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When I was a kid, one of my favorite toys was the Quisp cereal whistle ring, which went a long way towards annoying anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot. If this kicks off a bit of nostalgia in you, and you want to buy one of these babies, it will set you back about $200 bucks at The Toy Tent. Quisp's arch-nemesis Quake also had a whistle ring, but his sells for upwards of $500 in its original packaging.
The Cap'n Crunch whistle was another little gem that was popular back then. The interesting thing about this one was that back in the 60's, an Air Force guy by the name of John Draper figured out that if you plug up one of the holes and blow through it, it emits a 2600hz tone. The 2600hz tone just so happened to be the frequency used by AT&T on its long distance lines to indicate that the trunk was all clear and ready to route a new call. This led to the infamous "Blue Box" hack, which allowed the user to make free phone calls all over the world, and set in motion the entire computer hacking genre. Google "2600" and you'll see what I mean.
If you think you've outgrown the whole childhood ring and whistle thing, you might be interested in one of these. You know the chicks are definitely gonna dig one of these on your fingers - and of course they'll never think you're a douchebag for wearing one. It sells for about ten bucks at a site called -- what else -- "DickPillRings.com". Viagra sold seperately...
