A human-powered energy source can help you charge your phone battery in emergency situation. This unique cell phone charger does not require batteries nor does it need to be plugged into an electrical outlet. It also includes a handy built-in rechargeable flashlight that requires no batteries. The work of this gadget is that the manual rotary hand crank will charge a NiH battery for your cellphone. One minute of turning the mini crank handle will charge the flashlight for one hour while three minutes of cranking will provide you with 1-8 minutes of talk time or one hour of standby time. There are four adapters and a high quality cable included in this package to connect this gadget to Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, and LG phone handsets. You can see product details and buy this for US$ 17.99 here.

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New GPS navigation gadget Nuvi 860 will be available in Europe market for 600€. This Nuvi 860 is the European version of Nuvi 880. Nuvi 860 features hands voice guided directions, speech recognition activated via the remote controller, FM traffic receiver, FM transmitter for European car’s audio, microSD card slot and hands free bluetooth connectivity.

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This ACCO Brands VMP2800 Laser Pointers is not just a pen like it looks like. It can be used to tackle any type of instructing, writing or lighting on your presentation. Pointing to a map/presentation screen can be done from afar with the laser pointer tool on this pen. You will not need a lamp to write in the dark using this gadget since it has LED light feature. Besides, it can be used also to replace PDA stylus or used on your Nintendo DS.

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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has announced the launch of system software update for PS3 /PlayStation 3. The new software update Version 2.20 adds Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 (BD-LIVE) to the gaming console. This update is aimed to enable PS3 owners to experience interactive features including downloadable video content, ringtones, games and more for their console. The 2.0 Profile requires the player to have 1GB of local storage, a secondary audio decoder, a secondary video decoder more »

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The Israeli company has developed a new concept where a modular cell phone can be placed into its changeable shell. This is an evolution to change a phone cover on its appearance and functionality of the handset. The module weighs only 1.5 grams and has 2.8 by 1.4 by 0.3 inches in size, smaller than a credit card. There is only a tiny display, a couple of controls, a mini-USB port, and a charger jack on the module. After inserted into its jacket, functions on the phone are activated such a color screen, a keyboard, and a full set of navigation controls and other functions even though actually this module can be used without its jacket.

This module supports in quadband networks GSM (850/900/1800/1900) with gprs feature. Equipped with bluetooth technology and music player, this phone module has 1 GB memory where you can save data and songs. Unfortunately this module is not equipped with camera feature but several design concepts of this module could be inserted into a car stereo to play music, or combined to make a gaming, or GPS device.

~via cnet.com~

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