A Japanese toy maker will soon sell a portable, personal karaoke machine so you can belt out your favorite tunes anywhere, and without having to wait for the microphone. The “Hi-kara” karaoke machine, by Takara Tomy, is a 7-cm (nearly 3-inch) cube which weighs less than a pound and works like a real machine.
Once the singer selects a song, which can be downloaded off the Internet or from special music cartridges, the lyrics come up on a 2.4-inch display. The machine also has headphones and speakers attached.
“Hi-kara” will go on sale in October for about $100, with song cartridges costing about $40 each.
Runaway! Runaway!
…and you thought idiots on cell phones were bad.
I’d make a joke about ‘have we got any more nukes’, but that would be in bad taste.
This could be a Godsend: perhaps it will provide a record and playback feature!
Oh, the horror!
I thought Karaoke was the scourge of the earth until I was dragged into a small personal karaoke booth in Osaka. It really is a lot of fun after a bunch of drinks in a strange land. Constant 24×7 personal karaoke is a bit much though.
I may have to stop taking the train all the time if this comes here.
First I thought that was a breathalyzer.
#5 – Most everything’s fun after “a bunch of drinks.”
Ha-Ha, we already beat you Japan!
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/ikaraoke
Whats next – not only to see idiot women careening their car towards you while smiling involved with a relationship on the phone
They don’t even seem to be realizing that they are driving – just smiling an evil grin as they conduct their relationship on the phone oblivious of any other vehicles on the road
Whats next – singing to the Karaoke machine while driving down the highway oblivious to anyone else
Quick quick..ban the use of them now!! Don’t wait like we have with cell phones! After all, there were no accidents before cell phones, and then they shot way way up. Didn’t they? Ummm..any actual figures? Or is it almost all apocryphal fear mongering by cranky non-geeks? “I never needed a phone while I was driving 20 miles to school through the worst blizzard in 100 years…” ^_^
Guess what…I’ll bet that a good 90% of the people who have had motor accidents while using their phones would have found some other way to have them if there were no such things. I tend to work on the an idiot is an idiot principle..rather than the all must be treated as idiots before the fact…^_^
What the fuck are they thinking??????
There is a special place in hell for the people behind this product. And it’s not a quiet place.
It is a mad world.
karaoke the worst thing to come from japan since hari kari
As I pass through the Valley of the
Shadow of Death, I fear no Evil
For I have Portable Personal Karaoke
Karaoke… Japan’s revenge on the civilized world for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Karaoke–the fastest way known to clear out a bar.
Expect more impulsive STRANGULATION KILLINGS, followed by TEMPORARY INSANITY PLEAS !!! Has to happen !!! That would be a good reason to get these BANNED AS A THREAT TO PUBLIC ORDER, or something like that !!!
Is there some reason the singer looks like they have fangs? Are they trying to tell use something? Maybe it is their front teeth but…
aka The iCringe