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Cigarette lighter phone

Good news for the smokers, you will not need to bring along a lighter with you, as the SB6309 Lighter Phone is a cellphone that comes integrated with a lighter, which you can use it to light up your cancer sticks.

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LG Black Label phones: BL40 and BL42

Two LG Black Label phones, BL40 and BL42 have been leaked on forums. The BL40 was earlier deemed as the LG next generation of LG Chocolate that would eventually fall in the new LG line – Black Label.

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GPush – Push GMail for the iPhone

For business users, you may prefer a BlackBerry than an iPhone. As the BlackBerry allows you to have your emails such as GMail, Yahoo pushed to your device. If you’ve chosen iPhone simply because of it brings more fun, but you should also wish that it could do similarly what the BlackBerry does, pushing emails to you or at least from the GMail.

Thanks to the new 99-cent application for the iPhone. Called the GPush, a GMail “pusher” application, which now allows the iPhone users to receive push notifications whenever there is a new message coming into your GMail inbox.

The GPush works very simple, you just need to enter your GMail account notification information. On the backend, the app actually communicates with GMail via the Gmail’s standard IMAP idle function, which may have little delay between the mail hitting your inbox and the notification getting pushed from them to your phone. The lag could be around 10 to 30 seconds, which should be widely acceptable for most users.

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Dyson Energy Bracelet produces electricity in ambient air for charging gadgets

Called the Dyson Energy Bracelet, which is currently just a concept, designed by four third year students of the Industrial Design at Nantes Atlantic Design School in France. The special bracelet produces electricity from the ambient air and stores it in its internal Li-Po battery, which can then be used to charge your gadgets on the go.

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak tool, purplera1n

Long-time Apple hacker George Hotz is ahead of the iPhone Dev Team, having released the purplera1n tool, which is not unlocking the iPhone 3Gs but at least capable of jailbreaking it by allowing the iPhone 3GS to install unofficial 3rd party applications.

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Leaked Nikon D3000, D300S DSLRs

Some leaked images and rumors suggest that Nikon are having two DSLRS, D3000 and D300S on the way. The D3000 is claimed to be the cut-down version of the Nikon 5000, whereas the D300S is supposed to be an update of the D300.

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Cigar USB drive – an e-cigar that stores your data?

This Cigar USB flash drive was made using a real cigar. It is a DIY project from some brainy guys over at Instructables. The cigar was stuffed with a USB flash drive, a couple of LEDs, and some other parts.

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Michael Jackson Theme for the BlackBerry 9000

Michael Jackson theme has been released for the BlackBerry 9000 users. If you’re one of the countless millions mourners of the loss of the King Of Pop, now you can keep all the MJ’s classic poses on your BlackBerry, so you’ll be closer and able to continue your mourning at anywhere and anytime you feel like.

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PQI cool drive U360 for ease of transferring data between computers

The PQI cool drive U360 simply looks like a normal USB flash drive, but it offers extra i.e. you can use it to transfer data between two computers.

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SIM unlock card for iPhone 3G and firmware 3.0

Here comes a quick and easy way to unlock your iPhone 3G that runs the firmware 3.0. By simply plugging in this SIM unlock card into your iPhone 3G, you’ll then be freely using other network SIM cards in your iPhone 3G.

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