SciFi Tech says it looks like female anatomy. I say it looks like a safe. Either way, the Starck O-Ring Digi Watch has something aesthetically stale vibe - a peculiar clunkiness and use of digi-ness in a way that looks gimmicky and cheap. (SciFi Tech calls it "a pretty innovative timepiece", which is why they have the advertisers for their own teevee show.) $110 USD. [GT]

Starck O-Ring Digi Watch [via Gizmodo]

Considering that the Stainless Steel Solar Vent can run for 48 hours in the dark, even in the winter hours, you're looking at a silent, cost-effective solution to areas that tend to have condensation or mold problems. Also, with it being solar powered you don't have to do any wiring. It can be set on intake, allowing you to circulate fresh air into those dusty computer rooms without sacrificing a precious wall socket. $130 USD and no mains charges after [GT]

Stainless Steel Solar Vent

Slipping out of one Silicon Valleyspeak presentation today ("Push the envelope!", "Innovation!", "Quadrants!"), I took the chance to get hands on with Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet. I hate the name – could it sound any more nerdy? – but the device itself is genuinely appealing.

It's a lightweight landscape handset, designed principally for web browsing, messaging, and multimedia. It's hard to say how it felt in the hands, as it was attached to one of those heavy security devices that stop journalists from walking off with brand new Nokia phones, but it did seem eminently pocketable.

The fine city of Bristol has selected Cityspace as a preferred partner in its plans to extend its wireless broadband network.

The network was originally piloted in 2004, and the extension will cover key business areas, transport routes, and several disadvantaged communities. It is expected to become the largest network of its kind in the UK.

There’s been a lot of talk at the Nokia World conference about the coming together of Web 2.0 and mobile. But a lot of it’s just that: talk. It seems logical that people will want to do similar things on their mobiles that they will on Web 2.0 services, albeit with extra elements of location and/or search thrown in to take advantage of the mobile phone.

But in a less high-profile corner of Nokia, the Emerging Business Unit, they’ve already created one application that’s attacking this convergance head-on. It’s called WidSets, and its nearest parallel is the Dashboard widgets on Mac computers, in that it pulls down information from websites to your phone, via RSS feeds, into the WidSets Java application.

You can pull down news stories, blog posts, Flickr photo streams, emails and weather forecasts, to name a few examples. Okay, so it might just be a slick RSS reader with a graphical user interface, but it’s easy enough to use that it could appeal beyond the tech-head community. I talked to Nokia’s Kaj Haggman to find out more.

In an interesting twist, Apple Corps may allow Apple to sell the latest Beatles album on iTunes, according to Fortune magazine. Though both companies have declined to confirm any negotiations yet, it could see both "Love" and the back catalogue of Beatles' albums available for download on iTunes.

Apple Corps have previously tried to sue Apple for trademark infringement, but were unsuccessful.

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Liindy Electronics has launched its Cat5 USB Extender that allows a user the simplicity of plug and play USB up to 50 metres from their computer using Cat5 or better cable (commonly used for Ethernet).