I’m a big lover of cats and anything cat-related, but I’m not too crazy about the Japanese phenomenon Hello Kitty. There’s just something about Hello Kitty merchandise that’s too cutesy and kiddie for my tastes. Recently a mobile phone featuring the Japanese cat came...

The rumor mill has tongues wagging when Amazon.com sent select invitations to an important press conference at New York on February 9 were given out. While Amazon did not mention what the press conference will be about, people believe that it might be the launch of the Kindle 2, the new and...

I don’t know why Sony felt the need to go crazy with a paintbrush and spit out the Carnival Colors PSP line. Maybe they thought clown-ish colors would be more attractive to consumers and boost up their sales? Specs-wise, the blue, red, yellow, and green PSPs have nothing new. ...

Three different versions of the 10-inch Acer Inspire One D150 netbook have been released and will go on sale beginning February. The entry-level model, the D150-0B has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 160GB hard drive, 1GB memory, and a 3-cell battery. March will see the release of the two...

According to the New York Times, lower-cost technology like netbooks are on the rise as consumers cut costs in a time of recession. Netbooks started growing popular during the first quarter of last year, with 500,000 units shipped worldwide. During the third quarter of 2008, shipments rose...

Geek is the new cool these days, and you can’t get any more cooler than if you wear a pair of black-rimmed glasses. These $29 glasses don’t actually have glass on them, nor can you actually wear them, but they serve a number of other functions. It’s a 2GB USB...

I’m not the biggest fan of consumer manufacturers who slap on pink to their gadgets to make it marketable to women. Like this pink netbook by MSI. It’s so sweet and sugary in all its pink feminine glory, I can almost imagine ants crawling all over it. Look, it even has a heart...

If there’s one thing that Obama feared when he got elected as President of the world United States, it was having to give up his Blackberry smartphone. Obama’s Blackberry was a beloved gadget he could not do without; every now and then, he’d mention how useful the...

At CES 2009, Olympus gave in to a feature that consumers wanted in digital cameras: weatherproofing. And so the new 10-megapixel STYLUS 550WP digital camera was unveiled. Olympus describes this blue baby a “dunk and shoot camera” – it lets consumers shoot pictures...

Maybe it’s because I’m used to texting using a numeric keypad, but I’m not the biggest fan of QWERTY keyboards. And Nokia didn’t seem content with releasing the N97 as the bastion of all QWERTY phones; they just came out with the 5730 XpressMusic Phone. The new Nokia...