Awesome Tech

Microsoft flaunts the gaming prowess of the Windows Phone 7 platform, unveiling launch titles and Xbox Live connectivity details. Check out the link for the press release and demos.

Hit up this nifty website with your favorite Twitter ID or keyword, and it’ll make your own personal parade, complete with your followers, their tiny avatar heads and what they’ve been tweeting.

Sporting an “iconic, utilitarian and seductive” design, Aiaiai TMA-1 DJ headphones are the product of extensive research and collaboration with professional DJs and musicians.

Google’s Voice Actions app for Android 2.2 phones gives voice commands a major boost. It lets users create text messages, write notes, play music, search for websites and more, all via voice.

Samsung’s BD-C8000 Blu-ray player offers a 10.3″ LCD screen and even supports 3D playback – on 3D televisions, but not on the built-in screen. Still, it’s worth a look if you want Blu-ray on the go.

Much of what we’ve seen of HTML5 has been about its native video playback, but it might someday challenge Flash, as is evidenced by these early games built using the fledgling standard.

We’re not sure that this miniscule amplifier will really put out much power, but it’s still nifty to have a tiny little Marshall stack along with your car keys, no? Grab a bunch and look extra cool.

What better way to end the week, but with a little Survivor? This isn’t just any 1980s hair band. This geeked-out 21st century update is performed entirely on iPads, courtesy of Jordan Hollender.

Panasonic’s mid-size digicam snaps 14.1-mp stills with a 24x optical zoom 25mm wide-angle lens and full manual controls. Grabs up to 60 fps (at 3.5-mp) for quick action shots, and 1080/60i HD video.

Show your loyalty to Google’s mobile OS as well as your creativity with one of these blank Android mini-collectibles. Each one is the perfect canvas for your ideas. Design ideas courtesy of Gizmodo.

One of the entries in the King of Bing Maps app contest, Ricky Brundritt’s Taxi Fare Calculator gives a decent estimate of the cab fare from one destination to another in major cities.

Ironically, the Infinite USB Memory (IUM) Drive has no storage capacity at all. What it does is enable you to share and stream files via WiFi. It will be detected by devices as a normal USB drive.

Here’s a convenient and stylish way to carry your iPod Shuffle and avoid tangled cables. Plug in your iPod and then thread your earphones through the Pod à porter’s body and out the other end.

Can’t afford a TRON lightcycle? These Cyglo Tyres (yes, they’re British) have durable LEDs embedded into their tread or sidewall, providing the coolest glow you’ve seen on two wheels.

Sit back with your iPad and enjoy this artful short by MattsMacintosh which walks us through the major evolution in Apple’s industrial design over the last 30 or so years. My how far we have come.

UI Centric is out to make Windows 7 tablets awesome with their user interface. The UI has an overview home page, a page-turn gesture, and support for Flash, USB, camera and video chat.

Oregon Scientfic’s action-cam shoots full 1080p video at 30fps (720p at 60fps) in a sturdy waterproof housing. A sensor even measures and records G-forces during your escapades.

The versatile remote-controlled quadricopter is now available for pre-order. It can only be controlled using an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad for now, but apps for other platforms are on the way.

Doing their best to one-up Google Maps’ Street View, Microsoft’s prototype Street Slide uses panoramic photos to provide improved context when moving between locations on the street.

The new 6-inch Kindles are 21% smaller than prior models, get to 1-month battery life, along with image quality and other improvements. Choose 3G/Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi only versions in white or grey.

The masters of arcade controls are back with a stick for 1-player. The heavy-duty joystick weighs a whopping 12 pounds, works with PC, Mac, Linux or just about any game console with an adapter.

A concept wristwatch for the visually-impaired. The face of the watch displays the time in Braille. The user can also raise his arm and tilt the watch toward his ear to make it say the time aloud.

Berlin’s VR/Urban put together this strange contraption: a slingshot, which when fired, sends an SMS message through the air and lands it on a big screen. Weird, but cool when you see it.