPhone or Nintendo DS and your app of choice for a little impromptu DJ session before dinner, or you could get yourself one (or two) of Art Lebedev's new Plastinkus scratch pads, which supposedly sound just like you're scratching the real thing. While that claim may be somewhat dubious, at about four bucks apiece they're certainly at least worth taking a chance on, and you can even get 'em in no less than forty different color combinations. Now, if we could only get our business cards printed on them.

[Via Pocket-lint]

[Imran @ Jul 29th 2008 5:10PM]

Seriously? I hope they don't stick with that name when it hits the shelves.

[Krush @ Jul 29th 2008 6:08PM]

Dont Tase Me BRO !!!!

[ishism @ Jul 30th 2008 3:19PM]

WOW, I can't believe after all these years, someone finally came up with this. Man, I used to play around with certain materials and make those sounds. It's funny to me someone took the idea and market it. It's obviously selling. The amount of money it takes produce these things, compared to what they sell for...these guys are going to make a killing.

[Imran @ Jul 29th 2008 5:11PM]

Seriously? I hope they don't stick with that name when it hits the shelf.

[who? @ Jul 29th 2008 5:20PM]

Seriously? You posted that twice.

[Atenlaugh @ Jul 29th 2008 5:53PM]

Who?:

Well, I guess we all need SOMETHING to feel sarcastically self-entitled about..

[enclaved @ Jul 29th 2008 6:03PM]

Why so serious?

[phanbouy @ Jul 29th 2008 6:07PM]

i am serious. and don't call me shirley

[yode @ Jul 29th 2008 6:13PM]

yea, i called your mom shirley last night

[phanbouy @ Jul 29th 2008 6:29PM]

hmm..... it would appear school's let out for the day

[Arthur Freydin @ Jul 29th 2008 6:36PM]

Actually, Plastinkus is the first name he's picked that actually means something... in Russian that is.

The word for a vinyl record in Russian is "plastinka".

[Rick James @ Jul 29th 2008 5:11PM]

Wiggdy wiggdy wack for all u kids out there

[phanbouy @ Jul 29th 2008 6:07PM]

that avatar is awesome

[Rick James @ Jul 30th 2008 1:50PM]

haha thanks, bob barker owned the price is right

[Imran @ Jul 29th 2008 5:12PM]

Jeez comments aren't showing and this will be my 3rd piece of spam. Ah damn too late.

[Michael @ Jul 29th 2008 5:13PM]

aparantly they piss cats off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1svWBM78Yk&feature=related

[kingbob @ Jul 29th 2008 5:13PM]

i want one

[Dan @ Jul 29th 2008 5:20PM]

@Michael -

That video clip is worth the pain of seeing such a worthless piece of junk being sold in the open market, Lebedev's name or not. Idiot should have seen the cat was VERY ready to pounce, and I with how I feel about this piece of plastic, I think it did my bidding.

Well done, pussy.

[bo sneb @ Jul 29th 2008 5:31PM]

lol good kitty

[xploit @ Jul 29th 2008 7:01PM]

BAHAHAHA omg! thats crazy! hahaha fark im up for anything cat related.

[smi1ey @ Jul 30th 2008 3:19AM]

yeah... that was freakin epic lulz! nice vid! here's another one of a bit more of it in action. (no it's not a rick roll ROFL, someone can verify that in a comment if they want) no, it really doesn't sound like the real thing. *sigh*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5dR3BXcD0

[ishism @ Jul 30th 2008 3:13PM]

OMFG, that is funny. I let out a big haha at the house, everyone was like WTF is up with you.

[SimonRichards @ Jul 29th 2008 5:16PM]

I bet they're made of the same stuff that holographic souvenir things are made of.

[NoAndThen @ Jul 29th 2008 10:13PM]

that was my first thought too

[Brandon @ Jul 29th 2008 5:16PM]

i can see the nipple DJ implications now.....it aint a party unless someone remixes a snoopdog song on their nips.

[Jack @ Jul 29th 2008 5:19PM]

You should seriously give them that business card idea! If they actually make them you could get some free cards!

[strange piano @ Jul 29th 2008 5:22PM]

hahaha, i was about to buy one until i found out shipping to the US would be $55 bucks! wtf

[TopaZ @ Jul 29th 2008 5:24PM]

Great idea! On youtube there are videos of real DJs making some very saucy scratches with it.

