Sometimes gadgets make it to market that should have stayed at the concept stage. Such is the case with the really weird looking Avatar 1259B Watch that is available to purchase at Yanko Design.

This is one of the rare concept watches that Yanko shows off that you can actually buy. It uses 12 LED lights on the circular face to show hours, five LEDs show tens of minutes, and nine other LEDs show the minutes.

Pentax is all about getting the most mileage of of its K-x DSLR. Why update hardware inside the camera when you can just slap a new color on the outside and apparently get people to buy the things. We have already seen the K-x in a color best left to PushUps.

The new version of the K-x that Pentax has unveiled today is ever uglier than that bright orange version from last month. The new K-x is only going to be offered in Japan and looks like a rainbow exploded.

The newly revamped Sony VAIO P comes in several colors, but if you love animal skin and hate PETA, then check out this limited VAIO P with black crocodile skin. It’s a Japan exclusive that includes an Intel Atom Z560 processor with an Intel US15X chipset (266MHz GPU), a 256GB SSD and a 12.5 hour extended battery.

It also features a one-touch resolution button that changes from 120dpi to 96dpi, GPS with compass, location search, an instant-on Web browser and noise canceling headphones. There’s also an accelerometer, Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi N and Windows 7.

Earlier this week Sony pulled the wraps off its new NEX-5 and NEX-3 digital cameras. The cameras have no mirrors but promise the same image quality as a DSLR in a much more compact form. Both of the new cameras are now up for pre-order at Sony Style.

The NEX-5 with an 18-55mm lens will sell for $699.99 and has 14.2MP resolution and HD movie recording among other things. The NEX-5 with a 16mm lens will sell for $649.99 and has the same exact features.

It’s official. 6.2million of you really love blue people. Avatar has now sold 6.2 million Blu-ray copies in the first three weeks since launch. 2.7 million were sold in the first four days.

6.2 million Blu-rays in total, and 13.5 million DVD sales. Think about that. 3D Blu-ray and special edition Blu-ray will be coming out later this year/early next year and you guys have practically funded the next movie already with these purchases.

3D is very popular around the world today thanks in part to the massively popular Avatar film bringing more viewers to watch 3D content. There are also many networks and satellite providers working on providing 3D content for home viewers.

3D will also find its way to portable game consoles, smartphones, and digital cameras. Sharp has unveiled a new camera module that is the first to be able to record 3D images in 720p resolution. The module is able to do this by using two sensors that take pictures at the same time.

LG’s Android 2.1-based Ally will get into customer’s hot little hands on May 20th. The smartphone will be available in VZW stores beginning May 20th, with pre-orders going live for phone and web customers as early as tomorrow.

The Iron Man 2 themed smartphone will sell for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a new two-year contract. That’s not bad at all for this phone.

General Motors has found a technology partner to help extend the Chevy Volt’s futuristic OnStar functionality and Motor Trend says it’s Google. The company will reportedly “sell its Android operating system for in-car use.”

This is the first we’ve heard of Google selling Android, but GM doesn’t seem to mind. They’re ready to use the open-source OS anyway. This should help make GM cars more attractive to buyers and we can’t wait to see what kind of apps they come up with.

Make way for the first serious iPad competitor. According to Verizon Chief Exec Lowell McAdam, the carrier is working with Google on “a tablet computer.” The WSJ report is light on details as you might expect this early in the game, but Bloomberg scored the news that this tablet is said be Android-based, and that more details will be released later this week.

McAdam said that tablets are “part of the ‘next big wave of opportunities,’” and that Verizon’s “looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience.”. We should know more soon, but an Android/Verizon tablet already has us salivating.

Well, some one is cranky. That would be Danish doctor Jakob Nielsen, called “the guru of Web page usability” by The New York Times. He has some things to say about the iPad. Specifically the iPad’s user interface. 93 pages worth of something to say. Here’s a summary so you don’t have to read it all:

iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.

Nielsen says that the iPad doesn’t benefit from its iPhone UI, and that the features it shares with the iPhone don’t work as well on the big screen. It all boils down to “a usability problem we haven’t seen since the mid-1990s: Users don’t know where they can …

Those who live in China and are looking for a new phone should check out Nokia’s two new CDMA phones. The Nokia 6702 Slide and the Nokia 1706 candybar phone. The former features a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual-LED flash, 2.6-inch 240 x 320 pixel display, Bluetooth and support for Java MIDP 2.0 applications.

We don’t have any details on the Nokia 1706 just yet and we have nothing on the pricing and release dates for these phones, but we do know that both will be available in China very soon.

Word on the street is that PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 could get some price changes later this year. According to the rumor, Sony could be planning an entry-level £200 (or $295) version of the PS3 that offers a smaller hard drive with a single controller.

While the Microsoft side of the rumor says that it might include the upcoming Natal with the Xbox 360, though there is talk of a possible version of it without Project Natal going for less than £100 ($147). And IF the rumor is true, Nintendo is also looking at a price drop in order to compete with the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.

The only thing missing from this controller is Merlin’s voice saying “He who can free Excalibur from this controller shall forever be king and head nerd for all time”. Then if you can pull the sword out, you can play, otherwise too bad.

This is a concept image of the controller for the Wii port of the arcade game Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road Victory. Yes, it’s crazy. But hey, keep in mind that it’s the offspring of D and D nerds who will be using it. The controller will be made by HORI and will sell for about $138. Gamers will “push down on the sword for your special finishing sword attack.”

Kaleidescape, the multi-room home movie server has optimized its UI and added Blu-ray support with the M500 and M300 players. Kaleidescape’s new M500 player works just like the old versions: Just load a disc—CD, DVD, or now Blu-ray and the player copies it onto a home server. Pretty straightforward.

But movie studios wrote a provision in the Blu-ray licensing agreement requiring the disc to be physically present whenever a copy of the movie is played. So, if you want to watch a copy of a Blu-ray movie on an M500, or one of the satellite M300 players, the disc must be present in an M500 somewhere on your network.

Officially unveiled today in the UK, Samsung’s new 23-inch U250 and 20-inch U200 all-in-one PCs are going the multitouch route. The U250 offers full 1080p resolution, while the U200 offers 1,600 x 900. Both ship with Windows 7 Home Premium.

These machines are Samsung’s first venture into the home PC market in the UK. So you would think we would have a decent specification sheet, but oh well. They’ll ship later this month for those who want them.