Do you require your shirts to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs? If so, these Millennium Falcon cuff links are probably the perfect item of geekery for you.

Designer Lauren Swingle has made them subtle enough to wear at just about any formal occasion, rather than just a Star Wars wedding, and at $22 they're rather a red hot bargain, wouldn't you say?

Etsy (via Dvice)

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We're lucky here at Shiny Media, we get to wear whatever we damn well please to work. Of course, the team from Brandish sit next to us, so we're almost certainly getting judged, but it sure beats wearing a suit to work.

If you're unfortunate enough to have to, though, then although you'll have to shelve your Pac-Man and Left 4 Dead t-shirts, you can replace them with these gaming ties.

Featuring Tetris, Pong, Space Invaders and Asteroids, they're unashamedly 8-bit. They're available on Amazon USA and cost $25 a pop.

Tetris, Space Invaders, Asteroids and Pong (via Technabob)

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Sometimes it's the simplest gadgets, but it's pretty much always the simplest designs that work out best. These Amphibian Dynamic Scuba Fins picked up an award at the IDEA 2008 design festival and it's not hard to see why.

Would you wear this? Even if it was 1987 and the console was at the height of its powers? No, nor me. You'd get a smack in the face just walking down to the corner shop. But it'd be awesome to wear to a fancy dress party. Wait... how much? $200!? (£135) You can sod right off, even if it does have a thermal-insulated lining.

80s Tees (via Technabob)

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Just when you'd got the hang of telling the time on a variety of Tokyo Flash watches, along comes the EIN Cyber Heartbeat LED watch which enables you to make a fool of yourself in front of complete strangers who ask you the time as you try to decipher the heart monitor-like display.

If you're like me, or Shiny fashion editor Gemma, you spend a lot of time staring at PDFs and Abobe Reader. Who knows, maybe unlike us you actually enjoy it and you want to see the scrolling hand when you get home from work, too.

What you need is the "Clicking" oven mitt, to stop your poor hands getting singed when removing pots and pans from the oven. It's an authentic, pixellated, cursor hand, and you can bet your bottom dollar that after a week of use it won't be so shiny white and clean. Even so, it's bound to pump up your geek cred - and that's what's important in the kitchen, right? Right? Here - taste my risotto.

"Coming soon" from Bazar Design (via OhGizmo)

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Although having a USB drive around is very handy, they're a bit annoying to carry if you don't have a bag. If you wear them on a lanyard, you look like you've just stepped out of a computer scientist's convention, and they're a bit too bulky to carry on a keychain.

The wristband pictured above, sold by tinyliving, remedies the problem somewhat, providing 512MB of storage wrapped around your wrist. It's still not the coolest-looking bit of kit in the world though, giving me flashbacks to 2005's Make Poverty Fashionable History campaign. Still, if you want one they're just $30 (£21) so we're not exactly talking a massive outlay for this addition to your wardrobe.

Flash Drive Band (via LikeCool)

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The Yaktrax strap on ice walkers are not a lot more complicated than the image suggests but anyone who's been careful with their footfalls over the last few weeks of sub zero madness would appreciate the confidence they'd lend in the way that I'm lead to believe sanitary towels do for women when aunt flo comes to visit.

Apparently, the Yaktrax are used by Olympic bobsled teams which is a good sign and, that given, the price is comparatively low starting at $13.25. They come in four sizes and a few exciting colours if I'm-not-really-wearing-them clear is too subtle for you.

Yaktrax (via Coolest Gadgets)

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The LOK8U GPS child tracker watch by nu.m8 has got a lot of servers wagging. I'll do my best to avoid all the usual outrage but suffice to say, I'm not convinced it's the best idea I've ever seen.

It's essentially just a standard watch with a GPS chip fitted and you can then go to the nu.m8 locator site and get a lock on your kid. The watch itself is waterproof, robust and "designed to look cool" so that your kid will a) wear it, and b) not get kicked in for doing so. The trouble is, of course, that all the other kids will know what it means.

When I was a wee nipper, I used to talk into my watch and imagine that my friends could hear me. They invariably couldn't, which is probably just as well, but perhaps someone heard me, and now they work for LG. The LG-GD910 is basically a phone that you wear on your wrist.

As you can imagine, there's not much in the way of features - "you can wear it on your wrist" being top of the pile. Additionally, though, it's waterproof, weighs 85 grams, and has voice calling, text to speech, and stereo Bluetooth, which officially makes it better than the iPhone, in one category at least. It'll have three real buttons, a touchscreen, and weigh 85g. Due for release "this year".

LG (via IntoMobile)

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You might remember Vuzix from the VR920s that I reviewed back in October. They were bulky, unresponsive, and difficult to configure. These, however, look like a different kettle of fish. Specifically, a kettle of fish shaped like a pair of really nice sunglasses.

