Sometimes, all we need to make our tears go away (or make them start running) is a good, hearty laugh. Comedian Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling has released a new line of simply hilarious electronic joke products, through Excalibur Electronics. You are sure to get a kick out of this comedian’s new toys. Supposedly “A laugh a day keeps the doctor away” and The Joke Man is sure to keep you nice and healthy with his new laugh tools.

First up is the GrossMaster. This machine is designed for pretty much any age and provides hours of gross fun for everyone. It features over 50 of G-rated gross kid jokes, songs, and of course, who could ever forget, sound effects. Hit the nose to start the fun, if you want a joke repeated hit the right eye, hit the left eye to continue with the gross out fun. GrossMaster can be purchased at the Discover Channel Store for $19.95.

Also available is the Mini JokeMaster Jr. This is the pocket version of the original, designed with the 4-12 age group in mind. This little guy has 45 jokes, knock-knocks, riddles, you name it. It’s nose will light up when it spits out a new joke and if you like it enough, you can repeat it with the repeat button. Also included is adjustable volume and an off/on switch that can help preserve your battery. The Mini comes in either blue for little guys, or pink for little girls and can be purchased at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for about $9.95. The original JokeMaster Jr. (not the mini) is basically the full size version, designed for ages 6-12. It has a little higher price tag at $24.95.

I personally have never been a huge fan of math. Jackie has realized that this is true for some people, so he has now released the Talking Comedy Calculator. It is your everyday desktop calculator, but hit a button and the jokes start coming. Keep your favorite of the nearly 200 jokes on this device handy by saving them. It also includes a built in alarm clock with time and date display. I know some people that would never get their math homework done if they had one of these to play with. The current price for this baby is $29.95.

With over 1200 jokes, the JokeMaster Jr. 2 will provide you with many many laughs guaranteed. It is a handheld device with over 30 categories of jokes ranging from lawyers to rednecks, one-liners to kids-at-heart jokes, and many more. Another neat feature is the ability to rate the jokes based on you and your freinds’ reactions. It comes with a carrying case to help keep it protected and the going price is $29.95.

So if you want some laughs or are looking for a good birthday present, check out Jackie “The Joke Man’s” new products, it may be just what you needed.

Geeks aren’t like other men and many women have figured that out. I’ve been accused of having a mistress by my wife half jokingly and that mistress was my Mac. Hey, us guys just love our cell phones, PDAs, iPods, Bluetooth, Macs, and to add a touch of tough-man into the mix, our USB Swiss Army Knife (with LED flash light of course). What can I say?

But there is a way to get our attention and these two girls have figured it out with three steps. Watch this fairly comical home made video on How To Get a Guy in Silicon Valley.

When I grew up as a kid — not dating myself here — Tonka trucks where made of metal and bathed in a healthy coat of lead based paints. Yellow paint. Today, you find cheap plastic, flimsy parts, and horrible sticker placement. But it doesn’t even stop there, apparently. Nope.

Not even a month after the opening of my sons Tonka fire truck from his Uncle and Tia, the batteries died with moderate play time. When I flipped over the truck to surgically remove its belly to gain access to the battery compartment, I was stunned to see AA batteries within its haul instead of the C cells specified by the cover! Using some cheesy plastic holders to keep the AA’s centered on the terminals, Hasbro deemed it necessary to save a few cents (maybe a buck,) with the lesser capacity battery than going with it’s recommendations. Incredible.

You know, I don’t mind purchasing products made in China to save a dime or two, but doing something like this doesn’t save me money in the end. It saves Hasbro. That’s weak. Bring back my Tonka, Hasbro!

Again, when SvenOnTech is on the job, what ever happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas very long. Point in case, Kiss co-founder Gene Simmons walking the Central Hall checking out all the stuff he could afford. And I mean all.

So here I am walking through the hall and this guy with cameras in front of him is in ahead of me. Sure, I’ll tag along with him since he’s clearing the path. Why not? It’s tough walking all these miles of halls with the tons of people here. When I catch up to this guy and walk to his left, I take a peak at him and I don’t recognize him. ‘Who is this guy and what’s the big deal?’ I’m asking myself as I cruise on with him. Finally, I hear someone yell, “You rock, Gene!” I look again and yes the light bulb comes on, Gene Simmons. It’s hard to recognize the guy without make up.

