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The web is a hazardous consign. You can with no trouble be persuaded to expend hundreds on distended security parcels, special firewalls, and all other sorts of security voodoo. At home, you have your hardware firewall protecting you, but what about on the go. You’re not going to take that big brick with you, but you still want to be safe. Don’t fear, Yoggie, the security super hero, is here!
In a nutshell, Yoggie is like taking your home router with you, only without all the hassle of bulkiness and cables. Yoggie can operate in two modes: the first uses the built-in USB cable for power, connects to your ethernet port, and the ethernet wall socket, and the second simply uses your USB port for power and performs packet-packet filtering for your WiFI adapter through the use of a virtual bridge. I’m going to be honest with you, most all of that went over my head, but I got the general gist of it– Yoggie makes you safer without bothering you with unneeded hassles.
Yoggie has a ton of other features, but really, they’re not important. In the end, the only thing you care about is whether or not you and your data are safe on the internet. To help monitor that essential fact, Yoggie provides a web based UI that shows its current status and things that have been stopped thanks to its awesomeness. In a way, it’s sort of how Yoggie congratulates itself for its hard work.

Gratitude to gadget leaders Brando, the modest memory card reader at the present comes in the form of a can while throwing in a trio of USB 2.0 ports for your convenience as well. Supported formats include SD, xD, Memory Stick, miniSD, and microSD (sans adapter), so Compact Flash folks are out of luck. This tiny device measures a mere 59mm x 59mm x 49mm and weighs 60 grams. You can pick one up today for $17. This makes a great traveling companion, as you can never have too many USB ports. Now I’m hungry for a tin of minestrone soup.

Sony Reader is a book lovers’ miracle toy. The small, hand-held tablet, book-reader allows a reader to access hundreds of book in a single gadget for easy reading. These books can be easily downloaded from its website, at a small fee.  

The Sony Reader displays text in black or while to re-create a print-on-paper experience. The text is viewable even in sunlight or in dark. For sight-impaired the text can be magnified accordingly.  

The light-weight Reader is not only smaller than an actual paperback, it is also portable. Its rechargeable battery allows you to turn up to 7,500 pages before it dies out. The battery can be recharged in as little as 4 hours if you have an AC adapter.  

Now you can literally carry your whole library in your bag with this Sony Reader. This wonderful gadget comes with a hefty tag of US $349.99

 Odd to notice how wood is building an manifestation in electronics. It appears as though people are increasing sick and tired of those cold exteriors that do not express any sense of quality or warmness. Designer Roland Kaufmann have notion up of a perception known as the Jano bicycle. This two-wheeler will be made out of wood, and has a dual purpose, being able to be used for everyday commute between home and office as well as making for a sturdy off-road bike.
Wood is used since the designer believes it is much lighter than other standard bikes, and with a stiffness up to 10 times more than fibreglass and nearly half a dozen times stiffer than a kevlar/epoxy composite, who am I to argue? Just keep this far away from termite mounds.

Now, this may look rather strange to others - you talking on the handset, but there is no cord sticking out of it. Some may think that you are trying to fool them; others may look at you as if you have gone crazy.  

But the really fun part is that there exists such a handset and its called ThinkGeek’s Bluetooth Retro Handset.  

ThinkGeek’s the gadgetry organisation, has come up with this new cool handset, that has bluetooth technology embedded in it and it allows you to talk to your cell phone, meters away.  

Apart from the convenience, the only small hassle may be its shape, that just doesn’t allow its holding against the shoulder.  

It is available across the United States for only US $ 35.

Now, this is a cushion that lets you do all your favourite pastimes at the same time– talk, listen to music and rest.  

The UrbanTool’s perCushion has an embedded microphone and a speaker that lets you rest your head comfortably while you enjoy your favourite tunes and talking to your best friend. Or even, drift off to sleep while enjoying Mozart or Bach.  

It is still in the evaluation process, and hence, isn’t available for sale at the moment.  

For more information, you can check it out at www.urbantool.biz.

This multi-use printer is a GSM integrated instrument. It can be used to print, fax and copy documents like any other multi-activity instrument but with a difference.  

A normal such device cannot send your data wireless, but this Greta Printer can. It can transmit the data via a GSM tri-band directly to your PC or laptop.  

It can literally, turn any place that you are, in a (your) mobile office.  

It has a small LED, an illuminated keyboard, a USB port and holds up 50 feet of roll of paper.

For all those Nintendo fans out there, now here is something that you will definitely like.  

We, even I am a Nintendo fan, knows the hazards of playing this little gadget all the time. No, I am not talking about the waste of time and energy. That is a separate matter all together.  

I am talking about the safety of the gadget itself. Nintendo users are well aware that we, fans, tend to misuse it thinking that the gadget is damage-proof, and we become a bit careless with it.  

Well, exactly for this reason that someone wise enough came up with the Nintendo DS Lite covers that will keep your beloved gaming instrument safe.  

And the best part is that it doesn’t add much weight to the already-hefty device. And it retails at only US $ 15.

This is a wonderful device for all music lovers, especially if you are karaoke fan.  

MixmanDM2, a very apt named music double-deck unit allows you to mix various types of music to create your own specific genre.  

It even allows you to add your own vocals to jazz up a song.  

All you need to do is simply connect it to your PC, via a USB port, add some bass, a pitch of your voice and viola; you have a completely new sound record in no time.  

It sells at a convenient price of US $ 90.

Coffee drinkers take delight…. now, just the appliance that they have been hankering for has finally arrived. 

The Keurig B70 Gourmet Home Brewing System is a single cup coffee machine that works by inserting the cup containing the coffee and viola, in less than a minute (about 40 seconds flat) you have a steaming cup of coffee in front of you.  

But the downside is that the machine can only hold K-cup, but 18 different types of them.  

The LCD is has a blue backlight and displays all the required information. Then there is a adjustable water temperature option that works for people who do not like steaming hot beverage.  

It is modestly priced at US $ 200.