TVSquad

It's hard to believe, but next month marks the 15th installment of Survivor. This season, they're in China and the producers are getting all literary and stuff. The teams will begin in Shanghai and then go to a Buddhist temple where they will be stripped of all "worldly possessions" except the clothes on their backs. They will split into two teams and be given a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, which will apparently come in handy this season.

Today, CBS introduced the new 16-member cast. You can't tell much about their personalities from the general biographical information given out, but there are a few stand-outs already. For instance, there's a grave digger, a chicken farmer (whose name is 'Chicken'), a Christian talk radio host, a professional wrestler (Ashley Massaro), and a hiking guide from Kalispell, Montana. Okay, that last one is only interesting to me because she comes from my hometown. You can read more about the castaways here.

Survivor: China debuts on CBS at 8 pm on September 20th.

You've got to be kidding me.

An American industrial designer in Shanghai has come up with - drumroll, please - the Belt Buckle TV. It's the Egokast, a television in the form of a belt buckle. And, yes, you wear it around your waist just like a regular belt. The designer even says "This is the first media device that you don't watch, but everybody else does."

Oh, great, that's all I need, everyone in public watching my crotch. Why would anyone want to wear such a thing?

They even did some market research, putting a video loop on the TV and going into clubs and getting the reactions of the patrons. And, the patrons were very interested in the belt. But you would be too, if you were drunk and someone came in wearing a little TV above their genitalia.

May I suggest a slogan for the device? "Watch The Crotch."