Compro VideoMate U880 TV Stick

Wanna watch TV on your laptop? Seems Compro has granted this particular wish for those who do. Claiming to be the world's smallest USB 2.0 analog TV Box, its VideoMate U880 could easily be mistaken for a USB thumbdrive. What it is really is a full-featured TV card packed into a wallet-friendly "stick", which even draws on USB bus power so no external mains are required. Naturally, there are some tradeoffs such as fewer audio and video input/output features. But if reception quality comes through, who's complaining?

Via Everything USB

Price: N.A.
Availability: N.A., more info at Compro site
Device:: TV tuner on a stick
Basic specs: Built-in advanced Xceive silicon tuner, supports PAL/ SECAM/ NTSC, Trident TVMaster Professional Media Processor chip, high-speed USB 2.0 transmission, supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 format recording, timeshift, still frame capture, straight-to-disc recording to VCD, USB bus powered, no any external power required, 9.0 x 2.6 x 1.1cm

Sony Ericsson "Walkman" W600

While the rest of Asia will be looking forward to the Walkman-labeled W800i in Q3, our North American neighbors will be getting the W600 in Q4. This newer sibling sports the same metallic orange outfit and features, but bears far more resemblance to its swivel playmate, the S600i, which the global media had an eyeful of on Monday's press launch in Singapore. Too bad the W600 (correction: it's W600, not W800) won't be getting an expansion slot.

See more images for front | swivel | back | side | more info at Web site
Price: N.A.
Availability: Only North America, Q4 2005
Device:: Mobile phone
Basic specs: 256MB internal memory, MP3 and AAC support, standard 1/8th-inch stereo headphone jack, FM tuner, 1.8-inch 220 x 176 pixel 262k color display, 1.3-megapixel camera, stereo speakers, Bluetooth, triband, EDGE support

NIKEiD customizable shoes

Just do it. Yourself, that is. The athletic shoe giant is taking customization even farther afield in the realm of footwear, adding enhancements such as more styles and new technology to its customization service. NIKEiD customers can visit the Web site where they start off with a blank pair of shoes. From there, it gets personal, from changing the color of the famous swoosh to adding words or phrases to the tongue. Expect to pay from US$100 for the price of personalization, though.

See bigger image here

Price: From US$100
Availability: NIKEiD
Device:: Customizable athletic shoes
Basic specs: N.A.

petfrog

If there's one word to describe your next smart device, it's "ribbit". Design house Frog Design has leapfrogged into the future of mobile computing with its concept petfrog, which touts itself as "the first wireless communication and computing concept with a totally integrated hardware, software, and content user interface". In simple speak, that's an "everything also have" communicator, including karaoke player thrown in for good measure. Step aside, Kermit.

For larger images, see: Full model | back view | modular | See also its gelfrog

Price: N.A.
Availability: About two years down the road
Device:: Concept integrated fusion device
Basic specs: N.A.

Lightning Reaction

Here's a game that will really hurt to lose. Cooked up by the sadistic team at Jumpin' Banana, it's fastest finger wins. Except you don't score a chance to try your luck at the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire pot. Instead, this multi-tentacled fiend--looking like something right out of Doc Octopus' lab--delivers a nasty zap to the unlucky player who's the last to hit the button on his trigger. Seems the bloodthirsty makers have been at it again, recently giving the Laser Tag a whole new pain threshold. Your can check out this latest shocker here.

Click here for a larger image of Lightning Reaction

Price: US$30
Availability: Shocking Fun
Device:: Party game with a twist
Basic specs: N.A.

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