You don’t necessarily have to be an astronomy master or space traveler in order to be able to identify the bright blinking spots in the sky. As an alternative to pouring through books you might be able to hack your way into celestial knowledge using this handheld telescope-like gadget from Celestron.

This camcorder sized gadget called the SkyScout can identify the objects you are looking at through the viewer and provide you information on what it is. It does this by combining various information to pinpoint over 6,000 different constellations, stars or planets in the sky. By using GPS to identify your location on the earth, a magnetic compass for the direction you are looking, gravity to get the angle of the physical SkyScout device and the current time it can identify pretty much exactly what you are seeing while looking through …

Sony Ericsson got the mobile phone community buzzing yesterday by announcing two new Walkman phones in its family lineup. After listening to what the company had to say about what these two kids can do, we too felt that same buzz in our bones.

The W910i is a HSDPA Walkman phone that’s being targeted for gameheads, webheads music aficionados that like to get interactive with their hardware. The two main new features are SensMe, which allows you to pick tracks by tempo or rhythm instead of by artist or album, letting you get your groove on and remain in genre; and something called the “Shake control” which lets you randomize your tracks or skip to the next song by shaking the device all about. It’s like a Wii-mote except that you can talk to your friends and browse on it too! A 1 GB …

When will it stop? How many world-known brand names will hop aboard the money express and brand a seemingly unrelated product to their image? As long as people will open their wallets and purses there will be always be these kind of weird crossover products like the Porsche P’9521 mobile phone.

The luxury car firm showed off their talk device designed by French electronics firm Sagem, a EUR 1,200 product (that’s $1,600 Yankee dollars) that has a 3.2 megapixel camera, plays MP3 tunes with its three stereo speakers, has a QVGA 320×340 OLED screen that can swivel around and can be locked with a biometrics security feature. In short, what that last part means is that no one else can use your Porsche phone unless they have your fingerprint.

We’ll give Porsche that the phone’s design is nice, a less-is-more approach with streamlined curves and …

The Becker Vision Pro 7985 media player boasts a touchscreen interface along with DVD playback claimed by Becker to be the first of its kind in portable media players. The 7″ 16:9 TFT display will show up to four hours of continuous DVD playback, static images and MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, DIV-X, XVID, AVI and SVCD video which all can be played on your big screen as well with some A/V out jacks. A/V in lets you also watch and listen from other output devices such as a camcorder.

MP3 audio and the videos can be played back through media on an SD card, Memory Stick or a USB thumb drive along with a DVD or CD. The Vision Pro can also pick up DVB TV and radio stations with a built in tuner, and it also sports some built in speakers and a …

Cowan has launched a new media player with some features not unlike many of the other MP3 players on the market, but the 60 hours of continuous music playback helps the iAudio 7 stand out from the crowd.

The sleek glossy look and inset buttons on the face don’t hurt, either. For all that music playback time it supports an array of formats which consist of AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WMA and WAV. It will also play videos (XviD) that can be viewed on the 1.3″ LCD, which alternatively will show navigation, current track, mode, time, etc. Like many other players it also houses an FM tuner and supports voice recording.

The iAudio 7 storage has been upgraded from its predecessor to Flash-based memory instead of a hard drive and comes in capacities of 4GB ($182) and 8GB ($246). …

The Voiis Mini Pocket Messenger phone is one of those sweet looking pieces of sexy hardware that looks like it belongs on the Discovery spaceship seen in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”.

It connects with your PC via Bluetooth tech and then lets you have wireless Skype, Windows Media Player, iTunes, MSN Messenger fun while you stand within a 100 meter range of the base. It also has a built-in microphone, headphones, a 1.2-inch color display and a 3.5mm headphone slot in case you want to plug in your own choice of sonic earmuffs.

Battery life is about six hours in use (via rechargeable Lithium Ion) and about 72 hours in standby mode. If you’re always stuck in the office or home and want to be connected online all the time to your “Second Life” buddies or IMs from net friends then this …

For as long as the electromagnetic broadcasting wave has existed it has been the dream of many to grab it from the air and watch it for free. Of course we all know that it’s against the law to watch HBO or download movies if you’re not paying for it but the legality of certain aspects of the broadcasting medium remain open to interpretation.

Consider Hammacher Schlemmer’s Laptop HDTV Receiver., a small antenna and 79-inch cord that plugs into your computer’s USB port. The adaptor lets you receive local high definition broadcasts because it’s using the same kind of ATSC tuner found inside the innards of HDTV sets. The adaptor also comes with S-video and composite input cables to let you convert the signal into 1080i and then output it to a …

It was only Monday that Apple announced and released the Safari web browser for Windows touting unmatched security and speed. While these features may hold true for Safari on the Mac, within hours of the release significant vulnerabilities started cropping up from three different independent researches testing out the browser in the new Windows environment. When all was said and done, eight different security risks were uncovered in the Safari 3 public beta for Windows.

