YouNeverCall, an online cellphone retailer, decided to break new ground in terms of business by moving into the virtual one. They have a ready market of 1.5 million potential customers by jumping straight into the Second Life online community, offering a fully functional in-game cellphone for free. These virtual cellphones in Second Life are meant to be more than an accessory that offers meaningless fun - YouNeverCall will incorporate actual cellphone features in the virtual world by enabling them to ring, and there is no need to download any additional module to snag one for yourself. All you need to do is to head on here to get your very own virtual cellphone.

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Need a reason to pull your records out of storage? A company called ION has created a USB turntable called the iTTUSB. The company claims that this is the world’s first USB turntable.

The iTTUSB allows you to convert your old vinyl collection directly to CD or MP3 with the included recording software (Mac/PC) and is a must have for people who don’t want to deal with clumsy adapters or mismatched audio formats.

The iTTUSB comes with Audacity, a recording application that works with both PCs and Macs, as well a trial version of Bias Soundsoap 2 to clean and restore vinyl recordings.

As an alternative, the turntable also works with any other software that supports USB audio input sound cards. Once connected, the turntable transfers both 33-1/3 rpm albums and 45 rpm singles to digital formats in mere minutes.

The iTTUSB is great for all those obscure releases that never made it to CD.

More info on the iTTUSB:

• iTTUSB on Amazon
• iTTUSB homepage

Lego mixed with technology is a never ending hit, the combination makes any product look better than before because the design turns into something soft, sweet, cool and never seen before. It is not by accident that we already covered a bunch of lego gadgets such as the Memory Stick, the PC case made from lego bricks or the Lego Ice Cubes. Read the rest of this entry »

World of Warcraft has take the world by storm for the past few years, and it shows no signs of abating. This MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) from Blizzard has captured the imagination (and wallets) of many a soul, that some players have even gone through a divorce or dropped out from school due to their unwavering devotion to this game. WidowPC, a computer manufacturer, is also obsessed with this game as they have come up with a special World of Warcraft PC that was specially built from ground up to cater to this mind-bendingly addictive online game.

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Most of us think that our computers and home appliances hardly take up any extra energy when they’re in standby mode, but we are sorely mistaken as research shows one could simply save a few hundred dollars each year by turning off the PC when we’re sleeping instead of leaving it on to download miscellaneous programs. Why not get some help from a gadget that is smart enough to know whether your PC has been shut down or not and do the necessary honors on your behalf? This magical device exists in the form of the Mini Power Minder which retails for a mere $14.95 a pop from Amazon.

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Toshiba apparently developed a printer that can write and rewrite on the same paper over and over again. The company is claiming that such technology will be employed mainly in large organizations, and it will help to reduce the consumption of paper and the emissions of CO2.

The B-SX8R (now that is an easy to remember name…) printer will use a plastic paper, similar to the ones you find wrapping soft drink bottles. This paper has thermal properties, and dosing the amount of heat one can control the pigmentation. For example if the paper is exposed to temperatures above 180 degrees centigrade the pigment becomes black. When it is exposed to temperatures between 130 and 160 degrees, on the other hand, the pigment should turn white, making it possible to erase previous images. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the fact that many computers and notebooks these days come with built-in memory card readers, there are still a whole generation of people who have not yet picked up a new machine, preferring to stick to their ailing computers due to the lack of monetary fortitude. Chances are pretty high that this group are still stuck with a PS/2 port to hook up their mice as the two available USB ports (1.1 at that) are already occupied with a printer and a VoIP phone. How then, will they have the space to view information on an SD/MMC memory card? The answer is simple, by presenting the user with a USB-powered optical mouse that comes with a built-in SD/MMC memory card slot.

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Many of us already carry around an iPod Video or a Sony PSP, and more often than not we keep ourselves entertained with games, music, and movies on those multimedia-enabled devices. Popping in a game or listening to audio is pretty easy, but video is an issue where transferring your favorite holiday experiences to the small screen could take up way too much time, and the impatient world around us is one that simply cannot wait long enough. Enter the InstantVideo To Go device - this unique peripheral might look like a USB TV dongle with a single glance, but it actually performs a totally different function.

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