Black boxes have proven to be useful after accidents in planes and have been becoming more popular for use in personal automobiles as well. Not only can they help determine the cause of an accident but insurance companies can potentially use them to determine the driving habits of its customers, which isn’t always a popular prospect for consumers.

Apparently having a data recorder in your car that keeps track of movement and speed just isn’t enough these days. According to Yahoo Korea HK e-Car, Korean maker of black boxes for vehicle in Korea, they have new product in their MOA line of black boxes called the MOA-VBOX which will incorporate video into the mix of data recorded from an accident.

It’s good to know that someone out there has updated one of mankind’s original gadgets, the sewing machine. Crafters and grandmothers everywhere will rejoice. Kristine Bruckner designed this sewing machine, named the belOga, to be high on design and to be efficient. It’s a success on both counts.

Anyone who has ever tried to thread a sewing machine knows what a chore it can be. Well, with this machine, just drop the spool of thread in and it threads itself. Hey, for sewing that’s huge!(Not that I sew. Honestly…I just know people who do.) The machine also sports a screen that will actually show you what the stitch will look like in advance. That will stop mistakes from happening and save alot of time.

This PMP is hard to handle…Mostly because of the awkward and ugly handle built into it. They wanted to help you lug around the 2-pound weight load. I guess the 7″ screen didn’t help. It also sports an integrated DVB-T mobile TV tuner and a built-in speaker.

Didn’t they talk to other manufacturers? Don’t they know that people are thinking smaller and lighter these days? Then again, maybe they wanted to stand out. Mission accomplished guys. There doesn’t seem to be any word on what kind of storage you can expect and no word on pricing.

Beginning next year the Walgreens drugstore giant will begin putting DVD burning kiosks in its 6,000 retail stores nationwide. The move is designed to deliver an improved selection of entertainment titles that the company offers to its consumers while reducing the potential for piracy. The kiosk will be located in the photo departments of the store. Once a customer has made their selection as to what movie they want to purchase the machine will begin burning the title. About 15 minutes later the buyer will have their DVD ready for viewing.

The creators of the recently constructed Internet2 network have achieved a breakthrough in boosting the speed of transmission. When the network went online in August the fastest believed speed would be somewhere approaching 10 gigabits per second (Gbps). That’s already plenty more speed than the high-speed connections people have in their homes and offices (about 5 megabytes per second).

Now the Internet2 team has achieved speeds up to 100 Gpbs, ten times the previous fastest speed, by sending data via ten different wavelengths over the same cable. Ten different colors of light to transmit the data means that the data gets there ten times faster. As fast as that is, the administrators working at Internet2 are already planning on upgrading their technology sometime in the next 12 to 18 months which could boost the speeds even further, up to 400 Gbps.

While it may look like a painted-up controller for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 it is in fact made for the Nintendo Wii. This is the Thrustmaster T-Wireless NW controller and it’s designed for play with the older, classic video games that are being ported for play to the Wii generation.

You get about 30 feet of play range out of it and you can customize the keys, mini-sticks and the D-pad for whatever function you desire. There are also two unusual buttons that will help you get better scores with your Miis: a turbo bottom which you only need to press once to get the same action as repeated button mashing; and a slow button which, if you can guess, slows the on-screen action down when reaction time is of the essence.

It’s being touted as the world’s first pocket-sized DJ system. The Pacemaker is a digital music player that lets you create your own music by mixing between two separate audio channels all from a device the size of a mobile phone (the actual dimensions are 164x69x23mm.)

Created by German-based company Tonium, the unit has a ton of mixing features that you can use to spin your tracks like fades, loops, filters, bends, pitch and even add audio effects into the mashed-up song. You control the mixing by pressing a P-button located on the side of the Pacemaker and the circular touchpad, essentially creating your sonic message using just your thumb.

Today HP launched its 300 series portable GPS units through the iPAQ 310 Travel Companion, featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen interface on a 3D, turn-by-turn navigation system.

The iPAQ 310 shows off some fast response times by housing a Centrality Titan 600MHz processor and 128MB SDRAM with 2GB of Flash ROM, running on Windows CE 5.0. The memory can be expanded with a microSD card slot to hold your additional media of pictures, songs and video to look at during those special, non-navigating moments with your GPS. It also has …

Another digital camera which was part of Fujifilm‘s announcement blitz today is being described as a compact powerhouse because of its 12-megapixel CCD sensor in a small body. The new Fujifilm FinePix F50fd is priced at around $300 and should be available in September.

The Fujifilm FinePix F50fd, besides the large CCD sensor, offers up a 2.7-inch wide angle viewing LCD and 3x optical zoom. Like other new Fujifilm cameras this particular model offers several interesting features which make it worth the price tag. One is a scene mode for copying and reducing the size of an image so it can be posted to a blog or put in an email attachment. The other one is detection of up to 10 human faces for the purpose of automatically adjusting focus, exposure and white balance.

Fujifilm introduced a slew of new digital cameras today. Out of the pack one which stands out is a new SLR-styled model known as the FinePix S8000fd (around $400).

The Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd is an eight-megapixel digital camera with an 18x wide angle optical zoom lens. It is the equivalent of a 27mm-486mm and offers a fixed lens design sealed to keep out dust. It offers two types of image stabilization technology to increase clarity and sharpness and allows you up to ISO6400 (at 50% resolution).

Boasting unparalleled accuracy in the realm of foam, suction-cup darts this Nerf Maverick sidearm gives you more than a fighting chance in any inter-office skirmishes. It hold six rounds of the foam ammo and will fire them off in rapid succession. Check out the ThinkGeek FPS video below to see the true power of the Nerf Maverick in action:

The Becker Vision Pro 7985 media player boasts a touchscreen interface along with DVD playback claimed by Becker to be the first of its kind in portable media players. The 7″ 16:9 TFT display will show up to four hours of continuous DVD playback, static images and MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, DIV-X, XVID, AVI and SVCD video which all can be played on your big screen as well with some A/V out jacks. A/V in lets you also watch and listen from other output devices such as a camcorder.

MP3 audio and the videos …

Tech lovers in Finland will be the first to get their hands on the new Nseries “multimedia computer”, as Nokia calls it, featuring mobile TV. The Nokia N77 will continue its tour to Vietnam and India later this month offering live television on the 2.4″ screen.

Not only with the mobile handset pick up live DVB-H mobile TV, but it also has a 30 second replay function to catch key moments in sporting events and it remembers the last channel you were watching. In addition, you can set the N77 to …

Should your requirements in a media player include thin and stylish, competitive specs, large capacity, a decent price and not an iPod then you may have found your perfect solution. Meizu’s M6 SE is only 7mm thick (only half a mm more than the iPod nano), has an impressive 8GB Flash capacity and runs for only $130.

It sports a nice 2.41″ QVGA display screen and supports playback of MP3, WAV, OGG audio and MPEG4, MPEG2, WMV9, H.263/264, and RM(VB) and video. You can also use a TV out jack to push those …

If you’ve ever wanted one of those cool eye-in-the-sky cameras like they have at casinos under the tinted domes in the ceiling, Canon has recently introduced a new professional grade version with some really nice and unexpected features.

This is the VB-C300 Wide-Angle Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) network camera from Canon that also has some high quality video recording software available to allow you watch and record the video stream across a LAN or the internet. It is optionally powered by the actual LAN cable making installation a lot easier. Simply mount the camera and …