Today students have many more tools at their disposal for research and studying. For example Samsung will be offering 1,000 Galaxy Tab 10.1 units to 1,000 students at the University of South Mississippi. The tablets will be given to selected Honors College, McNair Scholars, Southern Style and Gulf Coast students, and the goal is to give students and educators mobile access to their courses, textbooks, grades and schedules.

It will be interesting to see if grades improve after they receive the tablets or if it just means more playing of Angry Birds.

We’ve seen our share of multi-tools around here, but none of them have a tripod. The Gerber Steady has one, making this multi-tool great for both adventurers and photographers. It has a pair of legs on one side and a folding tripod screw on the other.

In addition it also has the usual 12 tools for your other needs as well. This pocket tool will arrive next year for $65 and should come in very handy for you.

AOC is now selling their latest multi-touch LCD monitor dubbed the e2239Fwt in the US. It has a pretty nice design that should free up some space on your desk.

This 21.5-inch LED-backlight monitor delivers 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness and a 5ms response time. Other features include a pair of 2W SRS speakers, 2 USB ports, D-Sub and HDMI outputs. The AOC e2239Fwt is $289.99.

Looking for a good deal on a tablet are you? TigerDirect is offering the ViewSonic ViewPad 7 Android tablet for only $279.99. The normal price is $449.99, so you can save up to $170. Count us in.

This device features a 7-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen display, a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, 512MB RAM, 512MB of flash memory, a full-sized SIM card slot, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), a 3.0-megapixel rear-facing camera, a front-facing VGA camera for video calling, a G-sensor, A-GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and Android 2.2 Froyo.

Here’s a tool for people who seriously like to eat. It’s called the Eatensil. It’s like a Swiss Army Knife, but with several utensils instead of tools. This gadget comes from fast food company Just Eat and it will handle everything from Chinese take out to pepperoni pizza.

Just Eat is an online delivery service where customers can place orders for their favorite restaurants. This device is aimed at those who are always eating on the go. Should come in handy if you are rarely home.

What better way to open a beer than by using the force. Or at least a lightsaber. Well, now you can do just that with this lightsaber bottle opener from Thinkgeek. It’s how all of the Jedis open their beverages.

This bottle opener is around 5.5 inches long and has been modeled on Luke’s Lightsaber from Return of the Jedi. It is also an officially licensed Star Wars product. That means that you are funding one of George Lucas’ many remixes of the films.

Google has announced the creation of a new tool in Google Analytics, the Site Speed report. Google Analytics users will have to opt-into and edit their embedded javascript in order to activate. Once you do, it shows you the load times for your pages and site assets under different conditions like location of visitor, media placement, technology used to access the page and more.

We’ve seen variations of it over recent months and years through Google Webmaster Tools and Labs, but the full official tool is now here. Google reminds users that page load speed impact not just their own site conversion rates but also their AdSense offerings and their standing in Google search results.

LTD Tools has cases for your iPad and iPhone that look amazing and are made from metal, with flip up lids that protect the screen. They have a neat industrial look. The case also wraps around your gadget to protect the entire thing. Just expect them to be expensive.

The iPad 2 case is $140 and ships on May 28. The iPhone 4 case comes in two styles. The 180 iPhone 4 case for $45, which ships June 1st and the 360 iPhone 4 case for $75 which ships on May 28.

Looks like the iPhone 4 is about to hit another milestone. It will soon be the most popular camera on Flickr. The site’s Camera Finder shows Apple’s phone ready to overtake the Nikon D90 and it has already passed Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II, Rebel T1i, and Rebel XSi.

Flickr notes that the graphs only track shots with metadata identifying the camera and might omit shots from any platform that has had the information omitted. Some editing tools also either have the option to clear out metadata or will do it by default. D90 users and other DSLR users are more likely to use editing tools than iPhone owners and that will certainly skew the results. Still, we don’t doubt the power of the mighty iPhone 4.

LG’s RVF1000 and AVC2400 video conference tools are now available to those in South Korea who want to talk business face to face. Both devices are capable of capturing pictures and handling video conference streaming in 720p high-definition.

The LG RVF1000 and AVC2400 also features a 24-inch high resolution LCD and built-in speakers with echo cancellation technology. We don’t have any info on pricing at this time however. We will let you know when we get that info.

Want to record your latest Killstreak? Did you shoot some newb in the arse and your friends don’t believe you? Here’s a cheap and easy answer to your problems. Roxio’s new Game Capture device will be available later this month for just $99.99.

For that price, you can’t expect miracles though. I will only capture video at 480p, although you can still play at up to 1080p on your TV. PC gamers can also use Roxio’s new PC Game Capture software to record their games, and both versions come with a variety of editing tools so you can edit your clips.

Fancy yourself an amateur scientist? Do you want to track the Earth’s rotation from your home? Well, if you have a few simple tools, you can do just that. The device above is called Copernitron and features a PlayStation Move controller, a turntable, and a homebrew Helmholtz coil which cancels out interference caused by our planet’s magnetic field.

It sends data to a Linux PC via Bluetooth and measures the Earth’s rotation, locates geographic north, and determines altitude. This is achieved by measuring the controller’s movements as it spins around at 45 RPM.

Adobe announced today in Barcelona at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona that Flash 10.2 will be hitting Android smartphones and Android tablets within just a few weeks. What this brings you is more frames per second and better graphics in Flash animation on your devices, just on the heals of the 10.2 release for Windows and Mac.

Adobe says that devices with dual-core processors such as Snapdragon they are scaling 1080p resolution video and seeing it at 30 frames per second. All this combined with a lower hit to battery life when viewing the video. Pushing the new, faster and more efficient version of the Flash player out to more handsets is a big move for Adobe to bring more popularity to website using Flash technology. Users might not necessarily choose a devices based on its Flash-playing capabilities, but it is something that those producing the devices can add to their list of features to bring more popularity.

Google has seemingly invaded every aspect of our lives and now it has rolled out a site to help you create your own wedding, edit photos and plan the wedding using Google’s tools, like Sites, Docs and Picnik.

Google teamed up with wedding planner Michelle Rago for the templates. She also provides tips for the couple. There’s also a wedding sweepstakes for $25,000 and the chance to get Rago help plan your wedding. Sounds crazy. Would you use this?

Samsung has just launched the ST6500 which has a slightly squished look. That’s because it is designed to be curved around the lens and angled at 7 degrees so that it fits more comfortably in your hands. That’s something we can all appreciate. The ST6500 packs a 16 megapixel sensor, 5X optical zoom, a Samsung Lens f = f4.7~23.5mm and a 3″ multi-purpose LCD touchscreen.

The camera supports 720p HD video recording and has some in-built tools to help with your photographs and do some minor touchups on the go. The ST6500 will cost $229 when it becomes available in March.