Wacky Gadgets

Scenario: You’re sitting at a table in a decent restaurant enjoying a nice meal with your little lady when a cellphone at the table next to you starts singing Baby Got Back. A portly man picks up the phone and proceeds to have a conversation with his baby sitter, without excusing himself from the dining [...]

We’ve seen some handset manufacturers take a few liberties here and there, but at least they typically try to issue specs that bear some semblance of reality. Sometimes however, you skip past a gem that warrants a double-take, a snicker and a few solid minutes of pointing and laughing. Take the LionKing800 for example. Moving [...]

There is such a thing, we believe, as technology for technology’s sake. In other words, the practice of utilizing exciting new technological advancements in such a way that renders them infinitely less attractive; ridiculous even. Take the Roadrunner bluetooth headset pictured above. No, that’s not a high-tech communicator for tracheotomy patients. Body conduction technology nothing [...]

This dress may very well spawn more obnoxious one-liners than the advent of the frat house. It may also look like something out of The Fifth Element, but believe it or not it could be the start of an interesting new trend. Perhaps plugging your gear into your laptop bag for a charge isn’t up [...]

If you’re the type of person that, as a kid, longed for a wrist-based communication device, your savior may have arrived. A new touchscreen-cell-phone-wristwatch is now available via Think Geek, and in spite of its geekiness, is actually pretty slick. Its tiny touchscreen is operated by a tiny stylus, and can be used for the [...]

The Kegerator holds a special place in our hearts. Any fridge that has a built-in tap and keeps our beer chilly is a special product. But show us a video game console with a pony keg built into it, and our loyalties will quickly switch. Oh wait…there it is. The Gamerator is a much better [...]

Adorning your cell phone with Swarovski crystals is soooooo 2006. Want to step up your game and bling the next big thing? Well, someone seems to think that means icing your toilet. It’s new from the "Isis" collection from designer Jemal Wright out of Hollywood, Florida. And it can be yours for the meager price [...]

It’s not like you see many phone booths anymore, and even fewer uses for them. With cell phones in the pockets of almost every person that can walk, it’s no wonder that such is the case. And with that, we introduce the hybrid of then-and-now: The cell phone booth. Sure, there’s a benefit of privacy that [...]

Yeah, there’s luxury, and then there’s luxury. This item falls firmly into the latter category. Constructed by Danish company Lantic Systems, the Gold RC1 remote control is quite the savage beast. It allows you to control a wide array of different devices, including a TV, DVD Player, CD Player, CCTV system, alarm system, lights, curtains, [...]

There have been some pretty silly phone concepts, and this one isn’t that much better. But, at least it’s got some kind of purpose. Well…two, actually. Anything called "PenPhone" should be pretty easy to figure out. It’s a pen…and a phone. As you can see from the picture above, it sports a decent array of [...]

Looking for a little nostalgic love when you’re loading up your USB drive? The cleverly named Mixa Tape is a USB flash drive disguised as a mixtape. Granted, the box depicted here looks nothing like any mix tape we’ve ever seen here at BGR world headquarters, but to each his / her own we suppose, [...]

We couldn’t make something like this up if we tried. Apparently someone, somewhere, seems to think that dogs like music enough to warrant creating an MP3 player specifically for canines. Sounds weird, right? It gets a bit stranger. The JooZoo diamond-encrusted canine MP3 player is just that. The player is apparently able to sense your [...]

Awesome. Simply awesome. We’re all for anything that can make a lazy person even lazier. Enter: The Iron Aid steam dryer. It’s a pretty standard looking dryer, but the added cycle is the kicker. After the traditional dry cycle, an added steam cycle buffs those wrinkles out for you. It takes another 20 minutes, but [...]