The good news is that Apple was quick to respond in addressing the issues and pushing out a new version of the Safari 3 beta only four days later with version 3.0.1 available to download through the Apple website.

The new version is a recommended update to avoid security risks through using the web browser, but unless you really need the …

Measuring your pets body fat isn’t always as easy as lining the paws up on a body fat meter for people but having an overweight (or underweight) pet can be an issue and something you might want to keep tabs on.

This Kao Dog Body Fat measuring gadget for dogs is painless and works by being placed on pre-defined areas of your pets back. It measures the percent of body fat and shows it on a digital LCD screen to compare against the ideal amount of body fat for your pet depending on where you measure.

Once you get the right diet figured out for your dog you can use your automatic pet feeder to dole out the right amount of food and keep a remote eye on his eating habits.

via Ubergizmo

Every respectable Rock, Paper Scissors player knows that the game is all about strategy and has little to do with luck. With this lazy-mans version of the game for the electronic age the strategy is completely taken out of the equation and your left to complete chance in order to win your day to day conflicts.

By pressing the button on the keychain it will randomly light a display one of three (the product page says four, but I’m not sure what the fourth would be) images to indicate the choice of rock, paper or scissors. they come in pairs for $8.89 since you really need two of them to keep you on the same level. This revolutionary breakthrough in the age old game does bring forth the new possibility of playing the game by yourself, however.

via OhGizmo

Too many gadgets and too few sockets. Wait a minute, what am I saying? I guess you can really never have too many gadgets, but when you’re out traveling this summer you can avoid having to take turns charging stuff up with this 3-in-1 car adapter from Brando. It turns a single cigarette lighter adapter into 3, plus it adds a single USB port to charge up some other accessory that you don’t have a car adapter for, all for $20.

Comic book artist Todd McFarlane looks to have gotten into the Halo 3 accessory market by putting his artistic talents towards some limited edition gaming add-ons. These three offerings should be available in early September, though you can preorder them now through Gamestop.

McFarlane’s talents will specifically go towards one of two wireless controllers for the Xbox 360. These controllers – one Spartan, one Covenant – sport original artwork which is integrated onto a scratch and wear resistant surface. Both $60 controllers come packaged with a collectible Halo 3 figurine from McFarlane Toys.

Also showing up on Gamestop’s Web site is a limited edition wireless headset ($60). This headset, sporting a “Halo look”, has “Master Chief armor coloring and Halo 3 branding.” These fine accessories join other products getting the Halo 3 dress up, including this recently …

When do you know that perhaps you have too much money on your hands? When a custom freight delivery truck drops off one of these Heiron & Smith Executive Billiard Tables, that’s how.

The Heiron & Smith Executive Billiard Table, while it would look better with a hot model sprawled across it, does have more than enough features to get by without eye candy. It is structurally made of grade A materials ranging from English table cloth to Italian slate to handmade pocket nets. There’s a ball storage rack and mirror backed bar to help you store the necessities of the billiards life style.

On the techno side you get great features like an LCD TV set, stereo with flat paneled speakers and a DVD player. It’s all quite sparkly and swank, making for an excellent addition to your bachelor pad.

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Kodak is bringing out four new ultra compact cameras this month priced affordably for the casual shutterbug. The Kodak EasyShare M753 ($149), M853 ($179), M873 ($199), and M883 ($229) have 21 automatic shooting modes including a panorama stitching mode, a two-shot self-timer mode, MPEG-4 video capture capability, a neutral-density filter, a center-weighed metering option and shutter speeds ranging from 1/1400 and four seconds. All of the EasyShare cams have a 2.5-inch LCD screen on their backside except for the M883’s which is 3-inches while conversely they all feature 8-megapixel photo sizes except for the M753 which only takes 7-megapixels shots. The four models all offer a 3x zoom lens and a 640×480 photo capture at 15fps or 320×240 at 30fps.

First to hit market is the M753 in June and in a selection of black, silver, …

Nintendo has added three classic old school video games to its Wii Shop Channel this week providing a blast from the past of the 1980s. If you remember what it was like to spend countless hours playing any of these trio of classics now you can show the next generation what it was like to play them all over again (and maybe you can prove your pwnage while you’re at it.)

“Lode Runner”, “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” and “Golden Axe II” have blasted their way onto the service. Each can be played by one or two players and don’t cost much (500 Wii points to download “Lode Runner”, 800 points for the other two.) “Lode Runner” and “Sonic 2” will provide you with plenty of maze chase craziness (there’s also an edit …