I'll get one at 99 cents with free shipping.

[Gril @ Jul 29th 2008 5:32PM]

hah. I tried to buy one of these, and it ships from moscow. So if you live in the U.S., this little piece of plastic will cost you $50+

[ShadowKain @ Aug 19th 2008 7:21PM]

Choose fedex like an intelligent person and they are 9.95 you DOLT

[autoprime @ Jul 29th 2008 5:33PM]

$55 shipping to the USA?? are there no other shipping options?

[fistpittingnork @ Jul 30th 2008 8:39AM]

You could move to Russia and then have it shipped locally.

[francisco @ Jul 29th 2008 5:44PM]

Ok this may be dumb but do you say Art Lebedev as Art lebow. Because I have heard something like that. In my head I say lebedev, literally. But its lebow right?

[dantaylor08 @ Jul 29th 2008 6:01PM]

yes, yes it is.

[jason @ Jul 29th 2008 8:24PM]

what? arent they russian?

there is no "ow" sound in Russian.

[Gizmo @ Jul 29th 2008 5:51PM]

25 years too late. I was scratching on just about anything with a rough surface for decades. But you just can't beat the Zipper Scratch.

[Atenlaugh @ Jul 29th 2008 5:56PM]

Seriously though, business card scratch pads would definitely be eye (and ear?) catching. Of course, at $50+ shipping, you'd better have the dough to sink into your media campaign.

Of course, there's always blatantly reverse engineering the product. Or relocate the factory to the U.S.. Russia has been employing these strategies for years, and it seems to work okay for them.

[phanbouy @ Jul 29th 2008 6:06PM]

or make your fingers into a 'W' and wiki wiki wiki

[yode @ Jul 29th 2008 6:39PM]

pedia?

[Rocketboy @ Jul 29th 2008 10:07PM]

Oh, thanks yode, I didn't get the joke.

(sarcasm)

[yode @ Jul 29th 2008 6:14PM]

What good are these turntables without a mixer..?

[Kazi @ Jul 29th 2008 6:15PM]

Here's my (wikka wikka) business card.

You could also just get those little pictures that change depending on what angle you're looking at it from. They make the same exact sound and I'm betting are made the same way.

[Jason @ Jul 29th 2008 6:37PM]

Pla-stinketh

[Alex @ Jul 29th 2008 7:15PM]

"stereoscopic card for making vinyl scratching sounds" and for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan

[Rocketboy @ Jul 29th 2008 7:52PM]

You're joking me.

And people wonder why terrorists hate us?

Because we have money to spend on things like this.

[peej @ Jul 29th 2008 8:17PM]

I actually think it's something with our religions, or supposed lack thereof.


But no, I definitely like your idea better.

[Jeff @ Jul 29th 2008 10:15PM]

It's not exactly our "lack of religion" as much as it is our *way of life* (namely, gluttonous consumerism and complacency while we fuel the wars of other nations)

...but close. :)

[NoAndThen @ Jul 29th 2008 10:18PM]

@peej: Actually, Rocketboy is correct, as they view our cultural choices (like this, what they see in movies and especially TV, blah blah) as obvious lack a religion in our lives, as the majority of our media/culture goes against major religious rules/dogma/whatever.

They're right, essentially, but really need another outlet...

Like, a terrorist gadget blog, or something?

They could have Appl..I mean america vs. microso.. i mean islam flame wars on teh interwebz, as opposed to, in like, deserts and caves.

Fill caves with servers, not bombs!

[Richard @ Jul 30th 2008 10:32AM]

"Fill caves with servers, not bombs!"

Why? So they can attack our defense networks everyday the way China does? No thanks.

[Rocketboy @ Jul 31st 2008 1:05PM]

Yes, it's their perception of our free wheeling, amoral, wrong(or no) religion, culture of gluttony vs. their strict moral codes.

It's not just religion, but, and yes, I'm going to quote GW, because it's true (but not something that can easily be explained in a soundbite), they hate our freedoms. Our freedom to have sex with a woman who is showing skin. Our freedom to do what we want when we want. Including spending money on a piece of plastic that makes mildly amusing sounds.

Because to the fundamental mind, that's the biggest threat of them all. (See also, Focus on the Family. At least they don't blow anything up on a regular basis.)