From mood rings to iPod earbud emotibuds |
I’m thinking fake product alert here, but this does tickle the mind. Wonder if my wife would be interested in some emotibuds1 from futuronomie:
Emotibuds are small, whimsical adornments that slip onto the outside of your Apple iPod earbuds, turning the digital device into a vehicle for self-expression. The concept and design of emotibuds draws on the ubiquitous “emoticons” of the online world and allows users to bring such conscious expression into social space.
iTunes store downloads
While on the iPod front and a more serious note we finally did some more business with the iTunes video store tonight. Man, are the downloads slow there or what? Since we haven’t done much iTunes business, I’m not sure if this is the norm for Sunday evenings. Is it?
For those wondering, we bough the pilot episode of Numb3rs (CBS, $1.99 USD) and the complete first season of Commander in Chief starring Geena Davis (ABC, 18 episodes, $28.99 USD). Yes, I realize we can go to innertube and see some of the CBS material for free like Jericho (which we have watched there). We have this iPod alarm clock radio that has a video out in our bedroom so we can watch like regular TV from the iPod. Resolution is ok. Will write about this in more detail after we’ve used it for awhile as well as share some pics.
On Friday we downloaded some of the free content iTMS offers including the season two opening episode of the grown up Danny Partridge, Breaking Bonaduce. We had our eye on Heroes, but $42.99 for the season pass seemed stiff considering the pilot episode isn’t included. I like the idea of these season passes. They work similar to the way the TiVO season pass works in that as the episodes become available you can snag them.
Any other good TV shows available online that we should check out?
- 11/25/08 3:18pm PST: formerly called emotibuds, changed link to new website. [↩]
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[…] Jonathan from futuronomie, LLC let me know via email that the emotibuds I questioned as being a real product last November are now available for purchase online for $3.95 + shipping. He also told me they’re selling very well. A few recommendations on their online customer experience: […]
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