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This is the kind of thing I'd imagine seeing in an early 90s film. "Whoa man, what's that rad new device on your wrist?" "Oh it's totally rad, it's the speakertron-4000. You can store over five whole songs on it! It's gonna be the next big thing! It even comes with a free Madonna song!"
@MsELizardBeth@ilusha Holy rubbers, Batman! If my wife finds out she's pregnant, I need to be a hella lot further away than Bluetooth range. Voyager range would be about right.
@jako99 The engineers were bored and sketching ideas for most useless products hoping to create a profitable blog about dumb ideas, or perhaps an April Fool's prank.
The CEO heard several "Wows!" interspersed with belly laughs coming from the drafting room and decided to check it out. "What are you working on that's generating so much enthusiasm in here?
The lead engineer explains that this is the most unreal thing they could imagine. The CEO responds, "Then our competitors haven't even considered it, am I right? We can patent it and have total market share on a whole new product line! How soon until we start production?"
I was hoping for a speaker dock or cool aux/bluetooth speaker to plug something into but this rinky dink thing that holds a charge for 6 hours? As cool as it looks I'll have to pass.
Now if it was $3 I'd buy one just to use for pranks
@tysontomko That was pretty much my thought -- I allllllllmost bought one just for the "WTF even is that" reaction from people, but 6 hours? Not even good at being crappy for long enough to be interesting.
What in the world is this? The Bem Academia lamp/Bluetooth speaker/USB charger was great and also practical. But this is a Bluetooth speaker on your wrist?
This has officially gone too far. Bluetooth speakers must be stopped.
This works for me. I can't use headphones because I can't hear if I'm paged over the intercom at work. The plethora of other bluetooth speaker docks I've purchased from meh are not mobile. I need a mobile speaker because I'm never in one place for any great length of time. This one will stick with me while the phone stays in my pocket playing my Amazon prime play list.
@thismyusername@2many2no I was joking. I live a few miles from the old Kmart HQ in Michigan. Sore topic in these parts how the arrogant and detached Antonini drove them into the ground. BTW, that HQ has sat vacant for 10 years.
@2many2no as you likely know, risk vs. reward - equity owners take more risk with the expectation (hope?) of higher returns vs. debt holders who often have assets backing their claims. While stockholders typically lose everything in a bankruptcy.
It is understandable that a company might expect a portion of its employee retirement matching funds go to company stock, but requiring all or even more than 20% of it go to company stock is egregious. You're already putting your job in the hands of the company and they expect you to stack your retirement funds at the same risk?
That does truly suck. Were you a MI-based employee?
@RedOak No, I worked in Texas. At least it wasn't as bad as Enron, where even employee contributions to the 401K were in company stock. I got my contributions back and they eventually bought out my pension, so I didn't lose everything, but before they bottomed out and canceled the common stock, I was up to 3000+ shares @ nearly $50. It was kind of costly.
@2many2no Ouch. $150K is plenty painful. Hopefully others have learned from those (Enron, Kmart, etc...) experiences so that when/if they have the earliest option, they rebalance and diversify away from their employer's stock.
Speaker w/ Bluetooth, buttons, and only 6 hours battery life? And yet it's still a LOT larger than an Android Wear watch that does a LOT more.... I bet the sound quality is horrible too...
@krdshrk yeah, but picture getting 15 of these with what you paid for the Android wear watch. No, really, picture wearing seven or eight on each wrist. Sweet!
@OldCatLady Image search has, for once in the history of this site, provided something at least marginally acceptable. Still don't know why I bought it.
@hollboll@mehcus@moose Can we get a confirmation that this product actually has a 3 year warranty? Based on an admittedly cursory internet search, it appears GoGroove and BEM are completely separate companies. Also the Academia and Cube had 90 day BEM warranties. Is this a typo?
@Moose You of course realize all the folks who bought this only due to that spectacular 3-year warranty will now be knocking on the @mehcus and @hollboll mailboxes for an order cancellation or $1.75 credit.
I like the prominent labeling on the power button and especially the USB port, in case you're the most un-tech savvy person on the planet. I'm surprised it doesn't say "speaker" across the top.
@kuaikuai Okay, someone in China needs to start cranking out speaker drones now. Imagine the fun of those in a park someplace, cranking out music as you chase people around. So many inappropriate potential uses!
