Another Day, Another Hello Kitty Knock-off
Actually, I’m not very familiar with the Hello Kitty franchise. It’s quite possible that this is a legitimate Sanrio product, but I personally have never seen Hello Kitty with furry edges and an actually cat-like body, so I call Bootleg. The fact that it says “Charmmy (sic) Kitty” rather than Hello Kitty also rings alarm bells.
Either way, here is an MP3 player for the Hello Kitty loving masses. It’s screen-less, which might further advertise it’s cheap knock-off-ness, but then again, so is the iPod Shuffle. The technical details, according to Akihabara News:
20 Hz – 20 KHz
L 20 mW + R 20 mW 32Ω
Audio MP3 / WMA
MP3 : 8-320 kbps / WMA : 64-320 kbps
USB 2.0
Dimensions : 14.0×35.0×75.0 mm
Weight : 35g
Akihabara News also provides a link of a possible future stockist, but why you’d be interested is beyond me.
Link:
Akihabara News
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August 24th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Apparently “Charmmy” is Hello Kitty’s pet cat, which is bizarre since Hello Kitty is a cat.
August 24th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I saw this back in late June when I last went to Japan. It was actually all over the damn place, I saw more of this character than Hello Kitty itself. Oddly enough, it indeed bears the Sanrio logo on it.
August 25th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Time to flex my girly geek muscle. Charmy Kitty is a legitimate Sanrio character and she is Hello Kitty’s pet cat – kind of how like Pluto is sometime’s Goofy’s pet dog.
August 26th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Bwaaahahahahaa! I love the 3yen commenters :) Well, that answers the Charmmy Kitty question. Next question is: would you actually buy this?
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
i would get it! i’m a big fan of charmmy kitty and it would be nice to have the character also as an mp3 player.