Gadgets Blog

A quick recap of gadget blogs and news around the Net:

• Behind the Scenes: The story behind Batman’s Bat-Pod - Popular Mechanics
• iPod Speaker hangs from your key chain - Technabob
• AT&T’s free Wi-Fi spots at Starbucks now available for iPhone users - AT&T
• USB-powered, Heat Me stirrer - Coolest-Gadgets
• FOOTLOOSE! Power generating dance floor hits the UK - Engadget
• Seattle tries to get rid of toilets via eBay - Gizmodo
• Prototype Back to the Future shoe, up for auction - OhGizmo!

And this week in the Smarter Gadgets Blog we talked about:

• GPS Deal & Coupon: Pioneer In-Dash Satellite Radio/GPS
• Nintendo Wii MotionPlus To Make the Wiimote More Accurate
• Buy Blu Ray: Sony BDP-S300 Tabletop Blu-Ray for $287.95
• Shouting Vase to Drown Out Your Temper Tantrums
  

It’s amazing to me what people will pay for these days.

Behold! The Shouting Vase! For only $80, this magnificent invention will allow you to scream at the top of your lungs without the neighbors hearing a peep! Something you’ve been waiting to do your whole lives!

I’m in the wrong business. This thing is just a vase with a hole in the bottom. Put some plastic flowers in it and you’ll never know the difference and call it abstract art.

I can do this, if not better. I wonder if I can fool the public to fork out $80 on a $5 pillow. I can hear the sales floor now:

Customer: “Umm, what is this?”

Salesman: “A Noise Stuffer.”

Customer: “No it’s not. It’s a pillow.”

Salesman: “To the naked eye it’s a pillow, but let me demonstrate.”

The salesman screams into the pillow. Only a muffle!

Customer: “Wow, I’m sorry. I’ll take two. Junior has a temper.”

I’ll call you guys from my soon-to-be beach house in the Hamptons.

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