@Conklaven this is actually a surreptitious meh customer profile test. Those who buy this product are a special breed and will be offered truly eccentric and even more wonderful items in the future.
@Conklaven I purchased one specifically for when I'm out in the yard working or maybe painting,cleaning anything where I don't want to be fishing my phone out or taking off gloves, etc. I wouldn't wear it in public but I am hoping it will be an inexpensive, useful tool. I bought one for my sister for the same reason, and if we don't like them, I know a couple little boys who would love them as a toy.
@zachdecker Boom, done! Although I was thinking more of the Get Smart theme. It might be an awful purchase but I've been happily surprised one or twice...I say as I try to convince myself I'm not insane.
Wow, the grey went fast. So much for completing my Geno1337 wardrobe. How can I follow the path without grey audial guidance? Sure black is a color that makes up grey but the absence of greyness disturbs the grey in my soul. Oh well, purchased. Maybe I will gift it to an unworthy tainted colorful soul come the grey season, letting the blackness remind them of their inability to appreciate the beautiful grey enlightenment of true greyness. Or possibly wear it and abandon emulating a decade old awful meme.
I've been mucking around with getting the Amazon Echo's Alexa Voice Service to run on a RaspberryPi. May snag some of these to make an Alexa-enabled wearable.
Meh, you are losing your touch. Clearly the headline should not have read: "Be careful what you wish for." and instead should have read "Be careful what you wrist for."
If this worked under water I'd be in for half of one but as it stands, my attempts to connect with the dolphins via Bluetooth will have to wait. Plus the band looks smallish... Not sure it even includes the sax.
Why did you guys pass up the opportunity to make it appeal more to hipsters, by calling it a fixie speaker? Or motorcycle speaker system (2 for Tuesday)?
@Nexar - next thing ya know, these revolutionaries will somehow combine the wristwatch with a calculator for all those emergent mathematical dillemmas. Mind boggling!
Saw this last night and sure, I was tempted...but I decided to wait until morning to make my decision. Now there's only red and light blue left...thanks for making my decision for me, Meh. Dodged a fucking bullet there.
@studerc Friends working in the "antique/collectors business" - they were very successful btw - told me red was the color to go for when collecting something for the future!
I got one last night, another two this morning. I'll be giving those two to my vet's office staff come Christmas time. It's fun to give things other people have never even seen. The WTF possibilities are awesome.
I am trying to figure how I can make up an excuse for this to be useful other then to look nerdy and I am stumped. I do work in situations where I have to pick up my bluetooth speaker all the time but would the convenience of not having to lift my speaker every so often outway the sound quality between the to?! haven't located a decent review about it
It seems to me I could put these wrist speakers on each hand and foot, connect all 4 to an app on my phone, and have a new and improved Mega Stomp Panic.
Nothing like crappy sounding audio on your wrist that seals the deal for me! I'm in for one. I plan to pair my iwatch to it on the other wrist and let siri argue with herself.
"Why?" "What the fuck?" "Dumb" "Too far" blah blah blah.
And then a bunch of you bought it anyway.
I'm unashamed to be a dork. I bought it with little hesitation. And then I wondered what the fuck I'd just done. Now, having read all of this nonsense, I actually feel better about my purchase.
grievous-nippy-scone
This was the first hit. There were a lot of images of text with that combo. Huh.
Demonstrating ever increasing affinity to my userid:
Saw it. Knew it was stupid. Was a bit offended by it. Was amused by it. Do not have a use for it. What could it do that my LG Tone headset doesnt do better?
must be a scam. I tried to order the red watch 3 separate times and it says billing address isn't verified. Bullcrap! cant find a phone number to call them.
@crazycajun1973 If you have two street number lines (like, street number & apt. number), try swapping them. Meh's not a scam, but their CC validation does seem oddly picky — this has come up before.
Received, charged, and paired. It produces a surprisingly loud volume for its size, but the best part is that it's so silly looking (I got light blue) that it makes me smile. I'm pleased.
@OldCatLady I got three. Two for Christmas for my vet's office (I need a total of twenty gifts, so I start early) and I kept one for me because I can't hear my basic cellphone ring. It's the second one I have like this, the first one did the same thing, but it's no longer under any kind of warranty, so I just don't hear it ring.
