The NB1000 from Pentax is all about customization. It is identical to the RS1000 and comes with a Lego-like body, allowing you to customize your camera with different blocks that come in several sizes and colors. It’s basically just a cheap ploy to get Lego fans buying the camera.

The NB1000 is a 14.1-megapixel camera with a 4x zoom. It is capable of recording 720p video too. Looks like this one is for the Japanese market only though. It will be available later this year for 20,000 Yen ($238).

LG has another first on its hands with their Infinia PX950 Plasma HDTV series. It’s the first of its kind to receive THX certification after passing over 400 laboratory tests that evaluate left and right eye images for color accuracy, cross-talk, viewing angles and video processing performance.

It also went through THX certification for superior picture quality in 2D which is a must before it can even have a go at THX 3D certification. It takes just one button push for the viewer to select THX 2D or 3D Cinema Modes, and if it’s 3D you want, you’ll need to make sure you have a pair of active shutter glasses.

When you think of portable media players, chances are you think of an iPod. Well, here’s a new hybrid pmp/ebook reader that sports a 7-inch touchscreen display at 800 × 480 resolution, 1080p HD playback and an HDMI output.

So you can watch HD movies on your TV, of course. The MB-P702 will support a wide range of video and audio formats, and does PDF, TXT, EPUB, CHM, HTML, PDB and UMD document files too. Nothing on pricing yet, but hopefully we will know more soon.

Sanyo has announced their latest Xacti digicams, this time they are aimed at the social media crowd. The VPC-GH4 is similar to the VPC-GH2, since it features Full HD 1080 video recording, but unlike the GH2, it integrates YouTube, Facebook, and Picasa uploads, even Twitter notifications.

The downside is that the newer model has still photos taken down to 10 megapixels (the old one featured 14 megapixels). Still, at $200, it’s all good. It hits store shelves later this month.

Speed bumps are so last century. That’s why the Canadian city of Vancouver is experimenting with a speed control solution that uses an optical illusion to trick you into thinking there is a child in the road. I’m sure that will slow people down and give some people heart attacks too.

The program is being piloted near École Pauline Johnson Elementary School, where they use a very lifelike painted optical illusion that looks like a little girl chasing a ball into traffic.

We’ve seen a number of Windows Phone 7-powered devices, but Microsoft hasn’t given an official launch date for its mobile operating system yet. However, reports have just come in saying that Windows Phone 7 will be officially launched on October 11th.

Microsoft will be using New York for the launch, which better be soon since Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS are getting plenty of attention at the moment.

There are plenty of single-display tablet devices, not as many dual displays. The Kno sports dual 14.1-inch touchscreen displays. It shouldn’t take too long to get it to market since the company has received a $46M investment.

In fact, they are talking an end-of-year launch date. The Kno will be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, have 16GB of storage and should cost under $1,000. Yes, that’s pretty expensive. We will see how it goes.

Here’s a tablet that won’t leave you broke. StreamTV’s Elocity A7 is now listed for pre-order on Amazon. They even managed to offer it at a lower price point than promised, just $370.

If this thing sells nicely, it might encourage others to lower their price point. It has some decent specs, but even if it doesn’t completely blow you away with performance, at that price you have to give it a chance.

When it comes to web browsers many people don’t like the browsers that ship on their smartphones and start looking for alternatives that work better. Opera makes one of the more popular alternate browsers for many of the smartphone operating systems on the market.

I mentioned back in July that Opera Mini 5.1 had landed for Android devices. Opera has now announced that Opera Mini 5.1 is available for download for Windows Mobile users as well. The new venison of the browser adds some nice new features like allowing Opera to be set as the default browser.

Splitfish made a name for itself in the gaming world years ago when it unveiled the controllers for console gamers that allowed them to play games with a mouse controller for the right hand and controller for the right hand that looks like half a gamepad.

Splitfish has announced the street date for its next products for gamers. The products include the wireless Fragfx Shark and the wired Barracuda and FPS optimized wired Piranha controller. All three of the controllers will work with the PS3, Mac, and PC.

The folks over at iFixit were not going to stop at just disassembling the new iPod touch. Now it is the nano’s turn. The 6th-gen device weighs 67 percent of the volume of its predecessor, with a thicker body and an integrated clip on back.

The teardown found that the 2010 nano has its front glass, LCD and touchscreen assembly all fused together. The battery size is 105mAh, which doubles the 2010 shuffle’s 51mAh.

ARM has been making processors for smartphones and all manner of other gadgets and hardware for a long time. ARM has now announced its next processor that will find its way into smartphones, home entertainment devices, and wireless infrastructure devices called the Cortex-A15.

The new Cortex-A15 has as much as five times the performance of today’s high-end smartphone processors and ten times the performance of processors used in infrastructure platforms with low power consumption. The A15 is highly scalable for different uses.

When it comes to tech gear it seems like every maker wants to say they have the smallest this or fastest that. The latest new products in the tech realm to lay claim to a world’s smallest title is LaCie with a pair of new USB 3.0 HDDs.

The new drives are the LaCie Rikiki and the Minimus USB 3.0 HDDs. The USB 3.0 connectivity allows the drives to have transfer speeds up to5Gb/s in small form factors. Both of the HDDs are clad in attractive brushed aluminum cases.

If you are tired of hearing, your mom, your wife, or anyone else complain about your lack of gaming tidyness, then check out Level Up’s new range of gaming towers for the PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and Rock Band.

They clean up your act and are functional as well. At $69.99, there’s really no excuse. They help you keep your consoles, accessories and controllers in one place instead of all over the place.

In order to maintain compatibility with Apple’s latest iPhone, TomTom is now including a simple adapter for all Car Kit orders going out on September 1st or later. Good news for sure.

But if you ordered one before that, you can apply for a freebie to be sent your way. It’s either that or go all DIY to create something that looks like the insert above. It’s up to you, but free is easiest.