Please excuse my crappy iPhone photography.
It's Gandalf enjoying the view.
I think he's there because of some sort of Dell tie-in promotion with The Hobbit, although I don't see the connection between computers and Middle Earth.
But the most amazing thing I saw at Sitex yesterday was actually this turntable.
I felt like I was transported back to 1980.
You just have to plug in some computer speakers to play it. Of course you also need some vinyl records, which I believe I still have somewhere.
The price tag is $216. I actually thought of buying it, but having to replace the stylus would be a pain. And then I remembered what an ungainly invention the turntable was.
I was grateful when CD players finally became affordable in the late 80s, although it made my record collection obsolete.
And now my CD collection is obsolete. And they're rubbing it in my face by selling turntables again. It's the circle of life, man.
This is why I enjoy making a pilgrimage to every IT show four times a year despite the crowds, even when I'm not planning to buy anything. There's always something to see.
Actually, I bought an iPhone 5 cable ($17!) yesterday along with another set of earphones just because of the unusual braided cabling.
Unfortunately, one of the earpieces has already fallen apart out of the box. I thought of exchanging them, but I did not want to travel all the way from Yew Tee to Expo again. So I just glued them back together.
Fortunately, the sound quality is good enough for $48. Bassy!
(A salesman at Sitex yesterday asked me what kind of headphones I was looking for. I guess he expected me to say good bass or something like that. I said I was looking for headphones with unusual cabling and he just turned away.)
The embarrassing thing about testing headphones on my iPhone with the sales people watching is that some really old uncool songs would show up in the shuffle mode, like Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle Of The Road or anything by Abba.
So I quickly skipped through the songs to find something unembarrassing and yesterday, I discovered that Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin is ideal for testing headphones. It has a heavy bass and it's not Abba.
Incidentally, Led Zep referenced Lord Of The Rings in a few of their songs.
Gandalf lives!
TRENDING POSTS OF THE WEEK
-
So I was shooting the breeze with this ladyboy I met at a bar in the beach resort town of Pattaya , Thailand, while on shore leave. I wi...
-
And you thought Joanne Peh dating Qi Yuwu was weird. Remember last Sunday, I wrote about how on social media, every day is like April Foo...
-
I first met Darryl David at Gurmit Singh's wedding dinner in 1995. David's date was a woman named Lynette Pang , who was a stag...
-
When I learnt that Vernetta Lopez ’s autobiography Memoirs Of A DJ: Life In Progress was published last week, I rushed to the nearest major...
-
Lately, I've been noticing the recurring use of an unfamiliar word on social media. Aisey. Posted by SMRT Ltd (Feedback) on Wedne...
-
Dear producers of Code Of Law , My condolences on your new Channel 5 drama series. As a former TV producer for Channel 5 myself, I sympath...
-
A few days ago, my former employer, MediaCorp, announced the surprise resignation of its chief executive officer, Lucas Chow. So what ...
-
You may have read about kids of local celebrities following their parents' footsteps into showbiz. But you probably haven't read...
-
You may have read about De Beers Wong, who pretended to be an agent for rich "sugar daddies" and duped at least 11 women into havi...
-
Zoe Tay said she was “just sexy”, and that men love her and women hate her. I can’t speak for women, but as a man, I don’t exactly love...