A last look at the weird and wonderful

17.01.2009

Apple's Leopard may have Time Machine, but can boast having the time machine at Expo. To drive home the point about its Mac restoration services, the repair and upgrade specialist adorned its booth with a replica of the DeLorean-based time machine from the movies. No, it wasn't a working model; otherwise they'd already would have used the sports almanac to become millionaires. Obviously.

Goriest in Show

creates some of the coolest USB flash drives out there. Some are in the shape of Star Wars characters--as I --while others take the form of the iconic Japanese domo figure. Why the company chose to license the is beyond me. The gore-centric cutesy animals come in different designs, some pre-mutilation, some post. Nothing rocks the cute-centric universe quite like seeing a USB drive in the shape of a disemboweled bear. Since most of these drives make sounds when they're installed, I can hardly imagine what horrific screams these emit... but I'm sure I'll hear them in my nightmares.

Bustiest in Show

makes a highly-regarding cataloging software that keeps tabs on your books, movies, music, and any other items you own. It's likely that visitors to the company's Expo booth might have forgotten all about the finer points of Delicious Library 2 while chatting with the folks hired to promote the software. I'm fairly certain that's not regulation-meeting attire for librarians these days.