As well as the design getting a massive kick up the arse, the new glasses should also feature improved screens with considerably better immersiveness than the older model. The glasses unveiled at CES will be the non-interactive 'watch-videos-on-your-ipod' version, but here's hoping that an interactive gaming model like the VR920 will be released shortly after with the necessary built-in accelerometers.

(via Gadget Lab)

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Apple has decided to apply for a patent on a means of using a multi-touch device with gloves. Traditional gloves block the electrical impulses from your skin, meaning that a capacitive touchscreen doesn't get any signal when your mittened hand touches it.

You might be thinking 'how can you patent a product that's already on the market?', but the difference here is that the fingertips of the unconductive outer layer can be drawn back to reveal a more conductive inner layer. Apple suggests this could be accomplished with an elastic ring.

Apple's patent application (via AppleInsider)

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Got an old coat, rucksack, or perhaps a gimp suit, that you can no longer wear because the zip's broken off? ZlideOn has the answer. It's an awesome zip replacement that comes in two halves, which you just snap together over the zip's teeth. Instantly your PVC catsuit is back in action.

These nifty things will sell for about $9 (six quid or so) and are available now.

ZipClip (via RedFerret)

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It's a day for apparel at one of my favourite blogs. I couldn't really decide whether I was going to write about the Halo 3 messenger bag or the Space Invaders embroidered guitar strap, so I thought what the hell, I'll do 'em both.

Sadly the guitar strap is a DIY affair and unless you're a dab hand at cross stitch, you're going to need to ask your mum or other such person most likely to have ever sewed to, well, do it for you. The good news is that you can buy the messenger bag. The bad news is that you've got to order it from America, so there's little chance of it arriving before Christmas, but then, who'd want to give away a red hot item like that anyway? It's 14" x 14" and comes with four internal compartments for all your weapons and medi-packs.

When I first read that LimbGear was releasing an mp3-enabled skullcap, I pictured a niche market of rockin' rabbis. Sorry to disappoint but that is not the case.

Apparently "skullcap" is an Americanism for a beanie type hat and the one of note today is the Noggin Net. But that just made me think of Latino gangsters. Again, this was a mistake. With the benefit of the image above, we can see that it's a normal hat with a little pocket clearly market for mp3 player storage.

"But why not just put your music maker in your pocket," you ask and rightly so. At the worst it turns you into a mugging target. At the best, it might make you think twice about headbutting someone. Well, what you can't see under that coasy yet breathable fleece is that the Noggin Net also comes fitted with LimbGear earbuds too.

Of course, I can't guarantee you the quality of the hardware until it's shown off at CES but if you're willing to take an uncertain $29.95 plunge then you can pick one up now. Let me know how it works out. I won't be holding my breath.

LimbGear

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I love a good watch. Well, sort of. I actually hate them. Never wear them. Just plain don't like the feeling round my wrist, which is why I've just spent £120 on one but that's a matter for another time.

The fact is that watches are probably the all time classic gadget long before the advent of the mobile phone. So, how does the new Casio Pro Trek 1500 measure up? Well, let's start at the beginning. It looks good. It looks like the kind of watch MacGyver might own and later cannibalize to make something he needs to survive, possibly another watch.

Highly unenvironmentally friendly yet totally ace - the Pacific Outdoors Deluxe Boot and Glove Dryer (White) will be the first gadget against the wall come the eco-revolution but in the mean time will get wet footware dry in time for the second outing of the day.

They work by convection, as it says in the item description on Amazon which basically means that they tear a hole through your electricity bill and the ozone layer as fast as those blower heaters that your parents always told you to turn off.

Those looking for the kind of relatively inexpensive Christmas present to get you off the hook need look no further then the Etre Touchy gadget gloves.

Not quite fingerless and not complete either, this bastard knitware creation is designed to give you access to your mp3 players and, yes, most specifically your multitouch iPhone at the same time as keeping the majority of your digits warm.

I'd feel a little jealous if my apparel had been places I hadn't but when we're talking about a watch made of Moon dust, I might make an exception.

For all we know, Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome could be stuffing his expensive timepieces with sand from his local long jump pit but, so long as I believe hype, I'd feel pretty swish walking about telling people my watch comes from outer space, but the fun doesn't just end there, oh no.

This is quite nifty - a company called Ardica have created a combo gadget that simultaneously charges your gadgets and warms your cockles. They're calling it a "portable power and heating system". Basically, it's a wearable power pack.

You'll need a "compatible" jacket to take advantage of the heating. That's the first time I've ever worried about whether my jacket is "compatible" with anything before. You'll get 3 hours of high heat out of it, and 8.6 hours of low heat. They reckon the device will provide heat up to 100 degrees, which i'm hoping is Fahrenheit, rather than Celsius. Or Kelvin, for that matter.