In order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first plastic model kit release from the Gundam franchise, Japanese service provider SoftBank will release a limited edition SoftBank 945SH G Ver.GP30th phone. The phone will include a 1/100-scale plastic model kit of the first Gundam mobile suit robot complete with an internal metal frame. The phone will also allow you to capture 1280×720-pixel high definition video, uses an 854×480-pixel main screen and will charge on model’s custom catapult display base. Pre-orders will be available in SoftBank stores and on their website starting today, with the phones beginning shipment sometime in September.
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If you’ve ever wanted to speed date the dead, there’s a new product on the market that can help make it happen. Personal RosettaStones are small stone tablets that allow a person to include a 1,000 word message and a picture on a device which will be implanted on their headstone after they kick the bucket. The message can then be picked up as a text message by anyone who has a web-enabled cellphone via a microchip in the tablet. They can also be engraved with hieroglyphic-style symbols called “Life Symbols” that can help tell your story.
The best part? Instead of batteries, the microchip uses magnetic fields of a passerby’s phone to power up, meaning the device can send messages for 3,200 years. So you can keep telling people how much your life sucked well after they have stopped caring and your body has been reduced to dust… How uplifting.
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These Kewpie doll cellphone strap decorations serve no purpose, but will strike the perfect cute/badass balance and give you a pretty good idea of what it would look like if the characters from “Love Is…” decided to open a biker bar.
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Uh, last time I checked most cellphones had a calculator built-in. So, you know…wtf. It does have a mirror though—so it is not completely useless.
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