Candid Russia

Now, if you don't mind looking a bit like a lost Star Wars extra, you might quite fancy some of these.



Oakley, are introducing shades with built in MP3 players! What with the Adidas thinking shoes and other strange new innovations, you could do worse than be jogging along with Adidas tread under you and Oakley shades servicing your ear's sound portals.



Probably good for the slopes - boarding and the like.

CYBER PHONES FOR FREE!!

The VoIP Cyberphone is a fully functional USB-powered telephone which comes bundled with Skype™, free software which uses new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology to allow you to make free calls to other VoIP Cyberphones and obscenely low cost calls to landlines and mobiles all over the world.

All you need is an Internet connection: Broadband is best - although the system still works with a 56k dial-up - and you can start talking to the 82,000,000 people worldwide who have already signed up for Skype™.

All you do is bung in the CD, plug the phone into the nearest USB socket and dial away. The nifty VoIP technology then digitally converts your voice through your broadband internet connection and on to its final destination - be it a fellow Cyberphone owner, a normal landline or even a mobile phone - anywhere in the world. It's easier than... er, picking up the phone!



I would certainly fancy this if I was paying BT charges.. but here in Russia local calls are free in the city..

Russia has definitive advantages, but you should remember that getting a phone LINE can be difficult here..

So, you've got an iPod and you hug it, carress it, generally love your surrogate mate to death.

Well, now, you can give it legs (turned on its head) and be all Star Trek like and admire it's tunes from a distance..

Looks frigging stupid to me, but for all you just 'really need' geeks : here is the effegy!



It's got three legs. Works on 1AAA battery and offers stereo sound. So, I expect lots of folk will be all iPodded up in the parks this year, right?

Marvelous!

More, if you really want to get totally iPod worldly, you just have to have these... matching sets.. pink for girls and cool white for guys.. can we expect a strap on pod in thh near future?




I confess to my significant other dissapearing into the bath-room for some time yesterday. "Think of it a as a trial test," she whispered in my ear.. she emerged about 45 minutes later.

Result: snatchtastic..... well, you didn't think she had a beard did you? As for me, no ruffage on the old chin chiseller, so iPod... well pleased with this little extra..

D:

Shoe’s that think..

Saw a big poster on the main “Tverskaya” street in Moscow this week advertising this shoe;


apparently next month Adidas, after three years of development, launch the most advanced shoe ever.
Called "1", the shoe provides intelligent cushioning by automatically and continuously adjusting itself. ..(reminds me of a girll I used to know)

These shoes have a brain, and for the disco’s have little lights on them that flash when the shoe is “on”….. (ah, Maybe not)




Apparently within the first four steps the shoes have analyzed your speed, weight and the floor surface, and adjusted itself to the perfect level of cushioning..

As I said “perfect for the all terrain dance floors in Moscow Night Clubs”
Let’s just hope that they are also able to remember where we live after those Moscow nights..!!


Not sure if the public will respond to them in the way that they want at 250 euros a pair, (considering that amount of cash is your average monthly salary for a Russian) but you are bound to get all the fashion wannabees buying or stealing them so that they can look good outside Mc Donald’s on a Saturday afternoon….time will tell..

Have a look at the site for more info….

http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/adidas_1/content/index.asp?strCountry_adidascom=uk&strBrand_adidascom=performance


tjm