I don’t know what it is about the movie Minority Report which compels me to write so many articles on devices that are plucked from that movie. About a month ago, I reported on the iPoint Presenter, a gesture based interface designed by Franhofer HHI.

Today’s offering from the Cruise/Spielberg flick is the G-Speak, designed by Oblong. I think of all the reports that I have done on gesture-based interfaces, this one is the closest to Minority Report so far.

As you can see, the user has the gloves, just like Tom Cruise. There is even that cobalt blue effect that was the film’s most featured color. Of course, the similarities should come as no surprise, because one of Oblong’s founders served as on Spielberg’s “think tank” for the 2002 film.

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No one enjoys cleaning day, we all have our individual reasons.  Some deeply despise dishes and running the vacuum while others hate mopping and dusting.  Well for those that have arthritis it might involve other tasks for totally different reasons.  One task that might prove tedious is cleaning windows if you have a lot of them.  The obnoxious task of squeezing the sprayer over and over can wear your hands out.  Well this Power Mister solves that issue by giving you a little battery-powered assistance.

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I’ve just got my hands on one of the new Dell Netbooks and first impressions are very good. It is designed to be a portable Internet anywhere device, weighing in at a measly 990g and measuring 232×175x30 (that’s about 1/3 of the size of my Mac Book Pro) and includes built-in broadband, there’s a SIM slot behind the battery so no need for a protruding 3G dongle.

If you’re in the UK there are couple of ways you can get you hands on a free Dell Netbook. The first is to sign up for Pay monthly mobile broadband plan, which includes a “free” netbook.

However Vodafone are currently doing a promotion where Live Guy is travelling the UK and each day he has a couple to Netbooks (with included 3G subscription) to give away to people that can find him, his agenda is:

• Edinburgh Monday 17 November
• Glasgow Tuesday 18 November
• Newcastle Wednesday 19 November
• Liverpool Thursday 20 November
• Leeds Friday 21 November
• Manchester Saturday 22 November
• Birmingham Monday 24 November
• Cardiff Tuesday 25 November
• Bristol Wednesday 26 November
• Reading Thursday 27 November
• London Friday 28 November

You can track him down via his site, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, Picasa and if I hear anything I’ll be sure to share it via my Twitter account.

Each day Live Guy has 3 Netbooks to give away in person, but if you can’t make it to any of the specific locations you can track him online for a chance to win. Further info and clues over on the Live Guy site, good luck.

Well, since Prada has essentially conquered the world of fashion, I suppose it is just natural that they take on the world of cellular phones. The Prada has a full 3-inch touchscreen, with a slider QWERTY keyboard as well.

Other features include dual-band HSDPA, quad-band GSM, plus a full HTML browser. The user also has the option of listening to FM radio, and watching television with the TV out option. There is also a document viewer for whatever you want to read.

In other words, your phone has entertainment as well as being a phone. As far as memory is concerned, there is 60MB of internal memory, and the phone has a microSD slot.

All this, plus it comes with a matching watch. Did I mention it is Bluetooth? Not only will you be able to view incoming calls and texts on the watch, but it is stainless steel and genuine leather. You can also view the world time, but you have an alarm with stop and snooze.

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I have covered the affordable video camcorders from DXG before, such as the DXG-567V and DXG-569V. Now, there is the DXG-579V, an upright digital camcorder with 720p video capture and shoot still pictures up to 8 megapixels.

The DXG-579V is a vertical form factor with a 2.4 inch rotation screen. It records H.264 video, or MOV file format, at up to 1280 x 720 at 30 frames per second. The user has the option of using High Capacity SD cards.

I regularly use the DXG-569V, and I find it simple to use and easy to upload videos to YouTube. The DXG-579V looks to be a step up from the 569V, and it looks like it has some sort of weird gauge where the SD card is inserted.

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Car seats for your kids are never an exciting thing to purchase.  They rarely feature designs different from every other car seat developed in the past twenty years.  Yes, they might have more safety features, but usually you’re going to get stuck with some pastel car seat probably featuring Winnie the Pooh or some Disney princess.  Which seems a bit unfair once you think about it.  After all, your kid doesn’t really care what their car seat looks like till their later years of sitting in one.  So why not buy a car seat that will look attractive in your car.  Well one designer has decided to create a car seat inspired by racing gear.

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We have covered SpongeBob Squarepants products before on Coolest Gadgets, and I thought my favorite was the rectal thermometer until I saw the SpongeBob Speakers.

These SpongeBob Speakers from Npower is a way to play your music with the one who lives in a pineapple under the sea. The big buggy eyes that you see there are speakers, which can roll along to the music.

And when I say roll along, I don’t mean that the pupils move to the beat of the music. I mean that when you lay them on a flat surface, these globes will move to and fro. I’ve included a YouTube video so you can watch this in action after the jump. As you can see, the SpongeBob Speakers have a Sponge dock on the top in order to hold whatever MP3 player you care to plug into it.

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