It took place in Melbourne, Florida. A truck carrying over 1400 PlayStation 2 systems was been stolen today. After a long trip over the weekend, the driver slept overnight on Sunday and didn’t realize the truck was gone until he woke up on Monday morning.

Apparently, the thieves were smart enough to disable the truck’s GPS before leaving with the goods. The police and the trucking company apparently had no idea where it went. There’s nothing worse then a truck full of stolen game consoles. Why do they never think of the children? The poor 30+ year old children…Now what will they play?

It’s nearly impossible to keep new products from being leaked today for most manufacturers. BlackBerry is no exception. For a week or more now reports and details of the BlackBerry Storm have been popping up online touting the next potential iPhone challenger.

Today BlackBerry made the Storm official and announced that the exclusive U.S. carrier will be Verizon and the UK carrier will be Vodafone. The handset is designed to run on Verizon’s 3G network in the States. The Storm forgoes the familiar QWERTY keyboard most BlackBerry devices use in favor of an iPhone-like touchscreen.

I don’t know about you, but here at the SlipperyBrick “command and control center” we like our video wall cubes for monitoring world affairs. We are therefore quite ready to lay down some serious change for the new VS-80PH40U from Mitsubishi.

Mitsubishi says the VS-80PH40U is designed for “large command and control centers,” which makes us wonder how well it would fit in around our one-room shack out in the sticks. You get out of this massive video cube 80-inches of viewing pleasure via 1400 x 1050 resolution and a “proprietary, high-powered projection engine to provide 190 cd/m2 of brightness.”

Magellan is showcasing a new line of RoadMate GPS units this week at CES that feature a widescreen display and optional traffic integration in the higher end models. The new 1400 series RoadMate models use a larger 4.3-inch widescreen touchscreen with three new models varying in features and price from $299 at the low end up to $399 with all the bells and whistles.

All the new models feature the widescreen view, 3D mapping, trip planner, QuickSpell for fast entering of addresses and an SD card slot for maps. The 1400, which is the $299 base model comes with maps of the continental US, Hawaii and Puerto Rico along with points of interest. Moving up to the RoadMate 1412, Magellan tacks on text-to-speech, maps of Canada and Alaska and another $150 to the price of the 1400.

A common theme you see on gadget blogs like ours is cool tech found overseas which may or may not ever make it to America. A new example of this is the minimal geek looking CECT W100 Wrist Watch.

The CECT W100 Wrist Watch, designed by Qiao Xing Mobile Communication of China, is believed to be the first watch phone in that large Asian country. It comes in seven colors and sports a nice LCD touch screen with which to control its functions. Though no specifics were given by its designers about its phone network capabilities it was said the phone will come with 1GB of built-in memory and supports Bluetooth.

High performance computer manufacturer Alienware today began offering a quick ship version of one of its popular laptop configurations. The new Alienware Area-51 m5550 Quick Ship has a starting price of around $1,700.

The Alienware Area-51 m5550 Quick Ship laptop is designed to ship within two days of payment confirmation and is available in limited quantities. It offers a number of useful features including an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics card, 160GB hard drive and an 8X Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW.

If you’re an iPhone owner that’s already stressing out about the impending $85 battery price and having to send in your iPhone for a couple days then iPodjuice just may be able to set you at ease. That is if you’re not concerned about using a 3rd party battery on your iPhone. The company provides battery replacement kits for iPods and now has one for the iPhone as well.

iPodjuice says that the replacement iPhone battery is comparable in providing playtime to the original iPhone battery and that they have them for both …

The makers of the Zonbu say that it is the world’s first green PC and they seem to be right. Unlike 99.9999% of the computers out there, the Zonbu stores all of your files on the company’s servers so all you need is a connection to the internet and that’s it. You buy blocks of hard drive space (25, 50 or 100 GB) at monthly rates ($12.95, $14.95 or $19.95). Zonbu takes care of the back-ups so you never have to worry about recovering your files. The PC machine uses a low-power …

If you’re thinking of jumping onboard the Blu-ray bandwagon but have yet to decide on a player maybe you should hold off until Samsung comes out with its two new additions to its Blu-ray line this fall. The BD-1400 (priced at $550) will be notable for having support for 24 frames-per-second output, removing any instances of stuttering motion in the video (an effect called “judder”) for high-end displays capable of this mode. It will also have internal decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD so you can crank up the noise if you’ve got a …

Denon’s launched a new surround sound speaker system that they say will produce great quality surround sound without having to run speaker wire through your walls or resort to so-so quality wireless systems.

The Denon DHT-FS3 X-SPACE Surround Bar is a single bar that puts out 150 watts using six speaker drivers and seven digital amplifiers along with a matching shiny black subwoofer to put out the additional base that the bar alone doesn’t. TechDigest is also reporting that Denon will be launching another piece in September to bring WiFi audio streaming …

Kodak is bringing out four new ultra compact cameras this month priced affordably for the casual shutterbug. The Kodak EasyShare M753 ($149), M853 ($179), M873 ($199), and M883 ($229) have 21 automatic shooting modes including a panorama stitching mode, a two-shot self-timer mode, MPEG-4 video capture capability, a neutral-density filter, a center-weighed metering option and shutter speeds ranging from 1/1400 and four seconds. All of the EasyShare cams have a 2.5-inch LCD screen on their backside except for the M883’s which is 3-inches while conversely …

Casio is set to release the highest resolution compact digital camera when it rolls out the Exilim Zoom EX-Z1200 in mid-July. The Exilim will offer a whopping 12.1 megapixels of rez for your family photos making everything turn out crystal clear.

As well the Exilim will come with CCD-shift image stabilization technology, face detection software and motion analysis image processing for those snaps of the fast-moving family members. The camera comes with 11.4 MB of internal memory which won’t be enough for those huge files and if you want to take a bunch of …

Today Sony unveiled a new VAIO FZ series laptop which packs a Blu-Ray disc player along with a 15.4 inch widescreen display. This combination results in a lightweight multimedia notebook that can play movies in 1080 HD resolution as well as record and play back personal content on the Blu-Ray media.

Aside from the hi-def player, this new premium model of the VAIO FZ comes with a Centrino Duo processor, a built-in 802.11n wireless LAN and Windows Vista Home Premium. The laptop also has a built-in camera and microphone and support …

You may never need your computer to have a tough outer shell capable of withstanding the great outdoors but for search and rescue personnel, fire and emergency crews or military personnel stationed in out of the way places, it’s a necessity.

Motorola has stepped up to the likes of the Diamond SwitchBack offering two new PCs designed for such jobs, the ML910 Rugged Notebook and MW810 Mobile Workstation. Both systems are wireless-enabled and made to work in different extremes of climate, with the ML910 having a hard drive heater (!) …

There is much anticipation in the tech industry this week looking forward to a key note speech from Steve Jobs of Apple and announcements of the rumored possible latest and greatest gadgets from Apple.

Rumors have been running for months about a new mobile iPhone (or so it’s been called) from Apple. The actual iPhone name turned out to be owned by another company launching a VoIP line of phones which came as a disappointment for some, but the anticipation has again grown as we come closer to to …