So you’ve just spent all your money picking up that Xbox 360, PS3, or Nintendo Wii with not much money left over to pick up a spanking new widescreen High Definition TV (although the Wii still runs on standard def, playing it on a nice TV never hurts)? Fear not, the 1440 VGA Gamer TV Box lets you play your games on a standard computer monitor, and since it comes with Picture-in-Picture display, you can always have your World of Warcraft fix while your other half is busy keeping herself occupied with Super Paper Mario on the wii - all on the same screen.

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I don’t get it about Hello Kitty and it’s stranglehold on people all over the world. How could a feline draped in pink complete with a bowtie across it’s forehead be universally appealing? Perhaps I’m just one of the few who can’t stand her sugary sweetness, but at the end of the day majority wins, and hence we have tons of Hello Kitty devices in the market.

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You just gotta love these phones from China that seem to come packed in the quirkiest of designs and names. Gadget mavens Brando is now offering the TV Phone V10 (the latter part which sounds more like a highly desirable car engine specification than anything else) - a cellphone that comes with a built-in TV tuner for you to catch up on your favorite soap operas no matter where you are at the moment. Of course, it need not be stressed that the picture quality that you get depends on the reception, but the general idea is more or less there - you get to catch up on your TV even when you’re out of the living room.

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Parrot from France think along the lines of small being beautiful, and I certainly agree in this case. The Parrot Party Bluetooth speaker system is one cute and compact portable speaker system that lets you enjoy your favorite tunes sans wires as long as music is being streamed from any Bluetooth-compatible source. Should you lack the monetary background to purchase a Bluetooth-enabled device that plays music, you can always tango with wires by using the standard RCA input inside.

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Cowon has recently released the L2 device that marries all three functions of a personal GPS navigation system, a DMB-capable device, and the trappings of a portable media player. Measuring a compact 191mm x 120mm x 26mm and weighing just 512 grams, the Cowon L2 comes in a sleek looking silver-colored package. What you can expect from the L2 would be its 7″ widescreen display, GPS navigation, DMB compatibility, support for a wide variety of audio, video, and picture formats (AVI, MPEG 4, MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, BMP, JPG, and PNG), a built-in FM radio, and even Picture-in-Picture functionality. In addition, you also get 2GB of integrated memory as well as an SD memory card slot for expansion purposes.

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The Spanish company Blusens presents another PMP, the Blusens P27. The P27 has a 2.4-inch screen and can play video files in AVI and MPEG formats, audio files in MP3 and WMA, and also show JPG pictures. The P27 has a FM tuner, and it’s really small, measuring 2.56 x 1,97 x 0,39 inches, and weighting only 51 grams.
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There has never been more visible and more worrying hidden cameras around, almost everywhere that you go you are likely to be caught on camera, but there is nothing that we can really do about it, because it is the way that we live now. But there is also a growing amount of hidden cameras used for surveillance at work and sometimes even at home, whatever the reason there is now a small device that you can use to see if there are any hidden cameras watching you.
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Massage chairs are a luxury item to have in any household, as they offer you the chance to experience kneads that soothe away the entire day’s stress, giving aching muscles a well deserved rest after a hard day at work or at the gym. Many a company has released these massage chairs over the past few years, and generally, most of these chairs work the same across the board, where the more expensive ones come with a wider range of massage functions. The Inada W.1 Massage Chair aims to be different from the rest of the crowd by offering music and sound synchronization that combines with your favorite tunes that are being generation from a home entertainment system.

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