Awesome Gadgets

Available for less than the cost of a fisheye lens, SuperHeadz’ Demekin Fisheye 110 is a tiny 2″x2″x2″ camera with 1/100 shutter speed, f/8.9 wide angle aperture and 1:13.5 lens.

Whatever your bike–road, mountain or BMX–Spoke POV lets you customize your wheel using 30 LEDs; you’ll get a kit with software for using your own bitmap images.

Developed with affordability in mind, HTC’s Snap is a smartphone running Win Mo 6.1, a 2.4″ screen, HSDPA connectivity, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth; it’ll arrive in the US this summer.

Samsung’s Instinct S30 is the successor to the original Instinct; beyond its curvier, more stylish looks, it’ll also feature a larger 3.2″ touchscreen when it debuts with Sprint April 19th.

Essentially the same as the E-420, Olympus’ 10MP E-450 four thirds camera now includes two lenses, gets a newer TruePic III+ image processor and lengthier 30 minute exposure.

We had hoped for a PS3 price drop from Sony, but we’re at least somewhat happy for the budget gamer crowd: the PlayStation 2 will be $30 cheaper at $100 starting April 5th.

Looks like we’ll be piloting BattleMechs soon: Honda has developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that uses blood flow and electrical potential to control an ASIMO robot. Thanks, Sonic!

Samsung’s Mondi is a powerful handset with a 4.3″ touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY, WiMAX internet access, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3MP camera, HDMI out and 4GB of internal memory.

Coming soon to AT&T, the Nokia E71x is a full QWERTY smartphone with 3G connectivity, one-way video calling, Wi-Fi and built-in GPS; it measures only 10mm thick.

If babies and U.S. presidents twitter, why not houseplants? Botanicalls is a DIY Arduino-powered kit with a moisture sensor that tweets via Wi-Fi everytime you forget to water.

New for Cricket Wireless, Motorola’s Evoke QA4 is like a cheaper Palm Pre; it sports a 2.8″ touchscreen, slide-out keypad, Bluetooth and full HTML browser, but ditches 3G for EVDO.

An evolved Samsung Propel, the Propel Pro keeps its predecessor’s sliding QWERTY form factor but adds a 3MP camera, microSDHC slot, new joystick, stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Making power out of the lowly household faucet, Jinwoo Han’s Mini Hydro Turbine converts water pressure into electricity that can be used to run or charge other gadgets.

AT&T’s Samsung Impression is the first US phone with an AMOLED display; it features a 3.2″ touchscreen with haptic feedback, slide-out QWERTY, 3MP camera and 3G speeds.

We’ve seen several portable projectors, but we like the PocketCinema V10 Plus versatility: it not only projects up to a 50″ screen from your iPod or game console, but can record content.

Ideal for defending against space invaders (or annoying coworkers), this Airsoft Gun rig by Jay is controlled with a WiiMote using Python code and an ioBridge 204 module.

Sony-Ericsson PR regards the T707 as a chick phone; still, hand gesture recognition, time-of-day dynamic UI and HSPA connectivity make this of interest to geeks of any gender.

Ulysse Nardin’s retro-futuristic Chairman is a working phone with a mechanical watch rotor that supplies extra power, a 2.8″ multitouch screen, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi and browser.

Thus far limited to Baltimore, Sprint’s 4G (WiMAX) services will be expanding to 10 cities in 2009 and 5 more in 2010; their U300 USB modem lets you use 3G in non-4G areas.

Battery chargers don’t inspire oohs and ahhs, but La Crosse’s Battery Charger features helpful LCD displays that shows current, time elapsed, voltage and accumulated capacity.

HP’s new Pavilion m9600 series provides Core i7 power for under $1,000; the base model includes 4GB RAM, a 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS and DVD burner.

Better late than never: T-Mobile joins the mobile broadband party with their USB webConnect laptop stick, a 3G modem which also connects to EDGE and T-Mo’s Wi-Fi hotspots.

Carl Zeiss’ Cinemizer is the first pair of video glasses to be officially approved by Apple for use with the iPod or iPhone; it’s the equivalent of viewing a 45″ screen from six feet away.