DVD Backpack

Kind of cool: the Chibi Vision backpack has a built-in DVD player and an LCD screen, to broadcast personal videos, favorite shows or movies, whatever.

Initially it was intended for corporate marketing (?), but now Japanese kids rent them for about $300 a day to hang out with.

Naomi Yamamoto, quoted in the January Wired magazine, said, "I feel like a celebrity! It's near-futuristic and, like, a bag nobody else has. It's a must for people who love to stand out."

True - as long as it's a novelty.

But when everybody's got one, then what?

Of course, this is only a rest stop on the way to implanting a working LCD screen into/onto a person.

I bet it's already happened somewhere.

Prediction: you'll read about the particulars right here, along with a picture, this year.

Or your money back.

[via Wired magazine]