The Raging Tech

How many remotes do you have?

I’m a BzzAgent, and as part of the BzzAgent program, I take part in word-of-mouth campaigns about products they send me to try and give my honest opinion on. The most recent one that I’ve enjoyed a lot is the Logitech Harmony One universal remote control. I have 3 remotes in the living room, not to mention two PS3 controllers. Now that the Logitech Harmony One can control all my devices (even my ghetto Durabrand Wal-mart audio receiver I got hand-me-down), I only have one, and it’s very neat.

See what other people have tried to do to get all of their devices in sync (this video is hilarious):

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What if your car kept doing this?

Wouldn’t it be awful if your car kept doing this? I know it’d be pretty cool the first couple of times, but after that, it’d probably just be plain annoying. I like how this resembles the internet video from a while back where the cars would transform, but it was an intended function of the car, like a security system or something? I don’t quite remember. It’s a clever ad for Chevrolet Europe, nonetheless.

Renuzit TriScents Home Makeover Semi-Finalists

In my bathroom at home, I have the cheaply priced 97-cent screw-top Renuzit air freshener, and I must say, they’re a lot more effective than candles or spraying, and they don’t overwhelm.

Renuzit is having a contest where participants are instructed to upload a video explaining why they feel like they deserve a Home Makeover in the contest titled “Transform Your Home with Tanya Meme.” Tanya is the star of A & E Emmy-nominated show “Sell This House!”

The girl in the screenshot above sings a hilarious song about how her Mom worked really hard to earn money to give to her for her education so she could earn her degree, and now with no money they can’t afford to fix up the kitchen, so she needs a home makeover.

I felt bad for the girl, but I enjoyed her out-of-tune singing and the hokeyness of her video. Go visit the contest page and find her in the semi-finalist gallery and vote for her to win! What’s great is you can vote every single day, once a day, until June 7th. If most of you do this, she’s almost sure to win.

The winner with the most votes will receive a $20,000 makeover with Tanya Memme - so vote early and often. I’m tempted to enter, but I don’t actually own my home - I’m a renter. Still, it’d be neat to have some lady come in and do $20k worth of fix-ups to a place I did own.

You Ain’t Got No Alibi

Why on earth did God decide to put two starkly contrasting things together like cheerleaders and the cheers that they cheer? Cheerleaders are usually pretty hot, and the cheers they do are usually pretty annoying. It’s one of the stranger pardoxes in the universe.

Company 81, a clothing company, has given access to their clothing store online and through the 7th Chamber marketing company produced a website where you can watch a video where cheerleaders mercilessly maul innocent bystanders with rediculous cheers. I couldn’t help but laugh when a pretty-looking woman walked by the group of cheerleaders and they turned their signs around and it spelled “FAKE.”

I’m pretty sure all of the things that happen in the video are staged - it just seems to be missing a sense of genuine spontaneity. I seriously doubt they actually chased a guy around without getting arrested or sued. Or maybe they did, who knows? Trust me, You’ll know when you’ve been hit by this hot cheery bunch!

Enter Company 81’s contest for a chance to have the whole cheerleader squad come back to your room - with tons of clothes for your summer wardrobe from Company 81’s selections.

Get Plugged In to HD Music Videos

This morning I received an e-mail telling me that new HD music video / social networking site PluggedIn launched in beta today. PluggedIn is apparently a venture by actor / recording artist Will Smith in association with Sony, EMI, and other big name record labels.

What immediately one me over when I loaded up the site this morning was that in spite of it’s slick interface and decent selection of music videos, it runs from a Java-based client that works in Firefox on a Mac. Quickly it works, with next to no loading time to operate.

I just watched “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails (a live performance) and it was awesome. If you sign up for an account (also free), you can queue up a playlist of videos and get artist bios and shop for music in an online marketplace.