There are times when you really need some way to hold your iPhone steady while you take a picture, ride a bike, or walk while pushing something. The catch is that most tripods aren’t flexible. Joby makes a line of flexible tripods called the Gorillapod camera tripods and the company has unveiled a new one for the iPhone 3G and 3G S.

The device is called the Gorillamobile for 3G /3GS, is completely flexible, and will hold the phone on most any surface that you can wrap the tripod legs around. It will hold your iPhone at the grocery store on the cart so your kid can watch video or you can use the calculator. You can also use it to support the phone while you watch movies at your desk.

mSpot isn’t new. It has been streaming full-length movies to cellphones for a few years. Now however, the company has a potential customer base of 40 million. Mobile phone users on Sprint, AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile (including the G1, Pre, iPhone and other smartphones) can go to m.mspot.com to stream movies.

The service is on-demand, so you can also pause and restart them whenever you want. How about that? They have deals with Paramount Studios, Universal and the Weinstein Company, and it looks like more agreements will happen shortly.

Alarm clocks that will dock and charge your iPod or iPhone are great. That way you can wake to your favorite music rather than whatever happens to be on the radio. With the popularity of the iPhone and iPods, many homes have two or more devices in the house. The average docking alarm clock can only charge one device.

iHome has unveiled its new iP88 dual Dock Radio & Alarm System for iPhone. The device has a pair of docks on the top that can charge the iPhone and any dockable iPod. It can wake you to iPod music, AM/FM radio or a buzzer. The user can set three alarms.

China Unicom and Apple signed a deal a month or so back, that resulted in the iPhone 3G getting ready to head over to China with the 700 million mobile subscribers in the country. What we didn’t know is when the phone was coming and how much it would cost.

China Unicom announced today that it would be selling the iPhone at a standalone price of 5,000 yuan or about $732.50. Most people will opt to choose a subsidized package that will bring the cost of the phone down significantly.

Apple has announced yet another milestone along with all of the other milestones it has hit. In the iPhone and iPod Touch App store, they have now reached 2 billion iPhone apps downloaded.

This news comes only five months after Apple announced that their app store had reached the 1 Billion mark. One wonders how many fart and booby apps that accounts for.

Southern Brand is based in Miami, so I’m not sure why these are cowhide and not alligator. Anyway, they’ve just rolled out a Limited edition Cowhide Phone Cover for both the iPod and iPhone, offering protection against knocks and scratches. As long as your device doesn’t fall out of the top anyway.

These are made from beautiful premium cowhides and are one-of-a-kind since they are all handmade. The inside is soft suede backed by smooth chocolate tanned leather. They’ll cost you $29 each.

France Telecom’s Orange announced on Monday that it will start selling the iPhone in the UK later this along with Telefonica’s O2. O2 has previously had exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in Britain however the contract is set to expire.

Orange announced that both the 3G and the 3GS versions will be available to UK customers later in the year, but gave no more details of exact dates or expecting pricing for the handset or plans.

Pizza Hut has their own iPhone app, so why not Starbucks? The first application is called myStarbucks and is basically a store locater and beverage information tool. Users can use it to check the nutrition value of the coffee or food that Starbucks offers. Good luck with that.

The other app helps users pay off the remaining credit on their cards, allowing one to transfer money into it. Starbucks hopes that the iPhone applications will give users a faster way to order, thereby making more sales.

ezVision video glasses have been around for a while now and are a great way to get a larger image without having to tote around a large device. The glasses have always had a DVD option and today the maker has announced a new iPod/iPhone adapter for the glasses.

The iPod/iPhone adapter plugs into the charge port of the iPhone and sends any video out onto the glasses giving you a simulated 50-inch or larger screen depending on the model of glasses you use. The adapter is available as kit or alone.

You may remember Pizza Hut’s iPhone app. A farewell to human interaction isn’t the only reason to use it anymore. Now they are giving you 20% off if you use it.

The app does the usual gimmicky stuff like pinching a pizza to make it smaller or larger and shaking the phone to make wings spicy as well as store all your coupons. This 20% off deal allows you get fatter and lonelier that much quicker. So hurray, I guess.

The P-Flip is a foldable power dock available in five different colors. For $55, it acts as both a backup battery and a dock for your iPhone or iPod touch. The backup battery has a 2000-mAh capacity, which should give you about two full charges.

So it should add about 8 hours of talk, 15 hours of gaming, or 80 hours of music. This should help you stay juiced up and get the most out of your iPhone or iPod touch.

I love my iPhone, but if I am to be honest, the camera sucks. In fact, I never use the camera because I can’t take a decent picture with it. I know some folks who use the iPhone cam all the time; I just don’t like the image quality. Perhaps what I need is a tripod for the iPhone.

Mobile Mechatronics has announced the Blur iPhone tripod adapter and tripod. The Blur system includes an adapter that fits onto a tripod and holds the iPhone for taking pics that are less blurry. The kit also includes a small tabletop tripod as well.

Listen up all of you faithful Blackberry users. This device may just convert you to the church of the Jesus phone. This is a keyboard for the iPhone dubbed iTwinge. An actual feel and tactile keyboard for those types who think they are all thumbs and aren’t comfortable using the touchscreen version.

It launches tomorrow for $29.99 and you will be happy to know that you can type as fast as you can on a standard QWERTY keypad. The iTwinge just slips on to the bottom of the iPhone like a pair of iPhone pants and just like that your iPhone has a full fledged QWERTY keyboard.

If you keep track of lots of receipts for your job or for the IRS at the end of the year, it can be hard to keep up with them all and get them organized into reports. A new app from Mitek for the iPhone makes keeping up with receipts and turning the receipts into usable reports an easy task.

The app is called Mobile Receipt for iPhone and is currently the top paid financial app on the App Store. The app allows the user to snap a picture of a receipt with their iPhone camera. The app automatically crops, rotates, and adds the receipt to a report.

If you are reading this then I have to assume that robots have not killed you yet. Let’s all take a moment to thank our maker that we haven’t yet been crushed by a robot arm or shot by one of DARPAs mutant creations. Thank god a garment folding bot didn’t fold your shirt with YOU in it. Yes, we are all very lucky to be alive. Make the most of it meatbags. It can’t last forever. It’s time to take a look at some of the robot news we covered this week over at Botropolis.

DIY Robot Mask: With iPhone Display.

God Hands: This can’t lead to anything good.

Guy builds Master-Slave Suit: Enslave them before they enslave us.