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EPISODE 125 |
Today’s episode inspired by Tributes.com
Dell’s Mini 10 Netbook debuting on…QVC?
Wheego Whip electric car coming to America in May for $19K
All the DJ’s in the house say “OW”--the Samsung Beat DJ has arrived
Bear sleeping bag will keep you safe from bear attacks, I assume
The eagerly anticipated MP3 speaker/perfume convergence
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Some of you may have heard of a thing called the Apple iPod. Today, an apple farmer out of Japan brings you the iPod Apple. By placing hand-cut stickers of the Apple logo or a silhouette of an iPod on the fruit, the farmer gives these special apples "tan lines" that show love for his favorite consumer electronics brand.
I've been accused of being an Apple fanboy many times before (and, more recently, a Zune fanboy), but even I wouldn't go so far as to Apple-ize my food.
And being that the crown jewel of Cupertino is so litigious, the Japanese farmer might want to consider trading some of those apples for an attorney. I mean, Steve won't let that logo go on just anything these days.
(Source: Weird Asia News via Geekologie)
Parents on the lookout for carefree, unintimidating ways to urge the sprout of their young kids' creativity ought to take a look at Ten Amazing Fruits. As the product name suggests, Ten Amazing Fruits stars a sampling of botanical characters, including the frequently miscast tomato (hurrah!) These are not, however, your garden-variety fruits. Each outsize organic possesses arms, feet, and a blank face upon which children can attach, Mr. Potato Head-style, a variety of digital features and appendages. A posh voice recites object names when the cursor mouses by, but a quick trip to the options can put an end to it.
Hidden in the branches of the app's help manual are instructions on playing the loosely defined game, and an accompanying story written cheerfully in passable English translation. The goal? Help the fruit escape certain death-by-digestion by dragging and dropping on eyes, ears, and noses so they can find their way out of the fruit bowl. Yawn. Without the app's interaction, it's much more satisfying to dream up new stories for each character, and save the fertile faces to the computer as BMP or proprietary FRD files, or print them out to adorn the fridge.
While light-hearted fun, Ten Amazing Fruits is no study in sophistication. Woefully short on graphic finesse, additional backgrounds and accouterments, and space to type new stories, the app nevertheless offers a whimsical and wonderfully silly way for young kids to personify produce.
And at the very least, an early lesson on the tomato's true horticultural alliance. My dapper three-eyed Mr. Tomato, vested in black hat and bow tie, would surely agree.
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Fareastgizmos)
There's a funny thing about LG's new "banana phone." Unless we're mistaken, it doesn't have much in common with its namesake fruit.
For one thing, it's not yellow. In fact, the only color at all (other than white) seems to be a hint of orange. And even though it does have a slightly curved form, we highly doubt that you'd mistake it for a Chiquita if it were hanging around the produce section at Safeway. The LG-SV280 does make good on the other half of its name, however, in that it is indeed a phone.
The handset, which probably will be available only in Asia for the time being, has a 2-inch color LCD screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera and 142MB of memory. But here's the weirdest part of all: Its key pad, according to Fareastgizmos, is "scented with lavender." We're not marketing geniuses, but why would a banana phone smell like lavender?
Still, you've got to give LG credit for trying, especially because people clearly have been clamoring for one of these for years. Besides, fellow Craver Bonnie Cha seems to like it, and that's all that counts in our book.
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