Tsaya bag worn on your leg

The black leather Tsaya bag is worn on your leg and has room for a mobile phone, creditcards, ID and some cash. Cost is 79$.

Multi colored USB powered disco ball

The multi colored USB powered disco ball rotates and lights up with four internal white LEDs. The colored lenses of the ball project dots of light onto the ceiling and walls of your darkened room. All for 20$.

worlds slimmest mobile phone

At 7.9mm, the KTF Technologies EV-K100 right now is slimmest mobile phone in the world. It includes an 1.3 Megapixel camera, an MP3 player with 165MB onboard RAM and weighs 60 grams.

Mitsubishi i-car

Channel4.com just ran this story on the Mitsubishi i-car. It is based on the Smart ForTwo, but has 4 doors and four seats. Still neat and tiny!

ControllerMate for MacOSX

OrderedBytes has software for MacOSX called ControllerMate, which allows you to program your USB HID controllers anyway you like.

Rockbox open source replacement firmware for MP3 players

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for MP3 players, including various models from Archos, iRiver and Apple.

PDFpen now as universal binary for MacOSX

The newest update to PDFpen from SmailOnMyMac is now a universal binary. If you need quick and easy editing of PDFs, it is much cheaper and convenient than Adobe Acrobat.

usbnoddingdog

The essential USB peripheral: the usbnoddingdog connects to your PC via USB. In guard mode it uses its motion sensors to detect movement and sets off an alarm bark. The email alert system lets you know when you have mail. An event calendar includes 10 preprogrammed songs, 10 preprogrammed barks and you can program your own settings. Unfortunately right now you stilll need a PC with Windows OS, but I think they will support other OSs soon. No information on pricing on their website, but I hope it is less than the french based Nabaztag. Update: just found out about the price: 20 pounds.

USB powered paper shredder

Just found this via Akihabara News: a USB powered paper shredder. that can shred A6 documents or an A4 sheet folded in two. It is powered by a power adaptor, batteries or USB.

Ovolab Phlink version 3 for MacOSX

The newest version 3 of Phlink from Ovolab allows you to automatically record all your call conversations.

Joby flexible tripod

Joby sells the gorillapod, a flexible and lightweight (335 grams) tripod for 25$.

Mobilkom Austria has more data than SMS revenue!

As the only Austrian provider to offer EDGE in addition to UMTS/HSDPA Mobilkom Austria announced, that its data business contributed more to the revenues than SMS for the first time in 2005.

High Priority

High Priority lets you access your iCal To Dos from the MacOSX menu bar. Cost is 6$, the unregistered version does not let you create new To Dos.

SMSrotateD

SMSrotateD uses the sudden motion sensor (SMS) of the newer Apple PowerBooks and iBooks to automatically rotate the screen 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Very convenient when you are using an iBook in portrait mode.

Create Booklet for MacOSX

CreateBooklet is a PDF service and Automator action that squezes two pages on to one in the order of a booklet, so that you can print the pages duplex, fold them and have your own booklet.

EyeTV2.1 now universal binary

The newest version of El Gato´s EyeTV is now a universal binary and supports HD playback on Intel Dual Core CPUs, even on the new Mac mini. Up till now you needed a minimum dual G5 for HD playback.

Nova Media Mobile High Speed for MacOSX

If your mobile phone or data card has no Mac drivers included, try out Mobile High Speed for MacOSX from Nova Media. It supports even the newest HSDPA/EDGE cards. Cost is around 100 Euros, but currently NOT compatible with IntelMacs.

Salling Clicker, the best remote control!

For less than 24$ Salling Clicker turns mobile phones and PDAs into high end remote controls for Macs and PCs. Similar custom solutions can costs way above 1000$ and are not as easily programmed and not supported by such a huge developer community. Highly recommended!

intersting UI concept shown on Origami prototypes

Engadget found this user interface concept at the CeBIT website.

Taschelino

A few years ago I saw a similar bag at the Chanel store in San Francisco for more than 500$. Now you can get the Taschelino at Amazon for 10 Euros.

Hammacher Schlemmer carbon chassis velocipede

Hammacher Schlemmer sells human powered vehicle for 14000$.

Benq P51 with GPS

Benq announced a sucessor to its P50 called P51, which now uses Windows Mobile 5 and includes a built in GPS module. Proposed availability July 2006. Hopefully it won´t take the P51 as long as its predecessor to come to market. No support for EDGE or UMTS/HSDPA, though, at least not according to the press release.

disclabel supports direct-to-disc printers

The newest update to disclabel for MacOSX from SmileOnMyMac allows precise adjustment of the print area for direct-to-disc printing.

Nokia N91 includes MMC slot?

I heard a rumor, that the long announced Nokia N91 will include a MMC slot in addition to its 4GB hard drive, too. As much as I like MMCs, but right now Nokia uses MMCs, RS-MMCs and microSD slots in its various mobile phones. I wonder why they don´t just use normal SD slots for all their devices. It would make life so much simpler for their users, not to mention the huge cost savings when buying flash memory for your Nokia device. Update: in the meantime I found out, that this was just a rumor. The Nokia N91 won´t include any flash card slot, only the built in hard drive. Sorry for generating any confusion.

Nokia Wireless Audio Gateway AD-42W

Nokia announced the Wireless Audio Gateway AD-42W. It is a Bluetooth audio interface with Audio In/Out via industry standard RCA cables and a dedicated switch to change the usage mode (to / from audio source). It is compatible with devices that have the Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution (A2DP) profile. You can use it to play your audio from a Bluetooth audio player (mobile phone, PDA, iPod with Bluetooth adapter...) to your home stereo, but you can also use it to listen to your home stereo with A2DP capable Bluetooth headphones.

Apple WWDC San Francisco

From August 7-11, the annual WWDC, the World Wide Developers Conference from Apple is happening in San Francisco.

A to G AddressBook to CSV (and to GMail) for MacOSX

The title says it all. A to G exports your MacOSX AddressBook as a CSV file, which you can use to import into your GMail account.

Nudity

Loremo GT runs 220km/h, uses 2.7l/100km

Starting in 2009 there will be a GT model of the Loremo car, too. With 50PS it will use 2.7l/100km for an 800km range with the 20l tank, run 220km/h, go 0-100km/h in less than 10 seconds and will weigh 470kg. Cost: 15000 Euro. BTW:: Loremo stand for Low Resistance Mobile.

Loremo car uses 1,5l/100km

Available in 2009 for an estimated price of 11000 Euros, the Loremo LS uses 1.5l Diesel/100km and goes 1300km with one 20l tank, has 20PS, runs 160km/h and takes 20s from 0-100km/h . Weight 450kg, lenght 3.8m.

Klimt movie premiere in Vienna, Austria

Today there was a press conference in the Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria. John Malkovich (shown here in an Uncle Kimono blazer) and Veronica Ferres, who play the main characters in the new Klimt movie, which premieres today, are shown in front of Klimt´s favourite painting called "Death and Life".