The Photo-Touch Phone from Oregon Scientific is pretty stylish and sleek, sporting a 7″ LCD display. It offers DECT 6.0 technology with a touch sensing keypad that you can store up to 200 photos using SD,XD,MMC,MS cards. The device has a “Picture in Picture” feature with caller ID, speaker phone with auto answer function, 10 melody ring tones, ability to store 50 phone numbers, 10 redial logs and 30 caller ID logs.

Sadly it looks like it will only be available in Hong King. At least for now. The price is HK$1,798.00 or $231.99. If anything can help save landlines, it may as well be this.

Oregon Scientific and Lucasfilm want to help your kids learn Star Wars style. To that end they’ve unveiled some new Star Wars themed learning laptops targeted at different age groups - Darth Vader (ages 5 and up, $60) and R2-D2 (ages 3 and up, $25).

The Star Wars laptops are currently available as electronic learning devices for youngsters. The Darth Vader laptop offers over 50 activities, letting children “pick-up the interactive lightsaber and join the iconic villain on a variety of missions.” Activities include logic, memory and music games and the laptop is equipped with a QWERTY keyboard. The R2-D2 laptop, meanwhile, lets kids learn by “expanding their vocabulary, having fun with numbers, and developing logic and memory skills” via interactive adventures with R2-D2 and C-3PO.

Not only is this digital meat thermometer wireless, but it also talks in order to alert you of the status of the things you’ve got on the grill.

This thermometer from Oregon Scientific consists of a digital wireless remote to configure and view the temperature, and a wireless probe that works up to 330 feet away from the hand-held remote. The remote will obviously display the temperature, and you can set it with some common pre-configured entree’s combined with the “doneness” you desire to have the remote calculate the correct desired temp alert you when your food is ready.

Pre-programmed into the BBQ gadget are multiple types of meats such as beef, lamb, pork and chicken as well as fish, and a little picture on the display lets you know which one you’ve selected to avoid any confusion. The device will “speak” the …