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.

Feel like owning a piece of golfing history? Currently lacking a watch? If you fall into the centre of that rather obscure Venn diagram, then what you need is the Seve Ballesteros golf watch pictured above. It's made of the bits of the golf clubs that ol' Seve used in his five under par victory at the Chunichi Crown Open in Japan back in 1991.

Of course, there's only so many clubs that Ballesteros used back then, nine irons, a pitching wedge and a sand wedge, to be precise, so the watch comes in a limited edition of 50. It's got a hole counter and a stroke counter, though the stroke counter only goes up to ten. It'll be released in November, and cost a whopping 21,500 Swiss Francs (£11,340). Each comes with the name of the club used to make it engraved on the back.

Seve Ballesteros Golf Watch (via Gizmag)

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Here's some nifty concept sunglasses from Nike which curve your field of vision, so you can actually (sort-of) see behind you! Normal field of view is 180°, but this extends that 25° on each side, giving you an effective 230° vision range. Useful for seeing that taxi that's about to knock you over. Nike say:

"To get technical, high power, diverging Fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º of view on either side. In doing this, vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process."

These beauties remain just a concept product. Sorry, but you won't be getting your hands on them just yet, but in the future, who knows?

Nike (via CrunchGear)

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To the right, delightfully arranged in a gentleman's breast pocket, is a hankerchief made out of Kevlar. Yes, the bulletproof, five-times-stronger-than-steel, para-aramid wonder-material.

Slightly ridiculous? Yes. Luckily, to keep the ridiculousness quotient of the world safely low, they're only making ten, but even so. Who really needs a hankerchief that can stop a bullet?

The manufacturer says that it bears no responsibility for any "schmucks and wooden-heads who feel compelled to test the endurance or resistance of the textile in any way." That's you told.

Kevlar Hankie (via Engadget)

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According to some scientist, humans have stopped evolving. This means we're not going to get any better - at least not naturally.

So I propose science steps in to make us better, seeing as Mother Nature can't be bothered any more. Here's how. These are the evolutionary steps scientists need to introduce to our gene pool ASAP.

1. SIDE EYES Seeing as our ears are always in use listening to MP3s of 1980s cover versions, it's hard to hear cars, bicycles and lorries coming toward you. I therefore suggest moving our eyes to the sides of our heads, like horses, so we're less likely to step out in front of buses because we can't hear them coming. You never hear about horses getting run over because they're too busy listening to the new Oasis album to listen out for cars, do you?

2. WIDER EAR CANALS Dunno about you, but my ear holes are never big enough to accommodate all these so-called "in ear" earphones. You know, the ones you're supposed to ram right in. I ram them in so hard it hurts and my brain pops, yet they still fall out after three minutes when the cable snags on my shirt. I therefore suggest scientists develop wider ear holes for better audio clarity and comfort "on the go."

Feast your eyes on this, it's the ridiculously named EQW-500DBE-1AVER, from Casio, and it's being launched to coincide with the release of Iron Man on DVD on the 27th October. For that reason, I'm just going to call it the Iron Man watch. It's yours for £170.

It's got a whole heap of awesome features, much like Iron Man's suit. It has two separate stopwatches, a countdown timer, an LED light, automatic adjustment thanks to radio transmitters, an alarm, world time for 29 cities and a stainless steel casing and wristband. It's also water-resistant up to 10 bar.

On top of the lovely watch, Casio are also running a competition to win a trip to Hollywood. You can enter that here.

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The d3o technology has been around for over a year now but I've never seen it before and I'll bet a lot of you won't have either. So, for those who have read about this incredible protective material, just enjoy the footage of a man being hit over the head with a shovel again.

d3o is a specially engineered intelligent material that's soft and pliable like putty under normal conditions but when under physical stress it becomes solid and highly shock absorbent; so shock absorbent, in fact, that you can do things like this...

This fantastic shirt, from ThinkGeek blows the headphone jack t-shirt and the Wi-Fi t-shirt out of the water. It features seven drums, and an inbuilt speaker. Each drum has a different sound.

There's an awesome video just over the jump of it being played, but I could seriously see this being used on stage. There's adjustable volume too, with the top volume being "really loud", so you can disturb your neighbors all around the house, not just when you're at your real drum kit.

But wait! He's not that much of a nutcase, as these sunglasses were only handed out to Microsoft employees in the 1980s. Which definitely makes them worth the full $173,000, as they are one of the few remaining pairs.

Here's a fantastic highlight from the listing, explaining in a little more detail why they are such a valuable item for Microsoft collectors the world over...

"These are one size fits most and totally fashionable. A reliable source said these were only given to a handful of employees and every pair has been broken or lost over time... Except for these! These sunglasses were in use while Microsoft Office (word, excel, etc) was created and released! These bright sunglasses were the reason for many bright attitudes during the rise of Microsoft, and those bright attitudes might be the only reason for Microsoft's success. "

Our Duncan has a very similar pair, included as part of the press pack from SXSW 2007. He says you can have them for £50. They've only been chewed a bit.

(Via NewLaunches)

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A spurned wife is currently selling a photograph of a pair of knickers she found in her bed, along with a "small" condom wrapper her husband foolishly left behind as evidence of his adultery.

The angry lady's listing originally offered the actual knickers, but was taken down due to eBay laws regarding the selling of used underwear. An eBay spokesman said "We let her know about the policy and instead she's now selling a photograph of the offending knickers."

The offending and marginally offensive knickers are described in the listing as "size humongous," and you might also want to read her lengthy description of how the evening in question panned out. It's a great warning to always use cheap hotels for that kind of thing.

(Via Reuters)

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