The JB-200 is a very sexy looking set of bluetooth headphones which allow one to connect effortlessly to A2DP Bluetooth 2.0 mobile phones for calls and streaming stereo music.

The JB200 can be worn while wearing sunglasses and has been designed to be both sweat and water resistant. For extended use, the included battery has a claimed playback time of over five hours,  with recharges taking two.

With optional adapters, the JB200 is able to stream music from any device outputting audio from a 3.5mm jack, as well as the ubiquitous Apple iPod.

The JB200 Bluetooth headphones are available now from Jaybird direct at $129.99US. An MP3 or iPod adapter can be bundled for $159.99US or both for $199.99US.

Stay tuned as we try to secure a review of these very cool headphones.

Trackstick is an ingenious memory stick that literally tracks its location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude via GPS and its internal 1Mb of built in memory.

The data collected can be easily transferred to your PC via USB and imported into Google Earth to offer a visual representation of your journey. For added convenience, Trackstick II also includes a GPX photo stamping feature for adding your favourite photos to your maps.

The Trackstick II is available from Gearthstore for $179.00US.

Here's a scoop on what will be unveiled at Computex in a couple of months by GlobalTop:
the 66 channel SpeedAdvisor GPS will be able to warn you of speed cameras directly in your path.
It's pre-loaded with the most up-to-date speed camera locations which can be updated every day.
Depending on distance to the speed camera you will hear different beeps.
This might save you quite some money if you habitually try to treat the speed limit as a minimum
speed...
Here are some preliminary specs:

At the CES show this year SanDisk announced its new flash cards for camcorders – the Video HD range.

These cards are now available in Australia, providing 60 minute and 120 minute recording times in 4GB and 8GB models.

The highlights from the press release announcing the cards is included below for your reference, with Australian pricing. 

We reviewed the original Linutop a few months ago and liked it’s incredibly tiny form factor and low power consumption, but found the OS a little tiresome for beginners.

While still running a custom version of xubuntu, the Linutop2 has been up-rated, with a processor bump (Geode LX800), a new sexier black case, a power button (that was sorely missing on the original) and sensibly, an internal 1GB flash drive.

The new improved Linutop is available now from Linutop direct for 280Euros.

iHome’s new iP99BR is claimed to be the world’s first clock/radio for the iPhone. While it also works with current iPods, the unit has been engineered to suppress that annoying mobile phone noise speakers tend to make whenever your phone is near.

The iP99 has all the features you would expect from a quality clock/radio - , AM/FM radio with presets, and a user programmable snooze setting  - as well as some iPod/iPhone extras: Waking you to your own custom iPhone playlist at different times on different days, a remote that controls the unit and iPod menu functions.

Read on for more.

Vuzix claim their iWear AV920 glasses create virtual 62 inch screen (viewed from 9 feet) right in front of your eyes. Compatible with any composite audio/video devices, these glasses look set to replace that small screen TV for your portable viewing needs.

The glasses contain two 640x480 resolution video screens with an impressive 60Hz progressive scan update rate. 

The HomeStar PURE is the new, more affordable incarnation of Segatoy’s HomeStar Pro 21st Century Planetarium. At less than half the cost of the original, the HomeStar PURE projects 10,000 stars onto your ceiling and allows the user to manually rotate the star plate. The unit is powered by 4 AA batteries and with its new compact design, is no longer confined by an AC adaptor or cord.

The HomeStar PURE is available from Brando for $122US with a southern skies disc for us Aussies priced at $68US.

Computerworld has recently reported that in the next few years the sum total of Earth’s data will be in the two zetabyte vicinity. One Zetabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes.. in case you were wondering.
 
My personal and family data storage is still a little off that, but it has increased significantly since the birth of our child four years ago. This data is mainly in the form of digital photos and videos or work documents and it is all over the place: DVDs, CDs, hard drives in different PCs, etc.
 
The D-Link DNS-323 NAS RAID box offers a relatively inexpensive long term storage solution which can keep all your data in one place, allow universal access and when setup as a RAID 1 device, secure it from hardware gremlins.

Read on for more..

Watts in a name?  Well, that must have something to do with electricity, doesn't it? 

It's pretty elementary as Sherlock Holmes would say to his inquisitive offsider, Watson.

I love the name that DIY Kyoto has given to this energy monitoring device. 

Do It Yourself Kyoto is also pretty indicative of the type of company behind this. 

So let's see what the Wattson is capable of telling us apart from all the pretty colours and numbers.