Are you looking to create a reputation as a sleazy douchebag fun-loving ladies man? Then why not become the life of the party with the Boob Tube beer bong? It works just like any other beer bong, except instead of sucking on a cut-off piece of garden hose, you can suck on a breast-shaped piece of plastic!
Or, if you’re that way inclined, you could always check out the Dong Bong. If you aren’t sure what bodty part that one’s shaped after, hit the NSFW link at the bottom of the post.
The best part is that in today’s internet age, photos of you sucking down the amber fluid from a plastic organ will almost certainly end up online, giving you the reputation you always wanted.
Both are available online for US$22.95.
[Sexy Beer Bongs (slightly NSFW link) via Nerd Approved]
You guys are a pretty clued in lot, so this should go without saying. Always read the fine print of your contract. We know sometimes you get lazy, or you’ve been waiting to get served forever and you just overlook it. Well, if you overlook the details of the new pre-paid mobile broadband service from Optus, you could well find yourself out of credit faster than you can say, “Awesome! New movies on iTunes!”
On the surface, the deal looks pretty good: For $199 you get a USB internet key from Optus. Then you can pay $30 for 2GB to use over 30 days. If you need more, there’s a range of recharge values – $40 for 3GB, $50 for 5GB, $70 for 6GB or $100 for 9GB.
But this is why you read the fineprint: you get charged in 10MB increments for both downloads and uploads. That’s right – 10MB blocks. so if you download a 200KB email in a session, that’s 10MB of your 2GB allowance gone. You can chew through the data pretty quickly like that, I would think.
Still having the pre-paid option culd be incredibly important for you, in which case this could be totally worth the money and freedom. Just make sure you read the contract…
[Optus]
Today Vodafone has announced that it’s offering mobile broadband in a USB stick format, much like the one Three launched a few months ago. The biggest surprise though is that it’s actually fairly competitively priced.
If you’re a Vodafone voice customer, you can get the stick for free over 24 months on a $39.95 contract, which includes 5GB of data, or you can get 1GB of data per month for $19.95 plus $5 a month for the stick. Alternatively, if you don’t have a Vodafone voice account, you can get 5GB for $49.95 or 1GB for $29.95.
That’s not too much more expensive than Three’s offering, especially if your phone’s already with Voda. And the benefit of Vodafone over Three is the increased coverage – when you drift off their 3.5G network, you’ll drop onto their 2G network, which won’t cost you roaming dollars like Three does (they use Telstra’s 2G network, which costs an obscene amount for super-slow internet access on the go).
Of course, as Gus at Lifehacker has found, Vodafone do sometimes get confused by their own terms of service, so you should make sure that you read the contract twice before you sign.
[Vodafone]
HP is smartly following up the rugged EliteBook biz laptop we doted on a couple months ago with an even more portable version: 12 inches, just over 1.3kg, still Mil-Spec 810F against dust and hot zones. It uses Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo ULV (same as X301 and probably MacBook Air refresh), and it’s well, loaded. One of our favourite things about it is that it’s got more storage options than any other notebook that size. galleryPost('elitebook2530p', 3, '');
Don’t get me wrong, Toshiba’s XD-E500 is a decent 1080p/24fps upscaling DVD player–it toasted one of their own upconverting players in the demo, and they’ve gotten pretty good at doing it. It’s got three different intelligent processing modes, two of which are really solid–sharp (which only sharpens where it’s needed, not the whole picture), colour (dials up blues and greens plus sharp mode), and contrast (deepens blacks, probably the worst mode because you lose some dark detail).
HP’s EliteBook 2730p is the tablet of the new business lineup, and it’s actually ruggedised as well, meeting the MIL-STD 810F spec for dust, altitude and high temperature. Specs and features are mostly the same as the other EliteBooks too (Intel Core 2 Duo ULV, SSD option, HP business and security stuff like the biz card reader, encryption and DriveGuard). Except you know, it’s a tablet, with options for a standard LED-backlit screen or Outdoor View and a jog dial.
Sony’s latest range of NW-E MP3 players appeared on the company’s New Zealand site today in a range of colours. The line features the NWZ-E435, NWZ-E436 and NWZ-E438, which will come in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, respectively. All models include a 2″ QVGA TFT LCD display, FM tuner, and support MP3 (obviously), WMA, AAC, and linear PCM codec support. No pricing just yet, but they’re rumoured to be hitting the channel within the next month or so. [Sony Insider]
Not to be outdone by Sony upping the storage on the PS3, Microsoft has finally announced that the Xbox 360 Pro pack is getting an upgrade to a 60GB hard drive.
Of course, this was news in the US last month, when Microsoft dropped the price and increased the HDD in one fell swoop.
Considering we got the price cut early, but the new HDD size only ships to retail today, I wonder if Microsoft had a large warehouse full of 20GB Xbox 360 Pro packs that they needed to sell before they could bring us the 60GB.
In any case, 40GB more storage space for the same $499 price tag sounds good to us. If you’re picking up a 360 this week, make sure it’s got the extra storage.
[Xbox]
The promise of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is that it will eventually become a super-efficient, low-cost light source to replace our archaic dependency on incandescent bulbs and those oh-so-yesterday LCD TVs, among other things. Ultimately, OLEDs were expected to possibly supplant the already efficient LEDs, too. That is, until a couple of Utah researchers revealed there could be some “complications.” It seems we were half-right.
If you go to the shops today and pick up a PS3, it will cost you around $699. For your money, you get a 40GB hard drive and a SIXAXIS controller.
But if you wait until August 28, for the same amount of money, you’ll get an 80GB and a superior Dualshock 3 controller.
It’s not rocket science people. It’s simple value for money. Don’t let your lust for gaming get in the way of a good buy – it’s just not worth it.
