Cool Hunting: Like the Tamagotchi, Archimedes is a little friend from Japan brought to you as a way to care for and consider the meaning of life. Unlike the Tamagotchi, which was digital, Archimedes is analog. You get a little guy in a glass vial with some seeds. Over the course of about a month the habitat will sprout, bloom, […]

Popgadget: Battery-less radios and flashlights, powered by hand cranking, have been out for a while now but Hisatomi Electric Ind. Co in Japan has put a new twist on these emergency gadgets. Their new flashlight will also power up a cell phone for about three minutes of talk time after a minute or two of twisting the crank. There are […]

Mobile Digest: Not entirely sure if they appeal to our environmentally-friendly side but a company called Cellboost is offering the first ever disposable battery recharger for mobile phones. As soon as your handset battery goes blink you plus the cigarette lighter style charger into the socket and you have power. Might be worth keeping a few handy in your bag […]

Tech Digest: Nokia’s 6822 has just been announced. The company’s latest messaging phone comes with that full fold out keyboard the 6820 introduced that lets you type away in full QWERTY layout. The model also comes with a VGA camera and a 65K colour display (is it wrong of us to always expect a megapixel camera on new phones?). Designed […]

AP: Consumer electronics companies commonly cater to couch potatoes by pitching bigger television sets, more mesmerizing video games and remote controls that can even place online orders for pizza. But a small cadre of entrepreneurs at the world’s largest technology exposition hope their gizmos make you work up a sweat. Company executives insist that “exergaming” or “exertainment” — the marriage […]

Gizmodo: Akiba PC Watch, a division of Japanese tech news giant Impress Watch, has posted the results of their “Weird Items Found in Akihabara” competition. Over 1,000 users submitted a total of 6,305 entries, and exactly 64 products have been labeled “Weird.” Many of the products have been covered here at Gizmodo — such as the virtual keyboard (1st place), […]

Engadget: Think Secret already had a pretty tight track record for accuracy when it came to Apple rumors, but getting sued by Steve Jobs and co. over a couple of product leaks just gave them some massive street cred, which is why we’re inclined to think they’re on to something when they dish out some serious dirt about the supposed […]

Gizmodo: Kevin Christley—Night before last was the annual CES Unveiled, a press-only party where journalists got a preview of the best of the upcoming products featured in the show as well as the winners of the Innovations 2005. The room was a bit small, but there were plenty of interesting finds, if you could squeeze past the huge crowd. AMD […]

DailyCandy.com: Does anyone exercise without an assistant anymore? We’re not referring to that overpriced trainer. We mean the MP3 player. Ubiquitous wherever people are sweating. Except the pool. Too bad, because you love the payoff of a good swim: toned muscles, non-stressed joints, smooth skin. You just hate the tedium. (If only Zero 7 and DJ Vadim performed poolside …) […]

Gizmodo: Alienware machines are overpriced and over-hyped, but you’ve got to admit, when they go top-end they usually do it right. Jason Cross over at ExtremeTech reviews their latest desktop replacement laptop, the Area-51m 7700, and it’s pretty impressive—as it should be, since it forgoes most laptop parts and actually uses desktop chips crammed inside its not-so-portable 12-pound chassis. What […]