I paired it with this incredibly large light blue speaker bracelet last night and I can definitely hear the ringing, but I'm too slow to turn the damned thing off and have it go to the phone.
mini review: This speakers sounds worse than the meh speaker standard (the JBL Mini).
So I love the novelty... I mean it's funny... people are like "what the heck is that on your arm" and I would like to be able to double click the play and ask Siri what time it is... but... well it has some issue... it slowly figures out the words (I am guessing that the fidelity of the bluetooth connection isn't so great so it's having to re-analyze to figure out what I said)...and then it spits it back... but jokes are about timing and for the timing to be proper it really needs to happen quickly and smoothly... and it doesn't. I mean it sometimes eventually does it and its funny and people laugh and move on...
...and the sound... well... it seems like a giant missed opportunity here for Bēm... I mean that is a decent sized amount of space... this thing isn't thin... one would think it could produce some bass... but it doesn't. the speaker on my iphone sounds better and has far more bass... such a shame.
will try it with my android phone later and update if it's any better with "Ok Google".
would I buy it again? prob not... am I upset I got it? no it's fun... shame about the audio quality/bass tho...
I got one (well, three, because two will be Christmas presents for my vet's office). I got one for me because the ringtone on my phone isn't loud enough. Sure, it was loud enough when I got the damned thing, but something happened while it was in its holster, just hanging from the hook and now I can't hear the damned thing ring. As if anyone ever called me anyway.
This is my second Pantech Breeze IV phone, the same thing happened to my first one, which was under warranty. This one is not. So, finances are holding me back from getting another affordable basic phone.
I just wanted this wrist speaker so I could hear the phone ring, then answer the phone via the phone, but the speaker still works when I open the phone (it isn't like an earpiece) and I have to turn off the speaker by clicking that little button on the bottom and I haven't practiced enough yet.
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@thismyusername My feelings exactly. When I'm working outside, i have to pick up and move my bem speaker cube with me, but not any more!
Sketch concept.
Why?
@mistamoose
All I can think is, put it on your cat and figure out how to hack it into a simple speaker. Beyond that, I got nothing.
@MehnofLaMehncha, ...and proceed to cock block your cat anytime it goes into hunting mode...
Stuff I just never imagined existed...
If you posted this on April Fools I wouldn't have believed you that it was real.
@stoopkid couldnt agree more, this product is just... Seriously? I feel like we'll see these in a lpt pf the next batch of Fukus
@stoopkid are you saying its....meh?
The Fück?
Why?! ... In for one.
@connorbush Has comedy gone too far?
Instead of a wristwatch, it's a wristlisten
So fucking stupid I had to buy it.
@zachary Also there was one that matched our company color. Time to get one for everybody! The future is now.
@zachary, I was going to say the same thing…
So lame, that it is AWESOME.
And, of course, I had to have the green one to boot!
@zachary sam here
@calebaamy Hi Sam.
@calebaamy my brother's name is sam... that you sam?
@haydesigner green here as well
@haydesigner well, yeah. If you're going to buy something that obnoxiously ridiculous, you gotta grab an eye catching color.
@zachary @gregormehndel @calebaamy Well of course you'd get green, Sam.
Destined for a future Fuku
so...speaker dock for your wrist?
@metageist human dock? wrist dock? arm dock?
This is the kind of thing I'd imagine seeing in an early 90s film. "Whoa man, what's that rad new device on your wrist?" "Oh it's totally rad, it's the speakertron-4000. You can store over five whole songs on it! It's gonna be the next big thing! It even comes with a free Madonna song!"
@Nexar I'm not sure whether that's better or worse than coming with a free U2 album that you didn't want.
My watch doesn't tell time!
@bxm83 Maybe it can actually tell you the time.
@bxm83 If you ask it nicely...maybe....siri ously....
@bxm83 spy kids reference if anyone remembers.
@eeterrific Buncha smart Alexas.
WTF?
@heartny Couldn't have said it better....
Cheesiest Bluetooth gadget I've seen.
@jako99 i saw a Bluetooth pregnancy test. I don't understand why.
@MsELizardBeth Link or it's not real.
@2many2no holy crap they're right. http://www.firstresponse.com/en/Products/Pregnancy/Pregnancy-PRO
@2many2no http://www.firstresponse.com/Products/Pregnancy/Pregnancy-PRO
@ilusha see! I don't understand!
