These new Twistballs and Snapballs (yes these are their actual names) from PWX, (who?!) provide a very confusing function. These balls allow you to slide your laptop around on your desk!

Now I know what you’re thinking, it’s what I thought, which was simply. “Stop moving my laptop!! It’s going to slide off the desk, fall, break something, and my pretty new Macbook will be all splattery!!”
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This is a cool warm idea, an optical mouse that keeps your hand warm.

The Thanko USB optical mouse behaves and functions like a normal mouse but has the added benefit of a built in heater, so when your surfing away on those cold winter nights at least one of your hands will be warm.

Via New Launches which was via Far East Gizmos.

So Christmas is just a month away, and you’re running out of ideas on what to get the love of your life. If the lady you’re married to or courting right now is a big technology freak, perhaps the Tulip Ego notebook from the Netherlands is your cup of tea. The least expensive of the lot is the Tulip notebook that is shaped like a handbag and is available in just one color - iPod white. It will retail for approximately $5,000 at Barney stores in New York, Beverly Hills, Chicago, and Dallas from next week onwards. The Tulip Ego does not use any of those cheap plastic which you find in exploding notebooks, but it uses interchangeable “skins” instead that are available in a wide array of designer fabrics, colors, and finishes.

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In a word association game, most people would equate “VoIP” with “Skype”. Both words rhyme anyway, but I digress. Just as there are a variety of people living on this planet, so are there a bunch of different VoIP services, and Internet giant Yahoo! is one of the companies who have enabled users to make dirt cheap long distance phone calls via Yahoo! Messenger. Unfortunately, there are plenty of VoIP handsets in the market that just target Skype users, leaving the rest with an ugly and cheap microphone setup. Linksys decided to do something about the situation by unveiling the Linksys CIT310 VoIP handset that is not only capable of handling all your VoIP needs with aplomb, it can also be hooked up to your regular landline.

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Most people don’t even know that laptop screens, LCDs, and CRTs can be calibrated to get the best picture possible, and some that do know that just don’t care, but there are a few people out there that can really notice if the colors and contrast levels are off. For those types of people, getting a specialized device that’s only purpose is to calibrate your computer’s monitor seems like a great purchase.
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The Persona C30 is a ID cart printer that will probably save you lots of time and money if you are the kind of person that needs to create lots of ID cards. Instead of going to the printing stores and waiting a bunch of time to have the work done + having to pay an extensive bill, the Persona C30 can help you by letting you do the card printings at home. Read the rest of this entry »

My name is Bond, $3900 dollars less in the pocket for a cool looking but slow computer Bond.

You’ve got baddies to deal with.

You’ve got a car that costs as much as some people’s home.

You’re now blond, and you must find a way to send an email and look super cool doing it, probably while upside down.
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This has got to be the coolest (albeit most useless) USB gadget around, the USB powered Snowbot.

The Snowbot looks and sounds like it has come off a set of BattleStar Galactica (thank you ScFi). Simply plug it into any free USB port and watch the Snowbot’s LED robotic eye scan from left to right.

For added fun you can adjust the speed of the eye scan, switch the spooky robotic sound on and off and even manually move its articulated arms (what more could you want from a robotic snowman).

The Snowbot is available from ThinkGeek for $14.99.