Griffin has presented a couple of new super-slim (less than 1mm thick), protective, snap-on iPhone 3G cases designed by Threadless. The two available cases are Birds of a Feather (designed by Ross Zietz) and Clouds Within The Thunder (designed by Joe Van Wetering).
Both cases are limited edition and sells for $34.99.
Granted, showing your device fixed up close with hands and fingers walking you through the features, all against a bright white background might just be the most logical way to show what your device got, but Bell’s new ad for Palm Pre does feel a bit inspired by Apple’s iPod / iPhone ads, doesn’t it? Just a tiny bit? Anyway, the device and interface still looks good.
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You know the Gorillapod camera tripods, those with the flexible rubber legs allowing you to mount your camera pretty much anywhere? Joby (the Gorillapod makers) has taken that construction and turned it into a highly flexible flashlight dubbed Gorillatorch. You get three rubber legs with magnetized (and rubberized) feet holding up a water resistant 65 lumens/1 watt CREE LED with dimmer switch.
Amazon.com: Joby Gorillatorch Adjustable Flashlight ($29.95)
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Russian Art. Lebedev Studio (you know, the company behind the Optimus Maximus and Optimus Tactus keyboards, speakers shaped as speaker icons and so on) returns with another impressive concept; the Navigarius GPS Device. It doesn’t promise features not available in other windshield mounted GPS devices, but it is round and that’s enough for me, I want it.
As far as I can tell there’s no word on when (or even if) this thing will go into production, but let’s hope it does soon.
Link: Art. Lebedev: Navigarius Product Page (Russian)
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Calvin Klein has gifted a pair of sunglasses with a 4GB USB flash drive. Smart? Well. maybe if you live in southern Italy or California, but it might get a bit tiresome to carry those glasses with you even on rainy days if you need the data. Or just go rockstar and keep ‘em on always.
The sunglasses will be available in October 2009 for $199.
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Sony joins the netbook game with the Vaio W line, which they refer to as “a chic new line of mini notebooks” available in white, brown and pink.
Starting at $499.99 these machines are powered by a 1.66 GHz Intel processor, got a 1366×768 10.1" “XBRITE-ECO” widescreen display, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, bluetooth + 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, available in and weighs a mere 2.6 lbs. Along with that you get two USB ports and a web camera + microphone.
SonyStyle.com: Sony Vaio W series
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This is Marvell Sheevaplug; a Linux-running PC small enough to be plugged into a regular wall socket while offering a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 512MB flash memory for storage and a Gigabit ethernet port + USB 2.0 port for connectivity.
So, just hook it up to the network, connect a hard drive to the USB port and you’ve got a super-silent tiny web or file server you can control over the network, taking up no space at all and consuming less than 5 watts of power (so there’s no need for a clunky power adapter or anything).
Marvell: More on Plug Computing
Marvell: Sheevaplug product briefing [PDF]
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Want a custom, covert-operations style MacBook? Try the Stealth MacBook Pro from Colorware; a regular 15" MacBook Pro (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB solid-state drive, 8X superdrive) but with a soft, smooth-textured, zero-gloss black finish protecting your computer from both fingerprints and scratches. The backlit keyboard now glows in blue too, nice touch.
There’s only 10 of these ninja macbooks available though, so hurry up if you want one!
Colorware: Stealth MacBook Pro ($5999)
There’s plenty of mice slash Skype phones out there, but this one claims to be the first one doing it as a classic slider (and it does look like a classic, Nokia cell phone, doesn’t it?). Just slide that thing open for access to its keypad panel, internal speaker and condenser microphone – when closed you can check the caller-ID of who’s calling on the built-in 128×64 LCD display.
Uxsight.com: Skype Travel Mouse With LCD Display ($35.00)
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Elecom’s 4-port USB 2.0 hub U2H-TC410B (god, who comes up with these product names anyway?) is shaped like an ordinary wall socket. It sports a magnets in the back for easy mounting on metal surfaces, but there’s hooks for regular screws as well.
AudioCubes: Elecom U2H-TC410B Wall Socket USB Hub ($39.99)
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