With The Beatles back-catalogue no closer to being digitally distributed online, Retro To Go have found this bizarre, officially sanctioned Beatles apple available in time for Christmas. The Beatles Stereo USB Apple will have the band's entire back catalogue in casing that will comfortable sit aside a packet of crisps in your lunchbox.

With a Fab-Four themed flash interface the 16GB stick will feature 14 digitally re-mastered albums, mini documentaries, album artwork and CD "visual elements" which will probably be something akin to expanded liner notes.

The tracks themselves will be getting a lossless FLAC 44.1Khz 24 bit format overhaul, and will also be on the USB in 320 kbps MP3.

There are only 30,000 of these limited edition USB Apples available, and at £200 they are sight more expensive than a Granny Smith.

Check The Beatles website for more information.

Firebox are selling a Night Vision Digital Video Camera for just £69.95.

Shaped a bit like a pistol, the camera lets you capture still photos and video footage in pitch-black darkness. Though it can only record two minutes of footage on its tiny 32meg onboard memory, an SD upgrade slot allows for expansion up to 2GB, which translates as approximately 75 minutes of footage.

It's unclear how much everyday use you'll get out of a night-vision camera. But it'll be great for gathering video evidence and slapping an ASBO on that fox that keeps tipping up Tech Digest's wheelie bin.

Grab the camera at http://www.firebox.com.

Scrub out whatever was at the top of your Christmas list, because whatever it was, it just wasn't as awesome as the Wall Of Sound iPodspeaker.

Weighing in at 102 kg and measuring up at roughly 4 x 3 foot, the Wall Of Sound is an absolute beast, with a 125 watt amp and frequency response of 40Hz - 20,000kHz.

It's mad enough to make even its namesake Phil Spector proud. And at roughly £2750, he's also one of the few who could afford it.

Here's the spec sheet:

• Dimensions: 950 x 1,250 x 300 mm
• Frequency Response: 40 Hz - 20,000 kHz
• Weight: 102 kg
• Max Amplifier Power: 125 watts
• Sensitivity: 95 decibels
• Nominal Impedence: 8 Ohms
• Crossover Frequencies: 1000 and 5500 Hz

Check out the Wall Of Sound website here.

We have all seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and how Mike Tevee gets teleported from one screen to another. Then of course our mates on the Enterprise, they knew a thing or two about teleporting.

So far though teleporting hasn't been a central plank of any consumer electronics company's visions - well not until know. Over at the Electrolux site you'll find details of the world's first teleport fridge.

Ok, so it is an entry in a competition, but Electrolux is certainly taking it seriously-ish. Ok so the advantages are pretty obvious. You don't have to waste hours in the supermarket/or online buying your food. And if you run out of milk you just press a couple of buttons and voila there is your semi-skimmed.

But teleporting? Well the fridge's designer, a Thai student called Dulyawat Wongnawa reckons 'In the next 90 years, we will see a lot of technologies that today we think are completely impossible. Even though my teleportation concept might sound far-fetched, scientists have already succeeded in teleporting small particles such as photons. So over the next 90 years, this technology will have time to develop and become part of our everyday lives.'

Hmm. Still it is well worth watching the video as Henrik Otto, senior VP of Global design at Electrolux, just about manages to explain the concept without cracking up. I bet it took a few takes.

Anyhow click on the Teleport Fridge below to see a range of other Electrolux innovations including the very sensible wall mounted dishwasher and the slightly more ambitious waterless washing machine.

It's Saint Patrick's Day, and although that probably has some great significance to many, in my experience it's mainly an annual excuse for people to drink heavily and wear green.

But that doesn't mean you have to forget about tech for the day - no siree! Before you go out to celebrate one of Ireland's patron saints, be prepared for anything with our top 10 drinking gadgets! We've scoured the web for the most inventive, unusual, fun and simply baffling devices to help the day go off with a bang.

So sit back, grab a brew and click the frosty pint below to begin the tour...

Alan Martin

Here's something I doubt you'll see at MWC and probably for a very good reason. There's not many people who enjoy dropping their phone on the floor ,so any footwear company would be hard pressed to sell the idea of walking on it for several miles a day.

However, a chap by the names of mikeyberman has put together a guide on Instructables of how to make the perfect device for getting your phone into places you shouldn't - places without metal detectors presumably.

This scares me a little. It's a little bag with a heating element in, which claims to cook your lunch when plugged in via USB. In reality though, 60C is barely warmer than a cup of tea - certainly not enough to kill any bacteria. Don't rely on it to grill a steak beyond "rare".

On the other hand, if all you're doing is heating up your cous-cous, then my objection isn't so pronounced. Who knows? Maybe in the hands of Heston Blumenthal it could be a force for good. Now there's a program I'd like to see - Heston Blumenthal's USB Lunchbox.

