It apparently took them a while, but Victorinox—better known as the maker of Swiss Knives—recently featured the SwissFlash. Basically a pocket-sized gadget with traditional tools like a keyring and a blade, the SwissFlash also features a detachable 32GB flash drive, a laser pointer, and a Bluetooth remote for presentations.
A fitting high-tech combo, no doubt, which is why Victorinox decided to showcase this product during the recently-concluded CES 2009. Considering what you’ll get, the $330 price actually seems pretty reasonable. Check out the product page for more information and the list of variants.
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Through a recent BusinessWeek article, long-troubled smartphone pioneer Palm revealed the reason for its apparent lack of action, as it lost ground to competitors like Nokia, RIM, and Apple. The article explained away its slide by asserting that Palm spent the last year or so retooling itself, bringing aboard former Apple executive Jon Rubenstein to refocus product development and revitalize the company’s fading fortunes.

Similar in design to Better Energy Systems award-winning Classic, the Magnesium packs almost double the power and is the most powerful solar charger on the market. Engineered to meet the demands of the most serious adventurer, the new Solio Magnesium combines efficient solar cells, a powerful internal battery, and a rugged, environmentally friendly magnesium alloy shell. Available this month at a price of $199.95.
Your Solio includes:
o Charging Cable for iGo® tip system
o Female USB Cable (powers iPhone, iPod, MP3s)
o Pencil
o Solio Bag
o Universal Wall Adapter

iLuv i730 Bluetooth hands-free car kit with FM Transmitter for your iPod: The i730 makes answering and making calls wireless and easy without having to take out your phone. Call features include call reject, call transfer, voice dial and redial options. Compliant with Bluetooth V2.0 and great for communication ranges up to 33ft (10mm). Made for iPod w/video, nano (1st, 2nd and 3rd), iPod classic, iPod touch. Goes for $149.99 in April, 2008
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The PURE CPU Cooler utilizes a pre-plumbed, factory sealed, closed loop radiator and pump module designed to effectively and efficiently dissipate heat from the CPU. Up until now CoolIT’s CPU coolers have harnessed the power of both liquid cooling and thermoelectrics. While PURETM doesn’t utilize peltiers, this close looped system has been engineered for increased flow velocity and extreme cooling efficiency which still yields phenomenal performance while simultaneously reducing system noise. The end result is a highly effective CPU water cooler available to consumers at a lower price point. The PURE is universally compatible with …read more

The pocket-sized RedAlert contains several sophisticated security features that are housed in a sleek, compact, but striking red exterior that measures a mere 3” x 2”.The DVR can be connected to either a wireless or wired security camera, or both at the same time. Once the RedAlert™ detects movement, recording is triggered. The unit can capture either AVI videos (10 seconds each) or JPEG photos via a built-in 16MB memory and an external SD card slot. SD memory cards are sold separately from RadioShack, with a 2GB card able to store up to 28,800 images or 4,380, 10 second AVI …read more

The world’s first pocket-sized DJ system! The Pacemaker is a superior portable digital music player equipped with an extensive range of professional audio manipulation features (bend, DJ pause, crossfade, filter, etc.) allowing you to creatively mix between two independent channels. It features 120 GB of memory and a battery life of about 18 hours of playback or 5 hours of DJ playing. In addition any mix can be saved for legal sharing with the rest of the world. The TFT display screen gives you 166 dpi of resolution and MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, VBR, OGG Vorbis and FLAK …read more

Siber Systems just launched GoodSync Version 6.7 at CES. This latest version of GoodSync focuses on dependability, flexibility, speed and one-click operations. The product supports file synchronization between computers and/or hard drives via USB cable, local networks and the Web. With the advent of inexpensive, or even free, online storage providers, PC users have exciting new options for storing, accessing and sharing files securely from virtually any location. GoodSync complements this fast-growing trend by making it easy and fast to backup and/or synchronize large amounts of information—photos, music, videos, even entire hard drives—over the Web.
GoodSync Version 7.0.6 = …read more

Its about 6pm right (January 14) now in San Francisco and Steve Job’s Macworld 2008 Keynote will start in a few more hours (15hrs) – Tuesday, January 15 at 9 AM PST (12PM EST). I will be catching it live at Gizmodo since I am stuck in good old Kuala Lumpur.
Oh, did you hear about Gizmodogate ?
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iRiver introduced a new gadget at CES 2008 last week dubbed the iRiver M20 which is also a PND (portable navigation device). Its got a 7-inch screen , uses SD cards , has FM tuner and DMB receiver functions.
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