Tag Archives: home entertainment

Consider yourself the ultimate Terminator fan? Then you’ll have to prove your allegiance to Arnold by plunking down $180 for the T2 Complete Collector’s Set. What does $180 score you? First off, it gets you a case for all the DVDs that resembles a 14″ bust of the T-800 Terminator’s head, complete with glowing red eyes and sound effects. What? ...

The pogo stick. One of the most frustrating toys of my childhood for sure. On the other hand, once you started jumping and got the hang of it, it provided endless fun during the summer. Check out the Flybar, a modern update on the pogo stick. Using super-strong elastic bands and an adjustable piston, you can get some serious height ...

The next time your child complains about taking a bath, shove some candy and Water Flutes in their face and they’ll love you forever. For real this time. Water Flutes are just what they sound like. You fill the plastic tubes up with water whilst in the bathtub. Then, you read the included sheet music and learn how to play ...

Gizmodo has a few pictures of the last day of Circuit City. Inside? Nothing but fixtures that were apparently sold to a local Best Buy store. I bet Best Buy employees get free cake today. Mmmm, cake. Link

Can people actually afford such extravagant luxury during our current economic crisis? Bang & Olufsen seems to think so and is rolling out its new BeoSound 5 luxury audio system today across North America. For the exorbitant price tag of $5900, you get the base system, which will no doubt require additional purchases to make the most out of the ...

Have $8 sitting in your wallet? What good is it going to do there? Do yourself a favor and spend your hard-earned cash on these Shark Fin Ice Trays. They help you create fin-shaped cubes of ice that you can later put into your mixed drinks. Guests at your Hawaii-themed party will go apeshit and absolute bananas when they see ...

Reading at night. Since children, we’ve enjoyed this ritual of waiting for the lights to go out then grabbing a flashlight and a book to read. But what about us older people who don’t have to worry about getting caught being up late but instead would like to read in the dark. After all, it feels great to pass out ...

We’ve been following the Circuit City bankruptcy very closely. Yesterday, we showed you some of the liquidation “deals” that readers posted around the Internet. Nothing spectacular there, but even less spectacular is Circuit City’s official website. It has no online store now and just announces the closing of all its stores, bankruptcy proceedings and other legal jib-jab. After 60 years, ...

It’s 11:30pm on a Friday night and you’ve just been put on bar-tending duty at the Kappa Phi house. A new keg has just been tapped and the girls over to the right are screaming for another pitcher of Natty Ice for the beer pong table. You snap out of it and realize you have a job to do. The ...

Your kids will be going crazy later this year, as LEGO will be coming out with its own line of consumer electronics such as digital cameras, walkie talkies and a whole lot more. Electronics company Digital Blue will partner with LEGO to create the devices, which will feature design that draws from LEGO bricks. You won’t be able to break ...