All-In-One Surround Sound

This product will pain people like me — the ones that like to talk about optimum speaker placement and such. Samsung has created a multispeaker all-in-on unit that will do "surround" sound from one spot. Not only does this work just as well as your 6.1 dolby digital theater system, it also looks like it belongs on Star Trek, or a gaming console. Nice.

“The Hard Drive Is The New Bling”

Uhm. Yeah. Hitachi has decided that adding a little Urban Funk to their products will help sales and have therefore declared the HD the new bling. They even made a flash Rap video to promote this new fashion trend amonst the world's peeps. You should watch it. Seriously, it's BAD — but it's kind of amusing, you know, in its badness. My suggestion to Hitachi: you might want to talk to at least one black person that is not -uh- Asian before you launch a marketing campaign targeting African-American Ubanites.

UPDATE: Apparently Hitachi had to use a flash "artist" when the slated singer/entertainer couldn't stop laughing after hearing the pitch.