Several months back, we introduced you to the Philips Tapster headphones. But there’s some bad news here for everyone who was looking forward to them–there’s now pretty much no way they’ll hit store shelves.
The folks out at Crave on Cnet’s Asian subsidiary believe they know why, too–they don’t work.
It’s a strange theme these days, gadgets that don’t work, but the beat goes on (or rather doesn’t) from these headphones. They were supposed to be a major innovation in playback and volume controls, which are supposedly controlled by tapping and swiping the ear modules. Under normal circumstances, this would dislodge them from the ear, but with these, they didn’t dislodge. Something of an accomplishment there, but the problem was, the purported tap-and-swipe system of volume and playback control never materialized.
So a little bit of vaporware for you, folks…and that’s always at least a little sad.
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To kick off Hot Wheels’ 40th anniversary, Mattel unveiled a diamond encrusted 1:64 scale Hot Wheels car. The car is one-of-a-kind and the most expensive in Hot Wheels history. The car is valued at a mere $140,000, is cast in 18k white gold, and includes more than 2,700 diamonds that weigh nearly 23 Carats total. Nick Lachey was there to kick off the event. Relax folks; he was there to donate the vehicle for auction in late 2008 to his charity ‘Big Brothers Big Sisters’.
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Good news!
Techlasers was kind enough to donate enough money for at least one OLPC computer! My Mom also donated some money, so we’re now at $275.
We’ve got just 4 days left to raise $124 more dollars. Only you can help.
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For more info about the cause checkout this post.
Thanks again to Techlasers for such a generous donation!
I love what OLPC is doing. To further their cause, I am requesting donations (from Gadgetreview readers) to be put towards an OLPC computer. Until 11/26, OLPC is “offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada.” So if you donate (assuming we meet our goal) we’ll be able to provide a laptop to a child in a 3rd world country and give a laptop to an “inner city kid” here in LA. I am putting in $50 to start the donations, which means we’ll need another $349 from the Gadgetreview fan base. If we don’t accomplish our goal before 11/26 then we’ll just put it towards one laptop, which is $200. If we don’t reach $200 then we’ll donate the remainder of the money to another good cause (see below example). If we achieve above $200, but don’t reach $399 then I’ll donate the difference to another good cause, such as Step Up. The current offer, which ends 11/26, also includes one year of T-Mobile Hot Spot Access, which I’ll give away to one lucky donor!
Please send your PayPal donations to info@gadgetreview.com. Helping one kid could save 1000s!
To insure that I’m not pocketing the money, I’ll post proof of the donation in December.
Happy Holidays!
