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Crave: A Human Hamster Wheel for Living!

2008-04-24
cyborg keyboards reactive light clothing and a human hamster wheel plus our special guest miss jessica dual-core hey guys all that a moron crave hey guys welcome to crave the show where all things cool have been happening in tech we talk about it right here and you can check out our blog at crave cnet com because that's where you'll find all the things we talked about today so Jessica things coming back it's great to be here again all right now one of the items that I checked out on a crave blog was this cyborg gaming keyboard and it has these three LEDs behind it that are different colors you can blend them and have the keyboard look have a different backlight technical it has like metal caps for the keys if you're like too rough on it but I think it just kind of looks like Darth Vader's like chess box but does it talk to you in that tinny voice it futuristic it doesn't it's pretty much just a really nerdy device oh okay well perfect for you thank you the second thing I've got is from a company called Brando it's called the ultrasmart cable it is a cell phone strap that doubles as a USB charging cable now there are bunch of these on the market John Chen from cnet Asia found this one what makes it extra cool is that it's also got a microSD slot so you can store data and also sync between your phone and the computer that is extra that's only 14 bucks and I totally wouldn't use it I got something cooler so on a crave blog there's this clothing with LED lights basically it's for bicyclists at the moment and it has an accelerometer in the in the clothing that talks to these LEDs and so if you're going really fast it's green as you're slowing down these three lights like on the cuff turn yellow and then when he's stopping it turns red I think that's the best thing for the club yeah well okay let's say we take this technology into dating yeah I think it would help guys out if girls wore this clothing but it wasn't like accelerometer base would be like green like yeah baby talk to me yellow like slow your roll I don't know what color it is right now for you and me and I read like stop that now if you applied that tech to there it's kind of cool that would definitely you know help you out now we always have trivia for you guys and this week jessica has the question what was the final sound effects you heard and last week's do not crave good one now what's really cool about it is this if you're the 10th person email us at driving me crazy at cnet com check what we got for you we have the sansa fuze mp3 player we're not messing around we're going big this time so email us and you might be a winner and now it's time for a segment that you guys all love you know what's coming do not crave converging technologies like cell phones and watches are already happening but what about converting different aspects of your life well that's what turn on is trying to accomplish this hamster wheel contraption claims to be economical with space and the idea is to roll the wheel into the position you need for a particular room or setting so a kitchen check bedroom you got it now part of the wheel is a wet cell that's proposed to house the bathroom toilet and shower are you for reals like do you really want to use the bathroom and then rotate in a heating up mom's leftover meatloaf no you don't this idea is definitely thinking outside the box but come on now we just got to say do not quite all right what do you think about that absolutely disgusting so you do the shoe and then you eat is that cool with you okay you know I think I wouldn't buy that yeah that's like nightmare ikea yeah it's gross as long as you don't have to assemble it i think it's alright alright thanks for coming on the show awesome thank you next time right alright cool but only if I get one of those cool accelerometers okay yeah that'll that will help me now you guys to check out everything on our show at krave cnet com and we will see you guys next week
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