@jako99 You put your Bluetooth Pregnancy Test right next to your Bluetooth Toothbrush, the Oral-B 7000.
http://oralb.com/en-us/products/white-7000-with-bluetooth-electric-rechargeable-toothbrush
@MsELizardBeth @ilusha Holy rubbers, Batman!
If my wife finds out she's pregnant, I need to be a hella lot further away than Bluetooth range.
Voyager range would be about right.
@MsELizardBeth .....suddenly the wrist speaker doesn't seem so stupid....
@mike808
Or you can check at 2:54
Maybe someone can call me and tell me about something even more ridonkulus.
Check out my bluetooth gloves!
@MsELizardBeth Can you pair the test with the speaker and blare your results for everyone to hear?
@jako99 The engineers were bored and sketching ideas for most useless products hoping to create a profitable blog about dumb ideas, or perhaps an April Fool's prank.
The CEO heard several "Wows!" interspersed with belly laughs coming from the drafting room and decided to check it out. "What are you working on that's generating so much enthusiasm in here?
The lead engineer explains that this is the most unreal thing they could imagine. The CEO responds, "Then our competitors haven't even considered it, am I right? We can patent it and have total market share on a whole new product line! How soon until we start production?"
@2many2no If I find out I'm pregnant I'm suing the hospital where I had my tubal!
@ciabelle this is how we get the contents of Fuko bags. "No one has ever made a BLUETOOTH CAN OF SOUP!! Let's do this!!"
I was hoping for a speaker dock or cool aux/bluetooth speaker to plug something into but this rinky dink thing that holds a charge for 6 hours? As cool as it looks I'll have to pass.
Now if it was $3 I'd buy one just to use for pranks
@tysontomko That was pretty much my thought -- I allllllllmost bought one just for the "WTF even is that" reaction from people, but 6 hours? Not even good at being crappy for long enough to be interesting.
@kensey Six hours of talk time I believe. Not standby time.
@kensey @tysontomko Buy three.
Are you shitting us?
You missed the perfect opportunity for a baby arm photo op.
So ridiculous.Instant purchase.
I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea. What phone doesn't have a speaker?
The birth control comment killed me
Too ... meh-ny ... speakers.
i would have never known that existed. Thanks meh
What in the world is this? The Bem Academia lamp/Bluetooth speaker/USB charger was great and also practical. But this is a Bluetooth speaker on your wrist?
This has officially gone too far. Bluetooth speakers must be stopped.
@lljk Maybe it is Bem that needs stopped. (Or perhaps meh.)
Now's the time to stock up on your white elephant gifts for next Christmas, kids!
What in the multi-colored hell is that?
"The only 100% effective form of birth control"
Only when paired with an authentic set of boot camp issue bcg's.
I LOL'ed at this bullet point! @jasontoon You funny
@2palms You've seen my glasses, right?
nope.
Now I can finally live out all of my childhood Dick Tracy fantasies.
@jnwc dude, keep your dick fantasies to yourself.
If you pull firmly you will find that it's actually just a mini Bluetooth speaker taped to a Timex with masking tape.
I'm holding out for the Get Smart shoe phone edition.
It's the Dick Tracy watch!
@jmoor783 it's definitely a dick watch. I'll give you that.
Oh good, I've been looking for a speakerdick.
@cinoclav Was that a Dennis Hastert joke?
@mclancy Im not sure exactly what this says about me, but I audibly snorted at that comment
DON'T BELIEVE ME JUST SPEAKER!
This works for me. I can't use headphones because I can't hear if I'm paged over the intercom at work. The plethora of other bluetooth speaker docks I've purchased from meh are not mobile. I need a mobile speaker because I'm never in one place for any great length of time. This one will stick with me while the phone stays in my pocket playing my Amazon prime play list.
Great product meh!
Kmart has them $12
@turbosaturn Actually, $24.00 in red.
@turbosaturn But then you'd have to go to Kmart.
This I can pick up in my mailbox.
@turbosaturn Kmart really still exists? Can't think of a single surviving one in our large metro market.
@RedOak Kmart is now a real estate company. When they run out of money, they close some more stores and sell them.
@RedOak not only do they exist, they bought sears.
