Nokia’s not a company that’s known for ultra-survivable and rugged gear, but I guess they figured out that rugged phones are a good idea. The 3720 candybar features a 2 megapixel cam with LED flash, triband EDGE, FM radio, microSD expansion, and Bluetooth 2.1.

The phone is built to meet IP54 standards. What this means is that “ingress of dust is not entirely prevented, but it must not enter in sufficient quantity to interfere with the satisfactory operation of the equipment; complete protection against contact”. That means that it may get dirty as anything, but it’ll keep functioning and it can also withstand “splashing” water.

We’ve all heard the tales of potential danger regarding iPods and fire. It’s often hard to sort the truth from rumor. Well here’s another cautionary tale. This one comes out of Sweden where a Saab 9-3 recently met a fiery end.

The official cause of the blaze hasn’t been figured out, but investigators strongly suspect that an iPod left in the car is the culprit. The car itself showed no signs of technical faults and there’s no evidence that the fire was intentionally set. Also, the fire started on the seats, where the iPod was apparently sitting.

You crazy kids today with your crazy custom artwork on your computer lids. When I was a kid our fancy spreadsheet boxes were plain black or white. And get the hell off my lawn. Dell has just brought the Inspiron 15 into the Design Studio fold, so you’ll be able to select graphics from a bunch of artists to dress up your system.

Most of the artwork is priced around $60, but that could vary. Dell’s also launching a new FastTrack next-day delivery service for pre-configured machines. The company says that it’s constantly tracking orders and will be able to keep the most popular models on hand.

We knew last month that it was on the way, but now it’s official. OCZ is now shipping its Sabre OLED gaming keyboard and it has a price. It’s an affordable $135.

You’ll get nine customizable OLED keys and most of the specs you expect from a gaming keyboard, like “super tactile” keys, macro configuration options and some cool blue LEDs.

The Tour de France is currently underway and Lance Armstrong is apparently returning to help promote his Livestrong campaign and raise cancer awareness. So Livestrong and Nike have teamed up to create the Chalkbot, a robotic chalk painter that will print messages along the path of the Tour de France.

If you want your own message printed just text ‘LIVESTRONG’ followed by your chalk message to 36453. They hope to print more than 100,000 messages over the course of the entire race. We like stories like this where robots are helping worthy causes instead of plotting our demise.

So you’ve been craving the HTC Hero but you don’t like the color that it comes in. You want something in, oh I don’t know, pink. Well, it’s your lucky day. The Android-powered handset is now available in pink according to the Carphone Warehouse Coming Soon page.

Great news for all of you gals who like pink phones. It’s scheduled for launch later this month and we still do not know which carrier it will arrive with. The HTC Hero will come with a 528MHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera, 3.2” display at 320 x 480 resolution and the Sense user interface.

T-Mobile has made the new myTouch 3G available for pre-order for those who don’t mind the lack of a physical QWERTY keyboard. It’s a solid choice for Tmo customers looking to get some Android. If you’ve been waiting, you’ll be able to place your pre-order from $199.99 with guaranteed delivery by August 5th.

This pre-order offer is good until July 28th, which gives you plenty of time to figure out if this one is for you. If you need a refresher on the MyTouch’s specs, you’ll find them here.

Do you have an unnatural love of chewy gummy bears? Then why not use them as a lighting source. These Gummi Lights come in a wide variety of colors, are not chewy and have no flavor at all. Your choice of red, orange, yellow, clear, green, blue, purple and pink.

Each Gummi Light is lit up by small LED bulbs, making them look ghostly as if the souls of the dead Gummis that you have eaten are now haunting you. These scary fake candy bears stand 7″ tall. Individually the Gummi Lights will cost about $125, while a set of five is $500.

My wife’s SUV has enough room that finding a spot to stash my phone isn’t a big deal. My car is much smaller though and if both cup holders are being used there is nowhere to put a phone while driving that offers access to make and receive calls.

A company called ProClip USA has announced a new line of mobile phone holders that are vehicle specific for the iPhone 3GS and older iPhone models. The ProClip solution has two components. The first is the vehicle specific dash mount that attaches to the car dash.

Since sales of physical music formats have declined dramatically with the massive adoption of digital music, record companies have been struggling to find a new format that music fans will buy. For instance, SanDisk launched its slotMusic format to try and boost physical music sales.

Gemalto and Universal Music have announced another new music format called the Smart Video Card. The rectangular card has a hole for a DVD player spindle and a SIM card with up to 120MB of content stored.

There are a number of noise cancelling headphones and earphones on the market that remove noise from an environment by active or passive means. The headphones come in especially handy when trying to work or rest in noisy environments like on an airline flight.

Audio-Technica has announced an improved set of active noise-canceling headphones called the ATH-ANC7b headphones that promise to eliminate 85% of external sound from your environment. The headphones also feature removable cables in two lengths — 1.6 meter and 1.0 meter.

Last Christmas my son really wanted the Nerf game for the Nintendo Wii from Santa. The game was a cool kid friendly shooter that also could be used with a special Nerf blaster that could hold a Wii remote and shoot real darts. The catch was that the game and the blaster were sold separately.

EA has announced the follow up to the game, which will ship this fall and will be called Nerf 2: N-Strike Elite. The game will ship with a special Nerf Switch Shot EX-3 blaster that features a special red decoder eyepiece that flips up.

The Hitachi HP-CN12 bean-shaped ear canal earphones come in eight different colors. The earphones work on a frequency zone of 20Hz – 22kHz and deliver and impedance of 16-Ohms. And they’re shaped like beans, which may help them to stay in place.

The HP-CN12 also features a slider that adjusts the length of the wire and prevents it from getting tangled up. They are pretty unique earphones. Expect them to be launched in Japan on July 24th for 1500 Yen (or $17).

The new Hasselblad CFV-39 is custom built to match the design and functionality of Hasselblad V cameras and turns every V camera into an easy-to-use digital camera. The back is 39MP and the sensor is two times that of regular DSLRs.

It features two capture modes and new digital lens connection technology for Carl Zeiss lenses that are powered by Mac and Windows-compatible Phocus image processing software. All V camera systems are wirefree, the sensor is 100 percent larger than a full-frame 35mm DSLR camera, ISO range speeds range from 50 to 800 and H camera owners can gain full access to V lens DAC connection by using the CF lens adapter.

Are you Buddhist? If you are, you can add this one to your wishlist. It’s yet another Buddha phone. It’s dubbed the C91, a luxury gold phone with a round shape and Buddhist design.

It features a 2.0 inch display, 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio, dual SIM support, audio and video player, microSD slot and it includes a buddistic music box too. The C91 Buddha phone will cost you $123.