The World According to Taquoriaan

Source: nabaztag.com

One word: Riiiiight!

I really like having gadgets and I always tell myself I have them because they’re useful in some way. But secretly I just like to have them because I can. One of my favourite sites when it comes to these kinds of things is ThinkGeek. Think about something silly, they have it: USB Coffee Mug warmers, tape drive for music cassettes to transfer the music to mp3, or my favourite: retro handset for your cell phone.

Browsing on the Engadget web site I clicked on a link to another site that sells weird gadgets. But whereas the tagline for ThinkGeek is “stuff for smart masses”, the tagline for this site seems to be “stuff for airheads”, because basically everything they were selling was junk. Maybe it’s the younger target audience that has a craptastic taste, but my eyes were tortured seeing a baby-blue “Bling Bling” mouse, a mouse with plastic gems glued on the surface, also available in “Hello Kitty Pink” if you don’t fancy blue, a USB flash drive shaped like  a BIG fake bling bling gem stone to wear as a necklace, a USB hub designed as a turtle (made of cheap plastic with USB ports around and a place to put paperclips and stuff in the centre), magnetic superhero pixels, looking like a cheap magnetic Ministeck rip-off. I don’t know what bothers me most, the fact the junk exists or the fact that there are actually people out there paying money for it.

Links:

• Engadget
• Gadget4All Web Store (here you can buy the junk if you feel like wasting your money)

A minute ago I read some feeds in my new feed reader called  Times Feed Reader, which was part of the awesome MacHeist3 Bundle. I really like the application, I used to read my feeds in an online feed reader, but I noticed I would forget to check it and then find 1000+ unread items on return. This one just warns me with a small green blob in the Dock there are unread items.

One of the feeds I’m subscribed to is the one with new gadget reviews. I saw an article reviewing new stuff that came out for the Wii, called Riiflex. They are dumbell Wii-motes. They would work great with My Fitness Coach. I own the PC version, but I’d love to try the Wii version, since I don’t use my PC that much anymore. It would be great to be able to work out using Wii-motes with weights, it’s good for you and super geeky! Too bad the things are so expensive: $34.95 for 2 lbs. weights and $39.95  for 4 lbs.

Links:

• Riiflex Weights Make the Wii Fitter
• Riiflex online store
  

I don’t exactly know where I found  this site. It’s a pillow with built-in speaker you can attach to your portable music player, so you can listen to your favorite music before sleeping.

Usually I listen to podcasts or ambient music before sleeping and take my iPod and put it under my pillow. Having to listen through my earbuds is really uncomfortable. Therefore I think a pillow like that would be a great hit, I never thought such things would exist. You can order it online! Geeky gadget alert!! Go over to GeekAlerts.com to find out more!