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 room, about how it’s her fault that little Billy peed the bed because she shouldn’t have given him so much soda. You get fed up, jump out of your seat and stab the man with your salad fork. It’s ok, we’ve all been there. While you still manage to maintain that look on your face that says, "If I could do it again I would" as the police drag you away, rest assured that there is a better way to handle these situations. If you had been carrying, say, your trusty T-1000 Personal Cell Phone Jammer / Blocker you could have whipped it out, ended the fat man’s conversation and saved yourself $1,000 in bail money and a pissed off girlfriend. This handy little device isn’t legal either per say, but it’ll definitely carry a much smaller penalty than aggravated assault or manslaughter. There is a small problem though; the jamming range on the T-1000 is only about 3-10 feet however, so it might be more effective if you beat someone with it. Then you’re getting back into felony territory though.

[Via DVICE]

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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 past the fact that if this device was built by any credible manufacturer they would have a hell of a lawsuit on their hands, why would anyone try to pass off a handset as having a full year of standby time? Yes, the 16,800 mAh battery is absolutely gigantic but no, it certainly won’t provide 3 - 5 days of talk time and 365 days of standby time. Now that we’ve cleared the air, the device itself is actually kind of badass. In fact, if it was quad-band we might even snag a few to play with. Spec highlight time:

• Dual SIM slots
• MicroSD support
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.5" Touchscreen with handwriting recognition
• Four speakers
• "16,800 mAh battery super long standby"
• MP3, MP4 support
• e-book reader

Spec lowlight time:

• 265K color screen
• Dual 0.3 megapixel cameras
• GSM900 / DCS1800
• GPRS only

Ok, so which brave soul is going to order one to play with? Entrance fee: $145 and cahones of steel.

[Via Gizmodo]

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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 new, but it is relatively new to the mainstream and offers a good deal of promise. The idea of using bones within the ear canal, throat or elsewhere in the body to collect and transmit sound vibrations is something that will continue to peak the interest of accessory manufacturers. When the concept of body conduction is placed in the wrong hands however, well, you see what can happen. If you can work your way past Johnny Model’s searing stare (he is no doubt visualizing the violent muder of his agent for landing him this gig*) you’ll notice that the design of the Roadrunner bluetooth headset is simply atrocious; regardless of whether or not it removes nearly all ambient noise from a conversation. Walking around with a blinking bulb stuck to the side of your head is bad enough. Somehow, the Roadrunner headset was developed under the impression that it is okay to voluntarily walk around with a contraption like this attached to your body. We assure you, it’s not.

*The Boy Genius Report does not condone violence of any kind, unless it results in the removal of Roadrunner headgear from someone’s neck.

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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 your alley; how about plugging into your girlfriend? New York-based Studio 5050’s latest project dubbed Day-for-Night is a dress that is actually a network of small white circuit boards. The dress can be reconfigured as the wearer desires as the boards are fully modular. Of course Day-for-Night isn’t purely decorative; each board is ready for jumper connectors and either an RGB LED, a photocell or even a solar cell. That’s right, the Day-for-Night dress could potentially be home to 400 or more solar cells just waiting to charge up all kinds of gear. In its current stage of development, the dress already integrates a control board and / or a variety of other equipment. In terms of solar power, there is no reason that Studio 5050 couldn’t rework it and add some kind of storage mechanism to extend its usefulness beyond direct sunlight. All of the interesting possibilities aside though, we have to wonder what happens if it rains?

[Via Gadget Lab]

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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 basics: phone calls, SMS, notes, calendar entries. Best of all, it’s an unlocked GSM phone, so as long as you’re on a GSM carrier, you can just pop your SIM card into it, and you’re set! It’s got a minimal amount of media-capable internal memory (60MB), but it does come with its own Bluetooth headset, which you can ditch in favor of your own, or even a wired variant. And, it’s not limited to watch form. You can also rock it as a pendant. Holla! Grab your $199 and head to Think Geek to pick one up for that nasty little cousin of yours you don’t know what to buy.

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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 design than it is a name. 26-inches of HDTV goodness, wrapped around a Windows XP machine, with a free one-year GameTap gold membership and its 1,000+ online games. And, of course, the built-in tap and 38-degrees-cold spot for your keg. Sure, it’s $4,000, but when compared to many upright arcade games, that’s actually a bit of a bargain. Let the games begin!

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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 of $75k. Should that not be enough for you and your trust fund, he’s also got a sink available, and coming soon…a bathtub. Personally, we can think of a lot of better things to spend that kind of scratch on, but we’re also a big fan of the ridiculous, and this definitely qualifies.

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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 you normally don’t get when using your cell phone in public, but at what cost? I don’t think there are many people willing to look this stupid for that kind of privacy. Why not just step into a quiet, unoccupied room? For those freaking about possible production of such a wacky device, fear not. This is simply an artist’s project, and one that is intended to get people to shut up while on their phone in public.

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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, air conditioning, and pretty much anything else with an IR receiver. Not bad, right? Well sure, but when the damn thing costs $30,000 not including tax, it starts to sounds a little bit less appealing. It is, of course, made from pure gold, but again, if you’re not a Saudi Sheik we’re not sure if the price is quite worth it. But if you absolutely must have the hottest remote on the block, consider yourself fairly warned.

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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 features, including USB charging/syncing, a small LCD screen (that you can scroll with by using the twisty-knob-thingy on the end), and touch sensitive keypad. It even has a MicroSD slot, though it remains to be seen what that would be good for. You can’t view media on it, and we don’t imagine that anything that packed with tech would also be able to sport decent speakers. We don’t see a headphone jack, either. No doubt that iPhone fanboys won’t be tossing their beloved into the trash and lining up for this, but as a concept, we applaud the thinking. Supposedly, it really exists, though no one’s ever actually seen it in person. Suckers.

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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, and anyone looking to bring a little custom style to the table will be happy to know that these babies can be hand decorated to your heart’s content. With high-definition video and MP3 downloads ruling our minds, it’s nice to remember where we came from (though we think a USB Vinyl LP might be a bit more appropriate). Currently available in the UK only, 20 Pounds buys you a Mixa Tape with 1 GB of storage, a set of designer stickers, and a USB extension cable.

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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 dog’s mood, and play an accompanying soundtrack that complements his / her state of mind. The real kicker here, however, is that the JooZoo should run you about $2,000 before tax, making it a pretty significant investment for something that will no doubt be mistaken for puppy chow and, well, eaten. Buy at your own risk, fellas.

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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 hey…that’s another 20 couch-sitting-minutes. Downside? There are two…1) It only does 5 shirts at a time. Who only washes 5 shirts at a time? And 2) It costs $1,145. All of a sudden, hanging the shirt you’re going to wear that day in the shower so it can steam the wrinkles out doesn’t sound like such a bad play anymore.

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