Not only has the cute and adorable Hello Kitty invaded our world but it has made its way onto the world wide web with Hello Kitty Online. This MMO is a product of Sanrio and Typhoon Games and has gone beta. Find out more about this new game after the jump!

  

Sanrio is known worldwide for their Hello Kitty Merchandise. They have come out with everything from a Hello Kitty Waffle Maker, theme cars, to even a body fat meter! Now they're giving us the Hello Kitty Emergency Gadget.

To be fair, the Emergency Gadget does have very useful features. It's a cellphone charger, flashlight, AM/FM Radio, Hazard Siren, and compass. Another useful feature is that this item can be run off a single nine volt battery.

For all its attempts to being cute, we can see a market pull for this product. It's Hello Kitty, hello?!

   

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If you thought that Ms. Hilton's pink Nintendo DS covered in glittering crystals was a bit excessive, then this might entertain you. An Associated Press report reveals that NEC has recently released a pink laptop, and the said laptop is covered in crystals in the shape of Hello Kitty.

It's called the La Vie G Hello Kitty laptop, and it uses around 299 Swarovski crystals shaped into four hearts and Sanrio's Hello Kitty, and comes complete with a pink bow and crown. Given the bling and the price tag, this is obviously inline with NEC's attempt to capture that demographic comprised of high-paid working women.

The laptop itself comes with the fashionable Windows Vista, a 100GB HDD, and 1GB of memory.

The product is reportedly set to target the summertime season in Japan where professionals get twice-a-year bonuses and have some extra spending money to go around.

The La Vie G Hello Kitty laptop retails for around US$ 1,650, and can only be grabbed by ordering on the Internet.

For the Hello Kitty fans and health buffs out there, this gadget is perfect for you. It's Sanrio's Hello Kitty Body Fat Meter.

Now, if you're wondering what the cute kitty is doing on a weighing scale, we haven't the slightest idea either. Though it may be a good idea to listen to somebody who weighs just that of three shiny apples (according to Wikipedia). Anyway, the weighing scale has four variants: Body Fat Meter (BF-071-KT), digital display (D-041-KT), analog display (HA-011-KT), and a cooking scale (KA-011-KT).

The body fat meter retails at around JPY 6,000 (or US$ 49), the digital scale at JPY 4,000 (or US$ 33), while the cooking scale and the analog scale can be yours at JPY 2,000 (or US$ 17). Hmm... We've definitely seen weirder things from Sanrio.

We've been heard a good number of speculations and "leaks" about the MMORPG World of Warcraft's new expansion. Now, Myndflame reports that Blizzard has showed them the new expansion in development called The Clefthoof Brigade.

Let's check it out shall we? It starts out with a the Dark Portal and a band of adventurers. Then gasp! The clefthooves have gone mad! Oh the horror of a clefthoof stampede. Have they finally risen in rebellion? Have they grown tired of being slayed and skinned? Check out the video and see for yourself.

World of Warcraft: The Clefthoof Brigade will surely have us falling off our seats. Considering what day it is and what that entails (have you seen the pink Hello Kitty Messengers of Death site?), we'll leave you guys to check it out.

Call it the Chuck E. Cheese of the virtual worlds, if that moniker hasn't been taken by Neopets, Hello Kitty World, or whatever MMO Disney is cooking up now. It seems Nickelodeon's getting in on the action with Nicktropolis, a new virtual community they've created for Nick fans and kids everywhere to enjoy.

Now, the site isn't up yet, but the creators have promised that the place will allow for people to chat, make avatars based on Nickelodeon's rather extensive intellectual property, and play games with other members of the online metropolis.

They've also taken pains to ensure that the site is kid-friendly, with round-the-clock moderators watching for potential predators or trolls, as well as an automated dictionary to filter out profanity. They've also set up an option for parents to actually restrict kids from responding beyond pre-programmed answers. Not exactly something you'd see in an MMO, but it does seem like a very good idea for those folks who want to make sure their kids have a good place to play online.

Of course, given how the target demographic is a little younger than the folks over here, who are definitely either ready and able to play WoW or can at least enjoy "cooler" sounding games like Anarchy Online, at least we have an apt picture for you to enjoy thinking about.

Heads up everyone, as a dark and unholy alliance has been forged between Sega Sammy and Sanrio, as announced on Forbes this Christmas day.

In any case, we are still trying to wrap our minds around the fact that Sammy, who is known for the versus game series Guilty Gear, and Sanrio who has spawned the evil that is Hello Kitty, will be teaming up content-wise. According to the report, the companies will be sitting down to "discuss jointly developing new products based on their stable of characters, as well as examining new joint services and online businesses, among others".

Uh-oh. Does this mean that the next Guilty Gear installment will have Bridget walking around with a Kero Keroppi plush toy while Eddie turns... gulp... pink?

 

Classic meets modern. That's how this love affair seems to go, with Hello Kitty company">Sanrio porting their ever-famous kitty to Nintendo's handheld. But before you get the wrong idea, Hello Kitty won't be ported as a game. Rather, it's gonna come as a decoration film for the DS, in a variety of designs. And of course, in pink.

Accompanying Hello Kitty is her trusted friend, Charmmy. With four different skins to choose from, you only need to shell out ¥ 680 (US$ 6.00). Now, that should just about complete your Hello Kitty collection, eh? Oh, and as for the guys, you're all heartily welcomed too, of course, to slap this on your DS. It does, after all, take a real man to be able to wear pink.

Konami has given the official Elebits website some love and updated it with new screens of game environments and creature profiles.

While we've seen these creatures in countless screenshots posted here in QJ, it's the first time we've seen an Elebit with wings. While a couple of us here find it cute, the majority of the QJ male writer population thinks it's a cross between a seal and a whale. One writer must be seeing things and likened it to a mutated Hello Kitty. But we all agreed that it looks different from the rest of the Elebits bunch.

We could think of other things that resemble the winged Elebit, but we think it's best to show you the new screens of game environments, which include a child's room, a study room, and a hallway.

The Elebits will power up the Wii on November 19 in North America.

  

Created in Japan in 1974 and marketed by Sanrio all over the globe, Hello Kitty has invaded almost every product industry by teaming up with various manufacturers of household products, clothing lines, fashion accessories, toys, etc. Now, one of the world's most famous cats (the others being Garfield, Felix the Cat, etc.) has made its mark even on the mobile industry.

BenQ Mobile's new AL26 slide-phone now comes with a feline look, with a shimmery metallic pink casing with the cute cat's image on it. The Hello Kitty edition of this mobile phone is fast becoming a highly-coveted fashion accessory-cum-gadget for the young, fashion-conscious, and Hello Kitty-fanatic mobile users.

No need to worry about the phone looking too "kiddie" because the back panel of the casing comes in a contrasting and elegant white color. On the back panel is also Hello Kitty's logo with matching writing which makes it quite an eye-catcher even when viewed from the back.

The BenQ-Siemens AL26 Hello Kitty is user-friendly and performs well in both optical and functional aspects. The four-way joystick makes browsing through the menu quicker and easier to do. It has a TFT color screen with 65,536 colors and 130 x 130 pixels which provides optimum image quality. The phone doesn't fare well though when compared to other phones with music playback capabilities because it only features 32-chord ringtones.

The BenQ-Siemens AL26 Hello Kitty will released and sold from August 2006 onwards. The phone comes with a Hello Kitty charm and preinstalled mobile games, ringtones, and wallpapers (all three being Kitty-themed of course). Consult your local retailers for the price for this pretty kitty mobile. This phone definitely proves that fashion and technology DO mesh well together.