Awesome Tech

Give your old t-shirts a new lease on life with Hello Rewind’s laptop sleeves; send them a t-shirt and they’ll turn it into a custom 13″ or 15″ padded laptop sleeve in 4-8 weeks.

Available March in Europe, LG’s Mini/GD880 phone ups the style ante with a 16:9 3.2″ touchscreen and a button-free face, 5.0 MP camera, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Wi-fi, FM radio, and A-GPS.

Today’s Canon camera onslaught ends with the PowerShot SD3500 IS; along with 14.1 MP and a 5x 24mm wide angle optical zoom lens, its main feature is a large 3.5″ LCD touchscreen.

It’s no DSLR, but Canon’s 14.1 MP PowerShot SX210 IS is their top-of-the-line point-and-shoot; it boasts an impressive 14x wide angle optical zoom lens, 720p video, and 3″ LCD.

Canon’s SD1400 IS is its slimmest Powershot camera ever with a thickness of just 0.7″; it features a 14.1 MP sensor, 28mm wide-angle lens with 4x optical zoom, and 720p @ 30fps video.

Step aside, T1i: the EOS Rebel T2i is Canon’s new flagship entry-level DSLR; it packs an 18MP APS-C sensor, 1080p video @ 30fps w/manual exposure, max 12800 ISO, and 3″ LCD.

Kudos to Frans, aka fotoopa (Belgian for photo-grandpa): he’s built his own Arduino Bee Camera Rig that uses crossed lasers to photograph insects as small as 2 mm while in flight.

Choosing a Gelaskin can be a bit like eating only one thing at a buffet, but we’d gladly dine in hell with Frank Miller; they now offer skins pulled directly from the pages of 300 and Sin City.

Full-body pong sounds painful, but Sportpong is mostly virtual: it turns the ground into a playing surface thanks to projectors and motion sensors that detect reflectors on the feet.

We’re digging the bare-bones, industrial aesthetic of the inclinepro; it’s a 7 oz. laptop stand made with aerospace-grade aluminum that both raises and angles up to a 17″ MacBook Pro.

Hori’s Real Arcade Pro Premium VLX is a heavyweight controller champ, literally: it weighs 12 lbs and includes Sanwa buttons/joystick, a non-skid pad, and flip-up storage cabinet.

Apple’s not the only company that can do cool product videos: Google, HTC, and Audience engineers talk about the History of the Nexus One and also reveal two new docks.

The ergonomics will keep you from having a ball with the SPHEREtouch, but at least its looks match its price; it’s a stainless steel dual-button mouse with platinum, titanium, or satin dinishes.

Go green (and fast) with Horizon’s H-Cell 2.0, which converts RC electric cars, robots, and boats to run on hydrogen; refill using Hydrostik cartridges or via a Hydrofill refueling station.

The 14.2MP Coolpix S8000 is Nikon’s flagship compact with looks to match; the slimmest camera in its class, it boasts 10x wide angle optical zoom, 720p video, and 4-way image stabilization.

Ricoh’s CX3 updates its CX2 with a 10 MP back-illuminated CMOS sensor, enhanced noise reduction, 16:9 aspect ratio mode, 720p video at 30 fps, and a quiet, no-flash pet mode.

Nikon pitches its hat into the superzoom ring with the Coolpix P100; it boasts a low-light friendly 10.3MP CMOS sensor, 26x optical zoom, 3″ tilt LCD, and 1080p @ 30fps video recording.

Verizon subscribers finally get a taste of Motoblur-flavored Android with Motorola’s Devour; it’s a slide-out QWERTY phone with 3.1″ capacitive touchscreen, 3G, aGPS, and Bluetooth.

It’s not the first solar powered battery for USB gadgets, but Scosche’s solBAT II shines in terms of affordability; $30 gets you 1500 mA of capacity, a windshield cradle, and carabiner mount.

A wallet-friendlier version of the EP-1, Olympus’ PEN E-PL1 is a Micro Four Thirds camera with a 12.3 MP Live MOS sensor, in-body image stabilization, HD video, and polycarbonite body.

Not to be outdone by Fuijfilm’s HS10, Olympus’ SP-800UZ also sports a 30x zoom lens but packs it into the world’s smallest superzoom body; it also features a 14 MP sensor and 3″ LCD.

Make Rock Band and Guitar Hero sessions more realistic with Omega’s GM-1 System, which hooks up to a real drum set via a MIDI or accessory cable; it also includes 2-3 cymbal triggers.

It’s no DSLR, but you won’t mind with FujiFilm’s FinePix HS10 superzoom: it features 30x optical zoom, 1080p video, a 3″ tilting LCD, triple image stabilization, and 1000 fps movie capture.