So I tag along for awhile and share some camera time with him (hopefully ). We come to a split and he makes a right while I go left. I see him down the way when I pop out next to LG’s 102″ plasma TV. I figure, ‘Ahh, I should probably get a picture,’ and I walk back to LG’s booth front desk. When I got there, he was talking to the lady at the booth and the guy next to her. Not able to hear much of what he’s saying, I get closer. I then hear him tell the guy, “If you want to kiss her, you’ve got to look straight in here eyes,” as he points his two fingers in a V shape and directs them to her eyes. With that, he stares into her gaze and leans her back as if to kiss her. She giggles like a high school girl about to be kissed by Bobby the quarterback for the first time. Simmons then stops, reels back up and turns to the guy and says, “That’s how you do it,” to a chorus of laughter. Only in Vegas, right?

You’ll never know what you’ll see in Vegas. But untrue to the cities slogan, we won’t let this stay here (even though we now look back at this and think maybe that was the better idea) and we bring to you the Sansa mascot for your enjoyment. Watch him dance it up for all y’all and note his hand signals when we ask him to bust a real move and do some head spinning like the guys did for us at the JBL booth at Macworld. I tell you Sansa, how rude!

Don’t worry about if CES steals attendance from Macworld this year due to both happening on the same week or not. Nah, let’s get down to the true meat of the two competing shows and vote whom really is hot or not.

You select which picture, representing CES or Macworld, is truly hot…or not. Waste tons of time just clicking on the pictures as you would on that other site that started this crazy, and sometimes cruel, voting pattern of pure opinion. Will the ultra-cool consumer geeks be hot or will it be the uber-hip different thinking bunch? Your opinion can be the deciding factor!

Thanks Matthew for the tip!

A sign in the Bank Lobby reads: “Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through teller machines enabling customers to
withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts.

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Ya, ya, we know this is old news, but we thought for the iPod birthday, why not bring it back? I mean it really is good humor and Will Ferrel is just too nutty not to have you witness him tell you how the iPod plays about 50 songs only.

Give the Switch parody a look over at YouTube and enjoy iPods birthday with Will (in a way.)

Robert Scoble, aka Scobleizer, wants a MacBook Pro. By his own admission. Heck he even raised money to buy a reader a MacBook and threw in XP for the Boot Camp. The guys own brother in-law works at Apple. Do see the connections people? He’s been in Silicon Valley for a while now and he’s been bathed in the cutting edge of Apple. Mountain View, former home of his SVC work headquarters, is just next store to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. What influence!

Scoble has known for a long time just how much better OS X is than Windows. Come on, take a look at the Vista beta and see just how much it looks like OS X. You think Robert didn’t have any input on that? “Can’t we make the folder Windows look like glass?” I’m sure he could be heard asking the Vista UI team one rainy morning at Microsoft’s campus. After using Spotlight and realizing just how powerful it was, I’m sure Scoble was running to the engineering team on that one! Hey, don’t even get me started on the widgets.

Then just a couple of weeks ago, Scoble stops by the Apple Store in San Francisco to do an episode of TWiT with Leo Laporte. What better place to be in just hours before announcing to the world he was leaving Microsoft? Don’t you see it?!

Robert Scoble was just looking for an excuse to work for a place where he could freely walk into an Apple Store, probably Valley Faire’s store in San Jose, and load up on some high quality Macs without having to worry about Steve Ballmer throwing office furnature at him. I’m sure of it!

I’m sure Robert will never admit leaving Redmond for his secret love of Cupertino, but you know, we all here down in SV know the truth. Everything’s out in the open down in the Valley and it’s just too hard to hide it and live a false life. Scoble knew it and now he’s free!

[Picture Via Scobleizer Moblog]
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You would think with all the paparazzi filming Paris Hilton that she would have at least stopped and got out to leave a note on the car she hit, don’t you? But no, all she could do from within her Range Rover was utter an explicit and drive off. Now she must have had been slightly stunned since she took a pause before squealing out of the parking garage, but fact still remains, she broke the law and now we can all sing in chorus that Def Leppard song together about Paris. “HIT AND RUUUUN!” Man, the 80s rocked.

[Via Autoblog]