There are cool clocks and then there’s the Segmentus. CHECK OUT MORE ON SEGMENTUS HERE.

What works with your iPhone or iPod, looks like something you would actually display in your house, and sounds like a BOSE radio but costs less? The Yamaha PDX-60 Speaker Dock does, that’s what!

I don’t think I’ve used a CD in years. I gave up on that dinosaur when I got my first iPod. Now, I pretty much use my iPhone for all my music. Hooks up in my car, at home, and obviously whenever I’ve got time to kill, like when I’m waiting on my girlfriend cause she’s always effing late… to everything.

I'm sorry, your Tamagotchi has died

With rapid advances in technology over the past two decades, our ability to create useless and irritating garbage has increased exponentially. Here are some of the worst developments of the past 20 years.

Remember; people actually bought this stuff.

1) Tamagotchis – Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s make a video game that you have to carry around everywhere you go. Oh, and you can never pause or turn it off. And it will double as a key chain for some reason.

SAVING GRACE: I’m pretty sure Tamagotchis had something to do with the emergence of Pokemon. That, and the fact that the fad was mercifully short lived, is enough for me to forgive the Tamagotchi. At least partially.

2) Big Mouth Billy Bass – I don’t even know what to say about this. What is this? First of all, no one would ever mount a fish on a board like a deer head because it would make your house smell like vagina. Second, I’m pretty sure the early models didn’t have an off button. Why does there seem to be a correlation between not being able to turn something off and how aggravating it is?

SAVING GRACE: We were lucky to get a  pretty catchy McDonald’s commercial out of this.

Blame this man for Auto-Tune

3) Ring-back tones – What am I, too poor to afford an FM radio? Oh man,  it’s so convenient that you have a ring back tone, because normally I would never get to hear this Top 40 song that comes on every station sixteen times a day. I think ring back tones were invented so that when you’re calling someone who sucks, you get distracted by the music and don’t want to kill yourself as much. Only it doesn’t work because then you start to associate your favorite songs with people you hate.

SAVING GRACE: Ring backs do offer you a unique call screening method. If you are calling someone you’ve just met, and they have a ring back tone, hang up and never call them again.

4) AutoTune – This had so much potential until rappers got a hold of it. Use it as an insurance policy during live shows, toss it into the occasional dance song, sure why not. Basing entire albums, though, off of an artist’s inability to sing is where I have a problem. Auto Tune kind of reminds me of the automated check out system at the grocery store. Sure, it’s a marvel of modern technology, but between the repair man, the supervisor, and the installation crew, you might as well just hire cashiers. There’s an analogy in there somewhere.

SAVING GRACE: Auto-Tune the News

AT&T has gotten some bad press over the past year or so, mainly due to complaints from iPhone users. They’ve become famous for dropped calls and being behind on standard technologies like MMS, etc. So, it’s likely to assume AT&T receives a lot of calls from upset customers. Here’s the chat log that shows just how AT&T employees feel about working for AT&T, or at least how this one feels:

In a world where technology breaks at the speed of light, sometimes, pots and pans are all you need. Actually, that’s not true, in fact, I think it took more technology to take the picture then if you were to combine everything in this room.

MacBooks are designed to be sexy on their own, but when everyone you know has one, you’ve gotta separate yourself from the pack. Here are 13 awesome ways to do that using vinyl decals. Oh, and here are some other awesome Apple mods.

1. Space Invaders Forever

Topcultured’s got a new look and in celebration of that, we thought we’d start off with a post about something old. So here it is… the first GPS ever!!

And here are two other prototypes that didn’t quite make the cut:

Ninjas are stealthy, quick, and most of the time (when they are killing you) invisible to the naked eye. In fact, although you may not see them, ninjas are everywhere, they may just be using one of the following gadgets to blend in.

1. Ninja Throwing Star Refrigerator Magnets (via)

UC Berkeley researchers have developed a microscope built on a cell phone that not only takes color images of icky things like malaria parasites, but also of super-icky things like tuberculosis bacteria. Although I don’t personally want to use my cell phone to discover how many germs I’m living amongst, the technology is a major step in making clinical tools more accessible, and affordable, for health workers in the field.

I just read about a new tech product to be launched in a few months that’s essentially a full-sized keyboard that integrates an entire Windows PC inside. Developed by Asus, the Eee Keyboard integrates the same tiny circuit board as their Eee PC notebook and comes with a 5.5″ touch-sensitive display which I have to say is awkwardly located to the right of the keys.