Awesome Tech

Don’t just live your life, capture it in glorious 1080p HD with Sony’s pocket HD cam. The 8GB model stores up to 4 hours of MP4 video and shoots 12.8mp stills. Check back 3/15 for another pick.

(NSFW: Language) If you believe Steve Jobs, the iPad 2 is a wondrous, amazing, revolutionary thing. Or if you watch this Apple parody, your illusions might just be ever-so-slightly iShattered.

The SZ-30MR may look like a typical mid-range camera, but it has a unique feature – it can capture full 16-megapixel stills while you’re shooting 1080p HD video through its 24x optical zoom lens.

Just 8.8mm thick, the iPad 2 trims 33% off its slim profile, gets a dual-core A5 CPU, front and rear cameras. Options: HDMI adapter, and a cover which wakes or sleeps the iPad when opened or closed.

The rumor mill is abuzz about the upcoming iPad 2, but we think we like the six minutes of funny in this “review” of the new gadget from YouTube user Exkild best; it features an astounding 27″ display.

Stone Island’s Heat Reactive Jacket is now offered in green; the cotton nylon canvas fabric is coated with thermosensitive liquid crystals that change the garment’s color depending on the temperature.

A 1950s concept that made good use of the spare tire in the trunk. The tire was mounted on a retractable pole and swung the car into and out of parking spaces. Should come standard by now.

This extraordinary device can automatically identify mobile phones placed into the bin, inspects them for damage, then offers cash payments (or charity donations) for handheld gadgets worth recycling.

Now that we’ve put Logitech’s M515 Couch Mouse through its paces, it really does work whether you’re parked on the sofa, lying in bed or mousing on your pants leg. Check back on 3/8 for more.

Sure, there’s an app for just about any calculator you’d ever need, but TI’s new calculator breathes new life into the dying breed, with a 320×240 color 3D graphing display and wireless networking.

We’ve seen Corning’s vision of the future, now let’s look at what Microsoft has in mind – head-tracking, glasses-free 3D displays, multiview displays, more movement-based controls and more.

For under $400 bucks, you can now own a Nikon with 36x optical zoom, full 1080p/30 HD video, manual exposure control, and a 921k pixel tilting LCD display. Plus, you can have it in glorious red.

Want an R/C robot that could fire paintballs at your enemies? Support this kickass Kickstarter project, and you could end up with your own weapon of paint destruction from roboticist Chris Rogers.

Apple’s flagship laptops get quad-core i7 CPUs and 3x-faster graphics on the 15 & 17-inchers. 13-inch gets dual-core i5 & i7 CPUs. All get Facetime HD, and a Thunderbolt I/O port for fast data transfer.

We’ve seen a few button add-ons for playing games on touchscreen devices, but the Classics could be the best yet, because they can be used in a variety of button configurations.

The Thinkpad T420 boasts a battery life of up to 30 hours when its 9-cell extended battery is used. Specs include a 1GB GeForce 4200M GPU and Core i5 or i7 CPU. Available this March for at $779+

This week’s pick are Audio Technica’s ATH-BB500 headphones, which offer big bold sounds to help you shake yourself out of your daily funk, as you crank up some funk. Check back on 3/1 for more.

This tiny gadget is just about the size of a credit card, but it’s actually a portable scanner, perfect for grabbing images of business cards, receipts or other small documents at up to 300dpi.

This clip from Corning Inc. is obviously a biased vision of the future – it shows a world filled with devices all made with glass, Corning glass – but that doesn’t make it less fun to watch.

Looking to replace your old clock radio? Archos’ wireless gadget puts 12,000 web radio stations and 1,500 video channels at your bedside. It’ll also stream media from your PC or an SD card.

Also known as the EOS 600D, the new T3i offers the same 18MP CMOS sensor from the T2i, but adds a high-res tilt/swivel monitor, and improved full 1080p (30fps) video shooting.

Is it the plethora of colors on these UrbanEars headphones or the gorgeous photography showcasing the newest hues in the collection that’s more compelling? Either way, they look pretty cool.

Has a 7″ 1024×600 touchscreen, 1.5GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 32GB storage, microSD slot, micro USB port, Flash support, runs Android with HTC’s Sense user interface and proper stylus support. More here.