@thismyusername @2many2no I was joking. I live a few miles from the old Kmart HQ in Michigan. Sore topic in these parts how the arrogant and detached Antonini drove them into the ground. BTW, that HQ has sat vacant for 10 years.
@RedOak Did they salvage any of the fancy statues that cost so much back in the 80's and early 90's?
@2many2no hah! That would be the emperor. And I believe those ugly statues contributed to the debt holders' salvage value.
@thismyusername
That's like Lada buying Yugo.
@RedOak Unfortunately, "debt holders" did not include those of us whose matching funds and esop were tied up in common stock.
Now I can never retire.
@2many2no as you likely know, risk vs. reward - equity owners take more risk with the expectation (hope?) of higher returns vs. debt holders who often have assets backing their claims. While stockholders typically lose everything in a bankruptcy.
It is understandable that a company might expect a portion of its employee retirement matching funds go to company stock, but requiring all or even more than 20% of it go to company stock is egregious. You're already putting your job in the hands of the company and they expect you to stack your retirement funds at the same risk?
That does truly suck. Were you a MI-based employee?
@RedOak No, I worked in Texas.
At least it wasn't as bad as Enron, where even employee contributions to the 401K were in company stock. I got my contributions back and they eventually bought out my pension, so I didn't lose everything, but before they bottomed out and canceled the common stock, I was up to 3000+ shares @ nearly $50.
It was kind of costly.
@2many2no Ouch. $150K is plenty painful. Hopefully others have learned from those (Enron, Kmart, etc...) experiences so that when/if they have the earliest option, they rebalance and diversify away from their employer's stock.
Speaker w/ Bluetooth, buttons, and only 6 hours battery life? And yet it's still a LOT larger than an Android Wear watch that does a LOT more.... I bet the sound quality is horrible too...
@krdshrk That's the point: this is so awful I had to get it.
@krdshrk yeah, but picture getting 15 of these with what you paid for the Android wear watch. No, really, picture wearing seven or eight on each wrist. Sweet!
@PocketBrain Strap them to the right appendages and you can have 5.1 surround!
By far one of the stupidest things I have ever seen on a wrist
@jmhsrv At least the speaker is functional.
"Every day I want a good deal on a tech product I've never seen before."
Does this mean speakerdocks forever and ever? That sounds likes something a damn spirit in silk pants would do.
@xarous I think it means you'll go blind.
I'm suffering from a terrible case of speaker fatigue and my health insurance denied my claim.
Don't underestimate the size of this thing. You think that's a regular watch band but it's really like 5 inches wide.
I had to. Shiny-needy-engine has many options. Why did I buy this...
@OldCatLady Image search has, for once in the history of this site, provided something at least marginally acceptable. Still don't know why I bought it.
Is this a god damn joke???
Can't believe you guys are paying $8 for this, and then it hits me. Someone, somewhere paid $28 at Amazon.
So bad I went back and bought some tumblers.
100% effective birth control is right! Blech!
My meh order name is unfortunate-rested-collar. More like unfortunate wristed collar, am I right?
If it was only a decimal place more expensive with either a Monster brand name or called an i-something or other, I'd be all over this.
No. Actually, I wouldn't.
It begins. Wrist speaker Wednesday.
If I buy one for each wrist is it possible to sync them in stereo?
Also, if I had one for each ankle and then one on the chest can they do surround sound?
@DigMe If you put one on your ankle, you can't leave your home.
Do they offer a companion subwoofer?
@DigMe Where would you- never mind.
@OldCatLady exactly.
... For those times when you are not completely confident you have the dork look properly implemented.
People, PLEASE STOP buying this! You're enabling them!
Does anyone know what the backside made of -- all plastic? It's hard to tell if the four white dots are metal with nickel.
Forget the wrist-speaker, if you survive getting beat up for 3 years, you deserve an award.
@hollboll @mehcus @moose
Can we get a confirmation that this product actually has a 3 year warranty? Based on an admittedly cursory internet search, it appears GoGroove and BEM are completely separate companies. Also the Academia and Cube had 90 day BEM warranties. Is this a typo?
@mehdaf Really? Simply buy 3.
@mehdaf That must be a holdover from another deal. This warranty should be 90 days from Bem.
@RedOak or a dozen, (365*3/90)
@Moose You of course realize all the folks who bought this only due to that spectacular 3-year warranty will now be knocking on the @mehcus and @hollboll mailboxes for an order cancellation or $1.75 credit.
