Awesome Tech

Lock and load your files in this flash drive from Brando. The miniature pistol replica hides the actual flash drive, which looks and works a bit like a firearm magazine. Comes in 2GB-16GB capacity.

If you can’t afford the TMA-1, the Capital is a good alternative. Made out of nylon and fiberglass, the headphones are made to take a beating while dispensing beats from their 40mm drivers.

It’s not exactly Real Steel but Tomy’s BattroBorg 2.0 is definitely a step up from Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em. It lets you face a friend (or enemy) with a robot that responds to your ninchaku-style controller.

The Nintendo 3DS XL has a 4.88″ top and 4.18″ bottom screen – 90% larger than those in the original handheld – and a longer lasting battery. It will sell for $200 and will come with a 4GB SD card.

Ultimate Ears take customization to another level with Personal Reference Monitors. Not only can you customize their fit and looks, you’ll also be able to fine tune their output via a tuning box.

The G600 has 12 thumb buttons and has a laser sensor that can track up to 8220dpi.  Users can save profiles for both the buttons and the tracking resolution and switch between them on the fly.

Document your trips and maybe make a viral video with this camera. It has a suction cup mount, a motion sensor and infrared LEDs for recording at night. It only records in 640 x 480 though.

A jetpack may be cooler than a bike, but if both of them are water-powered and tied to a hose then there’s not much difference. The Jetovator goes up to 25mph, rises up to 30ft and dives up to 10ft.

A recipient of the Red Dot award for Product Design, the Sonic headphones offer exceptional comfort. Its earcups have suede covered memory foam, making them a joy to wear.

The Clamcase Clambook is like the Motorola Atrix laptop dock except it’s compatible with many smartphones. It has a 16:9 display, keyboard, multitouch trackpad and internal battery.

Talk about surround sound. A fun weekend project for dedicated audiophiles and tinkerers. You’ll need a 3D printer to make it, but all in all it’ll only cost you $100 to build one.

The Unlimited is an electric guitar with a built-in amp. You can also add effects and play audio from your mobile device via an app. Convenient, though we hope this demo isn’t of the final build.

A brief tech demo of Square Enix’ new Luminous graphics engine. Like Quantic Dream’s Kara, the video was rendered in real time, although Square didn’t say if it was run on a console.

An incredible real-time demo of the 3D graphical prowess of the new Unreal Engine 4, with some of the most impressive lighting, fluid and environment effects we’ve seen on a personal computer.

The newest addition to the Rebel line, the T4i aka 650D still has an 18.0mp CMOS sensor, but it now has Canon’s DIGIC 5 image processor and can shoot continuously up to 5 frames per second.

The top-end laptop for power-users is ridiculously thin at 0.71″ closed, weighs just 4.46 lbs., has a high-res retina display, with a 15.4-inch, 2880×1800 resolution, and solid state storage.

A combo kit from GoPro that lets you control and view footage from up to 50 HD Hero and HD Hero 2 cameras at once. Also allows for livestreaming and wireless transfer of videos to a mobile device.

Art Lebedev’s infinitely customizable Optimus Popularis keyboard is now available for pre-order. The images on the keys as well as the large built-in display can be modified through a configurator.

The high-speed specialists at The Marmalade use real technical genius to make their amazing slo-mo shots. That includes the use of Spike: a robotic arm that moves with incredible precision.

Available in 11.6″ and 13.3″ models, the Taichi tablet-laptop hybrid that has two 1080p screens. It has an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7 CPU, 4GB RAM, SSD storage and 2 USB 3.0 ports.

The U845W(US) and U840W(UK) Ultrabooks from Toshiba add a unique feature – a 21:9 cinemawide 14.4″ that can show blockbuster movies without black bars. Sound by harmon/kardon and SRS.

Hand-built docks for the iPhone and iPod Touch made from car exhausts. Available in V8, V10 and V12 models, the iXoost docks are equipped with four 70W amplifiers and one 140W subwoofer.

Watch what happens to droplets of colored water as they hit the surface of a piece of paper that’s been rubbed with superhydrophobic aerogel powder. More fun with science here.