Device that was improperly designed for whatever it was originally supposed to do which currently serves a niche purpose as heat source in impoverished homes. However, the object requires a substantial amount of electricity to operate and will eventually overheat itself if not burning down the domicile first, rendering it as a cost-ineffective short-term solution. Manufacturers disguise this by making the overheating component produce shiny, detailed, interactive moving pictures as a pretext for not fixing the defective part, but the additional pieces needed to use this feature are also cost-ineffective and easily damaged.

The U.N. had contracted 20 shipments to deliver to Africa as heat generators/food cookers but reneged when the initial shipment combusted en route.

As of 2008 the machine is still outperformed in reliability, cost and supply by the obsolete technology known as wood, which is powered by sunlight and friction as well as various readily available peripherals.

The manufacturers have not yet devised a strategy to deal with this new development.

The first of the next generation consols. Im not sure why there is this big fight over sony lovers and xbox lovers, why not just buy both the Xbox 360 and the PS3? Who cares if you like one more than the other, doesn't mean that your gonna go to hell or anything if you use both! Grow up people, both with be twice as fun.

An x-box once fully rotated

The funnest system ever, but breaks down too much.

microsoft's new house heater

Microsoft's next generation console; rivals the Sony Playstation 3 and Nintendo Revolution.

New features include:

- Improved performance and graphics

- Upgraded Xbox Live (Free silver account for activities like text & voice messaging, video chat / Subscription Gold account for online game multiplayer)

- Detachable hardrive

- Every single game in high definition with at least Xbox Live Aware

- Wireless controller featuring a power/Xbox Live button

- Interchangeable face plates

- Compatibility with MP3 players (such as iPod)

- Backwards compatibility with most Xbox games (v.i.a emulation)

When released, the Xbox 360 will employ the most powerful graphics chip ever created. ATi (Xbox 360's GPU supplier) boasts that the Xbox 360's unified shader architecture allows the console to run at 100% efficiency, while previous consoles ran anywhere at 50% to 70% efficiency. While the PS3 employs more brute strength, the Xbox 360's streamlined processing will allow for overall better performance than the PS3.

With the fact that Xbox 360 is such a multifunctional media hub, Microsoft hopes that the Xbox 360...

a console made by microsoft that gets 3red lights of death 1 day after warranty goes out

The next-gen console from Microsoft, successor of the Xbox.