This is a useful device for those suffering from diabetes. The Contour USB meter from Bayer Diabetes Care is the only blood glucose monitor that plugs directly into a computer. This will give users instant access to information that can help them with their diabetes management. Knowledge is power.

The device comes with Glucofacts DELUXE software for easy retrieval of data and longer-term tracking and analysis of blood glucose test results. The Bayer Contour USB meter holds up to 2,000 test results so that patients can see trends and patterns in their blood glucose levels.

We first told you about Bookeen’s Cybus ebook reader back in may. Then it was briefly spotted in July. After that nothing. So we figured they gave up on their expensive e-book with no Wi-Fi.

Well, it’s back and now shipping. For the price, at least it looks different than other readers. The E-ink ebook reader weighs just 5.3oz and features a 5″ display, 12 font sizes, 4-level greyscale and 200 dpi and the built in accelerometer lets you auto change from portrait to landscape mode.

According to a recent report from Gizmodo on Tuesday, Microsoft is confirming rumors that it actually does have a new dual-screen tablet in the works, codenamed Courier. According to the article and a short demo video, the Courier is a real thing and is more like a “booklet” than a tablet as it folds together and has two interactive touch screens side-by-side with loads of fast functionality.

The project has apparently been kept under pretty tight wraps with very few, both inside and outside of Microsoft, with knowledge about it. In fact, rumors are that the team working on the project, led by J. Allard (a designer involved in the Zune and the Xbox) has been kept away from the main Redmond campus to help keep it secret.

Looks like the rumors were true. Nintendo’s Wii is about to get its first price drop after great sales for three years straight. The console has been sold for $249.99, but on September 27th the Wii will be priced at just $199.99.

Apparently an official announcement is expected this Friday, with retail stores beginning to sell at the new price on Sunday. Great time to get a Wii if you haven’t already taken the plunge.

We’ve seen many a clock around here, many are pretty sophisticated or feature clever design. But sometimes you just need a big ass bell to wake you from dreamland. No fancy design, no clever features. Just a big and loud bell.

That’s what the Bell Alarm Clock from designer Sam Hecht is all about. It’s a combination of a modern clock, with an old fashioned bell that will yank you awake and ring your bell first thing everyday. And you can pay $65 for the privilege. The Bell Alarm Clock is available in red, black and white.

Lego. We had thought that anything you could make out of Lego bricks had already been made. But we forgot about the classical music scene. This cello is made entirely of Legos. And it’s life sized. And it works.

Brick artist Nathan Sawaya claims that it “sounds different than a regular cello”. Use your imagination. What would a Lego Cello sound like? Yeah, like that. Not tinny, more of a brickish plastic sound. Now we just need the rest of the Lego band. They can tour the country and sell out to geek crowds. Get geek groupies. Dig?

If you like Bug Labs open source gadget hardware kit that was launched two years ago, you probably had one complaint. That the main base lacked built-in Wi-Fi. Well, good news. Bug Labs are addressing that issue with the BUGbase WiFi.

The base allows you to add smaller modules and create the gadget of your choice and it now has integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. That means you can now build wireless gadgets using the Base, the available modules and Bug Labs’ SDK. If you already have a BUGbase, they are also releasing a BUGWiFi module to add Wi-Fi to your current Bug gadgets.

Kopin has announced that the Golden-i Gen 2 will be starting field trials in December and production will begin next year. The units are expected to feature a Bluetooth headset, a 15-inch virtual PC display, head-gesture recognition and voice-control.

The units will run Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and are capable of streaming 30fps 720 x 480 video over Bluetooth 2.0, so it will be great for entertainment, or with your smartphone, laptop or MID for internet access etc. It can also connect using WiFi for up to SVGA resolution video.

This game looks much more fun than Foosball. In MaruBot Football League four players control small wireless robots with joysticks. Each of the robots has an actual personality, with LED eyes that display whether they are happy or sad.

They are happy when they score a goal and sad if they lose. Why four players? The games makers see MaruBot as being all about “cooperation and partnership, minimizing individualism, isolation, violence of online games.” There’s also a two-player version. It’s a hit in Korea, so maybe one day we will see it here.

Like your typical geek, I am a big fan of science fiction flicks. As you expect right up there at the top of my favorite franchises are Star Wars and Star Trek. I’m not such a hard-core fan that I wear costumes and buy fancy collectibles that cost hundreds of dollars, but I like the films well enough.

If you are the hard-core geek that has to own the most realistic collectibles from the two Star franchises, eFX has you covered. The company has offered its line of Star Wars collectibles for a long time and it announced today that it would be offering up a line of licensed Star Trek collectibles as well.

It seems like most of the smartphones and feature phones that we see lately feature touchscreen of one sort or another. Some touchscreens are capacitive and some are resistive and what you can use to control the screen, be it a finger or a stylus, depends on the type.

Samsung has unveiled the world’s first mobile display driver IC with embedded touch screen control functionality. The driver controls a capacitive touchscreen that supports soft touch and multi-touch functionality.

Kingston announced today that it was increasing the speed that its DataTraveler 410 flash drive offers. The drive has been upgraded to include up to 32GB of storage and with faster read and write speeds. The drive has read and write speeds of up to 20MB/sec.

That is good performance for a flash drive, assuming it actually hits those speeds in the real world. The faster read and write speeds make the drive more suited to use as a backup device and for moving large files. The drive measures 2.58″ x 0.71″ x 0.41″.

Some of the new vehicles on the roads today have navigation systems built in from the factory. Other vehicles don’t and the driver has to choose from in-dash navigation units or the type of navigation units that stick to the windshield. The in-dash sort is much better looking and Pioneer offers a while line of them.

Today Pioneer announced a new iPhone app that interacts with two of its high-end in-dash navigation devices including the AVIC-U310BT and the AVIC-Z110BT. Both of the navigation systems can interact with the iPhone app via Bluetooth.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Elite just dropped to $299. That’s a pretty sweet price. But Microsoft wasn’t done. They’ve begun a new mail-in rebate program that brings the cost down to $249. That means that consoles purchased between today and October 5th are eligible.

They must be feeling the heat from the PS3s price. Just visit Xbox.com/eliterebate. This is for US purchases only.

The P-Flip is a foldable power dock available in five different colors. For $55, it acts as both a backup battery and a dock for your iPhone or iPod touch. The backup battery has a 2000-mAh capacity, which should give you about two full charges.

So it should add about 8 hours of talk, 15 hours of gaming, or 80 hours of music. This should help you stay juiced up and get the most out of your iPhone or iPod touch.