V-Touch 16GB Touch Screen Media Player with Bonus Headphones - $69.99

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DATE : Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:33 -0600
Entered in Database : 2010-01-29 06:00:33
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Who Wants Flowers When You’re Dead?

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is how I feel about a dead writer they make you read in high school and all that kind of crap, but I don’t really feel like going into it if you want to know the truth.

What I know, and really, who cares about any of this crap, is that there’s some guy they mentioned on one of my mom’s old Beastie Boys records because he rhymed with “challenger”, and they probably didn’t ever read him either or somebody made them read him, and then that guy they mentioned went and bit it yesterday. I keep hearing teachers say I should like him but I just felt sorry as hell when I found out all his books are published by a major publisher. How many blogs could have been set up with all that cash and drama? And then he sued some guy for writing a parody? That made me think he was really too corporate for me. I don’t go in for all that corporate crap too much. That’s why I bought an V-Touch 16GB Portable Media Player.

It’s sort of a joke on everybody else I know. They see this thing that looks like an iPod and they get all excited and I can show them that it’s just a cheaper lookalike, and that instead of listening to MP3s or WAVs or WMAs or AACs, I’m using the built-in FM radio to listen to NPR, and then they get mad like it’s some big issue or something. I think it’s because they don’t like someone who shows them how phony they are. This whole world’s gone phony, you see, and I feel sorry as hell for anyone that can’t recognize it. I’m gonna start my podcast about it using the V-Touch 16GB Portable Media Player’s built-in Voice Recorder soon. It won’t have many listeners, probably, but I don’t care about listeners. I just want to do it, get the word out, maybe help people start thinking about crap like that. People just don’t think at all, and that makes me sorry as hell, and I guess I want to try and help them do it more.

Anyway, last night, I was taking pictures of the carousel in the park with my V-Touch 16GB Portable Media Player’s 2.0 MP camera. I do that in the later evenings, you know, the sunlight then makes everything seem more real to me somehow. I was in the park, and I saw my English teacher talking to some guy on a bench. He was patting his hand real seriously, like they were dating or something, and he was saying that before he was famous, the guy dated Eugene O’Neill’s daughter and she dumped him for Charlie Chaplin. I guess that just made me sorry as hell for how it must have felt to be young and have nobody listen, and I guess that made me think differently about all this dead guy crap or whatever.

I mean, it’s not like he and me ever would have been friends or anything, and he was probably a total phony like everybody famous except for Conan O’Brien, but everybody knows how bad it feels to have something you thought you wanted blow up in your face. Like, if the V-Touch 16GB Portable Media Player suddenly sold out, and everybody had one, I probably wouldn’t want it any more, and I’d feel bad I ever bought one. I’d probably throw it into the ocean or something, just smash that 2.8 inch touchscreen, just because. I guess maybe the only way to truly be non-commercial is to just never give anyone a chance to see your stuff. I guess maybe that’s why he was all alone up there in that big house with his words. He was just trying to be pure. Makes you sorry as hell to think about all that crap.

So rest in peace, JD. But don’t think I’m gonna miss you or anything. Once you start missing dead strangers, you start missing everybody.

Warranty: 1 Year Visual Land

V-Touch VL-885 Media Player Features:

• Movies, music, pictures, text files and more all at the touch of a finger
• 2.8” Color TFT touch screen
• Easy to use navigation system
• 16GB Built-In Flash Memory
• Drag and Drop file transfer, can be used as a USB Mass Storage Device
• Expandable MiniSD Card Slot (to 16GB)
• 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera records stills and video
• Camera also works as a webcam when connected to a computer through the USB port
• Video Playback: AVI / MP4 / 3GP
• Audio Playback: MP3 / WMA / WAV
• Supported Formats include AVI,3GP, MP4, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, JPG, GIF, BMP
• FM Tuner with presets and internal recording
• Voice Recorder with 35 hours of recording at a 8khz rate
• Voice mode with selected content repeat function (A-B mode)
• Built-in speaker for those who choose not to use headphones
• Picture Viewer
• E-Book Functions
• .Irc format supported to show lyrics
• Equalizer with Normal, 3D, Rock, Pop, Classic, Bass, Jazz, Custom settings
• Repeat modes include Normal, Repeat Once, Repeat One, Repeat All, Repeat Folder, Random, Intro
• Rechargeable battery with approximately 6 hours of playing time when fully charged; approximately 8 hours charging time through USB port
• 5 MB per second file transfer speed
• 85db SNR
• 10mW + 10mW output power
• Output range of frequency is 20Hz – 20 KHz
• USB 2.0 PC interface
• Includes standard in-ear headphones
• Unit weight: 4 ounces
• Unit dimensions: 3.5” X 2.25” X 0.5”

Visual Land SSB-10 In-Ear Headphones Features:

• 3.5 mm plug fits most standard MP3 players, CD Players, Personal Computers, and other listening devices
• 10mm Drivers
• NdFeB Magnet Type
• 20 – 20,000 Hz Frequency
• 32 ohms Impedance
• 30mW Max Input Power
• 100 dB Sensitivity
• OFC Cord Type
• 39” Cord Length
• Surround Superior Bass
• 3 Different Size Cushions for Custom Fit
• Includes Protective Carrying Case
• Stylish Design

In the box:

• VL-885 16GB Portable Media Player
• SSB-10 In-Ear Headphones
• USB Cable
• A/C Charger
• Standard In-Ear Headphones with Additional Set of Ear Cushions
• Stylus
• User Manual
• Drawstring Carry Case
• Driver on Mini CD
• Three Sizes of Ear Cushions for SSB-10 Headphones

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