SMS M500 Dick Tracy watch-phone

It’s the world’s smallest mobile phone and you can wear it on your wrist just like it was an ordinary watch. The phone features bluetooth, GSM850/900/ 1800/1900Mhz compability, 128 MB of RAM and it’s also water resistant. Via Fosfor...

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High tech mirrored LCD radiators

It's not often you get something that's both functional and decorative, but Tubor's One-Radiator mirrors are that and more. These radiators have a nice purple or yellow halo backlight, plus they even display the current time. Via Gizmodo...

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Samsung VC-RS60 and VC-RS60H cleaning robots

These puppies will set you back around £500 each - the perfect gift for those of us too busy playing World of Warcraft to bother with the cleaning. To justify the purchase just keep telling yourself that it's the...

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Wireless Color Pen Camera

The pen has a 64 degree field of view and up to 180ft of line of site transmission range; it even operates on 4 channels at 2.4 ghz so, as long as its set to a different channel, there will...

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Yoda backpack for the geek in all of us

Whether it be school, work, grocery shopping or even a night on the town having a plush version of Yoda strapped to your back can only help but elevate your level of coolness. Please note carrying a lightsaber might...

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10 great new GPS gadgets

Civilian GPS equipment emerged in the late 1980s, but the Pentagon built in electronic errors to limit the accuracy of nonmilitary devices to within 300 feet. In 2000, President Clinton ordered the intentional errors -- known as selective availability --...

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Dork alert - programmable LED badge

You can control the scrolling speed, and we suspect this badge will be highly popular among those who are promoting or advertising some product. We wish the pixels could be larger though for better readability. Via UberGizmo...

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High Tech Egg Timer

This little chunk of lucite reacts to heat the way eggs do giving you a perfect hard or soft boiled egg Via Cool Tools...

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USB hub and hot plate combo

Best of all, you won’t have to disconnect your USB devices to use the hot plate function. Via TechEBlog...

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Genibo Smart Dog now available

Among the 100 phrases they understand are- “sit”, “wag your tail”, and even “do a head stand”. These robotic dogs are also capable of navigating around obstacles in their paths, and have many sensors, 17 motors, a CPU and even...

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Weather-sensing umbrella

Incorporating a data receiver in the handle which accesses AccuWeather.com for your geographic location, the handle has blue LEDs that flash according to how likely it is to rain. 100% chance of rain yields 100 light pulses a minute. At...

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Cutesy multimedia server cum robotic butler

It can communicate with its owners (so better brush up your Korean if you want to get one), it can tell you who's ringing the doorbell and plenty of other things. It's connected to the Net and can even serve...

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LED signs for your wheels

You might have seen those Frisbees™ with the single row of flashing LEDs which spell out a word when the Frisbee is thrown through the air. These bolt-on gadgets for your car's rims operate on the same principle, allowing you...

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Kingmax USB Jewelry

In a move that’s certain to create a pet-rock-esque fad, Kingmax is showing off wearable USB thumb drive jewelry. Is it nothing more than a cheap gimmick? Sure, but then you’d lose the chance to be the belle of the...

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Inline Skate Speedometer Watch

From the busy labs of Hammacher comes a wristwatch-looking gadget designed to help inline skaters (rollerbladers, for the cool kids reading) keep track of their travels. The Inline Skate Speedometer wirelessly communicates with a special wheel on the skate, measuring...

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Yaktrax Walkers - instant snow shoes

These things, which fit over shoes or boots, really work well! I can walk almost normally over packed snow, as long as the surface has a bit of texture--and the added confidence has been great! (Smooth ice is still pretty...

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iPod ties from Thomas Pink

The £49 ($86) tie is bright red - ideal, perhaps, for the much-rumoured red AIDS-awareness iPod - and made from silk and nothing else. On the back is a small pocket in which to place the player, and there's a...

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NEC WT615 touch-sensitive projector image

The projector comes equipped with a pen-shaped device you use to click on the image. The WT615 interprets where you're pressing and passes this information on to the computer via USB. The projector itself is also pretty nifty -- it...

