You may not know it yet, but the Sylvania DOT-it LED Light may just save you a hospital visit.
When I was 15, I got myself into a bad scrape…literally. I had just come out of a cool shower (it was in the middle of Summer, you see) and, like many other post-bath rituals, proceeded to apply a hefty swath of deodorant on myself. I reached into the cabinet beside the sink like I had a hundred times before and suddenly felt a dull but sobering pain emanating from my hand. I yanked it out and instantly realized that I had wounded myself and was starting to bleed copious amounts of blood onto the floor. I freaked, called out for whomever was still at home and, after a semi-detailed, semi-panicked explanation, threw some clothes on and headed straight to the hospital emergency room.
What happened exactly? The cabinet shelves were made of glass, and I had inadvertently jammed my hand on the edge of one shelf, slicing my knuckle clear through to the bone.
As it turned out, like many other superficial wounds, my gash was less worse off than it initially appeared. Thankfully, all the proof I have of that day is this little centimeter-long scar just above my knuckle.
So how will the Sylvania DOT-it LED Light save you a visit to the doctor’s office? If my accident had happened at night instead of right around noon, the shelves would have been lit up and I would have avoided the event altogether. You know I’m right.
We’ll be honest: the reviews for the Salton Wet Tunes WT51PL Shower Radio and CD Player aren’t the best. In fact, one of them is downright scathing. Granted, whoever wrote it has the spelling and punctuation skills of an 8-year old (and very well may be of that age), but it does raise a flag. I gotta tell you though, I was shocked. My first radio was a Salton and I thought that thing was great. I brought it in the shower and it worked as advertised, which essentially meant that it didn’t short out. Audio was a bit muffled, but not to a point where it was unlistenable.
My point is for $25 this isn’t that bad a purchase. True, you can get a pretty decent meal for that or maybe even feed and clothe a needy child in a foreign country for a month, but do you really want that instead of the ability to rock out to Bon Jovi in the shower? I mean, seriously. No contest.
Back in the day (and I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this story in a older post, but meh) I paid a pretty penny just to get myself a 64MB thumbdrive. Naturally, a week or so after the little keychain link broke off I lost the tiny thing somewhere between one of the many jaunts I made between my apartment and the laundromat. Feeling strangely naked (and, because I ran out of underwear that day, I was technically), I decided to take the and plunge and double-up to a mind-blowing 128MB thumbdrive…which I lost within 15 minutes of leaving the store. I kid you not. It was the gadget leprechauns, I swear.
Either way, I paid more money than I probably should have back then, but now you don’t have to. For a mere $36.54 you can be the proud owner of one of these 2GB Attache USB 2.0 Thumbdrives. Then for once you can claim that for one brief shining moment that you were actually smarter than me.
I apologize for that last remark. Somehow my anti-@$$hole pills got mixed up with my aunt’s suppositories and I really didn’t feel like testing each one out.
Have you ever heard of Astar? We haven’t, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t make good products. All that means is that if their gadgets ever fall apart, you’ll have a harder time getting them fixed! But since we’ve never bought anything with Astar plastered all over it, we’ll have to assume that it’s a good product and worth purchasing.
Plus, the Astar PD3010 Astar Portable DVD Player with 6.5 inch Screen is cheap, or at least relatively so. If you could shut your little angels up for that 12 hour car ride to Gramma’s, we bet you’d pay more.
Sometimes there really is no justification for spending money on teeny-tiny items. As much as we think that high-end earphones like the ones from Etymotic and Shure are probably well worth the money to those who still have access to the majority of audio frequencies, there are moments that make us go, uh yeah I’d rather spend that money on food.
If you’re a budding thrift maven, try out these KOSS Stereo In-Ear Ear Plugs for the low-low price of nine Washingtons. The idea is, after all, to enjoy your music, not be a slave to it. Remember, at the end of the day, you can’t eat MP3s.
By now you must be thinking, enough with the bluetooth headsets already! Haven’t they milked this genre for all it’s worth? Do they really want our hard-earned money that badly? To all three statements we reply with a resounding “Yes!” and continue to serve gruel to orphans while twirling our handlebar mustaches. The mustaches are fake, though. As for the orphans, to keep costs down we’ve resorted to serving their tears as drinking water.
When you’re done writing that “you #$^)*(ing *#^*^* are gonna burn in &$@^*$ hell!” letter (which no doubt will contain a statement, phrased in one form or another, that will relate the true and tragic plight of the world’s orphaned children), then you can whip out your credit cards and expend yet another capitalist load over this Bluetrek Silver S2 Bluetooth Headset.
See? Was that so hard?
The el-cheapo Bluetooth headset sale bonanza continues with the Wireless Technologies BT625 Bluetooth Headset. In homage to this momentous event (and because I’m reaching for a way to put in about 200 words of text so the image doesn’t fark up the site’s layout), here are five reasons why we think that Bravo TV’s Project Runway is one of TV’s best guilty pleasures:
- It’s got Heidi Klum-Seal.
- Tim Gunn’s cool.
- It’s got freaks whose names don’t end with Hilton and Ritchie.
- Every contestant on the show, even the one-trick ponies, deserve to be on it.
- For one hour each week, we get to criticize people more talented than we are.
Back when we first wrote about the Motorola HS820 Bluetooth Headset, we listed the item at a cheap and tiny price of $35. What fools we were! What impressionable minds we had that were so quickly toyed with by such deceit! Oh, if we had the wisdom then that we have now, we would be gods!
Seriously, the thing just dropped another five bucks, so if you were one of those who thought of the first offer as “attractive, but not Heidi Klum attractive”, then consider yourself properly enamoured.
Now and then, we like to mix things up a bit and deviate slightly from the cheap and tiny definition. Well, it’s not that much of a deviation if you really think about it from another perspective. Next to an elephant, a hard drive might be considered tiny. Heck, stick a pre-gastric bypass Star Jones next to Webster and the notion is even more evident. Bullhonkey aside, this is such a great deal we felt that it would be an utter travesty for us to not share this with our loyal readers. Yeah, I’m just trying to snow you. Just read on, will ya?
Fry’s Electronics, that haven for computer and gadget geeks across the country, is selling a Seagate 400GB PATA Hard Drive for $109.99. That’s about a quarter per gigabyte, which is pretty darn sweet.
Here’s some news for you, friend; just because your mom doesn’t say you’re fat doesn’t mean you aren’t. Being big boned is a myth too. That’s what I had to come to grips with after I finally developed common sense and realized that being called pleasantly plump was just a euphemism for fat ass.
You don’t have to feel fat, however; you can know it definitively too! The Omron HBF-306 Body Fat Analyzer is an electronic body fat analyzer that tells you just how much of that yellow goo in your system is squeezing into those size 40 pants of yours. Then, once you know just how close to that big buffet line in the sky you are, maybe you’ll decide once and for all that thin is in and fat is wack. Word.
P.S. You can get $10 off Omron products if your purchases total over $49 with this rebate. Just enter OMRONRBT during checkout and you’re good to go. Here’s a hint: Add the body fat analyzer to the Omron Digital Pedometer and you’ve got yourself a discount. See how nice we are!