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Strange iPod Accessories
abb_road writes "The desire to customize the iPod, when combined with the desire to make a quick buck, can lead to some very strange iPod accessories. While sales of iPods are lower than predicted, the accessory market is still going strong. 'In fact, iPod add-ons have gone, shall we say, fringe. There's a growing list of weird and wacky accessories that range from a leather thong case (it's not what you think) to a dock that doubles as a toilet-tissue holder.'"
"While sales of iPods are lower than predicted" I bet this is because most people believe they'll eventually win one. I don't think I've gone through an entire day in the last two years without seeing a marketing gimmick that promises to give one away...
Is this really what we're supposed be looking for?
Next thing you know, you'll be covering cooking eggs on over heated laptop models.
Oh. Wait.
'tis but a scratch.
Woah - notice that the 'Sticky pad' is not just a 'Sticky pad' - it's a 'Sticky pad *XL*'. Once upon a time, it would have been the 'Sticky pad 2000', but after the turn of the millennium, that's old-hat and so now it's gotta be an 'XL' - that will add approximately $15 to the cost of anything. Stand by for the incredibly-similar-looking 'XL Pro' design that will be $5 more.
Oh, then there's the 'woolly' pouch thingy that's nothing special - but wait - it was 'created' by a 'designer' so that'll add $20 at least.
Gotta love consumerism!
AT&ROFLMAO
I'm guessing those who get the Powder Room Player sit down for number one.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The wallet didn't strike me as strange either. Though upon further thought I now think it's a bad idea, as a theif can now steal everything valuable on your person in one convienent pakage:
CROOK: Gimme your wallet!
YOU THINK: Crap, that has my iPod in it!
-or-
CROOK: Gimme your iPod!
YOU THINK: Crap, that has my wallet in it!
Sweet informative mod.
No iPod is complete without this... you know your iPod screams for a goatse.cx skin!
It's not officially weird until there is an iPod vibrator.
And there should be an iPod vibrator. Japan, get your head in the game!
I respond to your sigs
This is an overlooked market . . .
Then why are you overlooking it? Get out there and do it.
Here, I'll start you out. Go to K-Mart and buy two placemats made out of the same stuff as the iSticky Pad, for the same price.
Cut a couple dozen ZenSticky pads out of them and sell them to your Zen owning friends for 5 bucks each, nearly half what the poor iPod suckers have to pay for one of those things.
Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell anybody about the placemats.
Profit!
KFG
. . .except the bullet-proof case, *drool*
Tell me where you are - so I can not go there.
KFG