Champagne Parachute

First off, this won't work if your ceiling is too low. So it's advisable not to try this in your HDB flat unless you fancy potholes in your ceiling. But all in, we just love its utter silliness, which makes firing that cork into the air (after giving that bottle of bubbly a good shaking) just that much more fun. Instead of ducking, your guests will applaud you when that parachute opens and the cork comes drifting gently down to planet earth. Best of all, it's reusable. Cheers to a flight of fancy that's found its true flight path!

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Price: US$7.18
Availability: I Want One Of Those
Device: Airborne device
Basic specs: Reuseable champagne parachute, rocket 9 x 7 x 3.5cm, extended chute 23 x 21cm

Egokast video belt buckle

Wearable tech just took another turn. As if it ain't strange enough having your belt buckle make music, now China-based Egokast has a clunky palm-sized video version that serves no higher purpose than to promote navel-gazing--specifically yours. If you have a narcissistic streak, the Egokast is aptly named (it's all about you, baby); though those with beer bellies might want to give this a miss. A plastic shield to protect its scratch-prone display would have been nice. Otherwise, this personal media player bundles a disc chockablock with hundreds of prefabricated video loops for those who can stomach the attention this will draw.

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Price: US$289
Availability: More info at egokast.com
Device: Personal media player
Basic specs: 512MB SD card, JPEG and BMP images, AVI, MPEG, MP4, MPEG-1, -2, Audio Layer 3 (MP3, WMA), 3.5-inch TFT display, 260K color, 4+hrs video on full brightness, 3hr recharge time, 84.5 x 75 x 25.2mm, 163g, stainless steel, fits 38mm belts, USB 2.0, video-in, video-out

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Fashion police alert. No self-respecting iPod geek should be seen without this here pair of snazzy jeans. It's the epitome of geeky glam. Hidden iPod dock? Checked. Uber-cool fabric wire connector? Double-checked. Geek babe magnet? Well, that depends on who's wearing them, doesn't it? Read the full review here

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James Bond T-Shirt

Having female silhouettes on a shirt front appears to have given this T-shirt the license to label itself the James Bond T-Shirt. Other than that, sorry, it's not Q-approved. Otherwise this shirt would have concealed a dragon flamethrower, an exploding prosthetic nipple and an escape pod, and not just light up your chest in response to audio, like the Show-Off T-Shirt. The name is Blunt, James, Blunt?

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Price: US$45
Availability: At gadgets.dk
Device: T-shirt that lights up
Basic specs: N.A.

Poseidon Resorts

This one's not fully tech, but it employs undersea technology that's so cool, we figured it deserved a spot here. For Asians who can't wait to get away from urban city life to the great beyond, here's a resort with a difference. Rather than enjoy some R&R by the seaside, why not spend your vacation under it? Yep, it's an entirely immersive stayover, which means you can forget about that tan.

Poseidon Resorts, which likely took its name from the Greek God of the seas and not the ill-fated S.S. Poseidon in the movie The Poseidon Adventure, is being advertised as a five-star luxury complex that comprises a series of pods based on submarine technology. The resort is still under construction, but illustrations depict over 60 percent of the exterior covered with transparent acrylic windows. And instead of a beachfront, check this out--you get your own private reef lit up for your viewing pleasure. A visit to this Atlantean-like city would most certainly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, particularly for honeymooners. But prepare to "eat grass" for quite a while after that, since this experience will leave your pocket rather threadbare. That said, claustrophobics need not apply.

See closeup of resort | individual bunkers | view from inside | underwater

Via popgadget.net

Price: Est. US$1,500 per night for standard 550sq ft undersea suite; US$20,000 per night Poseidon's Lair (two-bedroom private undersea bungalow cantilvered off the wall at 1,000ft in depth, accessible only via deep submersible. Comes with submarine captain and butler; or US$500 per night for a land-based onshore bungalow with private pool
Availability: Slated for mid-2008, on a private island in Fiji
Device: World's first permanent one-atmosphere sea floor structure and the world's first true undersea resort
Basic specs: Revolving restaurant, pool, bar, café, tennis courts, dive shop/water sports center, library, luxury spa/hydrotherapy center, among other facilities

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