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).

Here's another video shown at the Nokia World conference by the firm's head of design Alastair Curtis. This one shows off the way they think the user interface of phones may go, turning into a whizzy touchy-feely touchscreen type affair. A bit like Minority Report, except on a small screen. Obviously.

Click below to see the vid. And don't forget to check out the first part too.

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The presentations at the Nokia World conference have just finished – I've got a stack of stuff to post up in the next few hours, so keep checking back. But in the meantime, here's one of the animated videos shown by Nokia's head of design Alastair Curtis, showing where they think this mobile lark is heading in the next few years.

This was the 'Live' video, and shows how we'll be touching each others' phones to pass messages in clubs in the future, rather than hitting each other with Bacardi Breezer bottles. An improvement, I think. Click below to watch it.

PREVIOUS NOKIA WORLD COVERAGE
Are you a life juggler or a technology stylist?
Geek TV crosses Miami Vice and Dom Joly with YouTube and, er, breasts
Hands On talks football, mobile advertising, and its Mobizines rival
Refresh Mobile talk about their award-winning Mobizines
Fancy a 100GB mobile phone with a built-in projector?
Next-gen N-Gage to work on 5-7 phones from Day One
Nokia declares war on the iPod!
Ruud Gullit on gadgets and marriage: "It's like warfare..."
Two mobile phones and one DJ Slow...
Nokia promises WiMAX handsets in 2008
Tech Digest goes to Nokia World

A survey from m-Send suggests that only 51% of 16-24 year olds and 53% of 25-34 year olds want to access the content provided by their own mobile network operator via an Internet mobile. The number rose to 76% of over 55s who'd prefer to only get their own operator's content.

This concurs with other research that shows the younger generations want the freedom from the so-called 'walled garden' of content that their mobile operators present to them.

A new survey of texting teenagers by Hotxt has revealed what teenagers think about text messaging and etiquette (or lack of it).

Amongst the musical celebs that teens would most like to add to their texting circle of friends, Lindsay Lohan beat Paris Hilton as the most popular female (22.8%), with Lily Allen in second place (20%).

In TV celeb land, Charlotte Church (I thought she was a musician, oh well) came number 1 with 17.8%. Declan Donnelly came second with 14.7% though Ant was in 7th place (7.4%). Slightly worrying (surely) is that Simon Cowell came third with 12.3%. Why?? Louis Walsh was the least favourite of all, though. Jamie Oliver came 4th with 10.7%.

Library House events always attract an interesting collection of start ups and innovative media companies. Today’s line up is a corker. So far I have heard presentations from our old faves Bebo and interactive TV company Two Way Media.

Perhaps the highlight so far was a presentation by video streaming company Mydeo. Essentially the company provides video hosting for individuals or small business. Users pay a small fee to subscribe. So why would you pay when you use services like YouTube for free?

Garmin satellite navigation systems can now download a software update that will allow them to send and receive SMS text messages when paired with a compatible Bluetooth mobile phone. And some of them will even speak those text messages (though how it's going to cope with text language I don't know)

Pioneer has announced the launch of its DVR-940HX-S HDD recorder in Europe. It sports a massive 500GB hard drive which should give plenty of room for TV shows - around 1422 hours in fact though that is on the lowest quality Manual Recording Mode setting. There are seven recording settings to choose from, that will affect both storage on the hard drive and any DVDs recorded, with Super Extended Play mode giving up to 10 hours on a DVD.

It does everything a PVR should do - recording, pausing and playing live TV. It only appears to have one digital tuner, though, so you won't be able to record more than one show at once. You can, however, watch something already recorded whilst recording another show.

Microsoft are today unveiling three major software updates around the world.

Of course, the biggest star is Windows Vista, which finally makes its way out (into the business world at least) today (or possibly tomorrow, depending on which report you read - ahh but what's a day now eh?). After delays, speculation, and a little bit of ridicule from certain smaller sections of the computer world, it's finally here.

Another top question at the Media Tech summit (background here and here) was ‘which is the best investment you have missed.’

The panellists gave some great answers with Anil from Google essentially acknowledging that the company should have been much quicker at spotting the potential of YouTube.

Ben Holmes from VC firm Index relayed an anecdote of how a VC had a meeting in Switzerland with an entrepreneur who had showed a website with a line you could click on to connect to another site. ‘It looks interesting said the VC - but what is the business model?’ Basically the VC had written off the World Wide Web.

Why do so many people wake up to breakfast radio? Because it's so annoying, it literally drags us kicking and screaming out of our slumber. And even more annoying than the sound of Chris Moyles and Terry Wogan combined is the Flying Alarm Clock.

It's annoying for two reasons. Firstly, it's got an annoying tone not unlike the Star Trek red alert siren. And if that's not bad enough, if flies around your head. Ok, the whole clock doesn't fly, just the propeller, which hovers around the room with accompanying noise until you get up and put it back where it came from.

So I've been invited to the IBM island, in the IQ region. We're about to embark on a "quick collaborative building project" which should be interesting since I've never actually done anything like that in SL. In fact, I don't tend to go on all that much - although my other half is totally hooked and is currently building a folk club. The problem I have with SL personally is that I'm basically a misanthrope and I don't want to chat to a lot of strangers. For some reason I'm no less shy in the virtual world and since I don't feel a pressing need to indulge in virtual shagging, I've found it hard to discover anything that thrilling to occupy my time. But hey, I'm willing to be turned - and as a technology I find it very exciting indeed.

Maxfield has a new range of MP3 players on the market under the MAX-IVY banner. No video this time, but it does promise to keep its good looks and offer you the lyrics of your favourite tune.

The case is made of scratch proof black magnesium, so you'll keep a smooth exterior no matter how many bumps it attracts. It also features blue touch-sensitive controls, plays MP3 WMA and OGG music files, displays your JPEG images and offers you the lyrics to your tunes onscreen via .lrc files. Who needs karaoke?

The name iPaq still conjures up images of men in suits for me, but HP hopes to change all that with a revamped iPaq range - media player/GPS devices aimed very much at the consumer market.

The new range, just launched in Japan, includes the iPaq rx4240 and rx 4540, both of which feature a 2.8-inch, 320 x 240, 65,536-colour display, a 400MHz Samsung processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Windows Mobile 5.0 if you fancy doing a spot of work. They also have 128MB of Flash ROM and 64MB of RAM, with the rx4540 adds 1GB of Flash storage (there's an SD/MMC slot on both devices for expanding).