10 Holiday gifts that should be avoided at all cost

Ho ho ho. Wel­come boys and girls to another post of RyoBase. I apol­o­gized for not mak­ing any post for such a long term. You see, many things has involved around us and some­times we just do not have time for it.

Any­way, let’s get back to the topic… As you might know that Christ­mas is about shar­ing, giv­ing, and car­ing. You, some­times, get what you always wanted. But for some rea­son, Santa played jokes and give you a shit-pile. Of course, same thing applied to you and the per­son who’s receiv­ing a present. You can­not give them some rot­ten fish or a 5-years-old pile. Or else, the bul­let in your eyes.

So, I am here give you some advice for choos­ing gift (or receiv­ing gift) to some­one you care. The list start from an okay, but bad, to not okay.

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1. Mon­ster Cable

A Mon­ster M1000 HDMI cable. This cable is a future-proof that will melt your face. Superb qual­ity, gold-plated, good cable, pricey, and it’s made by Mon­ster. Wow!

Why it should be avoided:

Because this “Future-proof” cable is noth­ing but a cable, which you can’t deny. Still, this cable can deliver mas­sive band­width but with a price that came from future, I don’t think peo­ple from the present can’t afford it. Don’t worry though, $20 HDMI cable and this Mon­ster won’t make any notice­able dif­fer­ent, unless you are color-blind or hav­ing a vision blurry. So you should be fine.

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2. iLuv i9500 iPod Dock with 4 CD Player

As you can see, the name has already indi­cated. It’s a ipod dock and yet with 4 CD player. Wow! It doesn’t get any more lux­ury than that.

Why it should be avoided:

When an ipod dock is not enough, the engi­neer, or who­ever design this, added a CD player for us. How con­ve­nience! I guess it would be per­fect if they remove the ipod dock option. For more stu­pid­ity, they add more 3 in there. So now you can fried an egg and spin­ning a CD disc at the same time.

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3. Tiddy Bear

It’s a seat belt strap in form of Mr. Teddy. Wow!  [video link]

Why it should be avoided:

It’s a seat belt strap. And the name is pretty ridicu­lous. It doesn’t get any­more than that.

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4. Tor­pedo Projector

It’s a pro­jec­tor that can be found at a local Tar­get in Toy Sec­tion. Only for $169. And it’s 100% Chi­nese made. Wow!

Why it should avoided:

Read this review. And you will under­stand clearly. It’s costly, very low con­trast, low res­o­lu­tion, Chinese-made, Plas­tic feel, and its design.

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5. Garmin Nuv­i­fone G60

A touch­screen phone that is made by Garmin, a well-known portable nav­i­ga­tor mak­ing com­pany, has come to the solu­tion that when they can make a GPS, then why not the phone. [Review link]

Why it should be avoided:

But that solu­tion wasn’t worked out. And every­thing in this phone is bad, crashy, and unre­spon­sive. Didn’t I for­get to men­tion that there’s no home but­ton. That’s right, no home but­ton what­so­ever.  So stay with your Black­berry or iphone is the best, as for now.

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6. Hot­doll

It’s the dutch wife for dog. Now your dog will never go out and find them­selves a mate. Wow!

Why it should avoided:

It’s worst than you imag­ine. Don’t buy it. Your dog can jump around and start to bang that thing all day. Don’t for­get to men­tion the decreased in your house secu­rity. Very dan­ger­ous product.

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7.  Snug­gie

A blan­ket built-in sleeves. A very ulti­mate solu­tion and high-class AA tech­nol­ogy that will keep you warm on the couch.

Why it should be avoided:

It’s a blan­ket. Noth­ing fancy except those sleeves.

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8. Z-Nano the micro mouse

The small­est opti­cal mouse known to mankind. A few hun­dred clicks is just .012563 inch away.

Why you should avoided:

Size that mat­ter. It’s really hard to use this thing, small, and not so durable. This whole idea thing is as bad as a laser tech­nol­ogy that make the cur­sor move by track­ing the move­ment of an eye. I rec­om­mended to get a Razor mouse instead.

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9.  Twit­ter­Peek

A twit­ter­ing device that does noth­ing more but tweet­ing. With a full QWENTY-keyboard, you won’t be able to skip tweet­ing a nanosec­ond even while you’re reliev­ing yourself.

Why it should be avoided:

Buy a net­book instead, or at least get an iphone. Enough said.

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And last but not least

10. Giz­mondo

Pos­si­bly the worst and has the short­est life-span on the mar­ket game con­sole, ever. And not to be con­fused with Giz­modo. This device was invented by a Swedish mafia. Fea­tured with GPS, Blue­tooth sup­port and a cam­era. It also had 128-bit graph­ics and played music and movies. Wow!

Why it should be avoided:

Short bat­tery life, invented by a Swedish mafia who crashed Fer­rari Enzo, no games, does like N-Gage, poorly mar­ket­ing, shit, dose noth­ing more than a paper­weight, and its awful design. Please buy a NDS or PSP instead. This shit fil­ter is not worth the money.

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All right, that’s it. I hope you’ll buy your­self a good stuff and throw away bad stuff. This lit­tle guide is just a guide­line that show you things should be avoided. Until next time, see you again.

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