karaoke

Sinatra “My Way” Karaoke Killings Plague Philippines Bar Scene

10:00AM Jack Loftus | Apparently, when people sing Sinatra’s My Way in a Philippines karaoke bar, and they sing it poorly, they die. More »

CESPool: Checking Up On The Saddest Man At CES

9:12AM John Herrman | Last we saw marathon karaoke man, he was singing for nobody like he was singing for his life. There’s no evidence that he’s stopped since Wednesday, but he has accumulated a small fanbase. Feel, as your pity transmutes into respect. More »

CESpool: The Saddest Man At CES

8:47AM Adam Frucci | We might complain about the amount of work we do here at CES, but nothing puts life in perspective like a man forced to soberly sing karaoke in the wilds of south hall all day long. Stay strong, karaoke man. More »

Lightning Review: The Ultimate Karaoke Experience Kit

5:40AM Mark Wilson | We’ve all seen Karaoke kits, but few have beheld the sheer awesomeness of The Ultimate Karaoke Experience Kit, an online Karaoke service for Mac and PC. More »

Wii Peripheral to Make Karaoke Even More Awkward

11:50PM Mark Wilson | In case you found drunkenly singing famous songs off-key in front of friends, co-workers and strangers alike to be a positive experience, maybe you could try singing into this new Wii toilet plunger. More »

Microsoft Songsmith’s Corny Musical Infomercial

2:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Microsoft’s Songsmith software, which creates Casiotone-style beats to match whatever off-key warbling is optimistically sung into a mic, finally has an ad as corny and annoying as the software itself promises to be. More »

Lips Karaoke Game For Xbox 360: Hardware and Media Import Review

4:00AM Jason Chen | Xbox 360’s Lips karaoke game is notable for two reasons. One is the Vegas loungy motion-sensitive wireless microphones that trigger bonus scoring opportunities for you as part of the game. The second is the feature that lets you use any DRM-free song from your iTunes/Zune/Amazon library as a base for singing. So what the hell went wrong? More »

Giz Tech Tip: Share the Karaoke Mic Or People Will Stab You

10:20AM Jason Chen | An unfortunate man in Malaysia learned the first rule of Karaoke by the painful way of being stabbed to death last week. (This is what he should have done to appease his attackers.) More »

Bush Airport Sets Up Karaoke Booths, Makes Travelling a Bigger Nightmare

4:40AM Sean Fallon | Have a flight heading into George Bush airport in Houston? You might want to make some adjustments now that management has set up karaoke booths to entertain (?) weary travellers. More »

Sega’s Disco Karaoke Machine Twirls Its Disco Ball, Connects to Mobile Phones

1:45AM Kit Eaton | Two things set this Sega Hitokara karaoke machine apart from the rest: it’s connected to a cloud-based database of 43,000 songs via mobile phone and it’s got a whirling, light-up mirrored disco ball. Ohboyyes. Granted you’d have to be a fan of both karaoke (you strange person) and cheesy disco lighting, but what the heck—it’s a neat gizmo, with built-in mic and speakers. But it only connects to special karaoke-enabled mobiles in Japan, so you’ll probably not see one. Japanese disco karaoke fans can get them from December for the equivalent of around $US75 though. [Technabob via DVice] More »