Nov 12 2008Best Buy Gift Card Doubles As Speaker, Target Gift Card Doubles As Digital Camera, Geekologie Writer Doubles As Your Father
Reader, I am your father. And you can tell your mother I'm not paying her shit, she's been bleeding me dry for long enough. But I'll still send you a gift card for Christmas, you know, because I love you. And also, if you grow up to play a professional sport, I want you to remember your dear old dad. Anyway, Best Buy and Target are taking a different approach to gift cards this year. By making them both gift card AND present. That's right, the Best Buy card doubles as a speaker, complete with mini-headphone jack, and the Target one is actually a 1.3 megapixel, 8MB digital camera. You ever redeemed a giftcard with pictures of your genitals on it? No? Then you haven't lived. Unfortunately, you have to buy at least $50 cards to get the cool ones. So yeah, there goes my $5 surround sound system.
Hit the jump for a shot of the camera card.
Gift cards that double as actual gifts [csmonitor]
Thanks to Bekky and Hunter, who better get me something good this year.
Reader Comments
1. Edge - November 12, 2008 3:16 PM
first?
2. Jo Mama - November 12, 2008 3:16 PM
Everyone below me
3. anarki - November 12, 2008 3:25 PM
@ 1 & 2
Just stop being morons
4. Voltron "Defender of the Universe" - November 12, 2008 3:27 PM
I'd rather not.
I go to Radioshack and Circuit City
Me no go Best Buy!
Ha yaaaah!
Chop you in da face, mane!
5. Thumperchica - November 12, 2008 3:28 PM
Daddy!
6. Daisy - November 12, 2008 3:29 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadows are all wrong.
For once though, it doesn't look at all like the movie Never Back Down. You can buy the movie Never Back Down at Best Buy though. The prices are great there too.
7. Voltron "Defender of the Universe" - November 12, 2008 3:32 PM
@3
Haaaaaa yaaaah!
Voltron chops you in the face!
Me like Best Buy not too much! Wow wow weewah!
Seriously? What about my wishes of a lightsaber doubles as a spatula? And a chewie mittens.
Come up with that and we'll talk. There's nothing more hi-tech than a kitchen utensil.
Me no go Taget! Red too much, me eyes see laser. everywhere!
8. Davo - November 12, 2008 3:33 PM
If my pockets a rockin', it's not my boombox gift card....it's my hand and I have a hole in my pocket if you know what i mean. But yeah, I also have a boombox giftcard, and it is rockin' my...oh crap, where's my wallet?
9. Douche McAllister - November 12, 2008 3:33 PM
@GW The best buy one comes in the $15 variety also.
10. Davo - November 12, 2008 3:34 PM
Oh yeah,
PEW PEW PEW!
11. Where the fuck is LSDzel? - November 12, 2008 3:37 PM
LSDiesel!!!
Do you have Bets Buys in Holland
Sharpie?
What about Croatia?
12. I'm a Computer - November 12, 2008 3:40 PM
im down for these. down like a clown. im gonna tile my cubicle walls with gift card speakers. then have absolutely no way of connecting all of them to work. but will be pleased with what could have been.
13. RIMTUCK - November 12, 2008 3:46 PM
wow. cool
14. LSDiesel - November 12, 2008 4:03 PM
@11, Here I am! And no, it's much too cold over here in holland(?) for Bets Buys. Or maybe you meant Burt's Bees. I love Burt's Bees. Especially all over my nipples.
15. Flash - November 12, 2008 4:28 PM
FYI - Voltron - Circuit City just filed chapter 11, so you might have to go to these stores, in leu of your eye laser thingy.
and LSDiesel - I love Burt's Bees Too! The facial scrub jar makes a great to go stash for your weed... and or sheets of LSD!
16. botron - November 12, 2008 4:35 PM
I do enjoy these gift cards I wouldn't use them at all but I don't shop at target or best buy. Now if hustler hadone that was also a pocket vagaina then I would be into it.... litetaly
17. blp - November 12, 2008 5:22 PM
@12, I think you're onto something there. It may be possible with a combination of boosteroo amps, double stereo splitters and headphone extention cables. Lots of messy cables tho. After all these years I've finally revealed my geek side to the internets!
18. Deaf-n-Mute - November 12, 2008 7:56 PM
The one from best buy looks most interesting. If I crank the bass and shove it in my pants, I will have a groovy vibrator. Nice!
19. LOL - November 12, 2008 8:35 PM
WHERE ARE LAZER GIFT CARDZ?! NO PEW PEW PEW HERE GAIZ.
But 18 has a great idea. Maybe. But that shit won't have any bass.
20. blp - November 12, 2008 8:40 PM
Bass will sound like a fart from a tight ass
21. GoldenfrankO - November 12, 2008 8:45 PM
That's pretty sweet. I think I'll probably get one.
22. Tina - November 12, 2008 11:18 PM
I think I'll save my money and wait for the gift card that doubles as a vibrator.
23. Pink - November 13, 2008 9:21 AM
Hey I think this is totally cool! Great idea!
24. The Environment - November 13, 2008 11:32 AM
Disposable speakers and digital cameras... sounds good. Thanks for crapping on me again, humans.