Plugging in USB devices can be tricky if you aren’t paying attention or are in low light. The Flipper USB connector however allows you to plug in your device in either orientation, up or down. The design has some advantages over traditional USB devices, since you can plug in your USB device without even thinking about it.

The Flipper USB connector also comes with spare connections in case you have damage on one side of the connector, you can just flip the connector over and use the other side. Pretty clever solution.

Sensgard has rolled out its ZEM headphones. They come with a simple amplifier that will reproduce purer sound and cancel background noise using a proprietary technique from acoustic researcher Dr. Jozef Zwislocki. The noise cancellation doesn’t require any power, instead using a physics-based sound filter which reduces noise in low and high frequency ranges.

Since there is no electronic gear involved with that, the cost and weight of the headphones are reduced. A few small, electro-magnetic receivers work as electro-mechanical amplifiers, delivering a frequency response between 20Hz and 20,000Hz and a sensitivity of 110.5dB at 1,500Hz.

Opera has announced that the full version of the Mini 5.1 web browser is now available for download. The browser promises to speed up surfing the web on any Android smartphone. Opera claims that 61 million people are using the Mini browser globally.

The new version 5.1 for Android has some new features that will make it more appealing. 5.1 can be set as the default browser on Android smartphones. The browser is also optimized for use on devices with larger screens.

We have seen a phone from Bellperre before back in November of 2009 that was made from wood. The company is back with a new phone that can be customized with different types of leather, gold, and other materials.

The phone offers 125 different leather colors and the buttons can be made from brushed steel, silver, or rose/yellow gold. The leather options include odd things like pink crocodile and red shark.

ThinkGeek has all sorts of epic geeky clothing and gadgets. The company often combines the geeky clothing with some sort of useful feature like a shirt that has a guitar you can really play.

The latest shirt from ThinkGeek is the BeerBot Bottle Opening Shirt. The thing is offered for about $20 and is in small to XXL. The front of the shirt has a screen-printed robot that is in the shape of a beer bottle, but reminds me a lot of Bender.

Do you need a portable Bluetooth keyboard for your iPad or iPhone 4? If so, check out the latest offering from Brando, this Flexible Bluetooth Mini Keyboard.

The Flexible Bluetooth Mini Keyboard features 85 keys and five built in keys for mobile phone functions which include, switch, menu, SMS, cancel and OK. It’s made of a high quality silicone material and is storable and portable.

In the video card world gamers want more power and performance and many are willing to pay huge sums of money for the hardware to allow that. Asus has unveiled a new high-end video card called the Republic of Gamers Ares.

The Ares video card is an Asus exclusive and is claimed to be the fastest single video card in the world. The card has a custom PCB that grafts a pair of ATI 5870 GPUs onto one card. The performance is claimed to be 30% faster than a single reference ATI 5970 card.

ColorWare has been making your gadgets unique and beautiful for awhile now, but when it comes to the iPhone 4, it may help more than with just looks. They’re trying to confirm it, but their process might include fixing the device’s death-grip.

You know the drill, you pick out a color scheme, give ColorWare $250, send them your iPhone 4, and wait. You will get your iPhone 4 with a nice paint job and maybe that signal-killing death grip will be a thing of the past. Maybe.

As far as we knew, the $199 Arcade version of the new Xbox 360 would be coming in this fall. But now, Amazon Germany has posted a page with some more details. Apparently it will come with 4GB of storage (Maybe on a flash drive) and arrive on August 20th.

Even if that’s accurate for Germany, that doesn’t tell us what will happen in the US market, but it’s looking like we will see the new Xbox Arcade at least before Thanksgiving and maybe even this August.

It’s time for the next Call of Duty. Just like last year, Mad Catz is producing a bunch of licensed Black Ops peripherals for the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC to go along with the game. Above is the 360 controller, which features precision aiming, which is just a lowering of the analog sticks’ sensitivity when you want more precision.

You can toggle it by using the “combat” buttons on the controller’s back. The price should be just under $50 for the console pads and $100 for a Cyborg Rat PC mouse which comes with a 2GB USB dog tag.

Ahoy pirates, listen up. Nintendo will be increasing the piracy protection on their latest DS handheld, the Nintendo 3DS over the previous model of the Nintendo DS. According to THQ VP Ian Current, the DS market and especially the DS Lite had been affected by piracy, so they are hoping that the new security will put a stop this.

I’m sure it will slow pirating down, but sooner or later someone will get around it.

Add another to the growing number of luxury i-products from Stuart Hughes. The new iPad SUPREME FIRE Edition from Stuart Hughes weighs 2.5 kilograms and is made of 24kt solid gold.

Get your ransom money ready, you will need it if you ever leave your home with this thing. It will cost you about $165,000 (or £109,995 GBP) and for that price you’ll be getting the 3G 64GB iPad.

Hot on the heels of that Consumer Reports issue, now PR experts are saying that a hardware recall for the new iPhone is inevitable. It all comes down to PR. By now, everyone who has an iPhone 4 has either experienced the situation, or knows someone who has, or has heard about it.

Apple is saying that a software fix is being tested, but whether it’s a software issue or not hardly matters anymore. It’s an obvious design snafu. So is a recall needed? Or will free fixes be offered? One thing is for sure, this kind of design stupidity is unfair to it’s loyal customers. Stay tuned.

The Denon AH-NC800 headphones feature solid aluminum housing with dual noise-canceling technology to reduce ambient noise by about 99%, which gives you a higher level of quiet for your music enjoyment. These are priced at 48,000 Yen (or about $542).

The AH-NC800 supports Denon’s audio-enhancing Compressed Audio Restoror technology, which restores musical nuances and subtleties, again for a higher level of sound quality. Some other features include high-quality 40mm drivers, OFC cables with a gold-plated plug connector and a carrying case.

The Toshiba Canvio portable HDDs sure do look purty. In addition to sleek good looks, the Canvio for Mac external HDD series ships with pre-loaded Mac-customized backup software.

They are available in 500GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities and the Toshiba Canvio for Mac features USB 2.0 connectivity and a shock sensor so you can keep it safe from bumps and bangs. The 500GB, 750GB and 1TB models are priced at $99.99, $119.99 and $139.99.