I like the prominent labeling on the power button and especially the USB port, in case you're the most un-tech savvy person on the planet. I'm surprised it doesn't say "speaker" across the top.
@nogoodwithnames I can't find the microphone.
@nogoodwithnames We have a LARGE (like, 60lb) vise down in the factory that has a big (1" x 4") label on it that says, 'VISE'. :eye_roll:
@compunaut They wanted to make sure it was VISE-ble.
But when are we going to get a speaker drone?
@kuaikuai Okay, someone in China needs to start cranking out speaker drones now. Imagine the fun of those in a park someplace, cranking out music as you chase people around. So many inappropriate potential uses!
@kuaikuai One of the big pro drones they sell to police has a speaker/PA kit. Welcome to dystopia!
In my mind, my fancy gadgets help to compensate for my acute penis. This would be counterproductive.
@justinjones41 Right, but... speakerdicks.
@justinjones41 Who told you you have a cute penis?
What scares me is over 200 people actually have bought this so far... will people by anything?
@Conklaven this is actually a surreptitious meh customer profile test. Those who buy this product are a special breed and will be offered truly eccentric and even more wonderful items in the future.
@Conklaven I purchased one specifically for when I'm out in the yard working or maybe painting,cleaning anything where I don't want to be fishing my phone out or taking off gloves, etc. I wouldn't wear it in public but I am hoping it will be an inexpensive, useful tool. I bought one for my sister for the same reason, and if we don't like them, I know a couple little boys who would love them as a toy.
@Conklaven yes.
@mehbee If you are going to wear this while doing chores and whatnot, I really hope you'll be playing the A-Team music as your soundtrack.
@zachdecker Boom, done! Although I was thinking more of the Get Smart theme. It might be an awful purchase but I've been happily surprised one or twice...I say as I try to convince myself I'm not insane.
@mehbee You know what... you sold me. I bought one. That is ingenious and for $8 you are right. Worst case its a really cool gift to my cousin.
@zachdecker That's no good, this speaker will only last for 6 hours!
@Conklaven exactly! Meh gives you garbage because idiots keep buying it. Unreal
@jqubed Trust me I don't work in the yard or clean my house steadily for 6 hours..lol
@msujp One man's trash is another man's.....
@mehbee wife?
@Pavlov LOL, yea maybe
This is the first time the "Oh God, what did I just do?" message has spoken to me on a spiritual level.
Wow, the grey went fast. So much for completing my Geno1337 wardrobe. How can I follow the path without grey audial guidance? Sure black is a color that makes up grey but the absence of greyness disturbs the grey in my soul. Oh well, purchased. Maybe I will gift it to an unworthy tainted colorful soul come the grey season, letting the blackness remind them of their inability to appreciate the beautiful grey enlightenment of true greyness. Or possibly wear it and abandon emulating a decade old awful meme.
Now, on the one hand... this thing is stupid as hell.
On the other hand, now that I know it exists, I absolutely need one in my life.
Maybe two of them.
I could strap one to each wrist, then... er... ok, so I haven't fully thought out my brilliant plan here, but I'm sure it'll lead somewhere amazing.
@Squic On the one hand...this is a stupid speaker.
On the other hand as well, and you now have stereo.
@Squic Which hand is the stupid one? for me it's the right one.
@Squic it would lead to listening to your music in stereo?
Watch out - another watch tonight!
I would so get this if it was purple. Said no one ever.
"Every day I want a good deal on a tech product I've never seen before."
Why, oh why, did I not know to be afraid, very afraid?
@2many2no Wait until you get a load of what's in store for Speaker Dock Friday ...
@mike808 ipod ipoop?
Wow that's incredibly dumb.
Meh doesn't cover it.
Sound so tinny I'll get tinnitus.
By the way the Bēm cube speaker, saw them on sale at sams for $19.99 if anyone is looking, I have no idea how they sound but some said they were good.
This brings up sad memories of that Casio calculator watch I never owned.
@wew It's not too late.
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-Mens-CA53W-Calculator-Watch/dp/B000GB1R7S
@narfcake nice!
@wew You're not the only one: https://www.amazon.com/review/RYAOA4I5OPK84/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
I've been mucking around with getting the Amazon Echo's Alexa Voice Service to run on a RaspberryPi.
