Awesome Tech

Factron’s Quattro iPhone Case is designed for shutterbug aesthetes; the aluminum and stainless steel case can accommodate a multitude of wide-angle, close-up and fish-eye lenses.

Designed by an MIT student, iDoor is the ultimate iPhone app: it opens a hydraulically actuated dorm room door which also responds to knocks thanks to vibration sensors. Thanks, Jacob!

The iPhone 3GS’ new abilities create their first music video courtesy of Steve Ellington: Technologic Overkill follows a little robot outside an Apple store, with an Autobot cameo.

Combining two essential items for road warriors, Brando’s USB Hub and Mouse Pad is an interesting mix: you’ll get a 4-port USB 2.0 hub and a retractable mouse pad with LED backlight.

Tryi Yeh’s Google-G0 concept is an experiment in phone ergonomics; the speakers and mic are positioned on the back, which also slides to reveal a customizable keypad and camera.

Ben Heck’s fifth Xbox 360 Portable is lookin’ good: it adds an ethernet port, flush DVD and side panels, volume buttons and more air holes; it’s totally built from scratch. Thanks, Icebone!

Marshall’s Supertendo is a portable SNES that looks pro-enough to have come from Nintendo itself; that’s due to a vacuum-formed case, down to the speaker holes; buy it here.

Samsung’s SCH-W760 is a fairly standard slider phone, but its killer feature is a night-vision IR camera that lets you teleconference in the dark–nefarious purposes notwithstanding.

iBuyPower’s Paladin XLC series V3 is all about Extreme Liquid Cooling, with 240 mm dual radiators and 230 mm fans; you’ll need it, with a 1200 W PSU and GTX 285 cards in triple SLI.

Created by Ryan Block and Peter Rojas, gdgt is a new “social gadget platform;” it’s essentially a social network for gadget lovers, with the ability to list your own gadgets and review them.

The 20W speakers and Wi-Fi streaming with DLNA-certified devices are noteworthy, but the most eyecatching feature on Sony’s Z200iR iPod Dock is its remote with 3.5″ LCD display.

As if sounding like a self-indulgent boob wasn’t enough, this Loud Tweets Badge by Aram Bartholl lets you look like one too: it’s a 21×7 pixel LED which scrolls your Twitter feed.

The tube flashbacks continue with the USB Tube Delight Audio: alas, it’s only shaped like a vacuum tube as it’s really a sound card with a stereo mic input and headphone output.

The next tablet won’t just be for cubicle-dwellers: this E-Ink Coach Playboard is an outdoor-friendly electronic clipboard that’ll display templates for basketball, football and more.

Surprisingly tame in design for Alienware, the TactX Headset is a pair no-nonsense gaming cans with closed ear cups, retractable mic, and 3 ft cord with generous 7 ft extension.

Elecom’s Wall Socket USB Hub is a “hey, that’s spiffy” idea–at least until you get your real-life electrical plugs mixed up, leading to results that are both eye-catching and eye-singeing.

With a built-in rechargeable battery (good for 8 hours) and Bluetooth, these E-blue Speakers add to the iPhone’s own speakers with a titanium dome driver; they measure 2.5″x2.5″x4.7″.

Talk about better mousetraps: from flypaper clocks to mouse-eating tables, these Carnivorous Robots not only trap but digest their prey in a microbial fuel cell to create power.

Nick and Beau Trincia have managed to combine a desk, a chair and a laptop case into one unit: the Openaire separates into a laptop desk and a plush chair when unfolded.

There’s nothing like a headless stormtrooper to guard your data: these 2GB Star Wars Flash Drives are coming 10/09, with super-deformed versions of Boba, Darth, Yoda and gang.

We’ve seen Twitter hooked up to plants and to your electrical wiring, but this Twitter Pulse Box takes the cake for sheer morbidity: it measures your heartbeat–or the lack thereof.

Shopping cart theft is bad, but LOLrioKART is too full of win: made by MIT students, it’s powered by aircraft NiCd batteries, a 15hp motor, features regenerative braking and goes 45mph.

Smartly designed and portable, the MiLi Pro turns your iPhone or iPod into a projector; it’s capable of 640×480 video or images up to 70″ away, it’ll also accept VGA and RCA inputs.