A remote you can kick around

US Soccer Federation, take note: If you want the sport to be as popular here as it is in the rest of the world, start marketing more products like this.

We know as much about futbol as we do about figure skating, but we'd be the first in line to get one of these soccer ball remotes that are sold in the UK. And it can actually be used as a ball to play with, according to Gizmodo, though we wouldn't recommend that if it was the only remote in the house.

It supposedly can be used for all brands of various devices, including TVs, DVD players, and satellite boxes. The ball has a range of 7.6m but, as the product listing says, "you can kick it much farther".

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The Iron Man of sports watches

As much as those indecipherable LED watches make us want to poke out our eyes, we're not sure this one is much better.

Timberland's HT2 looks like a watch that Picasso might have painted after an evening of debauchery, minus a misplaced eyeball or two. Then again, we're not exactly what you'd call outdoors enthusiasts, so our appreciation is somewhat diluted.

This steroidal sports watch has any number of functions that we'd never use, including an altimeter, thermometer, barometer, chronometer, tachymeter, and digital magnetic compasses (analog and digital), according to Technabob. And you can keep track of four time zones simultaneously while diving up to 100ft under water. Just what everyone needs.

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Attack of the ceiling eyeball speakers

As if there aren't already enough alien eyeball speakers to keep us awake at night, now they're descending from the ceiling to prey upon us as well.

The pair of Venus speakers shown on the left can be stacked and suspended with a built-in cable system, housing both woofer and tweeter in their evil orbs. It's one of two ceiling-hanging systems just released by Everything But The Box, according to AudioJunkies, the other being the Sputnik 12S subwoofer pictured at right.

It's only a matter of time before the invasion begins. You've been warned.

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Zune goes for the gold (paint)

Given its general lag behind the iPod, it makes sense that the Zune would be late in coming to the Gilded Age as well. But if exclusivity is what this limited edition is going for, it will certainly accomplish that--as long as 10 people are willing to buy one.

That's how many of them will be sold in 8GB and 80GB versions, according to MobileWhack, in a partnership between Microsoft and Seattle boutique Goods. No price was given but, if it's more than a few bucks over the usual tag, it'll be too much as far as materials are concerned: It's not real gold.

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Knight Rider R/C Car rides again

Seems America's Got Talent has given old KITT or Knight Industries Two Thousand, once the crimefighting sidekick of the Hoff, new life. For nostalgia's sake (at least those old enough to remember that cool TV series in the 1980s), KITT wasn't just any car. It was an advanced smart car with artificial intelligence in a sleek, customized Pontiac Trans-Am body that had a molecular bonded shell. It was impervious to attack, could cruise at 300mph, and was armed to the teeth with hi-tech arsenal. It not only talked, it had a campy sense of humor to match David Hasselhoff's tight jeans. So for those who'd like to evoke a piece of television's greatest, Firebox now has a radio-controlled version (US$61.90) complete with familiar whooshing sound and working red sensor on the hood. And if you hit a button on the transmitter, this 1980s legend will even intone: "I am KITT, whom you may regard as the voice of the Knight 2000." Unfortunately for the girls, the Hoff's not included.

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