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This Pill Is Filled With Stupid Music Instead Of Cool Drugs

Mark Wilson — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:20:00 +0000

The Vitamin is a tiny MP3 player that combines our hobbies of music, gadgets and prescription-strength home pharmaceuticals into one.

Measuring 6.9cm long and about an inch in diameter, you pull the pill apart to unlock the controls, then twist forward and back to toggle tracks. We’re a little confused how volume and 30 channels of FM radio fit into that control scheme, but we won’t get too worked up on the technicalities. I mean, it’s an MP3 player that looks like a pill. What else do you really need?

Despite the conceptual renderings and unique design, the Vitamin is actually entering production later this year—meaning that you’ll be able to buy it from an unknown vendor for an unknown price some time in 2009. [Yanko via ubergizmo]

Japan’s Cyber Gadget Game Suppli Vitamin Supplements Are Taken Orally, Not Injected Buttockally

Jason Chen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:45:00 +0000

These Japanese Game Suppli vitamins come in two varieties, “Blue Berry”, which refreshes you after a gaming session, and DHA, which boosts your attention during a session. It’s not quite as crazy as eyedrops, which incapacitated Matt for a good ten minutes. There’s only one other nation, Korea, that could combine the dubious gaming benefit of vitamins with the seriousness of professional gaming. And since these are for Japanese gamers, who don’t really play twitch shooters all that much, we can only guess that they use it for one reason only: to keep the convoluted storylines of Final Fantasy XII and Metal Gear Solid straight. [Cybergadget via Akihabara News via Uber Gizmo]