Awesome Gadgets

What better way to share your tunes with a friend but with a tiny robot? You have to decapitate him and poke plugs into his eyes to make him work, but that’s a small price to pay for sharing, no?

This tiny box isn’t much bigger than a sandwich, but the VIA ARTiGO is a fully-functional PC, with a 64-bit 1.2GHz VIA Nano CPU. It measures just 5.7″ x 3.9″ x 2″, and comes in a bare bones kit.

This gorgeous USB drive concept by Mac Funamizu has us drooling over its design. The see-through glass would light up when plugged in, with different colors indicating individual file types it stores.

There’s no such thing as too much screen real estate, and with the Onkyo Sotec DX1007 dual-screen laptop, you get not one, but two 1366×768 displays in a single 4 lb package.

Keep all your keys neat and organized with this modern replacement for the keychain. The Keyport Slide replaces up to six keys with “blades” which fit into its modern metal key organizer.

A must-have peripheral for Motorola Droid gamers (however minor a demographic that may be), the Game Gripper slides on to the keyboard, providing a familiar gamepad layout. Emulators not included.

Those of you who still have a record collection will dig this nifty turntable. The battery-powered Crosley Revolution can play LPs and 45s, and connects to your PC or Mac to digitize your tunes.

The stupid-simple Flip SlideHD shoots up to 4 hours of 720p video. Watch videos on its 3″ resistive touchscreen or via its HDMI out. The slider below the screen offers quick navigation through clips.

Apple has revamped their unibody aluminum MacBook Pro line, adding zippy Core i5 and i7 processors in the 15-inch or 17-inch models. 8 to 9 hour battery life doesn’t hurt either.

The latest entry into the recently-crowded tablet space is ICD’s Android-based Gemini, powered by a zippy Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip, and sporting an 11.2″ 1366×768 touchscreen display.

Kotori headphones are available in more than 100 color schemes. In case none of the stock designs suit your tastes, you can also create your own color combination. Available only in Japan.

Created by the artisans of Russian design firm Art Lebedev Studios, the Reflectius clock concept tells time using sixty rotating mirrors that reflect a single laser beam to create the numbers.

The LG Mini with 3.2″ touchscreen is due out in Europe this month and is the first phone to offer the speedy new Phantom Browser. It’s also the first fully HTML 5-compatible smartphone we’ve seen.

You can fix anything with Victorinox’s all black SwissTool Spirit S. It’s got 27 built-in features including screwdrivers, wire strippers, pliers, and the all important bottle opener and corkscrew.

This pocket-sized camera looks like a roll of old 110 film, but the Harinezumi 2+ is actually a 3MP digital camera. It won’t beat your Nikon – it’s built for shooting stylized stills and short videos.

SkoobaWraps are a simple way to provide extra protection to your valuable equipment when traveling. They have velcro tab corners, a scratch-free lining and are available in 3 sizes.

Tame your tangled cables with the Cablox Cable Organizer, 4 x 4-inch plastic blocks with pegs that can secure almost any type of cable. Cablox also have adhesive backs for easy installation.

The tablet formerly known as CrunchPad, the JooJoo has a 12.1″ touchscreen interface and a number of features that the iPad doesn’t have a camera, a USB port, and support for Flash.

It fits in the palm of your hand, but the mighty SureFire V2 Vampire can crank out 100 lumens of white light for up to 1.8 hours, and 8 hours of infrared light for your night-vision stealth missions.

Ready to do away with your landline? The Desk Phone Dock converts your iPhone into a desktop handset with speakerphone, stereo music playback, and auto-charging when docked.

Tweak your wheels more easily with the small but mighty Mako bike tool from PocketToolX. It’s got 4 1/4″ hex bits, 7 assorted box and spoke wrenches and a bottle opener for critical thirst moments.

With features like a 16M color 3.3″ AMOLED touchscreen, TV-out, 64 hours of music playback and a micro SD card slot, we’re waiting happily and patiently for the slick new J3 PMP from Cowon.

Looking for a bad-ass gun controller for FPS games? XCM’s new XFPS Storm combines the best of joystick controls with a light gun. For Windows PCs now, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions soon.