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There’s very little food to be had in the area where I work at the moment, but trust the asian to have a “japanese” restaurant open that sells take away sushi.

Not the best kind, mind you, but palatable enough that I can have it at least 3 times a week without feeling utterly sick of it.

Unfortunatly, my pictures turned out to be shite. Once again, I am defeated by ISO, lighting conditions and image size. They’re incredibly grainy. I blame the too high ISO that I had forgotten it was at.

Of course, I finished off my meal with my new favourite dessert.

When I opened the packet on Monday, I sprayed sesame seeds all over my keyboard and desk. This time, not a little seed escaped me.

It seems that all the big names of the digital arena are trying to rope in wannabe fashionistas and non-geeks (read: many, many women) by offering girly accessories that will tempt them into buying the wares.

Sometimes, the brands will deliver the goods in an intelligent way: Prada-branded phones offer touchscreen technology, laptops decorated often have decent spec that make them a worthy buy for a fashion conscious individual looking to equip. Unfortunatly, the vast majority of those so-called fashionable technological items are standard at best, made fashion-y by outer design, taking fashion lovers for brainless cash cows.

The latest the Unhinged has heard of?

Philips and Swarovski are collaborating on a range of headphones and USB keys adorned with crystals called Active Crystals.

The first thing that comes to mind is how on Earth are these USB keys going to connect with my computer? Their volume is HUGE. Either they’ll take up multiple spaces -not a particularly welcome idea, or will actually be too bulky to fit in the minute space. Either way, there is the remote possibility of damaging both key and computer at first use.
Overall, absolutely impractical and not even remotely enhanced -other than visually.

Particularly those heart shaped pendants. For the sake of the computers, I sure hope those comes with a USB extender. Now seeing the USB symbol enhanced with crystals would be cool. I admit that they are cute, especially the ones that mimick galuchat with the arrangement of stones but for the price, I would have expected something more.

Priced at 150 euros, it’ll be a resounding pass from yours truly.

It doesn’t help either that the official site’s splash page features an underfed, unhealthy looking model-clone with a dumb expression on her face.

I still have my Wii.

In the wake of most of the people I know selling their precious, hard-acquired Wiis, I was going to go down that route myself.

One thing stopped me. I love the Wii-mote.

Currently, it is being baby-sat by Exar.