Ever had your cellphone ring while you’re listening to your iPod? You quickly fumbled through your bag to silent the phone. But as you searched, your hands got tangled with your headphone’s wires. And frustration set in. You dug furiously into your bag while everyone on the train was looking at you as if you were crazy.

Don’t let that happen to you. With the new JAYS BlueStreamer, you can now connect your portable music player seamlessly to a Bluetooth device such as a cellphone. Upon incoming calls, the BlueStreamer automatically switches to your cellphone so you need not lift a finger. Good thing that it looks great as well with its smooth black finish.

BlueStreamer uses one AAA battery, and has a removable clip at its back. It also has an answering button, volume up/down buttons, skip/previous buttons, and a built in buzzer.

Bluetooth Specifications: v2.0 +edr
Bluetooth Profile Supported: Headset, Handsfree, A2DP
Talk Time: Up to 10 hours
Stereo Playback Time: Up to 8 hours
Standby Time: Up to 250 hours
Weigth: 20 grams (excluding battery)
Dimensions: 62 x 26 x 24 mm
Battery: 1,5 V AAA
Working range: 10 m

Available in January 2007, at US$69 each.

Tags: JAYS, BlueStreamer, Bluetooth, iPod, PSP, Gadgets

Original post by Leon Huang

A company called DigitalXtractions makes and sells the ULTIMATE OUTDOOR WEBCAM called the SCIRC t1. The camera gets its power from the sun, and connects to the Internet using built-in cell phone electronics. The SCIRC t1 isn’t cheap, though. The camera costs $450, and the solar panel costs $150 or $250, depending on whether you need the small one for sunny skies or the big one for cloudy weather. Plus, you need to buy a $60-per-year data subscription, which includes web hosting for the pictures.

Original post by Mike

Novelty never comes cheaply. Especially when you are paying for something that will supposedly be the only one in the whole wide world. Same goes for the white Sony PlayStation 3 currently on auction on eBay.

Carefully colored from black to white by the guys at PS3center.net, the job looks really well-done from the pictures. If you are the more daring kind, feel free to try following the instructions provided by PS3center.net. Or if you got lots of money to burn, take a shot at bidding for the one on eBay! It’ll go well with your white PSP, white Wii, white iPod, and white MacBook.

The highest bid is at US$3,050 at the time of this writing.

Tags: Sony, Playstation3, PS3, White, Game, Gadgets

Original post by Leon Huang

Nintendo is listening! In an attempt to fix the many flying wiimote issues that have been appearing all over the web, Nintendo is making the strap thicker.

The Wiimotes that come equipped with these new straps will be initially available in Australia. Until it reaches your shores or to fix the Wiimote that you already got, learn to love the fishing line!

Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Wiimote, Game, Console

Original post by Leon Huang

Integrating GPS with gaming, how cool! Just launched this week, the GPS Receiver for Sony PSP is supposedly only available in Japan. But Play-Asia.com has it for sale now, although I do not know if it will work with the PSPs in other parts of the world.

The GPS receiver currently works with the following titles: Minna no Golf-jou, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Start Portable, and Navigation Soft.

Gamespot has details on how the GPS receiver will work in some of the titles:

Minna no Golf-jou (SCEI, 2007) Minna no Golf-jou is a spin-off of SCEI’s popular Hot Shots Golf series, and it functions as a map utility for real golf courses. The software includes data of all golf courses in domestic Japan and lets the golfer check out everything from his distance to obstacles, as wells as the greens. The software can also be used as a management tool for keeping track of score data.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (Konami Digital Entertainment, December 2006) Metal Gear Solid’s new PSP action adventure game will make use of the GPS receiver to search for and collect new characters that can be recruited as soldiers.

Planetarium Creator Ohira Takayuki Kanshuu: Home Star Portable (Sega, October 2006) Sega’s constellation navigator is coming out two months before Sony’s GPS receiver, but it’s going to have support for the peripheral. Using the GPS receiver, players can acquire their current location and display the exact stars that they should be seeing up in the sky.

Navigation Soft (Edia, December 2006) This standard car-navigation software features all the roadmaps in Japan. Aside from searching for car and walking routes, the software can also be used as a directory to search for nearby shops and other facilities. The maps and database can be updated using the PSP’s network capabilities.

Damage: US$59.90.

Tags: Sony, PSP, GPS, Game, Gadgets

Original post by Leon Huang

“Ahhhhhh…..YEEEEEE…..Yarrrrr…NOOOO!”

*pant*

“NOOOOOO!! Yeahhhhh!”

Admit it, most of you look at least half as funny when playing your Wii.

Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Game, Boxing, Video, Funny

Original post by Leon Huang