Crapgadget: Special Olympics edition
By Thomas Ricker 
posted August 21st 2008 5:21AM
posted August 21st 2008 5:21AM
Can't fly to Beijing? No problem, USB Geek is your one-stop shop for unlicensed Olympic dumpster-fillers. The Birds Nest Speaker features a USB port for charging and/or accepting music input via that included 3.5-mm adapter cable. $12 is all it takes to help keep Wall-E in service for years to come.
The Olympics or the Special Olympics?
Just what it says: "Special Olympics edition." Seems clear as mud to me.
Yeah although it reads like it, I don't think they mean the Special Olympics.
It's a double entendre.
How can you /not/? You'd have to /be/ special to miss that.
Since "edition" is not capitalized, they have to mean "Special Olympics".
Does anyone else think the birds nest looks like a bedpan?
Ya, it could hold one big shit and a lot of piss.
They come in a more powerful form for cheaper here: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12392
Wow!
.000032 men were killed in the manufacturing of this product.
The design would make a better ashtray, glass with pewter banding. Probably already been done.
It could also be effectively recycled into birdsnest headphones. Just sell them as a pair with an olympic-grade sweatband and voila! Now you can wear yo' passion on yo' head!
you just gave me an idea for a USB device! a USB ashtray, when you put your cigarette in it, it will monitor in percent how much cigarette left "50% cigarette left" and it can monitor up to 4 cigarette (4 cigarette slot).
Is that an eee pc?
Either way, isn't the green socket for audio out?
So it's a speaker hooked up the pink (mic) socket?
Photo's by people who don't know what they're doing!
@John: Your right! There are so many funny pictures which should show a daily picture - and some things just don't fit :D
That is, indeed, am Eee PC.
Spelling, by people who don't know what they're doing.
I find photos like this amusing.
The special Olympics weren't in Beijing, but the Paralympics will be in September.....
@ John
Your concern that they've not showed this bag of ***** in it's best light makes me chuckle
wonder if it comes loaded with the avian flu virus for computers
so....why does it need charging?
Wow, what a combo. It's Ugly, likely Made In China, Unlicensed by China, it's crap, and I can waste $12 in order to keep Wall-E employed. How can I resist!!!
OH Boy, i hope it's got lead too!!!
Every time you swipe your finger, another dissident gets shot in the head. Brilliant!
did you read?
Silly Engadget readers.
The usage of "Special Olympics" comes from the Daily Show's coverage of the Beijing Olympics...
A clip:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/30808/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-special-olympics-update---controversies#s-p1-st-i1
*sigh*
I remember when Jon Stewart was funny.
iHoppipolla, thanks for the clarification. I'm comforted that Ricker isn't just some asshole making fun of something by indirectly making fun of handicapped people.
It's much better for me that he's just copying someone else who did that already.
Why didn't they make it gold-colored? Silver seems kinda second-placish. -placeish?
Dude... it's not cool to take pot shots at the Special Olympics like that... I have family that is disabled, and I do a lot of volunteer work for that organization.
Its like I am really there!
Is it just me, or is it plugged into the mic plug, not the audio...
Guys, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Let me explain how you people all wrong about China and are racists. (you might think I just contradicted myself, but im just stating the truth)
1) The Bird's Nest was not used for the Special Olympics.
2) "Special" refers to "Special Edition", just like all your NASCAR K-mart crap.
3) The U.S. doesn't have a stadium nearly as cool as the Bird's Nest and ever will.
4) China does not slaughter people as you think. If you could afford the plane ticket, you would know.
5) China has not killed anyone in Tibet. Asking for a free Tibet is like asking for a free California.
6) China accounts for about 75% of the manufactured U.S. goods. If they don't give you your "shit" like you want them to, the U.S. economy will completely colapse, leaving more homeless people like you guys.
7) China was not responsible for the lead-based paint incedent. Mattel told the factories to use the paint. And 3 incedents of stupid kids eating their toys is not as bad as using 2 nukes (the ONLY used in warefare in history) and using chemical warfare (same thing)
8) It really isn't cool to make fun of the disabled
Nah, China doesn't slaughter people, they just send them to "reeducation through labor" camps.. even if they're 70 year old ladies (http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/20/asia/protest.php)
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Looks more useful as an ashtray if you ask me.