Now, this is the height of military geekiness! A thumb-drive which could stand nuclear effects!

What you are seeing is the IronDrive, strong enough to withstand those tough conditions such as high temperature, shock, vibration, submersion, EMI and caustic agents. Boasting a bulky cigarette lighter like design, the IronDrive is an USB drive that has been designed tough as per the military standards and it could even withstand nuclear effects. It can operate effectively in temperatures as low as -40 F (-40 C) or as high as to +185 F (+85C). It weighs a mere 164 grams and the site says that it is cost effective.

The Nokia design department has gone extreme with the introduction of their new 7900 - and its little brother, the 7500. The 7900 has jagged edges and cuts everywhere, which give it a unique look. The surface has been etched, and you should be able to choose from 49 different colours that can be used to light up the keypad. There's a whole gigabyte of space on this OLED screen to preview your dear photos on. Perks include wallpapers that change their appearance as time passes by, and with changes in battery and signal strength. The phone should be out by the final quarter of the year, with a rumoured price of around $550.

Now, most of us believe gaming isn't something you do on laptops. They're meant for general office work - Word, Excel, e-mail, etc.
Falcon Northwest is out to prove us wrong. The DRX has two 7950GTX cards in SLI, and the processor driving them is a Core 2 Duo X6800 @2.93 GHz. Shocked yet? The rest of the specs go thus: the 17-inch screen does a resolution of 1920 x 1200, something you normally find on 24-inch monitors. Three hard drives are provided - a 100 GB 7200 rpm for performance, and two 160 GB 5400 rpm ones for mass storage. A TV-Tuner and four speakers are built in as well. Surely all this must be really expensive - well over the $3000 mark? Actually, it's close to more than twice that: $7687.

The HTC Advantage X7500 mighht look like some sort of tiny laptop, but it's more than that. You get a practical, usable keyword and a 5-inch screen. It is powered by a 624 MHz processor with 128 MB RAM and 8 GB of space - quite a bit for a mobile device such as this. No fear of getting lost either - the HTC Advantage comes with an inbuilt GPS unit that uses TomTom Navigator 6. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3G are all implemented. There are two cameras - a 3MP still camera, and a standard VGA camera for video. The latest version, the X7501, comes with Windows Mobile 6 but without the second (video) camera. The price for the HTC Advantage X7501 is rumoured to be around $900.

You've probably heard about the Microsoft Surface - it's been all in the news. In case you haven't, it has a 30-inch touchscreen display in a 21-inch box that supports multi touch; It can be used by many people at once. It lets you pick up elements such as videos and images and drag and drop them around, like you would with a mouse-but only you use your hands! What makes it even more revolutionary is that you can put a digital camera and a mobile phone upon it, and they get detected automatically. You can then view images off the devices, or drag and drop images from the camera to phone. We can't do justice to it here-you'll have to see it in action!

I am excited about this kind of computing, but we doubt the Surface is going to end up in your home anytime soon-it's going to cost between $5000 and $10,000. I have heard it's going to be out around the end of this year.

In an age where technology and flamboyancy meet, what you get is something like the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold. It's 18 carat gold plated; the scratch proof screen is saphire coated, supports a resolution of 208x208, and can do 262,144 colours. A colour matched Bluetooth headset and desktop stand comes with the bundle. A 2 mega pixel camera is thrown in along with the MP3 player and FM tuner. The MP3 player supports wide range of audio formats - MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC, WMA. Onboard memmory is 128MB. It lacks an expandable memory slot.

It costs $1200 excluding taxes.

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Instant Gratification

This weapon was made famous in the Quake genre, which allowed players a one-shot-kill on the opponents at the speed of light... now who wouldn't want this baby?

A weapon like this is being worked on. DARPA (United states Advanced Research Projects Agency) has been researching this for 10 years, and work continues. They are working on projectiles that do not contain explosives, but have extremely high kinetic speeds, which would, in theory make their kinetic energy superior to the energy output of a shell filled with explosives of greater mass. This would then enable soldiers to carry more ammunition.

There is working prototype at the University of Texas at Austin's institute for Advanced Technology, capable of delivering tungsten-armour-piercing bullets with kinetic energies of nine million joules-that's like ramming a ton truck into a wallat 80 Kmph! The only problem is that since the shells are fired at an extremely high velocity, the rail of the gun suffers from extreme damage, and has to be serviced aftyer every shot.

Nevertheless, we can't wait to see this one in action!

The Nokia Aeon is definetly one of the sleekest looking phones we've come across-perhaps only rivalled by Apple's iPhone. The surface is split into two touch-sensitive areas, seperated by a solid divider that will house the fuel cell. Also, thanks to the two touch-screen areas, you can switch control to either one for a different sort of application, such as a media player or a text pad, for example. Rumors say this phone can also monitor your health.

Ever had to deal with sweaty palms after playing for seven hours straight? Worry
no more: Logitech has launched the chillstream Gamepad for the convenience of
PS3 folk. This one has air vents towards the bottom on both sides of the
controller, which have fans that blow cool air onto your palms, so you are at
your agile best when fragging the enemy on a new map.



The "low" setting just blows air onto your palms-what really makes it buzz is
"high" setting, where it starts to get a bit noisy too.



THE GOOD: Keeps palms dry, looks similar to the PS3
SIXAXIS controller



THE NOT-SO-MUCH: Not wireless, can get noisy



Price: $35



Available at: http://tinyurl.com/35ydd9

 

I am glad someone took those funny images of Wii-motes embedded in TVs seriously
enough to make the retractable Wii-mote Wrist Strap. This contraption features a
strong cord connected to a retractable device, embedded into a wrist strap,
which connects to your Wii-mote. The retractable device will soon get loose,
though, making it another plastic projectile that people around you in the room
should watch out for!



The Good : The wrist strap looks cool

The Not-So-Much : You don't to be in the way when
your Wiimote makes its return journey

Price :$6