I’d say the biggest factor of why Sony products seem to always catch my eye is because they always seem to be eye-catching. I would say Sony is the one technology brand that comes closest to having the Apple "cool factor" than any other.

The latest thing to catch my eye were these 3D home glasses for use with the Sony BRAVIA HDTV that delivers full 1080p high-quality, 3-D imagery to your living room. The BRAVIA TV works with the active shutter glasses shown to bring the illusion of 3D images to the home user.

Sony’s approach to 3D involves alternately displaying images for the left eye and right eye at a high frame rate. When viewed through the included active shutter glasses, the on-screen image is precisely synchronized and delivered with the full HD image intact, for an optimum 3D viewing experience.

I think with glasses that look more like these and not goggles of some sort, this could take off a little bit more than I had originally expected.

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Sony Makes Home 3D Look Cool

2 gb Home Theater watch. When I was a kid and they came out with the calculator watches, we thought that was the coolest thing. Then came watches that transformed from a watch in to a toy robot and that we thought that was pretty damn cool too. These days it’s not much of a surprise that electronics devices are getting smaller and smaller. Now you can watch videos on your watch.

TA457 Home Theater Watch

The TA457 Home Theater Watch has 2 Gb of memory and plugs in to your pc or Mac. It comes with software to convert your videos to the NXV format and comes with headphones to listen while you watch. The watch will run for 4 hours in video mode and 7 with just audio. It charges off of the USB as most devices like this do and takes about an hour and a half to charge.  You can also use this as a Dictaphone as there is a small microphone in the side of it.

The downsides? •This watch is NOT waterproof, so you can’t watch movies while in the hot tub, sauna etc. •Functioning as a watch alone, the battery lasts only about two days.• It only uses a micro USB cable (not a big deal)• Compatible with mac, but the conversion software is only for PC.• Plug and play compatible with Windows 2000 and XP, doesn’t say whether it’s compatible with Vista.

If you want to impress the ladies you could make your own video with a friend. Say, “Excuse me, I have to take this.”, plug an earphone in to it and play the video while talking back to the watch and making it look as if you’re engaging in a conversation on your wrist watch like your James Bond. You might have to rent a luxury sports car though in case she wants to leave with you. You can’t have a high-tech watch and drive a Ford Fiesta, now can you?

So how much will this baby run you? $149.99 at Gadget Universe, where you can also get a lot more specs and information on the TA457 Home Theater Watch.

Image: Gadget Universe

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Watch Videos On Your Wrist-Watch

It still seems a bit unreasonable for Microsoft, which has been bragging about its 10 million strong installed base, to leave those early adopters out in the cold, but if that’s the way it goes down we can’t say we won’t welcome the excuse to ditch the fan and disc drive hullabaloo of our current gen box.

I can see why there would need to be a new hardware version, but I’ve got to think there would be a secondary expansion kit that might become available to make an existing Xbox 360 become even closer to a home theater portal in the living room.

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