{"id":153846,"date":"2010-01-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5443241"},"modified":"2010-01-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:00:00","slug":"review-the-as-seen-on-tv-hat-an-iphone-viewing-visor-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/153846","title":{"rendered":"Review: The As-Seen-on-TV Hat, an iPhone-Viewing Visor [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/haaaaat_4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_haaaaat_4.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>At least you can&#8217;t see all the people around you, pointing and laughing.<\/p>\n<h1>Price:<\/h1>\n<p>$20<\/p>\n<h1>Design<\/h1>\n<p>The As-Seen-on-TV Hat (I swear to God, that&#8217;s the actual name of the product) comes in a variety of colors and patterns and in both baseball-cap-style and visor. I went for the camo visor, because I&#8217;m a pretty stylish guy. Along the sides of the bill, there&#8217;s a nylon guard to block out ambient light, and for your viewing pleasure, there&#8217;s a magnifying glass hanging down midway along the bill. You insert your iPhone (or whatever other video-playing device you want) into a flap, where it sits at the end of the bill.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> gawkerGallery(5443222,4,''); <\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how bad this product is: Not only does it ask you to stuff your iPhone into a pocket at the end of a camouflage visor, iPhones <em>don&#8217;t even fit in the pocket<\/em>. Neither did my Droid, although the iPod Touch fits okay.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it comes with a weird semicircular flap of nylon with a velcro strip that I cannot for the life of me figure out how it attaches. It&#8217;s really embarrassing; that flap makes me feel like I&#8217;m too dumb to use the dumbest product I&#8217;ve ever seen.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<h1>Performance<\/h1>\n<p>The plastic window fades and distorts your video, which severely impairs the cinematic experience the As-Seen-on-TV Hat tries so very hard to provide. The magnifying glass is adjustable (you can move it closer or farther from your scared, stressed little eyes) but not removable, so you&#8217;re stuck with a distorted picture that was already blurry and faded from the plastic window covering your video-playing device.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you&#8217;ll definitely go both blind and celibate if you use this too long. It&#8217;s kind of a twofer that way.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<h1>Verdict<\/h1>\n<p>I rate this a buy if only for the name you&#8217;ll make for yourself on public transit if you wear it. If you don&#8217;t want to be known for your ridiculous, half-nerd half-hick headwear, it&#8217;s a pass.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2009\/02\/gizplus3.jpg\">It&#8217;s the greatest iPhone\/iPod accessory ever<br \/> <br clear=\"all\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/gizmodo\/2009\/02\/gizminus_01.jpg\">It&#8217;s the worst iPhone\/iPod accessory ever<\/p>\n<p> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=704f1f4a610857ca0d7b23e3a397f156&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=704f1f4a610857ca0d7b23e3a397f156&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2cx3vzwGfURoNv8KenbTY6QG-Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2cx3vzwGfURoNv8KenbTY6QG-Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2cx3vzwGfURoNv8KenbTY6QG-Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2cx3vzwGfURoNv8KenbTY6QG-Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=oHmu1Q0jz_Y:0D1RGsJUv_I:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=oHmu1Q0jz_Y:0D1RGsJUv_I:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=oHmu1Q0jz_Y:0D1RGsJUv_I:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=oHmu1Q0jz_Y:0D1RGsJUv_I:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=oHmu1Q0jz_Y:0D1RGsJUv_I:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=oHmu1Q0jz_Y:0D1RGsJUv_I:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/oHmu1Q0jz_Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least you can&#8217;t see all the people around you, pointing and laughing. Price: $20 Design The As-Seen-on-TV Hat (I swear to God, that&#8217;s the actual name of the product) comes in a variety of colors and patterns and in both baseball-cap-style and visor. I went for the camo visor, because I&#8217;m a pretty stylish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}