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Hello Kitty C1 Netbook: You must resist!

After months underground, during which time she released only a pixellated propaganda video, the felicitous feline has surfaced once again, bent on pursuing her plan for world domination. As evidence, I present to you the Hello Kitty Netbook.

Compared with most previous Hello Kitty laptops, the Hello Kitty C1's design is downright subdued, with the text "Hello Kitty" repeated across the lid and a single impression of the evil mastermind's image in one corner. Otherwise, the 2.6-pound mini laptop looks like nearly every other all-white Netbook.

Its specs are fairly typical as well: a 1.… Read more

Hello Kitty gamers raise food for charity

Sometimes the line between virtual world and real world is blurry. It's been known that Chinese gold farmers make a real living out of the WoW gold. On Friday, Sanrio Digital, maker of the Hello Kitty Online game, for the first time turned the in-game food to real money for a good cause.

The company announced the conclusion of the first Hello Kitty Online charity event called "Food for Friends." The event was held in the final week of the Hello Kitty Online closed beta.

Players created and submitted 344,965 in-game food items. Based on the … Read more

Online gamers fete Hello Kitty's birthday

Believe it or not, Kitty White (aka Hello Kitty), has been aging along with the rest of us, and Saturday marks her 34th birthday. Judging from her look, however, it seems the alternately much-loved and much-reviled feline icon hasn't really grown up much and is still an appropriate representation of childlike cuteness.

To help celebrate this occasion, Sanrio Digital has organized a week-long in-game celebration in the Hello Kitty Online massively multiplayer role-playing game. The event includes a series of quests and events, including an in-game guild contest that lets players convert online efforts into real cash donations for … Read more

Hello Kitty gamers take on New York

If your kids start to show serious signs of loving New York and you don't know why, this might be the reason.

Sanrio Digital, maker of the Hello Kitty Online 3D virtual world that's currently in beta, announced Friday the game's largest in-game event: the building of New York City. Players of the Hello Kitty Online Founders' Beta can take part in a series of quests to collect and organize materials for the building of a new New York area that will appear in the next phase of the game--and will undoubtedly be far more pink than … Read more

Crave: Ride a mechanical dolphin!

It's all the things you Crave! In this week's installment of the Crave vodcast, me and my guest, Bonnie Cha, talk about Hello Kitty madness, a Zune night light that plays music, and a laptop case that doubles as a pillow...the Napbook!

Hello Kitty won't stop breeding

This cat has no shame.

She continues to haunt us with her incessant need to reproduce every consumer item in existence with her likeness on it. Our mistrust of the advancing Kitty empire on Crave is well-known, but we haven't brought it up in a while. Friends, it's time.

The cat is now trying to green-wash her cheap plastic empire, calling this solar-powered cell phone recharger "eco-friendly." Well now, throwing "solar-powered" into the description certainly sounds environmentally friendly. But wait. Apparently it's good for about 500 charges, then you're supposed to throw … Read more

Hello Kitty cleans up her act with RoboMop

By now, it should be crystal clear to the world that there's nothing Sanrio's feline export can't or won't do. So no surprises that the cat is now mopping up the competition with a Hello Kitty version of the hands-free, cutesy floor cleaner called the RoboMop. At a glance, the strange-looking contraption doesn't quite look up to the challenge of heavy-duty grime-busting. But hey, at a mere $99, let's be clear that this shouldn't be categorized in the same league as the artificially intelligent Scooba.

To use, just set the timer on the … Read more

Hello Kitty stamps her paw on a new LCD

The newly appointed Japanese tourism mascot has yet another new product under her belt. This time, it's a white/pink or black/red 19-inch TV from Uniden garnished with its now signature silhouette. Putting aside its "cute" factor, this LCD has a unique native resolution of 1,440 x 810 pixels plus all the usual goodies.

We know it's pretty irrelevant to touch on the technicalities here when it's all about the Hello Kitty adoration. But just for the record, this display has a humble 1,000:1 contrast, 300cd/m2 brightness and 5ms response … Read more

The 404 120: Where we're "tight" with the NewYork.com girls

We're on our best behavior for today's show featuring the NewYork.com girls. Who are we kidding? We turn up the heat today and get a much needed female's perspective on the worst possible Father's Day gift, women's best kept secrets, stabbing Wal-Mart robots, and the girls' strange obsession with the Jolly Green Hotness. EPISODE 120 Download today's podcast

Kaleidoscope creates shrine to Hello Kitty

To have a psychedelic experience involving Hello Kitty, fans of the mouthless cat can partake in an illicit substance and stare intently at their collection of toys. Or if you don't want to risk prosecution, you can buy U-Mate's Hello Kitty Mangekyo Projector.

This spherical contraption has a kaleidoscope disc that's used to project repeated Hello Kitty lights onto the ceiling. It also has blank kaleidoscope discs that can be laid with beads so you can create normal, less freaky patterns. It isn't cheap at $215 from the Japan Trend Shop, as Boing Boing notes, but … Read more