May snag some of these to make an Alexa-enabled wearable.
Meh, you are losing your touch. Clearly the headline should not have read: "Be careful what you wish for." and instead should have read "Be careful what you wrist for."
You are welcome.
I do not understand the purpose of this ..... Well I guess I'll take one.
Electric-veritable-monk
Though I kinda feel like an idiot for ordering this thing.
@riceatusc This monk seems comfortable wearing his Bēm in public.
@awk hmm. I just noticed that he had something on his wrist
?
what
huh?
I gave in and bought one. I wonder what my husband will say when he opens his new Father's Day watch??!?
@cwillbwill5 "I want a divorce."
And so now we finally have bluetooth on the wrist. Enough of the damn speakers. Even my 15 year old said, "Dad no more bluetooth stuff".
The mad men of Meh finally did it. They combined watches with Bluetooth speakers.
However, I ain't biting, because this is just a smart watch with less functionality.
@Dizavid Is that a Stupid Watch or a Smart Speaker?
Has anybody bought one of these for a wedding anniversary gift? I pawned my wedding bands so I hope this makes up for it!
I'm having a hard time believing 456 of these could be bought by accident, so: what is wrong with you people?!
I'm going to laugh really hard if they sell more of these boondoggles than their branded vacuum mugs from yesterday.
@jqubed stop wasting time and order some too!!!they are gonna sell out faster than Trump's hair pieces!
@jqubed Some people buy things and others just wonder why. We all have a role here at Meh.com
For easier future reference, they sold 1767 of the double-walled tumblers.
@jmbunkin 'not so sure I'd be boasting today.
If this worked under water I'd be in for half of one but as it stands, my attempts to connect with the dolphins via Bluetooth will have to wait. Plus the band looks smallish... Not sure it even includes the sax.
Why did you guys pass up the opportunity to make it appeal more to hipsters, by calling it a fixie speaker? Or motorcycle speaker system (2 for Tuesday)?
@Nexar - next thing ya know, these revolutionaries will somehow combine the wristwatch with a calculator for all those emergent mathematical dillemmas. Mind boggling!
It's so stupid that I want one...
Wow, the only thing worse than this, is this thing in the colors. I wish I were blind as well as deaf!
Does the speaker flip up and reveal a watch underneath?
this is so outrageous that i want two.
Saw this last night and sure, I was tempted...but I decided to wait until morning to make my decision. Now there's only red and light blue left...thanks for making my decision for me, Meh. Dodged a fucking bullet there.
@studerc Friends working in the "antique/collectors business" - they were very successful btw - told me red was the color to go for when collecting something for the future!
When these are worth $10 you will be thanking me!
I can only see the laziness (and totally fair) in not wanting to open more than the one black model and just photoshopping the rest of the colors...
You know your design dept is in trouble when your product looks lamer than Craig's
Be careful what you Wrist for.
Why?
I got one last night, another two this morning. I'll be giving those two to my vet's office staff come Christmas time. It's fun to give things other people have never even seen. The WTF possibilities are awesome.
Got the Twitter text saying "Bem wrist speaker". Thought, "whatever the hell that is, it can wait until morning". Wasn't wrong.
It would be a crime for this watch to be elected to Congress.
Though, as speaker of the house it would just get a slap on the wrist.
I am trying to figure how I can make up an excuse for this to be useful other then to look nerdy and I am stumped. I do work in situations where I have to pick up my bluetooth speaker all the time but would the convenience of not having to lift my speaker every so often outway the sound quality between the to?! haven't located a decent review about it
If only these were motion sensitive, too.
I bought the ThinkGeek Mega Stomp Panic.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ef56/
It seems to me I could put these wrist speakers on each hand and foot, connect all 4 to an app on my phone, and have a new and improved Mega Stomp Panic.
Nothing like crappy sounding audio on your wrist that seals the deal for me! I'm in for one. I plan to pair my iwatch to it on the other wrist and let siri argue with herself.
You motherfuckers amuse me.
"Why?" "What the fuck?" "Dumb" "Too far" blah blah blah.
And then a bunch of you bought it anyway.
