Nintendo Wii users will soon be able to immerse themselves in even more Super Mario action, with the latest in the Wii Galaxy Series bagging a UK release date.
Lucky Americans can already cruise down freeways belting out tunes via Belkin’s new TuneCast Auto Live FM transmitter, but for us Brits, we’ll have to be twiddling our iThumbs until March, 2010.
The device is designed to let car drivers listen to songs stored on their iPhone through their car stereo.
It’s not exactly what you’d call super-sexy, high tech gear, but for elderly folks living alone, the Combo 680 home phone could be a life saver.
The phone combination from Amplicom comes with a Wrist Shaker bracelet featuring a Emergency Panic Button, which can send out a personal pre-recorded message to 5 different numbers until it receives a response.
Korean media player whizzes iriver have released details of their Smart HD touchscreen PMP, which looks rather a dandy affair to our eyes.
The Smart HD – previously seen lurking under the codename “K1″ - is a slick looking PMP packing a ton of features including a FM tuner/recorder, voice recorder and a 3.5″ touchscreen (480 x 320 resolution, 16M colours) interface.
Sony has decided that alarm clocks are just too boring, and has introduced a clever-clogs, touchscreen Wi-Fi device which will add a touch of hi-tech to even the most disconnected of bedrooms.
In fact, it’s so moderne that it’s not even called a radio alarm or even a wireless video clock thingamabob. Nope: Sony want you to call this a ‘Personal Application Viewer’.
When we think ‘BlackBerry’, we think flapping flip charts, swivel action suits, lantern-jawed pointing execs, pie-chart laden PowerPoint presentations and cappuccino-clutching folks hurtling along Fifth Avenue to a Very Important Meeting.
If that description fits you, then your executive Newton balls may start a-clacking over RIM’s new BlackBerry Presenter, a pocketable (86 x 60 x 23mm) module that lets you dump your laptop, wirelessly hook up your BlackBerry and fire off a PowerPoint presentation via a VGA or S-Video connection.
Blue Microphones have updated their ‘Mikey’ bolt on microphone for iPods and iPhones, and it should prove a handy tool for sound recordists, interviewers, musicians and shifty bootleggers.
The first version arrived in 2008, and the new and improved version boasts “improved circuitry for superior recording and enhanced new features,” plus a pair of custom-tuned Blue capsules with settings for recording high-volume concerts.
We hope it does more. In fact we’re sure it does more, although you wouldn’t know it from the YouTube clip that’s just been posted.
Researchers from the Nippon Institute of Technology working with Harada Vehicle Design, ZMP and ZNUG Design have unveiled the latest version of the e-NUVO walk bot.
Honda’s groundbreaking robot Asimo has now reached its ninth birthday, and to celebrate a party was thrown at their Japanese headquarters, with 200 guests invited from around the world (I guess our invite must have got caught up in the postal strike).
The latest version of the world’s first commercial robot is seen cutting a rug with a human dance performer and, frankly, comes over by far the better mover.
We can’t say it’s something we’ve thought of before, but we can see a certain logic to JOBO AG’s new ScanViewer which combines a digital picture frame with a photo scanner.
The high resolution 8” multimedia digital picture frame comes with a built-in photo scanner to make it easier for users to get their old prints on to the viewer, without the need to fiddle about with a PC and separate scanner.
Now, we rather like the Beatles, but can’t say we’ve ever craved owning their entire back catalogue in the form of a removable USB stick stuck in a plastic green apple.
For reasons best known to themselves, Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music have teamed up to build a limited edition run of 30,000 USB drives containing the entire re-mastered Beatles catalogue.
There’s something curiously hypnotic about watching this video clip of the Adept Quattro robot packager in action.
A parallel robot specifically designed for high-speed manufacturing, packaging, material handling and assembly application, the Adept Quattro s650H has recently set a robotic record by bursting through the 300 cycle per minute barrier.
Showing the kind of spirit that once made Britain the home of the Sinclair C5 and the Bouncing Bomb, engineer Iain Sharp decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by remaking the 1979 Atari game Lunar Lander.
In that game, players had to try to land a computer module onto the moon’s surface, but Mr Sharp has created a physical version, mashing up old PCs, fishing line, inkjet printer motors and a miniature Moon lander.
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Sneakier than a slithery snake crawling around in a fake beard and dark gasses, the Minox NV mini II night vision devices is a dream for stalkers, security guards, doggers and other people who like to watch things that go bump in the night.
Perambulating photographers looking to score a bit of geotagging action as they amble about may be interested in taking a look at the GiSTEQ PhotoTrackr Mini GPS tracking device.
Unlike some of the bulkier beasts we’ve seen in the past, this is one GPS gadget that’ll slip into the tightest of lycra-tight pockets, measuring 3.05 (L) x 1.1 (W) x 0.7 (H) inches – roughly the size of a USB key.
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