Thanko (via Oh! Gizmo)

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Yesterday, we had floppy disk posters, before Christmas we had floppy disk gift tags, today we've got floppy disk CD-Rs. Evidently the humble 3.5" floppy, subject of much mockery in the school playground, is now the coolest kid on the block.

Sure, they only hold 200MB of data (though that's 13789% more than the originals) and they're a little on the expensive side - at $10 (£7) a CD, but you can't put a price on retro-cool, right? Right? What do you mean "28p and a blackjack"?

Designboom (via Technabob)

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Adventurer and after-dinner speaker Neil Laughton's customised dune buggy can fly. So he's going to fly it - taking off from London this Wednesday, and landing/rolling up in Timbuktu approximately 42 days later.

The buggy comes with a detachable ParaWing (parachute/aerofoil thing) and has a fan on the back of it, allowing it to take off into the sky when it hits 45mph - and it can then cruise at 70mph at a possible and terrifying maximum altitude of 15,000 feet.

Neil's car can fly for 180 miles before needing to be refuelled, and there's a good chance that, should the mission be a success and nobody loses any of their eyes or legs, the Skycar will actually go on sale to suitably fearless and eccentric members of the public - at a price of around £50k.

(Via BBC)

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If you're young and still flexible enough to find the idea of (a) being outside in the cold and (b) hurtling down a hill really fast sitting on a piece of plastic enjoyable, here's the answer to your extreme sports prayers - a sled that works just as well on grass as on snow.

The Ice Meister SLICER is a grass-based sled that'll keep your bottom aching and your knuckles freshly grazed all year round, thanks to its removable sliders that users take out, freeze, then reattach for that year-round feeling of powerlessness and imminent death caused by going too fast down a hill with no safety equipment on and no members of St. John's Ambulance in attendance.

If your interest has been piqued, a PDF of precisely how the insane portable ice scheme works can be found here. The SLICER's for sale direct from the maker - but only for wannabe casualty ward visitors in the US and Canada right now.

(Via Dvice)

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Okay - I've seen some stupid inventions in my time, but this really takes the biscuit. It's a treadmill that - get this - moves along the road as you run on it. Like the treadmills-in-World of Warcraft video, but in real life. Your fake running gets translated to real movement. How's that for a waste of time, energy and the planet's precious natural resources?

(via Burbia)

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If I learnt anything from the second series of Heroes, it's that people who turn stuff into gold tend to end up in an early grave. A cautionary tale for Super Talent, who make USB drives out of 18 carat solid gold. The Pico-C USB drive. Oh, they cost US$599, by the way. What do you get for that cash? 8GB of storage, 30MB/s transfer speeds (gold's a very good conductor) and water resistance, in case you drop it in your $300 glass of champagne.

The company will also etch anything you like onto it for no extra cost, like a pretty zebra, your primary school nickname (big ears), or maybe even your company's logo. The whole thing arrives in a black velvet jewelery box with a certificate of authenticity and a gold keychain. I'll say again - US$599. That's £380. Yowch. Grab one on eBay and spraypaint it gold instead.

Super Talent (via ShinyShiny)

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In a straw poll I just conducted with a few former colleagues over Skype, I asked five people whether this product is cute or creepy. Turns out that four out of five rated it as "cute" - surprising, because I think it's one of the the scariest things I've ever seen. Place your vote in the comments.

It's a plush bunny toy, with a webcam in its nose. The webcam's not that great - 1.3 megapixel, and it captures in 640x480. Not awful, but not brilliant. Still, if you're buying a plush bunny webcam, then let's face it - you're not doing it for the specs.

There's a wide range of these webcams, from the cute (cow, penguin) through the obscure (supposed-to-be-a-mole) to the utterly trouser-browningly-terrifying ("Angel Baby").

Bunny-in-a-wittle-hat webcam

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Very rarely am I stumped for an opinion on a product, but this little baby has got me stumped like a pirate with two wooden legs.

Maybe i should just start by describing the thing: They're wings that are made of metal that you can wear. They are called: Cybertek Wings. And what you do with them... well, that's where i'm stumped.

As far as i can work out, you simply strap them to your back and press a little switch and - 'phwoom' - out pop the robo-wings. Ta-da! Brilliant. There you are, standing in your living room, pleased as punch, with your Cybertek Wings all stretched out in the breeze. Glorious... but now what? They won't make you fly. They won't let you glide. They don't.. do.. anything. Well, except go 'phwoom' at the touch of a button, and even then it only goes 'phwoom' seven times. After that, you have to take them off and build the air pressure back up before resuming your 'phwoom'ing.

If you want to go from this...

...to this...