It may be outdated, but most cars still have tape decks in them. And people still have a soft spot for the cassette for some reason. combine the two and you have the Flexii Bluetooth Cassette Adapter, which can be used to connect wirelessly to a mobile headset, media player, or even a PC.
Tape adapters are the way to go, since they’re easy and cheap and work pretty flawlessly. It has an internal lithium-ion battery good for about 5 hours, car charger, and a USB cable. It will cost for $46 shipped.
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Written by Conner Flynn on May 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Ariel Waldman contributes Adgadget, a column about the intersection of advertising and technology.
Technologically better equipped than booth babes, fantasy fembots seem to be popping up everywhere in ad campaigns these days. Alcohol seems to be popular with the fembots — they’re employed in ads from both Heineken and Svedka — but Philips is utilizing them in a campaign for an electric razor as well.
It’s pretty easy to be creeped out by the influx of ready-to-serve robots — and not just because these fembots could be the beginnings of the Singularity in disguise. (C’mon, what more suitable “smarter-than-human brain-computer-interface” would be better to take over the human race than one that offered kegs and clean shaves as a “gift from the Greeks”? And who better to be behind the downfall of society than advertisers?) Misogynist undertones run rampant throughout all the ads, so it’s no shock that feminine cyborgs are used exclusively in advertising targeting young males — they tap right into stock fantasies of complete feminine subservience.
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