Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

John Brownlee 1:25 pm Tue Oct 14, 2008

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, the timestream temporarily spat us all out of Infomercia, and so we did as we usually do. We ridiculed the photoshop disasters of Lexar and puked in our mouths a little about e-mail notification lamps.

Beschizza considered buying a rug covered in roadkill and lusted after Nokia's WiMax tablet. We chuckled over cornflakes at XKCD's oh-so-true take on piracy, and our mouths watered when we considered a cotton candy machine that could make a spool of fluff out of any hard candy.

Engadget was declared the blog partner of CES, prompting a WTF from Joel. Brownlee marveled at an HDTV easel and channeled Robert E. Howard as he wrote about a cell phone stand. A 1942 Philco Radio was converted into a swank Mini Mac jukebox and a dubious device claims to be able to carve your CDs into perfect circles for better music.

Oh, and yeah: Apple announced some new MacBooks.

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