Gadgets.boingboing.net roundup for 8/29/2007

A few of my favorites posts at gadgets.boingboing.net:

200708291901
Why are hideously expensive gadgets so hideous looking? Link

200708291906-1 Nokia is adding "Web 2.0 services like MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook" to its series 60 OS. Link

200708291907 Scan of 1960s brochures advertising "personal 'massage instruments' clearly intended for use in a woman's nethers." Link

200708291905 Crayola makes a talking ruler "that audibly speaks the distance it has travelled, in quarter-inch increments, while leaving a trail of disappearing ink." Link