2.0somethings

Remember how incredibly lame those Japanese musical roads turned out to be? Well, your antidote has arrived. An LP box set examined by Boing Boing today comes with a little battery operated Mini that drives around the record’s tracks and plays the audio through the onboard speaker.

Awesome right? Of course, it’s probably going to sound like tinny crap, but face it: you’re not making a big show out of vinyl records for the sound.

The “Vinyl Killer” cars actually aren’t new, but it’s the first time they’ve shrunk it into an oh-so-trendy Mini. The car is available without the random LPs for the low low price of 9800 yen, or about ninety bucks. No word on how much eighth-inch rims cost. Video of the Beastie Boys pumping through a Vinyl Killer van after the jump.

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After months and months of stupid plasticky junk, finally, a badass Wii peripheral. Coming this fall, EA and NERF team up to bring you a Wiimote holder that transforms into a fully functioning NERF gun. This is way, way cooler than the official Wii Zapper.

The gun’s coming with a game that sounds promising too:

Become the master of mayhem in the first NERF blaster action game. In a world created to be the perfect landscape for NERF pandemonium, players can wreak havoc and perfect their blasting skills or challenge friends to clashes with both single and multi-player game modes. With the brand new custom NERF blaster, players can then take the action outside as their controller transforms to fire actual NERF darts!

Excuse me, “first NERF blaster action game”? How soon we forget the fantastic Unreal-engine-based Nerf Arena Blast.

Via Joystiq and ShackNews

The much-anticipated MacBook Air emerged from Steve Jobs’ nerdy womb on stage in San Francisco today. Sumbitch is thin.

That’s pretty much the extent of its innovation, though: it’s little. I can’t imagine the multitouch trackpad being particularly useful, the Remote Disc wireless disc mounting seems wildly inconvenient, and you had better hope that battery lasts, because it sure isn’t replaceable by you.

Maybe it’s not fair to hold today’s keynote to the same high standards as last year’s revolutionary iPhone announcement - the Air certainly is a slick little subnotebook. The $1799 starting price point isn’t going to capture the same travel/secondary laptop crowd that the Asus Eee enjoys, but fashionistas won’t be able to keep away.