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.

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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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 »

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.

I’m not really counting or anything, but I’ll let you in on a bit of a secret: Christmas is only 49 days away. Sure, a couple of days ago it was Halloween, and we still haven’t gotten past Thanksgiving, but you can’t get around it; the Christmas catalogs and commercials are coming. Don’t even bother decorating for Thanksgiving this year; you might as well just start the Christmas festivities early, which means getting yourself a USB Christmas Decoration Kit. Sorry, there isn’t a kit for Hanukkah just yet.
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Ever wanted to start recording your very own tracks digitally, but never got around doing it due to the numerous cables and sound cards that you have to meddle with? Enter the LightSnake from SoundTech, an amazing invention that could be dubbed as a “Soundcard in a cable” - making digital music recording as easy as 1, 2, 3. All you need to do to get started is to plug in your particular instrument and begin recording in CD quality. Each purchase of a LightSnake comes with demonstration software from Sony, while the cable is Garage Band-ready for Mac users, offering a new totally twist to the meaning Plug-and-Play.

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The only catch with modern day wireless mice is that you need to have some sort of battery, which means you either have to remember to charge it, or remember to buy extra batteries. Both are hassles. Not anymore though, because A4Tech has come out with a battery-free wireless mouse. And it actually works, although there is a catch.
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Some people have moved on to the world of notebooks without ever wanting to return to desktops ever again, citing portable productivity as their main reason. With notebooks encroaching on desktop territory in homes and offices worldwide, Logitech has seen the need for a peripheral that will provide a much more comfortable notebook user experience with the Alto, a one-piece notebook riser which features an integrated, full-sized keyboard, bringing the notebook screen level with the user’s eyes while removing the cons of typing on a cramped notebook keyboard.

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