Tech Wizard

Welcome to your latest installment of “Basic Gadgets Decked out in Precious Materials.” Today’s contender is a solid Palladium, 2GB flash drive by S.T. Dupont, retailing at a cool $700.

Though the metal maybe reason enough to relieve you of your bills, S.T. Dupont has also gone the great length of fashioning the flash drive’s surface with its trademark diamond-head pattern. If that shall not convince you to blow your pocket money, perhaps the choice of three colours : turquoise, pink and black shall have you queuing up? No? We didn’t think so.

Finally, get the clip without losing your foreskin! The Sansa Clip will have tiny MP3 players running scared; the Shuffle and the Zen Stone better watch out, as the little Clip is set to show them a thing or two in miniscule music playback. Jump for the details.

Available in both 1GB and 2GB varieties the storage size is standard in the field, what is not standard is the inclusion of an FM radio, OLED screen, voice recorder and a more than reasonable 15 hour battery life. Playback formats supported will be MP3 and WMA only, but at $40 (1GB) and $60 (2GB), what are you complaining about? The small guy with big tricks is set for a September debut in those fun colours of black, red, blue and our favourite, pink. At this rate the Sansa Clip may even have a certain fatty running scared. That’s right, run faster you fat-ass, Sansa’s onto you! [Audio Junkies].

We have an endearment to cassette inspired gadgets and those who create them. For that reason, we applaud Chinavasion for their spectacular MP3 Cassette Player. It is shaped like a cassette. It is an MP3 player. Does it require any more tricks to seduce you? Probably not, but nonetheless, there is still a little something up its plastic sleeve.The MP3 player is not shaped like an audiocassette without reason; it can actually be played through a cassette deck! It does not come supplied with any memory at all; you must supply your own SD/MMC card (2GB maximum). It shall only playback MP3 encoded tracks, has a USB2.0 connection, rechargeable battery and only supports Windows 2000 (anyone still use this?)/XP. Launch dates and pricing details not confirmed at present.

If you have wondered what your MP3s would sound like pumping out of archaic stereo deck you have lying about, wonder no more. Much like our once, thick, luscious hair, the cassette used to do quite a nifty job. Unfortunately, like our present day, sad comb over, the cassette is also forced into attempting to impress the ladies by pretending to be something it is not. It probably is not going to work out great for it either, but you have to love the effort. Take a bow Mr. Cassette MP3; we still love you with all of our partially balding heads. Guys, lose the comb overs no one loves the effort.

You could get a USB Greenhouse to give some life to your computer, or you could go the cheaper, grosser route of just growing some plants in your keyboard. This thing looks like it’s still being used to him, and while it’s neat looking, the idea of having plants growing around his fingers while he type seems less than appealing. Hit the jump for another couple of shots of this neat freak’s nightmare.

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Nokia brings in another elegant looking fold design 3G handset the “Nokia 6555? with an original timepiece. Its touted to be the world’s first WCDMA handset featuring such kind of innovative design.

• Mobile-savvy consumers expect superior quality and design. We understood that need, and so created the the Nokia 6555. The Nokia 6555 is a sophisticated accessory delivering the outstanding features that you expect from Nokia,” said Markku Suomi, Product Group Director, Mobile Phones, Nokia.

Some cool features includes a QVGA LCD display 16milllon colors 240×320 res, a camera with 6 x zoom, 30Mb internal storage but you can always expand with microSD memory slot. Expect this to sell for around 200€ ($270) before taxes are added.

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Well according to EA sports, Madden NFL 2008 will just render 30 FPS in the PlayStation 3 version while it will be around 60 FPS in the XBox 360 version which is double the amount. Well this doesn’t mean that the PlayStation 3 version of Madden NFL 08 isn’t unplayable due to its lower frame rate, it’s just that the XBox 360 version is preferred for its smoother animations and good frame rates.

This difference is due to vast hardware differences between the two consoles and it’s difficult for the game manufacturers to create a game for both the new consoles with new technology.

After cutting out Xbox 360 price , Microsoft has now announced the limited edition of the Halo 3-themed Xbox 360 console.

This special edition will be launched in spartan green color and will include 20GB hard disk. The console will also include a HDMI input but no HDMI cable is provided with it.

The Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition Console comprises of :
# Halo 3 Special Edition Console
# Halo 3 Special Edition Wireless Controller
# Halo 3 Special Edition 20GB Hard Drive
# Halo 3 Special Edition Wired Headset
# Halo 3 Special Edition Gamer Pics and Theme (Exclusive download via Xbox LIVE)
# Component HD AV Cable, Ethernet Cable, HDMI Port, Play and Charge Kit
# Xbox LIVE Silver Membership and One-month Xbox LIVE Gold Membership

The Halo-3 themed Xbox 360 will be shipped by September in the US market and it will be available at the price of $399.99.

Most of the new buyers might be a bit confused on choosing between the best suitable version of the XBox 360. Currently there are three versions of the XBox 360; Core, Premium and the Elite. Well let’s start with the Elite version

The Elite Version:

The Elite version is equipped with a premium black finish and three powerful core processors capable of producing the best in HD entertainment up to 1080p. It’s not just the console that’s in black but all its accessories as well as its components, well… its box as well. The Elite version comes with a 120GB detachable hard disk. This hard if brought separately will cost you $180. Well regarding other things there seem to be same components as that of Xbox360 premium version; Wireless Controller, Xbox 360 headset, Xbox 360 HDMI Cable, Xbox LIVE Silver Membership and One-month subscription to Xbox LIVE Gold. The Elite is currently priced at $479.

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The new Cybershot phones due today, Sony Ericsson responses with a cool new Cybershot the K770. Its a 14.5mm slim triband GSM candbar sporting Truffle-Brown looks and the rumored 1.9? QVGA (240 x 320 pixel) display, a 3.2 megapixel cam and FM radio with RDS.Actually the new K770 Cybershot is targeting the not so rich geeks! but still love to get one dudes. With nice looks and few hardware and software inclusions like dedicated key, Cybershot phone software, picture blogging, Photofix editing etc capturing pictures doesn’t gets any better.

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Hitachi has launched the world’s first Blu-ray disc camcorders. Dubbed DZ-BD70A and DZ-BD7HA, the new camcorders surely mark a breakthrough in technology.

The DZ-BD70A camcorder is a single drive device that has the ability to record around one hour of Full HD 1920×1080 high-def video on 8cm single-sided recordable and re-recordable Blu-ray disc. The Hitachi camcorder incorporates Hitachi’s 5.3 MP CMOS image sensor and HD quality 12-element lens system. Furthermore, DZ-BD70A does not merely record high definition video to Blu-ray discs, but it additionally also comes with an SD card slot for storing digital still photos at 4.32 MP max resolution. Thanks to Hitachi’s novel Photo Capture feature, the camcorder enables users to through recordings on a Blu-ray disc; grab any still frame of video and save it as a photo to the SD card slot in 2.1 MP resolution. For further recording flexibility, the DZ-BD70A allows video recording in standard definition quality to DVD discs (DVD-R/-RW/-RAM).