We're always big fans of mixed-use gadgets -- but these ones kind of mutilate the principle. On hand today we've got a two pack of bedazzled necklaces -- one an MP3 player, the other a USB flash drive / watch combo. We've also unearthed a USB speaker that claims to be a whale, but more closely resembles a weird, in our opinion. Finally (and this one was worth the wait, trust us), we've got a tiny Moto Horn for your bike, which makes it "safer" to ride your bike by... making vroom vroom motorbike noises as you zoom along. Consider these our best suggestions for what to do with your disposable income, folks.
Read - USB Jewel Square Necklace MP3 Player
Read - USB Jewel Watch Necklace Flash Drive
Read - USB Cetacean Whale Speaker
Read - Moto Horn
posted June 21st 2009 12:36PM
Next we'll have all those hippies protesting weird hunting.
Also, what exactly is crappy about the necklace mp3 player?
I dunno, but I was wanting to do the normal voting thingy. There's nowhere for me to vote the clock/necklace/USB drive as the worst :(
I never knew whales had dicks sticking out of their mouths...
Narwhal?
+1 for knowing your zoology, my friend!
Depends who goes swimming..
vroom vroom?
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
hmm, i guess it does seem to resemble a weird...
...baby's head? (With fashionable bow tie.)
they were obviously too busy watching jimmy fallon reruns to catch this obvious mistake....
There's no mistake. They're talking about the creature from Mario.
I used to have something similar to the Moto Horn back in the stone age when I was about 5 years old. It replaced one of the grips on my bicycle where I could "rev" it to give off the sound of motorcycle. Made me feel like Fonzy. Man I was so cool.
When you recognize that those four and five year old boys are who this device is made for, and see the kind of simple joy it brings them, then it's not such a crapgadget, is it?
Whale it is. Even though I detest the other two, since I abhor anything with cheezy plastic "bling" applied to it.
The bear from The Muppets?
I had one of those too. I got it for my birthday and my father installed it on my BMX. I broke the same day after some hours of constant use. I guess it was a crapgadget after all, but it made me the coolest kid on the street, for several hours!
hmmm its a cute little guy .
"People have to do something, right?!"
I want to hug it and squeeze it and stab my enemies with it!
it looks like a narwhal to me too...
Look, I didn't collect all those baseball cards just to NOT stick them in my spokes with a clothes pin!
Old school it, is what I'm saying.
it isn't a "USB Cetacean Whale Speaker". it's made to be put in a headphone jack
no its usb as it charges via usb
Recharging that badboy, to me, is as silly as needing to charge my headphones before using them. I remember even back in the day, not needing an additional power source for very large speakers,
I guess the whale stores the energy in it's blubber.
That was obviously made by a lame rock hater. Rocks were around millions, not thousands of years ago!
If I had to choose, I'd prefer crapgadgets over KIRFs. At least they've tried to do something new -- and failed miserably, that's true, but you have to agree that's much harder to create something from scrap than just ripping off some successful design, right?
*scratch
I bet the speakers sound like they're playing underwater.
"Phturrrrrppplll!"
crapgadgets? two of them are on the site "coolest gadgets"... the irony...
Well, the Moto Horn has been done before! This old version sure LOOKED more cool, too!
http://www.vintagevrroom.com/v-rroom-art-gallery.html
V-RROOM!
The watch actually sounds fairly useful; if someone made a version *not* encrustated with jewels, I might buy it.