Ahh, look at that. Skype has made another grandma happy as yet another child tries to move slowly away and escape. Well, Skype is about to get even better. Next week, they will be rolling out a public beta of Group Video Calling that will connect you with up to four friends, for free. Get ready for some long distance partying. And some extra boring business while looking at some extra co-workers

The feature will be available only to Windows PC users initially, but a Mac version will arrive later this year. By that time it may no longer be free, but we will see. Skype does say that it plans to charge for the feature within the next three or four months.

The iPad keyboard dock is nice, but one of the downsides is that you have to use the device in portrait mode, which might not be your favorite position, especially since everyone is used to their widescreen notebook.

Well, now you can use it in landscape mode by adding a dock extender cable, allowing you to attach the keyboard and still maintain the landscape orientation that you like. What do you think? Do you want to do this with your iPad?

Check out this interesting screenshot of a notification pop up appearing in the iPhone OS 4.0. Keep in mind, this could be nothing more than an error or a hoax, but it’s just possible that it’s a landscape home screen on the iPhone.

And why not? The iPad offers it when running the iPhone OS 3.2, and jailbroken iPhones can do it. What do you think? Do you want a landscape home screen in iPhone OS 4.0?

Modder Bacteria is back with this super small iNto64, his rescaled version of Nintendo’s classic N64 console. So, it looks like it came from Fisher Price. So what? The project took four months to complete, but in the end it was well worth it. It features built-in speakers, a five-inch LCD screen, will deliver about three hours of playtime and even has a rumble ability.

You can even make one for yourself since the modder has provided step-by-step instructions and video tutorials here. Go on, give it a try.

Just look at all of those mouth watering colors. Verbatim‘s new Store ‘n’ Go external hard drive is based on a 2.5″ form factor and will hold up to 1TB of data. That rainbow of colors seems to match the season as well. They come in red, blue, green, white, black, silver, purple and orange.

It connects via USB and sports a Green button to send it into an energy-saving sleep mode if you care about the environment. Each drive comes with Nero Rescue and Nero BackItUp Essentials and Burn software. Your choice of 250GB, 320GB, 500GB, 640GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities for $80, $94, $107, $121, $134 and $256.

I really want to get a 3D TV in my living room, but before that happens I need to see some 3D content come to DirectTV. I am also waiting for the tech to get cheaper and hopefully lose the need for glasses to watch.

Amazon.com has a 3D TV up for pre-order from a company that I have never heard about and can’t find any information about online called StreamTV. The TV is interesting, but even Amazon is very light on details for the set.

Lady Gaga. You can’t escape her, no matter what radio station you play or where you are. And people are in love with her out there music videos. Now that she’s hit the bigtime, Lady Gaga now has her own mobile phone devoted to her.

It’s LG’s GB280. The phone comes with some neat wallpapers as well as songs like Paparazzi, Dance in the Dark and Bad Romance. As far as specs, the phone has a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, media player, FM, email, browser, Dolby mobile sounds and GSM/EDGE connectivity.

Spiders are icky, creepy and nasty. You have to get them out of your home at all costs. But maybe you don’t want to kill them. After all, it isn’t their fault that they are nasty creepy bugs. So normally you would use a glass to trap them on the wall and escort them outside. But that isn’t possible when they are on the corners of your wall.

This Cornered Glass trap was designed by James Laurie for just such occasions. This way you can still catch it and put it outside.

Had Luke worn this helmet when rescuing Princess Leia she would have said, “Aren’t you a little Steampunk to be a Stormtrooper?” It would have been a whole different movie had the Stormtroopers looked like this.

This Steampunk Stormtrooper Helmet is just plain awesome and menacing in a whole different way from the usual sterile white. That top area makes it look as if the Empire has been swapping some brains between troopers too.

If you’re looking for an Android powered luxury phone, check this one out. Hopefully you have a spare $49,500 to buy this updated Ulysse Nardin Chairman phone. It has to be the most expensive Android phone ever. At least until they do it up in gold and diamonds and jack up that price.

Originally the phone was to be powered by Windows Mobile, but now it has the Android OS. Some features include a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display, fingerprint recognition, 3G, a Facebook app preloaded, 8-megapixel camera, HD video playback, 32GB internal memory, and an ARM-based Freescale i.MX processor.

Concept watches seem to popup all the time and they typically have a cool design that we know deep down will never make it to store shelves. If you are tired of seeing concept watches you can’t buy, the Watch3 is for you.

This watch looks like a concept, but you can grab one now. Assuming you are willing to cough up $570 and the limited run of 100 units hasn’t run out. The watch has numbers printed on the back of the crystal that are only visible when the hour hand …

A secondary monitor for your computer is great and all, but a traditional monitor won’t act as a second monitor for your phone, camera, DVD player or XBox. The Panel to the rescue!

The Panel is a portable 13-inch rechargable USB monitor that can plug into almost any device with USB. Like your iPhone or Xbox 360 etc. The battery will deliver up to 5 hours per charge and the screen has a 1280×800 resolution.

BenQ has several LED-backlit LCD monitors on the way, including the widescreen V2410T, V2410B and the E2420HDB. The first two models come with 24″ displays, native 1080p resolution, height-adjustable stands and a 5ms response time.

The E2420HDB forgoes the LED panel, although it does have native 1080p resolution, 300 lumens of brightness, a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and a 5ms response time. All three models have Senseye image enhancement settings that will change depending on the application and display mode hotkeys lets you play back images with different aspect ratios aside from 16:9.

Philips has unveiled their latest Full HD monitor, the 240B1CS. This one is aimed at the office crowd and features a 24-inch widescreen with 1920 x 1200 Full HD resolution.

Some other features include: 25,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 5ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness and it consumes just 30.7W of power while in ECO mode. There’s also two 1.5W speakers and D-Sub, DVI and USB connectors.

The power used by devices that we think are turned off goes by several names. Some call it parasitic power, some call it vampire power, and others call it phantom power. In the end, they are all the same and describe electricity consumed by devices when they are not in use.

AT&T has a new green charger coming in May called the Zero Charger that will stop phantom power use at a place most of us don’t even think about it — your cell phone charger. AT&T says that most chargers draw power from the outlet even when a phone isn’t attached.