The Iron Samurai watch, a spectacularly ugly bracelet-style watch made from “Samurai sword carbonized steel folded 1000x over,” is available from Chinavision for a questionable $US15. It also comes with one of the weirdest/funniest product descriptions I’ve ever seen.
In today’s batch of things that didn’t make the cut we’ve got a bit of NSFW humour, Time‘s list of gadgets of the year, an angry dude suing an Internet person, Dell profiting through Twitter, and more.
Gizmodo friend Jaimal Yogis’ book, Salt Water Buddha, is being made into a film in 2010. Jaimal wrote a piece for us over the summer discussing his experience on a surfboard designed by ex-Apple designer Thomas Meyerhoffer. [SaltwaterBuddha]
YouTube and Universal have teamed up to create VEVO, a music video site which will host music videos with the blessings of various recording companies. The site is launching tonight and so far the details sound pretty great.
The guys over at Gamespot have put together a handy video for game developers wanting to get their game rated for Australia. Although if Miranda Kerr or John Farnham ever make their way into a videogame, I think I might jump ship and start supporting Atkinson’s stance on things.*
After being available for quite some time, the OrbLive iPhone app is suddenly missing from the App Store. Orb confirmed that the app was in fact removed by Apple, but otherwise they’re just as surprised about this as we are.