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Peripherals
Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket Is For Suckers Only
7:00AM Jack Loftus | The Wattgate “Audio Grade” wall socket costs a mere $US147, but the crisp, unmatchable sound it will help create in your home crafts the kind of priceless memories that last a lifetime. More »
Peripherals
Monster SuperThin HDMI Cables Really Are SuperThin
12:00PM Matt Buchanan | Monster’s SuperThin HDMI cables aren’t just marketing noise, they’re real, and thinner than the anacondas most people have jacked into their TVs. RedMere’s tech lets them skimp on heavy-gauge copper, so they’re just 3.5mm around. More »
Peripherals
Monster Cable Lowering Prices During Recession, Uh…Thanks?
3:20AM Sean Fallon | Monster Cable, purveyors of grossly overpriced products, feel your pain during these tough financial times. That’s why they are reducing their ridiculous prices to slightly less ridiculous prices during the recession. More »
Music
Engadget’s Monster Cable Endorsement: ‘Monster Cable Sucks’
6:39AM Matt Buchanan | If you spotted this ad for Monster’s Dr. Dre Beats headphones—which strips an out-of-context blurb from a news post—you’d think Engadget gave Monster Cable an awkward-sounding endorsement. But the mutilated sentence was lifted and applied without Engadget’s permission. More »
Business
Monster Cable Sues Monster Transmission, Ensures Spot on DBag Company List of ‘09
4:55AM Jason Chen | Monster Cable, suer of an incredible number of companies that just happen to have the word “Monster” in their names, has turned their attention to Monster Transmission. They make transmissions. More »
Gadgets
Monster Knows You Need Five Different Sprays to Clean Your iPhone, Camera, Phone, GPS and Laptop
3:45AM Adam Frucci | The professional bullshit artists and dumbass fleecers over at Monster have devised another way to remove money from the wallets of the ignorant: cleaning sprays. More »
Gadgets
Monster Slays Vampire Power with New Power Strips, Slays Wallets Too
5:47PM Kit Eaton | Monster, usually better known for cabling, is now tackling powering your gadgets in an eco-friendly manner with a new range of standby-killing power strips. The Digital Life Power Centre Green Power versions being the first of two lines, aimed at connecting your computer gear up: when you turn off the computer, all the peripheral sockets get switched off too. There’re three versions—the MDP 650, 800 and 900. More »
Peripherals
Dr. Dre and Monster Cable’s Beats Headphones Available At Apple and Best Buy July 25
3:59AM Jason Chen | We know you’ve been DYING to get your own Dr. Dre headphones ever since you saw them back at CES, so you’ll be happy to know that Apple and Best Buy are willing and able to take your US$349.95 this Friday. The headphones are supposedly imbued with “extreme clarity, deep bass and full power, which had been lacking in conventional headphones.” Yeah, we’ve been asking ourselves for years why conventional headphones had only come with half power, but now we know that it’s because Dr. Dre mandated it. Gangsta. [Business Wire] More »
Random Stuff
A Monster List of Things Monster Cable Will Soon Sue
4:39AM Jason Chen | Of all the things Monster Cable has sued because their names are too similar, a mini golf company seemed like a line even they wouldn’t cross. We were wrong. Looking back at their history, founder Noel Lee & Co. have sued Disney for Monsters, Inc., Bally Gaming for Monster Slots slot machines, the people who make Monster Energy drinks, and the Chicago Bears, because their nickname is “Monsters of the Midway.” Why stop here, Monster? We’ve got a whole list of people and things you should sue because you think your customers are too stupid to know the difference! Among them: Hillary Clinton, a deity, a baseball wall and a cartoon. More »
Business
