Today’s iPod dock of the day award goes to the Hard Rock Cafe’s very own iPod Dock. I guess it makes sense for them to offer one up. The limited edition Hard Rock MP3 Retro Radio features an FM digital tuner and an iPod dock that supports every generation including the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch.

Does anyone not already own an iPod dock by now? Well if you’ve been waiting for a dirt cheap iPod dock, get in the game already with this one. You can connect your other non-Apple MP3 players, CD players or other audio devices to the speaker via the audio line-in cord and it’s powered by 4 AA batteries.

Looks like Sony has some new additions to their Signature Collection of notebooks. The standout model is the Nebula FW Series. The Nebula FW Series perfectly blends science and technology. All it’s missing is a NASA ship against that cosmic backdrop.

The Sony Vaio Nebula FW is a limited edition series starting at a base price of $809.99 but can be customized if you like. Some specs include a Blu-ray player, Dolby Surround Sound, 16.4″ display, Windows 7, and 3.06 Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

Maingear just launched a new range of PCs dubbed Maingear Shift, which they are calling the “personal supercomputer that redefines computing performance, design and support”. The Maingear SHIFT uses the power of graphics processing units (GPU) and is designed to speed up everyday mundane tasks like video and photo editing.

The SHIFT features an aluminum case, steel skeleton and advanced cooling with bottom and top airflow and liquid cooling. Two models in the range are available, the SHIFT Intel P55, which comes with an Intel Core I7 800 series processor, Intel Kingsberg P55 Extreme Series motherboard,ATI Radon or NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 6 hard drives, or 12 SSDs, and either a Blu-ray or DVD burner.

FaceID combines home security systems with facial recognition. It will likely take over from the usual password, swipe card, retina and fingerprint scanning systems that we already use. It isn’t just a concept either.

FaceID is available right now and looks cool enough for any front door. It uses two digital cameras to create a 3D image of your face. Your face model is stored and matched with whoever stands in front of the system so it can decide whether to let you in or not.

Here’s a pretty handy mug design. Especially if you’re that guy who gets everyone their coffee at the office. You won’t spill a drop if you use Link Mugs. It’s a simple design. Each mug has male and female, cross-shaped areas that allow it to join with the next mug.

So you can link these mugs together and carry several mugs at the same time safely. Pretty cool idea huh? Or a hot one if they are full of Java. The set includes three ceramic coffee mugs for $54.

A device that automatically translates other languages instantly still seems like science fiction, even today. But we are getting very close. Check out NEC’s Tele Scouter. It’s a retinal-display that translates what people say to you by displaying the translations as text on your glasses.

It looks pretty bulky still, but even at that size it is impressive. It requires a computer to be hooked up to the glasses to do the bulk of the work. And even then, the translations aren’t good enough yet to make wearing this thing practical. But soon it will be.

It’s official. Sprint will be offering a subsidized version of the popular Dell Mini 10. The netbook will feature an internal EVDO Revision A modem for 3G access wherever you are, so you aren’t just relying on the availability of Wi-Fi networks.

Aside from that, everything else under the hood remains the same. That includes an Intel Atom 1.33GHz processor, 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home. Sprint is offering the Dell Mini 10 for $200, with a 2-year agreement with a $60 monthly data plan…after a $100 mail-in rebate.

Fu-bi of Japan has dropped this Retro Cube Mini Speaker with MP3 Player. It’s just like it sounds, a retro 3W x 2-channel speaker with built-in MP3 playback capability. It allows you to hook it up to your ipod or PC via USB 2.0.

The internal battery provides up to 3 hours of audio, and you can also play music directly from an SD/SDHC memory card. It’s available in Japan now for $50. We have no idea if it will show up elsewhere.

Motorola’s CLIQ has been available to existing T-Mobile USA users for a bit now, but until today it hasn’t been widely available to all who may want it.

Sure the launch has suffered a bit thanks to the DROID, but it’s MOTOBLUR you want right? All you need to do is find your nearest T-Mobile retail location and have $199.99 ready. Should be easy enough. Go get it.

Webcams are pretty much the same today. Some of them have better optics and more megapixels than the others have, but design wise they all pretty much sit on top of your monitor to capture video. IPEVO has announced a new webcam called the IPEVO P2V USB CAM.

The new camera is on an articulating arm that looks more like a desk lamp than a webcam. The camera itself is a pen-style camera with a resolution of 2-megapixels. The cam features a macro mode for shooting items as close as 2-inches away.

ATI and NVIDIA are duking it out and over the last year with the economy in the toilet, most of the cards the pair has introduced have been lower priced mid-range cards rather than high-end parts. Those high-end parts often cost upwards of $500 or more each. Today images of a new high-end video card from ATI have leaked online.

The new card is called the ATI HD 5790 and it sports dual GPUs on one PCB. The specifications for the card are unknown. Performance data was reportedly available but AMD forced the information to be taken down, and surprisingly allowed the photos to remain.

The eBook market is quickly getting as hot as the netbook market with new eReader coming to market all the time. Over the last few weeks, the Kindle has had its price cut and Barnes & Noble has announced the Nook. Today Creative has announced plans to bring its Zii MediaBook to market.

The MediaBook will be a touch screen device with a color screen that offers much more media functionality than existing products reports Creative. The MediaBook will let users surf the net, access Twitter, and Facebook.

Lenovo is apparently trying to corner the market on all-in-one computers and has been releasing several of the machines over the last few weeks. Today Lenovo has announced a new AIO machine called the ThinkCentre A70z. Lenovo touts that the machine can start up in 35 seconds and shut down 40% faster than rival systems.

If you are in a hurry to get out the door on a Friday fast shut down is a nice feature. The machine sells for $499. For that, much loot you get a 19-inch screen holding the CPU, RAM, storage and all that jazz. The machine can support up to 500GB of storage.

While we wait and see whether the Xbox 360 is getting a Blu-ray drive or not, there’s something else to look forward to. Thanks to a new marketing strategy, you will soon be able to buy the console with the Star Trek or Transformers 2 movie.

Right now it has been confirmed exclusively for the UK. The bundle includes an Xbox Elite, an extra controller and the movie on USB.

You thought the inflatable horse peripheral was a bad idea. That was before your kid could get a whole baby to use with their Wii. Every time I think that we have seen the height of weirdness in Wii-land, they drop something even weirder on us.

Bundled with the upcoming Wii game Baby and Me (in Australia), this doll-mote uses the Wiimote’s speaker to make the baby cry or laugh. You can even use the Wii Balance Board, which allows you to burp the baby, rock the baby and teach “her” to walk. (Which she will never learn because she’s just a doll with a Wiimote crammed in her insides.)