Two new offerings from Crate for the guitar lovers:

The 5 watt USB-equipped Profiler 5 weighs in at only 6 pounds and can be powered from an AC power supply or from six AA batteries, making it portable. It also sports a mini-jack for your iPod to play along with your songs and all for a street price of $159.99.

The new V-Series tube amps feature a universal power supply making it possible for you to play just about anywhere on this planet without those transformers to lug around. Prices start at $299.99 for the 5-watt V5 combo priced and climbs to $789.99 for the 33-watt, dual-channel V33-212.

Or, maybe, robots should look like crosses between alien abductors and cute little duckies, and serve as receptionists. At $1000 a day, that’s a pretty expensive receptionist. $25,000 a year is a little more reasonable, but here in the good ol’ US, anyways, one can easily get a receptionist for that much or less, with no maintenance fees. These little buggers are a little over 3 feet tall and 66 pounds, or about the size of my son–who probably has a better vocabulary. I’m sure, as usual, these are proofs-of-concept, but still, I want my robots to look more like Transformers than Donald the Duck from Alpha Prime.

Ok, this is the last Transformers reference I will make. This week at least! Anyways, I was surfing the net for some cool geek stuff and I came across this phone. By day it is a regular phone, by night it transformers into a gun wielding, mean transformer – or should I say Decepticon?

nice.

He goes by Optimash Prime, but most don’t realize that he’s actually Mr. Potato Head disguised as Optomis Prime.The Decepticons are doomed now that the Autobots have potatoes on their side. Retail: $9.99.

As if product placement wasn’t rampant enough, Haier introduces the Transformer-themed laptop. It’s a pretty standard computer (no whirring-transformation sounds, from what I’ve read) and has a pretty decent setup: 1920 x 1200 pixel 17-inch display, 2GB of RAM, 120GB Hard Disk, and a GeForce Go 7950GTX with 512MB of VRAM. The only thing related to the "Transformer" franchise is the big Autobot decal on the back, but I guess to many fans, that wouldn’t matter in the least.

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