Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Crocs, not unlike Uggs before them, are prime candidates for footware we’d just as well have everyone put back in the closet, especially now that the Japanese National Institute of Technology and Evaluation has apparently issued a public warning regarding the safety of wearing the offensively ugly plastic shoes on escalators. Supposedly some forty people in Japan have been injured wearing the shoes on escalators, including a five year old girl who is said to have lost lost three toenails and suffered a broken toe when her ugly ass shoes got caught in the escalator. Please, Crocs, think of the children — and everyone else’s greater sense of aesthetics.
[Via FarEastGizmos]
 
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Robots

The Sony Rolly SEP-10BT “Sound Entertainment Player” is here, people, and yet we’re still just as unclear as ever as to exactly what it’s utility is. Not quite a domestic robot, not quite a portable audio player, not quite a boombox, the Rolly flutters about, dancing and playing MP3, ATRAC, or AAC tunes via either Bluetooth with A2DP / AVRCP or its 1GB of internal memory. In fact, not only does Rolly dance to your music, apparently you can also choreograph it and share your Rolly moves with pals over the internet. A full charge gets you five hours straight music, four hours of dance and music, or three and a half hours dancing, music, and Bluetooth use together — fantastic news for people with a clean desk and tons of time to kill. It’ll run you about ¥40,000 (about $350 US) when it [...]

Original post by Ryan Block