As a smoker, I often worry about how my appliances feel about my nasty habit. Nevermind that my cat gets the shakes when I'm out of town and one of the hamsters is in an iron lung, I didn't pay $600 for them. What can I do to protect my PS3 from the evil nicotine goblins?

Thank goodness for Dan from Thebbps, who directed us to the Hori Dust and Nicotine Guard 3, available this April through Play-Asia. Several plastic pieces snap over your PS3 vents, filtering out dust and cigarette smoke while hopefully still letting the good air in and out. I love that the product is numbered, as if there were two before it that just didn't make the grade.

"Johnson, get in here! What is this? The Dust and Nicotine Guard 2? This is complete shit. Come back when you've got something to show me!"

Of course it is a Japanese product, and the Japanese don't have Johnsons.

Um.

Anyway, interesting product idea, though I'm not sure how much I care if my PS3 inhales a little second hand smoke. If only they made a version of this for my lungs. Michael Fahey

Protect your PS3 from getting smokers cough [bits, bytes, pixels & sprites]

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