Speakal makes some of the stranger and more interesting speaker docks on the market. They have docks for the iPhone that look like pigs and some look like other animals. The company has announced a new speaker system today called the iPom.

The iPom is designed to look like an apple with two speakers that look like flowers. The device lacks an iPod dock and makes due with a 3.5mm headphone jack for connecting to devices. The speaker flowers are removable and can be positioned.

Over the last few months, there have been several new upgrade hard drives and SSDs that have been announced for notebooks and netbooks. One of the common issues for computer users wanting a larger hard drive is getting the data from their computer over to the new drive.

Apricorn has announced a new upgrade kit called the SATA Wire that is a cable that connects to the SATA SSD or HDD and to your PC USB port. The kit also includes software for Mac and Windows machines to migrate data to the new drive.

Gaming PCs tend to have some common features. The things are usually much more expensive than your average computer and they are crammed with high-performance hardware. iBuyPower is a boutique gaming PC maker that has some very cool machines and today it unveiled the Chimera 2 gaming PC.

The most notable thing visually about the computer is the four surface wrap around paint job with flames and a dragon motif. The machine can be had with several different CPU options including Intel Core i7 and i5 CPUs or AMD Phenom II parts. Several video card options are available as well.

BenQ is hitting the e-Book market with the nReader K60. The device has a 6-inch touchscreen e-paper display that uses SiPix Microcup technology to produce a native resolution of 800 x 600 pixels with 167 dots-per-inch and 16 grey scale.

The nReader K60 features 2GB of storage, which will hold roughly 4000 books and if you ned more it’s got a microSD card slot for more storage. Some other features include WiFi, a mini USB port, USB 2.0 port and a 3.5mm audio jack. The K60 supports a variety of file formats including ePub, PDF, TXT, HTML, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and MP3.

Do you really want to be jarred awake by this thing? I mean, look at it. It has a huge hammer just waiting to ring that bell. But if you are a wrestling fan, maybe that’s just how you want to start your day.

The Wrestling Bell Alarm Clock will continue to ring at the set time until you wake up and shut it off. Or until you roll over and put your spouse in a full Nelson or a figure-four leg lock. Either way you’ll be awake and ready to face your day.

Just announced, the PTB-S1 BK Sirius tablet has a large pen area of 10″ x 6″. It also features 1,024 levels of sensitivity, multiple short cut keys, a macro key area with pen selectable buttons, a +/- 45 degree pen angle and a light pen.

It will play nice with Windows XP, Vista and 7 as well as Mac OS X 10.4 or newer. You like? If so, it will be available for sale in the beginning of December for a retail price of 16,800 yen.

George Lucas loves making a butt-load of money on Star Wars merchandise and everyone under the sun is making money on the iPhone. So it makes sense that Lucas is now cashing in on the iPhone himself. These hard-shell cases will protect your phone in style while alerting fellow geeks that you too love Star Wars.

The cases feature Darth Vader or a Stormtrooper and will fit your iPhone 3G or 3GS. Both the Darth Vader Hard Case for iPhone and Stormtrooper Case for iPhone retail for $29.95. They should ship around December 8th.

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Olive’s Opus No. 4 is getting an update, The 4HD looks similar to it’s predecessor, but this 2TB music server now features 24-bit sound and a 192kHz sample rate thanks to a Burr-Brown PCM1792A DAC, which will deliver about 250 times the resolution of a CD.

You’ll also get a gigabit Ethernet port and an 802.11n WiFi module to set it up on your home network, and there’s a free iPhone / iPod touch application available that will give you full control via your apple device. This time around it will cost $1,999.

Don’t let the small size fool you, the VOT550 mini computer from ViewSonic is a powerful and sleek machine, powered by a 2.2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor with 4GB of RAM, a 500GB HDD, built-in Blu-Ray drive, and Microsoft Windows 7.

Aside from being small, the ViewSonic VOT550 comes in a piano black casing that’s sure to go well with your other gear. It also provides six USB 2.0 ports and an S/PDIF port for your AV receiver. For added security there’s also a Kensington lock.

Waterproof cameras are great for getting those outdoor shots in winter, but they are so huge and bulky. At least they were, but not anymore. At just .78 inches, the Casio EX-G1 is now the thinnest rugged camera in existence.

Yes it’s thin and can take a beating. It will survive a drop from 7 feet onto solid ground or a dunk into 10 feet of water. Plus this 12.1 megapixel shooter manages to actually look nice. Look for it in black or red next month for $300.

AquaOne Technologies’ H2Orb will let you know when you’ve got a leak or an overflow in your toilet. It attaches directly to the water valve behind the toilet, with a single float sensor that hangs inside the toilet tank. When it detects a leak, it shuts off the water and alerts you of the leak with an alarm as well as an icon on its LCD screen. The entire system runs on a single 3V lithium coin cell battery.

This device is great for those who live in places with limited resources, not to mention saving water. The sooner you know about a leak, the better.

This huge Ford F650 pickup truck has something that the typical model does not. A 7,000HP GE J85 jet engine. Which makes it less of a pick-up truck and more of a rocket on wheels.

The truck is capable of reaching speeds of up to 200MPH and is apparently street legal, as long as the engine isn’t firing. Though that won’t be good for anyone if it misfires. Not that anyone could catch you.

So you want to class up your abode, but standard digital picture frames just aren’t doing it for you. Juicy Couture has introduced a digital picture frame that looks like an antique goldtone resin frame for you more sophisticated types.

It comes with a 2GB memory card and a stand. You can pre-order it now and the Juicy Couture Digital Picture Frame ships later this month for $148. The dimensions are 6.5″H x 8″W x 1.4″ deep. It probably looks better with vintage photos on it.

Hello Kitty is 35 now. Not sure what that is in cat years, but if you like you can celebrate her 35th anniversary with Coverco’s range of customizable battery doors for a bunch of cellphones.

Of course it features the face of Hello Kitty herself looking creepy as ever and you can even have some custom text if you want. If you have an iPhone, you can print the design on a bunch of cases and skins for an extra fee. Prices start at $35.

Today’s iPod dock of the day is the Maxell MXSP-D240 which comes in black or white colors and looks like a barrel. We can only assume that a Mario accessory is on the way.

This dock comes with a few 53mm driver units and should roll onto the Japanese market sometime this month for €76. Careful you don’t let this one roll off your shelf. Anybody digging this design? Maybe I’m being too harsh.