May, 2008

Here’s a useful concept that would actually work really well if it was made, the Wire Button. Plenty of designers have attempted to fuse fashion with gadgets. Most have been unsuccessful with often designs that were either complicated, cumbersome or just plain ugly. Here is an item that is simplicity at its best. The Wire [...]

If your like me, you probably have a collection of old VCR cassetes and no VCR to play them on. Well the guys from Ion have the answer with the VCR 2 PC, which will convert all your old video cassettes to digital files on your PC. This idiot-proof video player allows you to convert [...]

Check out this stylish looking aluminium keyboard and mouse from Onkyo. The KM-2W keyboard and mouse features 106 Japanese keys, measures 425x203x26mm, and weighs 1250g. The mouse is equipped with a 800dpi sensor, measures 41×17.5×8.5mm, and weighs 85g. It will go on sale next month in two versions, black and silver, there is no word [...]

Check out this cool gadget, the USB DJ Plasma Tube. The USB DJ Plasma Tube, features three funky lights which dance along to the music being played, creating an electronic light show. This cool gadget is available to buy online for $15 from Brando.

Here’s a fun gadget, the clip calculator. This fun calculator features a magnet, and also a clip so you can clip it on to anywhere. It comes in a choice of blue, yellow, red, green, purple or white and is available to buy online for $4.99 from Gizfever.

Check out this fingerprint USB flash drive from Apacer. It comes with 8GB of storage, and features advanced fingerprint recognition technology. You can also set this flash drive up with adjustable public and private partition areas for easy access of your data. Here’s the specs. USB 2.0 certified, backward compatible with USB 1.1 Read: 15MB/sec, [...]

Asus has launched, the ROG XG Station, an external multimedia docking station which was first shown at CES. The ROG XG Station features a Geforce 8600 GT 256MB graphics card, it also features 2 USB ports, a TV out, DVI-I out and a VGA input, as well as a Dolby Virtual speaker, Dolby Digital Live [...]

Here’s a fun gadget to brighten up your desk, the golf ball mouse from Green House. This fun mouse comes with its own mouse pad shaped liked a green and there is also a tiny putter and a flag. There is no word on pricing or availability as yet. via Slippery Brick

Samsung has launched another solid state disk drive (SSD), which is reported to be the World’s fastest, as well as that it is also the largest capacity SSD with 256GB of storage. This 2.5 inch SATA II SSD has a read speed of 200MBps and a write speed of 160MBps, it measures 100.3 x 69.85mm [...]

Check out this cool iPhone app, iPhone Earth, developed by Earthscape. This cool iPhone app uses the phone’s accelerometers to allow for tilt and rotation when viewing the globe. They weren’t downloading the imagery data over the net, it was all running local with just imagery for the San Francisco area. The application is under [...]

A company called Hop-On has just launched a disposable cellphone, the HOP1800. This disposable cellphone will sell for $10, all you need to do is add a sim card, and you can add one from over 40 domestic carriers within the US The Hop1800 is a basic phone, with no display, no mp3 or video [...]

It has been an interesting week here at geeky gadgets, with some cool and funky gadgets and even some strange ones, so here is a list of the five most popular gadgets here this week just in case you missed them. Samsungs new 82 inch LCD TV A massive new LCD from Samsung. The Worlds [...]