Gadgetory

welcome to the crave video podcast I'm Veronica Belmont this is the show where we talk about the wildest wackiest craziest kind of gadget stuff that we find on the internets and also on craved cnet com so with me today is ryan block managing editor of engadget and he's going to tell us a little bit about some of the cool stuff that is on your site one thing in particular that I saw that was crazy this week was that we laptop yeah a lot of people really like that so what's up with that where did that even come from so one of our regular columnist name is Ben Heck andorran he's kind of known in the console modding community he actually makes laptops and portables out of old video game system so he did so uh he's done like Ataris he's done like I think you did Jaguar he definitely he was really well known for his xbox 360 live heard about master yeah so um I wanted him to do a a wee laptop and it came out really well I really like it it kinda looks old school it's very blocky and kind of hefty looking is this really something that you could take on the go with you or is this just for fun uh it's both I mean you could take it on the go with you but I mean it's I think the novelty factor is really high with it yeah I mean it doesn't even it's not wireless is it in what sense I thought like I thought you had to plug in it yeah you have to plug in there isn't a version without a break yet oh well that's kind of disappointing but I mean it would be fun to take on a plane or something so what's the distance you have to be away from it is it different from a normal TV well because he actually integrated the the sensors up in the top of the display it's much closer so you can actually be like really I mean you could use it on your lap if you want to go so right so is there anything on the Cray flogged that you've seen that was especially interesting or weird yeah I really like the ergo pod 500 the ergo pod 500 that is yeah I noticed that today definitely yeah it's this giant contraption where you're basically strapped in no it's it's good to use if you have a disability or if your bed written for any reason you can kind of lay and comfortably have the monitor position kind of like this it's a little awkward looking you can understand how it'd be economic well I mean you know for a blogger like myself I mean getting out of bed is the hardest part of the day so I mean this way I could literally roll over and start my work day in tough life yeah real tough life anyway the one thing I'd be worried about though is we live in earthquake country and what if suddenly just is huge like monitor just fell off and like hit you on the head that's not something that's not a chance i want to take person get a flat screen get one of those like light flat screens you know you don't want a big CRT or anything minimal damage yeah I suppose minimizer well we're helmet wear a helmet there you go we've been talking about some really blinged-out gadgets lately and i saw this mouse a twenty four thousand dollar mouse with a diamond flower and that's even the name the diamond flower mouse by pat says now pat says now kind of like right said fred like they said yes in a blog post exactly except not quite as cool and shirtless anyway so this mouse but the thing I don't understand is it's not even a wireless mouse I mean I would expect for twenty four thousand dollars that it would need to give you a hand massage or like kind of prevent carpal tunnel or something really high-tech for that amount of money no you know I mean you have to work for that kind of beauty that luxury yeah absolutely so I'm I noticed that last week you actually had a LED backlit Korean kind of disco keyboard and what you guys like disco lot here yeah we tend to err on the side of disco more often than not this week we have the disco funk phone phone that's it has phone twice in the name and it actually it looks like a platform shoe and it's huge and the picture has a girl probably about nine years old she doesn't know what disco is that's way before her time but anyway it has three different disco ringtones also it's only twenty bucks it's 1999 I would imagine it wouldn't be more than toy duck are you serious i don't i would pay way more money for that i mean i would pay like 50 bucks for a disco phone this thing is crazy it has a huge platform on it you lift it up listen to your donna summer and you're all set you're ready what imagine it's kind of like the 70s throwback Maxwell Smart I'm gonna have to hold out till they got the the goldfish version all right well anyway I think that's all the time we have today I'll see you guys next week for even more disco gadgets possibly who knows thanks Ryan for being on the show this week and so if you want to see more gadgets you can check them out at crave da Siena calm and if you want to send me something in you can do so by emailing hatsune at doc I'll see you next time