Yuen'To's Music Balloon speaker is fabulous, price tag is ferocious

If you like cute, puffy things, enjoy subjecting strangers to your obscure tastes in music, and have tons of excess cash to burn on nigh-useless gadgets, get a load of this! It's the Yuen'To Music Ball, aka the Music Balloon, a rechargeable auxiliary mono speaker for any portable audio device. It offers a meager .7-watts of power, lasts a measly 2 hours on a charge, yet costs a massive $76.16. (Yorozu's overpriced $80 mono speaker at least packed 2-watts.) It is, however, available in your choice of passion pink, mellow yellow, romantic red, bombastic blue, or boring black. Who can resist?

[Via Akihabara]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:08PM]

I hate people who can't leave their music to themselves in public.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:32PM]

You're from RIAA?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:34PM]

80 bucks naw I rather keep putting gas in my car.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 3:38PM]

SHUT UP!
its TOTALLY fabulous. dont diss it
besides...its pink. shut up.
i would love listening to my nsync and backstreet boys through this

[superhobo Posted Jan 27th 2009 12:45PM]

Me too. We should have the right to splash them with ice cold water.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:10PM]

thought i saw one of these in the pound shop

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:11PM]

What better way can one spend $80 than on vibrating pink balls??!!

[magallanes Posted Jan 26th 2009 3:05PM]

Hamster cost less than $80

;-)

[kaimonkey Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:16PM]

get a vibrator
and use your own balls ?

[Blastar Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:02PM]

Well it could be worst, it could be named as "i-Music Balloon".

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:15PM]

The modernized, much gayer version of a boombox on my shoulder? Sign me up! Where's my Run DMC?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:22PM]

I love it, but i'd love it a hell of a lot more for $15.

[GingerFox Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:25PM]

haha they must be taking the piss at that price

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:48PM]

is there a way to fill it with helium and tether it to my person so as to have a floating pink ball of music follow me around all day?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:52PM]

looks like something one could powder themselves with

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 3:01PM]

Heck, Walmart sells a blue or pink speaker pillow for $8.88 (not the greatest speaker, but come on...)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 3:21PM]

I would accept this as a gift.....thats the only way I would own this.

[Augmented Insanity Posted Jan 26th 2009 3:35PM]

That looks edible.

[UnixSystemsEngineer Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:11PM]

So, compared to the shuffle it:
* Costs more
* Takes up more space
* Has a shorter battery life

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:57PM]

$80 for that? Fuck off.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 6:05PM]

Put a lil slit in the side of it, and you have a great case for your ipod. You can use it then as a small ball with music playing to toss around with your friends, while coming up with some great new way to whine yourselves another 25 bucks.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2009 1:21AM]

Who can resist?

I can!

[encosion Posted Jan 27th 2009 7:09AM]

It's actually only ¥3990 (±£31 / $45)... Here's the original website (in Japanese): http://www.idea-in.com/yuento/product/musicballoon/index.html

[golfnz34me Posted Jan 27th 2009 10:18AM]

Am I the only one who would want to slam dunk this thing in my Herf hoop?

[joshsc Posted Jan 27th 2009 1:17PM]

This is about ugly