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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.)
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.
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]
The galaxy of gimmicky karaoke machines was starting to fade before Memorex’s SingStand came along. This baby organically melds mic stand and iPod dock, and at $US70 doesn’t even put you into debt to do so. The base is where the brains are—vox effects like reverb plus “Auto Voice Control” for removing original song vocals—along with two 4-watt “full-range” speakers. There’s even a second mic input for Sonny-and-Cher-Pre-Divorce moments. The catch is that there’s no 30-pin connector for charging or enhanced iPod control, but at least a 3.5mm miniplug means you can pop in your Zune or Sansa too. [Memorex via Electronista]
