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Vuzix widescreen The Vuzix widescreen Iwear are goggles with two build in LCD screens. When you hook the Vuzix up to a MP4 player or mobile phone, the images will be shown on the LCD screens. The biggest advantage of this technology is that all your surroundings contain of the images you are watching. This can be compared of watching a movie in the theatres. A must have when you travel a lot. Powermat The Powermat is not just a design door mat. It is a device which is capable of charging your phone or MP3 player without using any wires. You have read it right, it is a wireless power transmitter. Just put your device on the mat and it will charge. Your friends will be blown away. Philips DCP951 This Philips DCP951 is a portable DVD Player, something we our used to these days. Still this one has managed to stand out from the rest. The screen for instance is HD-Ready which means a higher quality than all the competitors. Besides that there is the possibility to plug in several headphones

Don't look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware. The company's overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful. Remember the Smart Display? The Spot Watch? The Ultra Mobile PC? The original Zune? But Microsoft's new second generation Zune music/photo/video player is a pleasure to use. It fixes a long list of things that made the original Zune such a pathetic wannabe. Best of all, the new Zune is starting to develop its own identity. The echoes of Microsoft executives saying, "It'll be just like the iPod, only ours" aren't quite as loud on this one. The family includes three new models. First, there's an 80 gigabyte hard drive Zune ($250) whose size, design, shape and price are intended to compete with the 80gig iPod Classic. Then there are the flash memory based models, which resemble last year's iPod Nano: thin, tall slabs that hold 4 or 8 gigabytes of music, photos and videos (for $150 an

Apple has warned that anyone attempting to unlock their iPhone to use with an unauthorised mobile network could find their phones irreparably damaged . The company said that modified mobiles would become "permanently inoperable" once Apple updates were installed. It follows a flurry of hacks claiming to unlock the phone, which is tied into the US AT&T network and O2 in the UK. Apple has denied that it is "doing anything proactively to disable iPhones that have been hacked or unlocked".

If you have a cellphone, you know you've done it before: hustled around to get your phone out of a pocket or bag to check the caller ID, only to find out you didn't want to answer anyway. Sony Ericsson and Fossil have teamed up to create a watch that will try and make sure you never do it again. The Sony Ericsson MBW-100 Bluetooth Watch ($245) has the classic, sleek looks that Fossil is known for, along with a small OLED screen that can display caller ID info, a digital time readout (there is a normal analog face on the watch), notification of text messages, and more. The buttons on the side of the watch can ignore calls and control the audio player of your Bluetooth phone . This is a must have accessory for the holidays. Nikon Coolpix S700 Normally, we're not too big on pocket cams — they tend to be light in weight and light on image quality — but that might change with the Nikon Coolpix S700 ($380; Sept. 2007). This new metal-bodied cam boosts image quality with featu

The Nokia N95 , the only smartphone to come close to rivaling the iPhone , has called in reinforcements in its battle with the Jesus phone. The new Nokia N95 comes in an all-black design with 8GB of built-in storage and a new luminous 2.8-inch QVGA display. Add that to its predecessor's killer features — a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics , GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and its 2-way slide keyboard — and you have one hell of a device. And you thought the iPhone was expensive . Nokia N81 N-Gage is dead, long live N-Gage. While gaming isn't the Nokia N81 's (430 EUR/$590, Q4 2007) only feature, it is part of the company's revival of the long-dead gaming platform. With features including non-US HSDPA, Wi-Fi, 8GB of storage, a new 3D multimedia menu, and the ability to buy and manage games and music from the Nokia Music Store and N-Gage service, the N81 is a do-it-all pocketable powerhouse.