SolidAlliance's Crazy Earphones v2: because ear fungus sells

Japan's SolidAlliance earned a warm place in our collective nerd bosom long ago for the sheer lunacy of the products it creates. Today it's offering round two of its Crazy Earphone collection that includes some kind of mushroom (that is a mushroom, right?), the ol' Katana blade or arrow through the head trick, and a parasitical, conjoined ear if you want everyone to think you've been subjected to a tragic cloning experiment. Spec-wise your ¥2,000 (about $22) will take home a pair of in-ear buds with 20 ~ 20,000Hz frequency range assisted by a 10-mm driver. Not that it matters: there's no chance in hell that you're buying these for performance reasons.

SolidAlliance's Crazy Earphones are wild and crazy in Japan

[Ahmedz Posted Feb 26th 2010 5:39AM]

Straight out of The Mushroom Kingdom.

[loopster82 Posted Feb 26th 2010 5:44AM]

Mario says "Do i blend now?"

[gauchoamigo Posted Feb 26th 2010 11:48AM]

@loopster82

i see what you did there.

[purge68 Posted Feb 26th 2010 5:46AM]

@Betabox I would like a pair.

[LS Posted Feb 26th 2010 6:04AM]

It says a lot when even the mannequin is embarrassed to be associated with this crap

[SNESimon Posted Feb 26th 2010 6:10AM]

LOL, no kidding. At first glance it looked like a mushroom penis.

"It's a me, mini Mario!"

[limpboy Posted Feb 26th 2010 6:36AM]

@SNESimon

It took me like a 20 seconds to actually comprehend that this was NOT a penis....at least am not the only one

[Tommymang Posted Feb 26th 2010 7:38AM]

@limpboy Same here :-)

[nicklar Posted Feb 26th 2010 1:39PM]

@limpboy

My condolences. :(

[BubblegumBalloon Posted Feb 26th 2010 6:20AM]

why did they make the mannequin look so depressed?

[Colin S Posted Feb 26th 2010 7:12AM]

Crapgadget?

[gauchoamigo Posted Feb 26th 2010 11:49AM]

@Colin S

fngadget

[Plexus Posted Feb 26th 2010 7:20AM]

Bluetooth earphones FOREVER
with products like my beloved Samsung noise cancelling BT hedphones available I have ditched the cables for good and you would be wise to do the same.
BTW if you're going to listen to mp3 or wav files anyway, don't try to give me the higher fidelity (c) rap

[DougieBear Posted Feb 26th 2010 8:26PM]

@Plexus

I have a sony pair I bought for my Ipod, i'll never go back.

[gusgulen Posted Feb 26th 2010 8:17AM]

By means of safety; it's so easy to be hurt by using it opposite direction accidently. Especially the "sword" and " arrow" have acerate ends and can hurt the ear.

[Ian324 Posted Feb 26th 2010 9:22AM]

Hopefully I'm not the only one who thought that that was a penis at first glance...

[Heliosphan Posted Feb 26th 2010 9:57AM]

They missed a trick there - they didn't make an imitation Uhura headset from ST:ToS.
In fact I'm surprised nobodys done a BT headset in the shape of one.

[Tangerinescream Posted Feb 26th 2010 10:08AM]

Be careful to where these correctly. It really sucks having a penis shoved in your ear.

[Tangerinescream Posted Feb 26th 2010 10:09AM]

Wear

[To Hell Posted Feb 26th 2010 10:11AM]

The Spotted Dick.

[onlymyrailgun Posted Feb 26th 2010 10:49AM]

OMG, I just saw a bunch of similar earphones in a store today. They have mushrooms, ears, nails and stuff. From another section, I bought a pair of Evangelion pilot interface earphones (Rei ver.) XD

http://www.strapya-world.com/products/34005.html

What I need is an iPhone earphone set with microphone and control though, after already having lost 2 of them... gawd I'm a sucker for these crazy things...

P.S. Now that I look at the pictures above... they are the same as the ones I saw! There was also this Tamagotone thing there that was mentioned in an Engadget article.

[HardTimesGuy Posted Feb 26th 2010 12:20PM]

This reminds me of the mushrooms in Earthbound.

Now I must play it!

[clocker Posted Feb 26th 2010 7:58PM]

wtf.... Really?

[Mammarelli Posted Feb 27th 2010 11:21AM]

When my woman is out of town I can use these to provide equivi
lant erotic duties when properly lubiricated Should've bought these a while ago.