Exclusive! The Hard 'N Phirm Geek Year in Review: Best Product

(To prepare you for Last Laugh '07, our year-end celebration of things that happened in '07 (airing Sunday, December 2 and starring Lewis Black, Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley), we've asked
Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman of the comedy/parody musical duo Hard 'N Phirm to report here each week on what the GEEKS were up to this year. First up: Hard and Phirm chat about the Geek Product of the Year.)

HARD: Well, the REAL geek product of the year is probably a Klingon translator for web pages or a cloaking device, but the one I have is the iPhone. I love the sh*t out of it. I love it so much. Sometimes I rub it, like a worry stone. Other times, I just stare at it like a creepy dude watching someone sleep. I call that practice, "iGling.":

PHIRM: Well, I'm going to say the iPhone‚Äîawesome as it is‚Äîcouldn't qualify for the title of Geek Product of the Year, for the reason you've hinted at: it's not a geek tool.  It's slick and awesome, but it's about as "geeky" as a 65 Corvette was "geeky" in '65.  No?

HARD: On the contrary, "geeky" doesn't have to mean, "cumbersome and ugly." It's a marvel of simplicity and touch-screen technology. Geeks don't all look like Eddie Deezen in War Games. Some of them look like Eddie Deezen in Critters 2.

PHIRM: True, though I still feel that it should be something targeted more for geeks.  Maybe a pocket vagina with a built in Linux server.

HARD: I did hear that the open-source nature of Linux makes for a more stable vagina.

PHIRM: Ha.

PHIRM: So, maybe it‚Äôs the Wii.  Though it is for "everyone", it's for everyone that wants to stay inside and pretend they're doing something real.

HARD: The Wii involves physical exercise. How geeky could it really be?

PHIRM: That's true: it could actually get you in shape and push you out into the real world.  But… you could still excel at it whilst fat, nude, and on drugs.  That's kinda geeky.

HARD: Okay but I think I remembered a geekier product….The MyVu Entertainment Visor. It looks like Geordi Laforge's eyewear and hooks up to a media source–say an IPHONE–and when you put it on casts what your brain interprets as a large viewing screen floating in space in front of you.

PHIRM: That sounds ridiculous.  Could take the cool right out of the iPhone.  If you're nominating it, I will give it my vote.

HARD: Alright. I second your seconding.

PHIRM: Our friendship is saved.

HARD: I forgive you for screwing my mom!

PHIRM: You knew about that?!

HARD: What did you think? That home videos just distribute themselves??

PHIRM: They do now, with MyVu Self-Distributing Realiti-casts‚Ñ¢!

(Welp, this is Hard 'N Phirm saying, "Thanks for getting all up in our bidness!")

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