Category Archives: Gadgets

WAAANT! Earloomz STAR WARS Bluetooth Headsets

Because I’m a biz gal and a relentless geek, I haz a dilemma: how to talk hands-free on my cell without looking like a douchebag – and we all know how hard that is to do.

But today, like a beacon of light shining down from the galaxies, my inbox glowed with the news that Earloomz was releasing an entire collection of Star Wars-inspired Bluetooth headsets.

From the press release:

The new Earloomz STAR WARS collection includes four distinct headsets – featuring Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker and The Empire Strikes Back’s climactic ’Dark Duel.’ Future styles  - including Yoda, R2-D2, C-3PO, Princess Leia, Darth Maul, Chewbacca the Wookiee, Jabba the Hutt, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi and more – are planned for release later in 2011.

HUZZAH! NOW I can look like a SUPER-NERDY douchebag! From far away, I will seem like a pretentious business woman, but up close – BAM! – I gots the Force. In my ear.

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PS: If someone sends me one, I’m going to take a series of photos of myself in public wearing this thing. Making awesome faces. Being awesome.

PPS: Douche Vader.

Happy GiveawayTime! “LoveBots” Robot-Buildin’ iPad/iPhone App

Internationally-acclaimed pop/urban-artist and author, Remo Camerota, has created this superfun, brilliant little app called LoveBots ($2.99 on iTunes), which you can download on your iWhatHaveYou’s to build your very own cartoon robots – either for avatars, profile pics, or to mock your friends with – using a bazillion different styles of accessories, backgrounds and bodyparts.

This would definitely be a WAAANT! for me if I had an iPhone or iPad – but since I don’t (I’m one of those Blackberry freaks), I aim to live vicariously through y’allz. And hey, make me an adorable mechanical friend, will you?

WIN THIS: I will choose 5 people who comment on this post (NOT just the first five, but the BEST five!) with their favorite robot of all time (be it R2D2, Fembots, Data, etc.) and WHY, to get a FREE promo code to download the app for their iPod or iPad!

BUY THIS: at the iTunes app store

Don’t say I never gave you nothin’.

PDA with my PDA : Blackberry vs. iPhone

I’m Anti-iPhone. There, I said it. Yeah, I’m weird. Yeah, I’m missing out on cool applications like “Virtual Beer” and “Tap Tap Dance” and “Virtual Monkey in a Bubble Going Down Slides.”

But I’m not missing out on my cheek accidentally calling that dude I met last month at the bar that I said I’d call but never did. I’m not missing the grease spots on the screen after I eat a delicious slice of ricotta and broccoli pizza from Danny’s Pizzeria around the block. I’m really not missing the muscle strain I’ll develop from having to crane my neck for all those flip-flopping, sliding, draggable screen-thingies.

And no other handheld device has ever been haunted by Apple founder and billionaire Steve Jobs, which says a lot (although, having your phone haunted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be cool, and – I’ll admit it – arousing).

Frankly, I’m a Blackberry kinda girl. Give me email, internet, and a scroll wheel. Plus, those Blackberry device names are sexy – Pearl, Curve, Bold, Storm; they sound like the monikers of hulking male exotic dancers, glistening with body oil and man sweat from sexydancetime exertions.

The Blackberry Bold, Storm and Curve, respectively.

So, while all you iPhone users are flitting your greasy appendages over that touchy-whatever-screen, I’ll be having practical PDA with my shiny new hunk of a PDA.