Here in the US of A, we dedicate today to shoving copious quantities of food down our throats, meeting / greeting long lost family members and -- most importantly -- counting our blessings. Here around the Engadget table, we've found five "gadgets" (we're being gracious here) that we're absolutely grateful to
not own. In fact, we're thankful that we don't even have to look at these if we don't want to. 'Course, we're betting that you're curious enough to give up that right to ignore in order to see just how pathetic these
crapgadgets really are, but we'd recommend waiting at least an hour after your last gluttonous indulgence before clicking the links below. Obviously, we cannot be held responsible for any upchucking.
Read - Scale mouse
Read - Dual holster windshield mouse
Read - Disney's Pixie Hollow Clickables
Read - Monkey USB hand warmer
Read - Red Piggy mouse
posted Nov 27th 2008 5:04PM
. . . who wouldn't want the monkey hand warmers???
Have you tried writing field reviews in Alaska?
Wait, forget it, have you been to North Pole?
Stop, forget it. Hove you experienced the electricity outage in the middle of the winter? You did! But there was no point using the laptop because there was no Internet? Oh, you used your phone as 3G modem? And posted to MySpace?
Yeah, you needed those gloves.
And you have no life!
I wouldn't want them because they leave your fingers exposed.
Have you ever tried typing on a regular keyboard with gloves on? There's a certain amount of finger dexterity lost with padding. If you're using a USB powered hand warmer... chances are, you're in the cold with a computer. Now, either you live in a walk-in freezer, or you took your laptop outside.
Cmon, is it really THAT hard to understand the rationale for this??!?
@Electromodo
Alaska is not that cold...if you are in the house
The idea's cool. I've been in computer labs where they keep the place like a walk in freezer. The monkey design is a bit much, though.
That scale mouse would be a great gift for that drug dealer on the go. He could weigh out your pot, then click onto the WMP Visualizations to groove out on...
And added the transaction to QuickBooks on the fly... oh wait...
Agreed, that scale mouse is no crap-ware, and if you are not yet convinced, imagine how convenient it is for pawnshop goers everywhere...visit Ebay and check your jewelry's worth, all one click away.
The scale mouse would totally be a great gift for my drug dealing friend. Would be quite usefel for myself when measuring (to check) the stuff i bought as well. What a great idea. Only it wouldn't be my first choice to have the scale with a mouse. maybe a watch or anything more portable.
I voted for Nokia Tube...
..oops it was not on the list...
Aren't we feeling witty today?
I was looking for iPhone .. sadly not present either .. ah well next year
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I think I peed myself with laughter!!!
Oh wait, no I didn't your just a tool. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up.
Definitely iPhone. For one I do not want to look like a tool.
@ go seki
Please become an Engadget editor :)
For the Modern Enterpenuer....Burn your illegal DVD's and weigh your illegal paraphernalia at the same time....The Scale Mouse.
who weighs paraphernalia? that would be entirely pointless
I often find the weight of my bong very interesting.
I wish I could pick more than one.
I want that pig mouse!
What I don't get is why it as four eyes. Two painted and two as buttons...
I voted the monkey warmer though, but It was a hard to decide
I'm still wonder who the hell would use the red piggy mouse?!?
Look above you.
Somebody who doesn't want to use his scale mouse anymore?
Look at the pig... Some dumb ass decided it needed two sets of eyes...
Voted
I think it was the built in LED mouse that sold me on it...
I wouldn't mind the scale mouse, but $59? Could you try any harder? Geez...
I'm surprised there are only so many votes for the twin phone gizmo.
My husband actually has these phone holder things in his car (but not the pictured "twin pack"). His car looks like a mobile rubbish dump, but at least the phone and MP3 player are held neatly above all the lolly wrappers, drink cans, bits of paper etc etc..... Now all I need is a large one to hold ME above all the debris!!!
...I've seen "love swings" that are car-mountable...
What's wrong with the scale mouse? If you frequently use eBay or something like that, you'd use it ALL OF THE TIME.
All things have a purpose, this one's just isn't apparent to Engadget I guess...
Sure. When I sold my 40'' '72 Warwick some two years ago, I put the package on a stamp scale too, after all, those cents spent on measurement inaccuracies can make you a poor man in no time.
I want one for my chemistry experiments too...
Monkey hand warmer i can see, but that scale it just plain goofy. I can keep my hand weight in check if i am a hand model?
Why does that pig mouse have eyeballs on it, and why do I want my fingers an inch higher than the rest of my hand?
Becuase you hate good ergonomics and aesthetically pleasing items?
I will be giving out these crapgadget's to friends and family this holiday and its not because money is tight with the slowing economy, I'm just a cheap bastard.
That guy is a cheap bastard!
