New Gadgets

This guest post was contributed by Phone Shield
1. Everlast Wii Boxing Gloves:

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Ready to become the next Mohammed Ali? Well Everlast thinks everyone should with their thinly lined Wii boxing gloves. The gloves are exact replicas of Everlast gloves with pockets for the Wii-mote and Nun-chuck. After a few punches gamers will realize why video games should not be contact especially when they are not made as well as the original boxing gloves.

2. Wii Bowl:

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Everyone loves bowling, until a ball is flung at forty miles per hour at your new TV. The Wii-bowl is designed to make Wii bowling more realistic by allowing players to actually bowl the ball for their turn. However this was not completely thought out since most people who play Wii Bowling are bowlers therefore the chances of the bowl going flying are high and you walls will surely have large dents in them by the end of the frame.

3. Wii Light Sabres:

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Unfortunately the non-sense does not stop there, apparently people are in weapons and fighting, so CTA Digital created the Wii Light Sabres. These two 12″ swords are perfect for duelling, breaking your mother’s china, or puncturing a hole in the family couch.

4. Guitar Hero Guitar:

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No the Guitar Hero guitars did not attack humans or used an extra large fly swatter resulting in a massive chunk of ceiling hitting someone little brother in the head. Nope out of shear bad luck, two boys were jamming away on their guitars playing Guitar Hero II when lightning struck their house went through their guitars and eventually electrocuted them. The sequence of events is improbable but horrific for these young Jimi Hendrixes.

5. Project Natal:

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Kids get bored easily so a gaming company decided to make Project Natal, a virtual fighter game, awesome! Right? Well you can tell you mother why all her porcelain dolls look like they have been round house kicked to the face.

6. Cooking Mama Kit:

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Cooking Mama Kit perfect for those aspiring Wii Chefs. Look kids its fake food you can’t even touch.

7. Wii Pool Pole:

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Looking to be the next Wii Pool shark? Well you won’t be without the Billiards pole for the Wii-mote! Piece the pole together and slide in the remote and start shooting.

8. Gaming Vest:

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If there is one thing I know my kid wants, it’s to feel like they are being shot! Thankfully the Gaming Vest has been developed, including tons of “solenoids, eccentric-mass motors, and Peltier elements controlled by custom electronics” in order to feel like you are getting shot! Even better we should hook it up to Zoo Tycoon so we can feel like we are being mauled by tigers!

9. Retractable Wii Sports Cuff:

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For all those really intense Wii golfers do not fear losing the remote again with the Retractable Wii Sports Cuff. Whenever you think you might lose the remote have confidence in the Retractable Wii Sports Cuff to catch with 13″ of slack!

10. Wii Airplane Controller Stand:

Looking to fly for hours with your Wii Airplane simulator? If so give your arms a rest with the Wii Airplane Control Stand, just slide in the remote and nun-chuck and you are ready to fly.

For those of you out there who would love to have a headset that does not leave you tethered to your desk can check out the Logitech Wireless Headset H760, as this wireless device allows you to pace around the room while carrying out a VoIP conversation with someone else on your computer.

Thanks to its plug-and-play wireless functionality, you can now move within a 40 feet radius from your computer, but that figure will vary greatly, depending on the layout of the building you’re in. We’re guessing that it ought to be powerful enough to cater for small apartments and homes. Delivering a comfortable user experience thanks to its behind-the-head design, the Logitech Wireless Headset H760 will feature a built-in equalizer that enhances sound for voice, music and movies and a noise-canceling microphone, alongside quick-access audio controls for added convenience. It will retail for $99.99 a pop.

RIM has just announced a new product in their accessory line, the HS-700 Bluetooth headset. It’s an innocuous little Bluetooth headset with a nice leather finish, but what makes it special is that you can launch into actions using only your voice. Using voice alone, you can start a call, mute a call, redial, call the last person to call you, swap between calls, or pair to another phone.

Instead of having to press the side of it to answer, you can just say “answer” or “ignore” out loud – it’ll even tell you who’s calling after pairing up with your BlackBerry’s address book and figuring out some text-to-voice translation. For non-BlackBerrys, it’ll still say the phone number of the incoming call.The HS-700 Bluetooth headset even plugs into GPS mapping on your BlackBerry to provide turn-by-turn directions, right in your ear. Volume controls are entirely automated based on ambient noise, which I would be wary about trusting, but will have to try out to know for sure.

If you’re interested, the BlackBerry HS-700 Bluetooth headset is listed in BlackBerry’s online store as Coming Soon for a steep $129.99.

RadioShack  has been the go to place for all manner of weird electronics gear and RC toys for a long time. The company is trying to make itself into something more than a place you can buy toys and other obsolete components with the addition of a ton of mobile phones.

The company has announced that it will be offering the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone with three different carriers in one place. The Shack will sell you the Samsung Epic for Sprint, the Vibrant for T-Mobile, and the Captivate on AT&T. All of the devices are one and the same.

We already know the specs for the Galaxy S with a super AMOLED screen racking in at 4-inches, a 1GHz CPU, and HD multimedia capability. RadioShack will be selling the device at 4000 stores across the country starting on August 31 with pre sales kicking off on August 13. The T-Mo offering will come with Avatar movie, The Sims 3 game, the Vibrant will come with a $50 RadioShack gift card by mail, and the Captivate, which is $50 more than the Vibrant, will get a $20 accessory credit immediately in store.

The Japanese have done it again. They’ve made a prototype device that proves that GPS navigation systems can be fit into regular everyday use glasses. Simply called the “Wearable Personal Navigation System” the system consists of a battery, a microcomputer with GPS receiver, magnetic directional sensor, and a few LEDs.

So don’t get your hopes up so much. There won’t be any maps or virtual reality with these glasses. It just points to the direction you need to follow by lighting up a few LEDs. And the destination has to be entered on your computer first and then transferred to the prototype GPS glasses. It really just seems like a student project that’s getting a lot of attention.

We’ve all lost a high-tech gadget or two to that most low-tech of the natural elements: water.  Always miles ahead of us stateside folk, who have alternately used hair dryers and bowls of quick rice to dry out our devices, the Japanese have implemented the Dryer Box, a sort of clothes dryer for drowned gadgets.

The copy-machine-sized boxes have found homes in several of Tokyo’s Yodobashi Camera retail outlets, and promise that, if they don’t resurrect, they don’t collect. If your phone is among the lucky ones (which will have to do with whether or not the electronics have shorted), you’ll owe 1,000 yen (around $12). And that, dear readers, is a small price to pay when you can avoid telling your friends that you totally forgot your phone was in your pocket when you jumped in the lake.