Awesome Tech

Here’s the perfect laptop stand for fans of The Deadliest Catch. The Monster Monster stand works for 15″, 16″ and 17″ computers and is available in crabby red or clear acrylic.

Rhonda is an intuitive application for drawing in three dimensions. Combined with a tablet like the Cintiq, you manipulate objects with a mouse or trackball in one hand, and draw with the other.

Mimobot’s fabulous designer USB drives are the new Pez dispensers when it comes to collecting. R2-D2 and the shooting-impaired Stormtrooper are back and joined by the Jawa and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Sleek Audio has unveiled their SA7 in-ear monitors, which have full VQ sound adjustment control and extend the treble range by a full octave, together with heaping on extra bass.

Photoshop expert John Derry shows more cool CS5 tools – natural brushes and paint that act like the real deal. It can’t compete with ArtRage, but it’s about time Adobe added these features.

Sure, you could just Makerbot, but if you’re in the market for an industrial-strength printer for cranking out 3D prototypes, you might want to check out HP’s new physical object printer.

This simple, yet brilliant concept design for a wallet by David Bruno and Tom Seymour would let you quickly glance at an LED display to check the available balance on your RFID transit card.

These handmade wooden external hard drives are crafted from repurposed materials by 2 furniture makers in Seattle. Each one comes with 500GB of storage and a USB 2.0 connection.

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?

Nike’s ergonomic concept Straphand pedometer by Valentin Sollier is worn around the palm and includes a network connection with USB dock for users to compare their performances worldwide.

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.

Vision Research’s high-speed digital camera, the Phantom Flex, features a 4K 2560×1600 CMOS sensor with 12bit color depth. At max resolution the camera can capture up to 1,560 frames/second.

This high-tech timepiece features a motor and belt-drive mechanism and a rechargeable battery that can be juiced up wirelessly. It’s also bulletproof. Ships later this year for $15k.

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.

FPSers, destroy your enemies and protect your clan with this wireless gaming gun. The guns’ maker claims the Overlord works with any PC, Xbox 360 or PS3 shooter and any display.

Renowned UK amp maker Orange has taken their iconic case design and put a computer inside the box. It’s also a high-powered amplified speaker and has inputs for instruments and media players.

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.

Adobe shows off what they think are the top 5 new features in Photoshop CS5. While we’ve seen a couple of the features before, the new painting, HDR Pro and masking tools look really slick.

This oddity comes to us from designer Mario Pitsch. For a future in which global warming has turned us into nomads, the egg-shaped car would extract water from air and be fueled by an algae reactor.