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 Worst Phone Concept Ever: Turkey
Leg Phone
A company called Custom
Phones made this
TURKEY
DINNER CONCEPT PHONE for an Indianapolis TV
personality. It's just wrong, OK? I mean, at least make it a
cell phone!
It Had to Happen: Blu_Ray Brand
Make-Up Hits
 Hi-Def is just too, well,
hi-def for regular makeup. TV presenters and others on any
high-definition program look like they're wearing hideous masks.
CARGO to the rescue: It's new line of
BLU_RAY
COSMETICS (yeah, with an underscore) is make-up
that won't make you look like a ghoul on a high-def TV.
Found Video
Check out this
high-def,
time-lapse video showing the city of San Francisco on
February 8.
 Worst Concept Computer Ever: The
Coffee Cup PC
The coming flexible-screen
industry is all fun and games until someone actually builds
something like this (don't worry: It's still a concept only).
The Yuno PC mug is a
PC BUILT INTO A COFFEE CUP. It lets you get
weather, time, traffic reports and stocks on a touch-screen
display, right on the cup. Presumably it runs on "Java."
Hahahaha... oh, never mind.
 50% Of UK Men Would Give Up Sex
for 50-Inch TV
Almost half of all men in
Britain would
GIVE UP SEX FOR A 50-INCH TV, according to a biased
survey from UK retailer Comet.
 News You Can Lose
The Paris Hotel marquee in Las
Vegas suffered a spectacular "Écran Bleu De la Mort" recently,
according to pictures snapped by a vacationer. Photos show they
finally got the system booted by morning, but that
WASN'T VERY PRETTY EITHER.
Bad Gadgets
The USB Massage Mouse comes
with two conductive pads that you stick on your skin. The mouse
sends electricity through them, which makes your muscles
SPASM
-- this is what the
 manufacturers
call a "massage." The massaging mouse comes with several
irrelevant options.
A new mouse on sale at
USBfever comes complete with
BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE.
 Two New Movies Explore Apple
Fanboy Nuttiness
It had to happen. Somebody
made a documentary about the Apple Fanboy movement. It's called
MacHEADS. Here comes the
TRAILER!
Another
documentary about the Macintosh and it's fanatical followers
called "WELCOME
TO MACINTOSH" is also out. Here comes the
OTHER
TRAILER!
The Art Gallery
 A "squishable" soft
caterpillar-like robot developed by Tufts University will be
DISPLAYED in February and March at New York's
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The creepy robot, called the
Softbot II, will be part of an exhibition called "Design
and the Elastic Mind."
An exhibit commissioned by
New York City's Pulse Art and created by an Australian
organization called "The Glue Society" shows biblical events as
seen from
GOOGLE EARTH.
Cell Phone Follies
 A new cell phone concept by
designer Tao Ma cuts cost and weight and boosts battery life by
dispensing with the screen altogether. Instead, all functions
and displays take place via
LEDs below the translucent surface. In phone mode,
the keypad is displayed. Other arrangements of lights and shapes
light up in gaming, SMS and other modes. The concept specifies
two AAA batteries recharged via USB.
A company in China has
created a cell phone that's shaped and looks like a pack of
cigarettes. Best of all, the battery case slides open to reveal
a compartment that holds seven
REAL CIGARETTES.
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