Awesome Gadgets

Sony Ericsson’s W995a slider phone borders on being a portable media player, with an 8.1MP camera, 3G speeds, 2.6″ QVGA screen, Wi-Fi, and 3.5mm audio jack–all of it unlocked.

Livid’s Ohm64 Controller takes an open approach to mixing, with an open source editor and patches; made in Austin, TX, it’ll work over USB or MIDI and sports a 64 button clip bank.

While its “second to none” claim is a bit much, Nokia’s BH-905 headphones are worth a gander with 10 mics that use Wolfson noise cancellation tech, Bluetooth and call/music controls.

Logitech’s first force-feedback flight-sim controller, the Flight System G940 includes a joystick with 2-stage metal trigger, a dual throttle, rudder pedals, and a slew of programmable buttons.

Resembling the Nokia E71, Mobiado’s 350PRL is the luxury mobile company’s first QWERTY phone; it’s made with nickel-plated aircraft aluminum, sapphire crystal and mother of pearl.

Available outside Europe in August, Samsung’s Pixon12 features a 12MP camera with Xenon flash, 3.1 AMOLED touchscreen, 30fps 720×480 video recording, Wi-Fi, and HSPA speeds.

Making the best out of the loss of his eye, Rob Spence teases his Eyeborg implant–a wireless video camera in his eyesocket; its shows clips from Fox News, Jimmy Fallon and more.

The gadget management gurus at Bluelounge have released CableDrop; it’s a clip with an adhesive backing that keeps cords from in place and lets you channel them as you wish.

Belkin’s TuneBase line adds hands-free calling to its features; both models pipe music to your car stereo, via an auxiliary input with the TuneBase Direct or wirelessly with the TuneBase FM.

Andy Doro’s Electronic Dreams Table is literally a bright idea: 60 LEDs light up when electromagnetic devices are nearby, thanks to circuits that detect energy using induction coils.

Using webcams, Android and Flickr, MOTO Labs’ Home Energy Monitor keeps track of your power usage and pushes it to your Google homepage; it even works with Tweet-A-Watt.

Seen at Google I/O, the Google Holodeck shows Street View at high speed; it gives viewers the illusion of motion, which is fun as long as the safety protocols don’t go offline.

The Gorilla Tube is easily the sexiest iPhone case we’ve seen in some time; it’s made with real 1.15mm thick carbon fiber and features an open top for easy access and flipstrap.

It’s targeted towards engineers for testing purposes, but this 49-Port USB Hub would most definitely ensure we’d never run of ports again–a godsend for overly gadgeted folks.

Leaked ahead of E3, the Sony PSP Go is a UMD-less slider with 16GB of memory, Bluetooth and memory slot; it won’t replace the PSP 3000 but will sell side-by-side with it this Fall.

The “M” stands for “monster” with Alienware’s new M17x gaming laptop; it tops out with a quad-core CPU, dual 1GB GeForce GTX 280M GPUs, 8GB RAM and a 1TB HDD or 512GB SSD.

It ain’t as sexy as the Adamo, but Dell’s Studio 14z picks substance over style with an NVIDIA 9400m, Core 2 Duo CPUs, up to 5GB RAM, plus HDMI, DisplayPort and eSATA out.

The best way to tell if you’ve been hit by elite Ninja hackers is to look for telltale 2GB Shuriken USB drives; like true ninjas, they don’t play nice with other flash drives due to their size.

With a 3″ touchscreen, keypad and 8 MP camera, Sony Ericsson’s Aino is already a decent phone; however, the big news is that it’ll stream media from your PS3 from anywhere in the world.

Best known for their uber-expensive cans, Ultrasone goes down-market with these Zino semi-closed headphones; it sports 40mm gold-plated drivers, a chrome trim and a folding design.

MSI’s ultrathin 13.4″ X340 notebook is now available; svelte both in terms of power and size, it sips 1/6th the power of other processor with Intel’s CULV CPU and weighs 2.86lbs.

Razer’s Sphex is the world’s thinnest mousepad–so thin that they’re calling it a “desktop skin” that is optical and laser mouse-friendly; an adhesive bottom keeps it firmly in place.

Only audiophiles need apply for HiFiMAN’s HM-801; it’s a souped-up MP3 player with a modular amp bay and a Burr-Brown DAC, good for driving gobs of power to your headphones.