Lil’ Robocops, Beware: Baby ED-209 Robot
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009See if this little robot reminds you of anything, with its unsophisticated singled-mindedness, big guns for arms, unnerving loudness, propensity for violence, and hilarious tendency to fall apart when push comes to shove/nudge: Video: Baby ED-209 Robot Who’s worried about Skynet and Terminators when we’re obviously witnessing a major evolutionary step toward the ED-209s first [...]
Geek Steals Roundup: Black Friday Online Sales for Geeks – UPDATED
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Please, for this year’s Black Friday sales, don’t subject yourselves to the lunacy of the brick-and-mortar store experience. Shop online. If you really like putting yourself through that kind of abuse just to spend your money, I’ll gladly accept twenty American dollars to write a descriptive one-page essay on your various shortcomings. Otherwise, get ye [...]
Robots in Disguise-ish: Transformers Ravage USB Flash Drive
Friday, November 13th, 2009It seems the Transformers are keen on keeping up with the times. The Decepticon Ravage–formerly one of Soundwave’s microcassettes–now takes the alternate form of an honest-to-goodness 2GB USB flash drive, a more contemporary storage medium. Sure, but where were you in the 90s, buddy? I would have paid good money (well, Canadian money, anyway) to [...]
Thanks, Japan: Sega Zippo Lighters
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Looks like Japan took a break from winning hot-dog-eating contests, drawing naked anime ladies, and fetishizing Hello Kitty to produce yet another ridiculous novelty: Sega Zippo lighters. ‘Cause why would you make a really small video game console that plays games when it can light cigarettes, instead? Because Japan, that’s why. But wait… there’s more. [...]
Bad Idea, Trekkers: Vulcan Foam Hand
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Trekkers, I don’t know if you got my last memo, but Star Trek‘s cool cache ran out around late August. (Just check the archives.) Which means that waving around a Vulcan foam hand in public will leave a stink of nerd on you that no amount of Febreze will ever deodorize. Via GearFuse, who didn’t [...]
There’s Bad, Then There’s the Nike Megatron Transformer for $190
Friday, October 16th, 2009Operating under the thesis that “transforming makes everything better”–recent Michael Bay movies showing all signs to the contrary–the Transformers “Crossovers” line of toys has sullied* everything from Star Wars to Marvel Comics characters. But this Limited Edition Nike Megatron Transformer puts the icing of insult on the triple-layer cake of shame. I see four problems [...]
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