Not exactly a huge technological breakthrough but these are some pretty sexy usb drives (ok i maybe need to get out more). This miniature flash drive is available in sizes up to 1GB in size. The Petito is available in 4 colors including gold, silver, blue and a dark gray. But best of all these are available to buy now. Great for ladies and sad men like me. Product Details

GadgetCentre were lucky enough to take the MediaMan HVX-3500 out for a spin and kindly gave us their views. On the whole they seemed highly satisifed.

The MediaMan is basically just a housing for a 3.5” hard drive that can play back tons of video and audio formats: “MPEG-1 (AVI, MPG); MPEG-2 (AVI, VOB), ISO, IFO; MPEG-4 (AVI, DivX 3.11, 4.xx, 5.xx. XviD) DivX subtitle (SRT, SMI, Embedded Multiple Subtitle) and Audio - WAV, MP3, MPEG-4(AAC), WMA, OGG Vorbis, AC3, DTS.” That’s a lot. (more…)

Word has it that Steve Jobs is currently engaged in rather heated debate with the major movie studios. It all surrounds sorting out the pricing of offering movies for download via iTunes. In line with his 99cents per song, $9.99 per album and $1.99 per TV episode steve jobs is fighting to bring us movies for a flat fee of $9.99 per download. But surprise surprise the movie studios want more and a more complex varried pricing structure depending on the popularity and date of release of the film. The movie studios want to see the download fees ranging from $9.99 up to $19.99. The movie companies recive 70% of these fees. Rumour is that apple looks closest to giving in but we will wait and see. We hope this isn’t true especially seeing as you can buy the DVD for barely anymore than $19.99!

Ok so we know there are already like 10,000 different ipod docks available and you are sick and tired of seeing the same designs over and over. But for once this one actually looks rather unique. Available in black or white, the dock is compatible only with iPods, however a line-in input permits connection to other digital music players. Each speaker delivers 7.5 watts of sonic punch and the subwoofer provides an additional 15 watts. These are going to set you back around £130.

So you want one of those clever VoIP phone’s but don’t want to have to use something that closely resembles a 1980s mobile brick phone? Well take a look at this sexy little beauty. The phone can work with nearly all VoIP software, including Skype, and operates over USB 2.0. No drivers are needed on XP or Mac OS. Although seriously guys you must have had to think long and hard about the name - well done.

So if you’re anything like us your computer is surrounded be piles of CDs all in a complete mess and generally making the place look a mess. Well not anymore my friends now you can impress the ladies with your latest disc media storage device – trust us you’ll be the coolest kid in town with one of these. Japanese Bluedot just announced their Divita BDM-100S “neo style” disc storage system, it’s for the storage and retrieval of up to 100 DVD or CDs. Discs are located by scrolling through your collection on that 1.8-inch display or by tapping in the title and searching the catalogue. Without any type of PC connectivity or CDDB lookup required. It’ll be available from July and will cost about ¥41,790 or $370.

Well it’s that time again. We’re looking for fresh faces to be a part of Widgx.
Are you a person who has a passion for technology and gadgets?
Are you a person who’s reliable and well spoken?
Do you just love reading tech news in the morning?

If you’ve answered yes to all three, why not send a quick email? Joining Widgx gives you all sorts of advantages and benefits. Who knows, you might even be able to make some money for the summer adventures!

Send over your application with the following information.
Name, Age, Location, Education, a sample of your post (to judge your writing skill), a brief background, and your contact details.

The main thing to mention is how regular you will be available to post and/or you wish to post in a few sections.

Send your emails to: kei ( a - t ) oxygen-inc. com

Good Luck!

We all see that the scramble for your web attention is at all time high. Companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google are buying anything that they think a user might like and incorporating it into their own networks.

However it seems that simplicity is the answer in most cases. Hello PageFlakes. Upon stumbling across this site I noticed that it has a nice clean layout and offered you a vast array of customizable options and all without the support of ads.
I used to try out Microsoft’s ‘Live’ service and it was pretty good, but it’s a fact that they’ll be throwing ads here and there like there’s no tomorrow once it’s final.
PageFlakes also has the added advantage of tabs. So that means you can have a bunch of windows as not worry about space.
A few suggestions that do come to my mind are, perhaps a browser within a browser? It’s gimmicky but it would be nice to show it off. I also like the way that the info pops out on Live.com more than on PageFlakes, and the final topper is that when Live.com’s weather is minimized, it shows a thin summary, whereas PageFlakes simply shows an icon.
Of course their biggest flaw is that they don’t have WIDGX on their feed list *winks*, but who knows? This might evolve into something that’s amazing.

What are you waiting for? Sign up! (it’s free)