The Disney... thing. Without hesitation. Grotesque Polyvomit Chloride from top to bottom.
The piggy mouse is actually quite funny, but for the love of god, why does it feature two sets of eyes? They could have made its ears the buttons. Why a huge pair of eyes above its regular eyes? Duh.
Why does the piggy have two pairs of eyes?!
My thoughts exactly. It's like it has a giant pair of mutant red eyes growing from where its ears should be.
I hate being off topic but...
Can someone please help me figure out why I can't get my profile picture to work? It's getting a little frustrating having the same ol' gameboy thing next to my name. Sorry for the off topic and thanks in advance for the help...
Make sure you're using a supported image format, then try again. When I uploaded my picture (yes, look close), it was reverted the first time, if I remember corr...
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It is NOT a GAMEBOY!
*goes off cuddling the deeply hurt Endgadget mascot*
I think the scale mouse is neat. It'd be good for calorie counting office workers.
"IF I have 17.8 grams of triscuit crackers, thats roughly 50 calories. so then I can have 26.4 grams of cheddar cheese with them"
The piggy mouse is ugly as sin, and looks twice as uncomfortable to use.
Actually its a good buy for weighing out your weed nuggets!
"IF I have 17.8 grams of triscuit crackers, thats roughly 50 calories. so then I can have 26.4 grams of cheddar cheese with them"
you would just get crackers and cheese all over your lovely new scale mouse though
http://www.sbuy.ch/usb-stuff/a/p7v/155672/usb-humping-dog/usb-humping-dog-brown
No comment.
haha! I like that!
The scale mouse is for WEED DEALERS, so they dont get busted with a scale and weed.. much more jailtime....
you guys need to go back to college.
I think the scale would we cool
I wanted to vote for them all...
the mouse scale is for drug dealers to weigh their drugs and disguise the evidence as an optical mouse
methinks they are doing this because they are out of ideas for engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: for enemy.
I actually have the Dual car windshield mount holding both my Red Piggy mouse and my Scale mouse when they are not in use because I am playing with my Disney Clickable as I keep my hands warm with the Monkey USB warmer.
I didn't know if I would vote in the monkey USB hand warmers (nothing against the hand warming part, the problem is the monkey...) or in the Red Piggy mouse. But the fact that the pig has four eyes is so creepy for me that it deserves my vote.
I'd actually use the dual- gadget thing...
Well, it would always be cool, if these gadgets don't just appear to be real gadgets. Isn't it true that it's the unsatiable lust for somethingnew which is driving these things to the market.
http://www.atlantageorgia-real-estate.com/
And we can't forget that there must be a bunch of people behind them, working on them for a couple of months.
http://bangkokthailandhotels.tripod.com/
Sow we'll better bear in mind that all of this is just crap gadgets.
sounds good
Hmm USB scale mouse... for the Drug dealin' laptop aficionado? "Yo man I gotta check my email? Oh u need some weed? (flips off the top of the mouse to reveal a scale while imitating the Transformers transformation sound perfectly)"
Why would you want to wear the hand warmers "freely"? I mean they make a bold statement and all but whats the point if they are not warming your hands.
ok...how can anyone seriously shoot down the scale/mouse combo. As someone who is constantly on the computer, it's hard for me to find time to welcome the many guests I have into my house, dig out the cumbersome 1970's digi scale, and measure out proper quantities of green goodness all the while trying to update my new website, or scroll through the latest online High Times issue ... this invention is perfect for all this difficult multitasking ... now I can talk, measure out drugs AND use my computer (before one of the aforementioned had to be eliminated). I am sure my productivity will go up a full percent!
I want the scale mouse...
I prefer some images of all the gadgets I can choose from instead of opening every link, come on Engadget: We as gadget freaks to make life more easy should all understand that ;)
Since dealing attracts far higher sentences than possession, and in some states/countries ownership of scales will make you automatically a dealer in the eyes of the law, the scale mouse is a great idea and, though I'm sure it works, probably isn't intended to be used as an actual mouse all that often! It's just a disguise, dudes.
Does that piggy mouse have eyes on its forehead? That's definitely the most messed up gadget i have seen today
So... why does a pig have four eyes?
The Scale Mouse: For the drug dealer looking to utilize his desk space.
I could not decide, but I was OK with the monkey hands and the scale mouse, the rest is just way off the awful scale and impossible to select from.
"Why use a mouse with your computer? Use a piggy instead!"
The scale mouse is ridiculous. I mean, who want's to get little bits of weed stuck all over their mouse?
With the amount of use I would get out of that, the buttons would probably start to stick and break within a week.
blrrr?
I soooo wanna know how much my hand weights :)
the scale mouse is awesome! weighs 5.0 for a nickel every time!