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Posted on 03.10.08 by Widge @ 8:53 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Sometimes Fred & Friends gets my hopes up that a product is real, when it's not. And from what I can tell, this isn't. But it should be. It really, really should be. Mostly because when I try to draw the lines on my hand, I can't ever get them that straight. Categorized as: Gear
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Posted on 03.10.08 by Widge @ 11:36 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Yes, I know...when I first saw this over on NotCot, I thought it was a joke too. But apparently not. blu-ray, CARGOs revolutionary new collection originally created for make-up artists filiming in high-definition, is designed to provide flawless results while maintaining a perfectly natural look. Because life happens in High-Definition… I don't know about you, but my life is definitely not happening in high-definition. My life is on one of those tiny screens in Brazil with the giant magnifying glass in front of it and meaningless characters streaming up its length, like a steampunk Matrix. In fact, my life is a bare bones Warner Brothers DVD release in one of those annoying snap cases. Released in full frame. Without even a trailer. What format is your life in? Categorized as: Gear
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Posted on 02.07.08 by Widge @ 10:23 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Joe Michaels hacked a Holographic Cobra Commander action figure to turn him into a USB drive. You can get all the details here. But after seeing that, an idea for a follow-up character-into-USB-drive conversion came to mind and I'm amazed that a Google search reveals I'm the first one to document it. It's so terribly simple:  Arnim Zola. I mean, he's 90% there before you've even started. Rig it so his face lights up when you plug him in. You know you want to. Categorized as: Gear
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Posted on 01.07.08 by Widge @ 3:53 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  So originally I scoffed at the idea that Sanrio is targeting their Hello Kitty products to young men now. And not to sound like a sexist bastard, but come on, Hello Kitty is quite possibly the most girly-girl thing in the world. Even young boys who make no differentiation between Barbies and G.I. Joes (not dolls, but action figures...right) would fork the sign of the evil eye if you placed a Hello Kitty doll in front of them. Hello Kitty is so freaking pink that even Mary Kay herself would rise from the grave to say, "You really need to tone that down a bit." Our own Rox of Spazhouse polled her young male relatives about Hello Kitty for boys and found the answer to be not just no, but "Hell no and BTW what were you thinking?" That being said, although I would never walk around with this as either a handbag or a manbag (or whatever you want to call it--although the "manbag" has always sounded too much like a piece of the male anatomy for me to take it seriously as a term), the creators of this bootleg gear get points for mashing up Hello Kitty with Sin City. They came damn close to getting my interest, but sorry, still no cigar. Guys, help me out here: have you been dying for official Hello Kitty gear that's designed with you in mind? Categorized as: Gear
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Posted on 12.20.07 by Widge @ 6:45 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  You'll forgive me if I'm a bit gabberflasted by this: Voltron shoes. And not just Voltron shoes like those cartoon-themed shoes you'd wear back in the 80s, these are full-on shoes with $80 to $135 price tags and such. And if there was any doubt the aging-geeks-with-money demographic wasn't being targeted here, they each come with an action figure that, when you buy all five pairs of shoes, you can make into a Voltron. For the full pic, click here. Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the milkman...I was stunned enough by the cheesy Voltron camera, but this takes the cake. Can we at least get some Prince Lotor shoes or something, just for some balance? Those can be the cheap $15 flip flops. But come on, something. And is anybody not thinking of this? Didn't think so. Categorized as: Gear
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