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StashCard - stash stuff in your laptop's PC card slot

Are you a bit like James Bond 007? Well, if you have an unused PC card slot in your laptop you can use it to hide stuff with this neat little ‘StashCard’. Via Fosfor Gadgets...

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$35,000 automated book scanner

It is just like any traditional flatbed scanners that you are familiar with, but BookDrive is unique in that it has an automatic page-turning mechanism inside. Simply entering the number of pages you want to scan, BookDrive then automatically outputs...

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Turn off any TV with TV-B-Gone

Switch off thousands of TVs using just one small remote! When you want some peace and quiet in that local bar of restaurant or office all you need to do is hit the TV-B-Gone button. I've used it in bars...

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iRobot Scooba Robot - washes the floor for you

My house has wall to wall tile in every room but the bedrooms and it’s all white. Keeping the floor clean from the kids, dog and even myself is anything short of a challenge. But the ingenius people at iRobot...

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Digital Photo Keychain

Here’s a one-square-inch box that has a small backlit screen and displays images of your choice. Its 512Kb of flash memory is more than enough for photos, as long as they are in jpeg. Via Gizmodo...

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Top 10 weirdest USB devices ever

After I had published a list of the Top 10 weirdest USB drives ever, it was quite a natural step to start collecting weird USB devices - and trust me there’s LOTS of them out there. Or what do you...

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Manual recharger for cellphones

The Manual Power is a gyroscope, based on Newton’s first law. By making a rotary movement from the wrist, the rotor, which is localized in the centre of the Manual Power, is kept rotating. While rotating energy is produced, which...

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Soldius Solar Golf Bag

’m not sure the guy behind you is going to be thrilled when he catches you banging away on your cellphone and/or Blackberry on the links, but the Soldius golf bag will certainly make it easy to stay in touch...

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USB Coffee Warmer

You’ve got your warm cup of java near your basement computer, or, maybe you’re at work with that warm cup of coffee.As you work, (and keep a watchful eye on the boss) the coffee unfortunately begins to get cold. You...

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iPod Nano Belt: the Next Generation of Cool

This iPod Belt is the next generation of cool ipod gadgets. It's called the TuneBuckle and its actually made of good quality leather, too! In the belt buckle, as you can see, you place your iPod Nano (and it looks...

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Ambient Weather Forecasting Umbrella

If you happened to leave your Weather Wizard e-ink forecaster at home, you'll sure be glad you grabbed your Ambient-powered Weather Forecasting Umbrella, which notifies you that it's raining the instant a drop hits its canopy. Actually, it uses Ambient's...

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PSP-controlled Honda Civic

The PSP maybe seen by most as a games console, but the handheld device has taken its first steps as a remote control for your car.Based on what was once a 94 Honda Civic, a pimped up concept car has...

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Always forget passwords? Try an RFID implant

Forgetting computer passwords is an everyday source of frustration, but a solution may literally be at hand -- in the form of computer chip implants. With a wave of his hand, Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada,...

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Robosapien Dance Machine

Robert Oschler about Robosapien Dance: "Robosapien Dance Machine is my free open source program that lets you use a Windows PC to control your WowWee robot. It was the SourceForge Project Of The Month for May 2005. The program's user...

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Yet Another Watch, The Alien From Android USA

By David Ponce Oh, let me tell you, I’m having a watch indigestion. I’ve written enough about them in the last three hours to last me three months. That’s why y’all aren’t gettin’ no fancy writeup on this one. It’s...

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ThumbThing

Nifty little widget that allows you to hold a book open with one hand. Also doubles as a bookmark. Via The Gadgeteer...

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Microyal's 4-in-1 Health Fan Heater

While cruising through the Sands expo area we lost our way and found ourselves wandering around the wacky wilderness of the foreign manufacturer section. While most booths contained the schwagiest of schwaggy knockoffs, other companies' products, or a thousand and...

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