They thought that they would pull a fast one and get away with it, but Think Geek's April Fool Joke has backfired on them. They apparently announced the Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt, but the concept was so damn good, that many e-mails and jibes later they are ready to produce it ASAP. The T-shirt is a wearable audio solution that boasts an embedded speaker on the front of the shirt. When you push the appropriate button on the pocket able...

Unofficial news, in other words gossip travels real fast and this time news on the Sony Ericsson Paris smartphone is spreading fast. Se-nse.net got wind of the slider and claims that it runs on Symbian UIQ 3.3 and has quite a large screen. Below the screen will be a P1-style keyboard, meaning two letters per key. Another tit-bit out is that it may be announced in May and get a September release. Source...

At the CTIA 2008, these really cool pair of sunglasses was spied; they are the Bluetooth Sunglasses from Inter Brands. Like most Bluetooth headsets, the receiver is build into the side of the glasses with the earpiece coming out to either the nearest ear, or both of them depending on how you like it. The glasses are available in three different styles and the receiver can be changed into five different colors. They offer 5 hours of talk time...

iRiver Japan has announced the Mickey Mouse MPlayer Season 2 MP3 player. Its specs remain the same as the original MPlayer except that its a bit cheaper and comes in 10 new colors including chocolate, aqua, mint, strawberry, lime, lavender, etc. Recapping the specs the DAP has 1GB internal memory, it connects via USB, supports MP3 / WMA playback and lacks a display. Shaped as Mickey Mouse's head its ears serve as controls. The iRiver MPlayer Season 2 goes...

Famitsu a leading Japanese gaming mag has reviewed the much awaited Mario Kart Wii and the ratings could not have been better. Famitsu has given it 10/9/9/9 rating that is 37 / 40. Keep in mind that's with gimped Classic/GameCube controls and a baffling Wii Wheel. A must buy for every Wii owner. Kotaku via GoNintendo...

I don't endorse smoking but a cigarette box morphed to function as a phone gets the geeky side of me drooling. SpecialPhones has put up this convincingly cigarette phone for sale that has some pretty neat features. The Dual-band phone sports a 1.8" LCD, 260'000 colors, 176 x 220 pixel resolution. It supports Simplified Chinese, English, and a few other languages as well. Specs read a camera, support for JPG, GIF, MP3, MP4, MIDI, 3GP and 128MB TF card...

The right kind of headphones is hard to come by and when you find one, it's like striking gold. I remember picking up this pair that I thought was perfect but alas, the earbuds kept falling out of my ear and it ended up as dead investment. However the story is about to change with these really neat pair of headphones from JVC. Reminiscent of the fold-up Sony headphones, this high-end pair belongs to the Bi-Metal line of in-ear...

In a very innovative initiative to recycle the hot air generated from servers and communications equipment in an office, a new computer center in Switzerland is going to funnel the hot air next door to warm the local swimming pool. The town pool in Uitikon, Switzerland, outside Zurich, will be receiving the waste heat from a data center recently built by IBM Corp. for GIB-Services AG. The air will travel through heat exchangers which shall use it to heat...

The Sense Light Swing is a fully illuminated swing that gives quite an eerie look to the kid in the picture. Fiber optic strands are used to make the swing glow in the dark, and make this simple garden play equipment look spooky. It would make a good premise for a horror or alien movie. The swing has been designed Alexander Lervik, but I have no doubts that kids will simply love this concept. Source...

Keeping abreast with fashion and the growing need of women to establish their identity in the Islamic World is the revolutionary CharmingBurka. It is a digitally-enabled burqa that can transmit a photo, or anything else, of the wearer to nearby mobile phones. The German designer Markus Kison says that it has been created keeping in mind the stringent Sharia or Islamic law and conforms to it. The "digital layer" on the burka includes a Bluetooth antenna, which lets women...

He is small, (somewhat) adorable and is still worthy of being a super hero to so many. Mario has come down the generations with just a moustache to show off. However, there are some of us who overlook a lot of things and take them for granted. But there's also a breed of people who make special attempts to deploy plots that will raise them to a pedestal that can describe their allegiance to their heroes. One such marvel...

Deutsche Telecom (T-Mobile) is disposing its 8GB iPhone's at throwaway prices. The 8GB iPhone which the company sold for 399 € ($ 626) is now being offered for 99 € ($ 165) only. Before you logon to Ebay Germany let me tell you that this special price is applicable only if you go for the super expensive Complete XL plan which costs 89 € ($ 140) per month. Source...

An MP4 player forms the alpha and omega of our everyday needs and a constant and frequent update of the same is absolutely necessary so that we can keep up with our growing demands of a perfect entertainer. This MP4 player stands out from the rest with its support for HDP/DUO/M-EX technologies. The 2.8 inch display screen does justice to the excellent playback of up to 6 GB of data. It supports all popular file formats including WMA, MP3,...

Hundreds of thousands mobile devices are stolen every year around the world and efforts of authorities, network operators and other interested parties to tackle the issue has little effect. However, Intel Corp. and a number of its partners believe that Intel Anti-Theft technology will hardly exclude possibility of stealing, but is likely to make it a lot harder. The world's largest maker of x86 microprocessors said that Absolute Software, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Lenovo, McAfee, Phoenix Technologies and Ultimaco Software are...

Analysts estimate that Mr. Bush's Iraq adventure could cost the country a staggering $2.0 trillion says NY Times. 2 Trillion dollars is a lot of money it is the equivalent of UK's GDP or two and a half times the combined GDP's of Pakistan and Bangladesh. This kind of money is more than enough to gift the entire World population a decent gadget. So here are the numbers - 1 Trillion = 1,000 billion Word Population = 6 billion Cost...