Top five crap Valentine’s Day colourways/products to get your loved loathed one tomorrow

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This happens but once a year, where companies feel compelled to spray-paint their products an embarrassing shade of red or pink in the hopes some daft fool will be forced to buy it at 5.42pm on the 14th of February, because Godiva and Charbonnel et Walker have run out of chocolates.

Here’s my top five pick of what not to buy someone for Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Not a single one. No-one. Just don’t do it. Get them some tins of Green Giant niblets instead.

1.) Sony VAIO CR notebook – an expensive present for your loved one, this red-painted laptop will set you back $1,000, however you can be safe in the knowledge your partner will slap you for insulting him/her with a red matching cover and heart-shaped key chain. What? You think they actually like Sony VAIOs?!….

Ear damaged man seeks similar Microsoft Zune afflicted people, no GSOH required

microsoft-zune-three%282%29.jpgThis is rather shocking, I never thought I’d be writing these words, but unfortunately the time has come for me to spell out on the keyboard that uh-oh-someone-is-suing-Microsoft-for-receiving-Zune-related-ear-damage.

I can barely look at those words 🙁

Joel Geddis was a Zune fan, and bought one of the first generation models. However, in November 2006, he “received an electric…

CES 2008: Jook lets you broadcast your iPod music to people around you

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I haven’t been blown away by many things so far at CES this year, but Jook is one of the most intriguing startups at the show. The company’s technology currently takes the form of a gadget that clips onto your iPod (or iPhone, or Zune, or whatever), and lets you broadcast what you’re listening to to people within 30 feet or listen in to their devices.