I'm unashamed to be a dork. I bought it with little hesitation. And then I wondered what the fuck I'd just done. Now, having read all of this nonsense, I actually feel better about my purchase.
grievous-nippy-scone
This was the first hit. There were a lot of images of text with that combo. Huh.
And here, somewhere in the lush green of Brazil.
@joelmw You amuse us too, motherfucker.
@Pavlov
Whoa! Almost bought one to use in the garage, with greasy hands, etc., but no blacks ones left.....so I'm out!
@mrdancer Sharpie marker!
http://www.bemwireless.com/products/mobile-accessories/
They have seriously the dumbest product line out there.....
@MsELizardBeth Hey, that device might be a handy rotating platform for capturing 360 degree product views with the Arqspin app.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/arqspin/id507266964
Demonstrating ever increasing affinity to my userid:
Saw it. Knew it was stupid. Was a bit offended by it. Was amused by it. Do not have a use for it. What could it do that my LG Tone headset doesnt do better?
Bought 2. PO'd that the green ones are oos.
must be a scam. I tried to order the red watch 3 separate times and it says billing address isn't verified. Bullcrap! cant find a phone number to call them.
@crazycajun1973 try support@mediocre.com
@crazycajun1973 If you have two street number lines (like, street number & apt. number), try swapping them. Meh's not a scam, but their CC validation does seem oddly picky — this has come up before.
Another Bluetooth speaker option arrives for Morningsave.
Meh needs a secondary site for stuff like this that doesn't meet the threshold of meh. I'm thinking Ugh.com.
@ypwulby this is that site
Come on, we can do it! 8 more to full on dork heaven 1,000...
@RedOak We did it!!! Dorks R Us!!!! I thought I'd have to buy another one.
@OldCatLady ... @RedOak not-so-sheepishly admits he bought none.
Received, charged, and paired. It produces a surprisingly loud volume for its size, but the best part is that it's so silly looking (I got light blue) that it makes me smile. I'm pleased.
@OldCatLady I got three. Two for Christmas for my vet's office (I need a total of twenty gifts, so I start early) and I kept one for me because I can't hear my basic cellphone ring. It's the second one I have like this, the first one did the same thing, but it's no longer under any kind of warranty, so I just don't hear it ring.
I paired it with this incredibly large light blue speaker bracelet last night and I can definitely hear the ringing, but I'm too slow to turn the damned thing off and have it go to the phone.
Got the RED one and love it!
Surprisingly loud for the size. Would buy another one if they had GREY come up again!
mini review: This speakers sounds worse than the meh speaker standard (the JBL Mini).
So I love the novelty... I mean it's funny... people are like "what the heck is that on your arm" and I would like to be able to double click the play and ask Siri what time it is... but... well it has some issue... it slowly figures out the words (I am guessing that the fidelity of the bluetooth connection isn't so great so it's having to re-analyze to figure out what I said)...and then it spits it back... but jokes are about timing and for the timing to be proper it really needs to happen quickly and smoothly... and it doesn't.
I mean it sometimes eventually does it and its funny and people laugh and move on...
...and the sound... well... it seems like a giant missed opportunity here for Bēm... I mean that is a decent sized amount of space... this thing isn't thin... one would think it could produce some bass... but it doesn't.
the speaker on my iphone sounds better and has far more bass... such a shame.
will try it with my android phone later and update if it's any better with "Ok Google".
would I buy it again? prob not... am I upset I got it? no it's fun... shame about the audio quality/bass tho...
I got one (well, three, because two will be Christmas presents for my vet's office). I got one for me because the ringtone on my phone isn't loud enough. Sure, it was loud enough when I got the damned thing, but something happened while it was in its holster, just hanging from the hook and now I can't hear the damned thing ring. As if anyone ever called me anyway.
This is my second Pantech Breeze IV phone, the same thing happened to my first one, which was under warranty. This one is not. So, finances are holding me back from getting another affordable basic phone.
I just wanted this wrist speaker so I could hear the phone ring, then answer the phone via the phone, but the speaker still works when I open the phone (it isn't like an earpiece) and I have to turn off the speaker by clicking that little button on the bottom and I haven't practiced enough yet.
Because no one calls.
Worth the money just for the laughs. I'm thinking BEM grabbed the speakers out of 6-7 year old notebooks and put a strap on them.
@jmbunkin So now there's all kinds of elementary kids running around crying.
@therealjrn Honk Honk !