The Zombie flash mob group—yes, they’re exactly how they sound—over at eatbrains.com organized and pulled off an SF Apple Store invasion yesterday. Brain and flesh-eating Zombies filed into the Apple store and feasted on white plastic along with their usual blood and guts, which probably helped their digestion a little thanks to Apple’s recent efforts to go green. Worst pun of the year? Probably.
In any case, if you’re at all interested in seeing hippies and yuppies dressed up as zombies, you know where to look. – Jason Chen
Still interested in that low-end speaker-enabled Creative Zen Wav even though its features are only mediocre at best? Then check out this video of it playing back Enya’s greatest hits. Although in our opinion, her old stuff was a lot better. She totally sold out man. Sold OUT. – Jason Chen
First Look: Creative Zen Wav [TechEBlog]
Just bought an Xbox 360 racing wheel after the price drop last week? Well take a look at this setup reader Robert’s friend gave himself for his birthday and drool.
Not only does it have a leather racing chair, the Xbox 360 racing wheel and 5.1 surround speakers, he somehow got the display to split over three Samsung HDTVs. Our only question is how the hell did he do that? We didn’t know PGR supported multi-monitors. – Jason Chen
AU: FYI, Jason has the game wrong. It is Forza 2, not PGR. -SB
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To celebrate Insteon’s second anniversary, Smarthome is offering 20% off all their home automation and lighting controls as long as you type in “EFRIEND1″ as you ecode when you check out.
They have some pretty cool stuff, like Logitech Harmony Remotes, speakers, X10 automation, and other stuff to make sure you never have to get up from your couch again. But if you’re going to do that, at least get an exerciser or something. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Smarthome]
Even though this watch doesn’t have MSN or tell you when someone’s calling, we’re still in love. Why? Because we love minimalist watches.
Instead of having two hands radiating from the center, this Issey Miyake OVO watch has two dials on the outside. The only way this could get any more minimalist is if the entire face was black and only lit up the time if you tilted the watch toward your face. Hmm, that gives us an idea. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Rakuten via Nexus404]
Although we prefer Windows Live Search for our Windows Mobile devices, some people swear by Google Maps Mobile. Well, if you’ve got a GPS-enabled BlackBerry device (like the 8800 or even some Windows Mobile phones), go and get the newest Google maps.
Google’s just added GPS capability to its Google Maps, which uses the GPS receiver in your phone to plot where you are now. Very useful when you’re on a business trip in the bell-end of Florida and can’t figure out where the hell you’re going. – Jason Chen
Google Maps Mobile [Google via Uneasy Silence]
Fans of Dell’s M1210 (the fighting twelve incher) will be interested in this update to their gaming/business notebook. Our tipster tells us that Dell will put in the old Santa Rosa-style upgrade that we’ve been seeing all over the place lately, which gives the little guy a bit of a boost in performance to keep it up to date with other laptop lines.
In other non CPU news, the M1210 update will have a 8400M DX10 graphics card, LED backlighting, slot-loading DVD drive, and be 4 pounds and smaller/thinner than the previous M1210. The tipster got his or her hands on it recently and says it’s great, but going to be very pricey. – Jason Chen
Thanks tipster!
Now you probably didn’t know this—because you’re a normal human being—but kids apparently like to huff cans of compressed air. Boy, children are really high tech these days. Back when we were small we stuck with markers, glue, and chalk, but now they’re getting all futuristic with compressed air.
That’s why Memorex just released a new line of Air Duster with “bitterant”, which makes huffing these things unpleasant. Hopefully this additive doesn’t affect normal dusting, just direct sniffing, or else people are going to be stocking up on old-school dusters. Crazy ass kids. Get off my—oh wait, I’m too poor to have a lawn. – Jason Chen
Memorex Air Dusters feature bitterant [Uber Gizmo]
It just so happens that our neighbors are in the market for a clock that’s even easier to break than normal clocks, which means we’ll actually have an excuse to come over this time to check out the hot wife. The clock itself is made of two plates of glass, one of which is a mirror, attached together by four rods.
Although it looks great, the glass on glass design guarantees it will shatter the instant it gets too heavy for the piddly mounts you hang this with. Which is actually why they want this thing: they really hate their baby. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Ezstyle via Nerd Approved]
Remember that Michael Keaton movie where he clones himself, but every time he makes a new one the clones get dumber and dumber? Well, these iPhone clones are kind of like that. The newest Chinese duplicate of Apple’s prize phone is called the P168. Incidentally, in case you’re wondering why it’s called 168, the numbers 168 sounds phonetically similar to a “get rich” phrase when you pronounce in Chinese, kind of like how high school broads say “h8″ in all their text messages to Travis.
It has six speakers for “surround sound”, 3.5-inch touchscree, face keys, 1.3-megapixel camera (even though it SAYS 2.0-megapixels on the back), microSD slot, and various other things that aren’t nearly even as good as the Meizu Mini One—which our commenters have dubbed the Jeezus! phone. – Jason Chen
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