Awesome Tech

The Cruzer Fit is about the size of a penny, making it one of the world’s smallest flash drives. Despite its tiny form-factor, the most spacious Cruzer Fit can store up to 32GB of data.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata unboxes one of the first Nintendo Wii U consoles off the assembly line, presumably wearing gloves to keep this fingerprint magnet from glazing over with grease.

A budget portable scanner that can save scans to an SD card so you can use it even without a computer. It runs on 4 AAA batteries or AC power, scans up to 300dpi and comes with a 2GB SD card.

For a recent charity event, NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer and RKM Performance Center took a stock Prius and pimped it out with high-tech displays, video camera mirrors, and a TRON-like paintjob.

A more casual follow-up to the Harris Tweed model, these Plattan headphones have been covered with a everyday blue jean denim, and accented with brass bits and a fabric-covered cord.

Developed by researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology, Pinch makes multiple mobile devices act as one, enabling them to form a larger interactive display and extend and app’s screen.

Acoustically amplifies the sound from an iPhone or iPad. The iPhone dock works with all iPhones and the iPad dock works with all iPads and iPhones. Made by Matt Richmond for Restoration Hardware.

Built by LG, the Nexus 4 has a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB RAM and either 16GB or 32GB of storage. It has a 4.7″ 1280×768 screen, a 8mp rear camera and will ship with Android Jelly Bean 4.2.

It’s slimmer, lighter and greener than the stock Xbox 360 controller because of its built-in rechargeable battery. You can also just order the kit and install it on an existing controller.

Midrange headphones from the luxury speaker maker. These noise-isolating on-ear headphones are made of leather and aluminum and equipped with MartinLogan’s vaunted electrostatic speakers.

The Nikon V2 builds on its predecessor with a larger CMOS sensor, improved image processing, a more ergonomic frame, a command dial and a slow view mode for shooting fast moving subjects.

A 15″ portable Xbox 360 from Ben Heck. It has a 15.6″ VGA screen as well as HDMI, S/PDIF and 5 USB ports. It has no internal hard drive though. You can watch the making-of video here.

A new Livescribe pen that can record and digitize whatever you write or hear, and send it wirelessly to Evernote, so you can instantly view and search it anywhere in the world, on just about any device.

Eric Maundu has a unique garden. Instead of soil, his plants grow on water and feed on the waste material of fish. He also has an automated garden that he can monitor and nurture from the Internet.

Similar to the Autographer, the Memoto is a small wearable 5.0mp camera that automatically takes pictures throughout the day. It’s killer feature is a mobile app that makes the photos searchable.

The ultimate holiday gift for the SNK fan. The Neo Geo X Gold edition includes a handheld system, a base station to connect the system to a TV via HDMI or AV, an arcade stick and 21 classic SNK games.

The science video blog Veritasium drops some knowledge on another form of levitation that is the result of Faraday’s principle of electromagnetic induction. Check out that whoaahh face.

The HHP2 is the ultimate minimalist keyboard. It has a compact frame but springy, full-sized keys, two USB 2.0 ports and capacitive key switches. Also available with printed keys.

Swedish headphone maker Urbanears collaborated with wool experts Harris Tweed to release a special edition of the former’s Plattan on-ear headphones, which of course get sweet handwoven wool covers.

It’s deliciously thin, measuring only 5mm at the edges (fatter in the middle). 21.5″ or 27″ models offer Core i5/i7 CPU, NVIDIA Kepler graphics, up to 32GB RAM and an optional hybrid HDD/SSD.

Suidobashi Heavy Industry has launched a site where you can customize the $2M Kuratas mech and then place an order. Who cares if it’s a hoax? We just built a robot. Your argument is invalid.

This awesome looking gun controller for FPSes has motion control and even a kickback effect. Designed by David Kotkin, the man who made the Avenger. Skip to 3:17 in the video for the good part.

The tablet Steve Jobs said he never wanted to make is here. With a 7.9″ 1024×768 screen, A5 dual-core processor, and available 4G LTE, it’s just just the thing if you want a one-handed iPad.