If you don’t have a car with integrated Bluetooth functionality and you’d like the ability to have hands-free phone conversations in your car anyhow, never fear – the Supertooth Light Bluetooth Handsfree Kit is almost here! (ok.. you have to like that rhyme right?)

What is this device? Well first you need a Bluetooth enabled phone. Secondly, you get one of these Supertooth Light Bluetooth Handsfree Kit devices and then pair the device to your Bluetooth enabled phone. This device basically acts as an external speakerphone for your car – allowing you to control your Bluetooth phone and communicate with callers wirelessly using Bluetooth.

You can hook the Supertooth Light to the sun visor in your car. The device comes with a microphone shaft and call answer/reject buttons. The Supertooth Light has a built in DSP chip which helps to perform noise and echo cancellation for clearer audio.  Other features include a Lithium-Ion battery, a weight of 115 grams, and a talk time of 15 hours and a standby time of 800 hours.

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Ok.. so if that Leopard skin pattern mouse with Swarovski crystals was a bit too geeky for your significant female other – how about getting her a pair of these gold Shuga Buds Swarovski Earphones? She’ll DEFINITELY like these right?

The Shuga Buds Swarovski Earphones have Swarovski crystal accents and complement her Apple iPod, or really any portable audio device. The package comes with a wind up storage case and a gift box – all for $52 bucks at Saks Fifth Avenue.

[Check it out via Crave]

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Listen up boyfriends and husbands out there - it’s getting closer and closer to Christmas time and what better gift to give to your geeky (female) loved one than a Shuga Buds Swaroski Leopard Mouse. Yup – you read it correctly – it’s a wireless mouse combining a leopard design with Swarovski crystals. For $150, you also get a charging cord and a USB communicator. Not bad. It’s powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

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BenQ has introduced a new portable DLP projector called the MP510 priced rather aggressively at $499. This portable unit weighs only 5.9 lbs and has a brightness of 1500 ANSI lumens. Other technical specs include:

• Supports analog RGB, component video, S-Video inputs
• Supports 480p, 576p, 720p, and 1080i
• Contrast ratio of 2000:1
• Measures 10.9 x 3.6 x 8.2

The projector has an auto shutoff feature when no input signal is detected and is also password protected.

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While we’re on the subject of Itron Technology, they’ve also gone ahead and released two new USB 2.0 webcams called the Phenix-Q8+ and the Phenix-Q9. New features of these webcams include:

• 1.3 megapixel resolutions
• Built in omni-directional microphone
• Dual functional stand for table and LCD screens
• VGA and 1.3 megapixel video capture support

The Phenix-Q9 webpage is up and here are the specs for that camera:

• 1/3″ CMOS sensor
• Video capture up to 1280 x 960
• 1.3 megapixel still capture
• 30 fps capture at 300K pixels
• 15 fps capture at 1.3 M pixels
• USB 2.0 interface
• 59 degree field of view

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If you’re sick of the typical mouse design, check out the new Lynx-R6 flat optical mouse by Itron Technology. Yes you may never have heard of this company (we sure haven’t) but you have to admit the mouse is different. I can’t see how this mouse would be ergonomically sound for your hand and arm but hey – it’ll certainly turn heads. Actually it reminds me of old Sun Technology mice right?

Anyhow, the Itron Technology Lynx-R6 features the following specs:

• Flat card holder with receiver embedded design for best mobility
• Polished surface like the iPod
• 3 button mouse with scroll wheel
• Two way 2.4GHz RF technology with 72 channels
• 1000dpi resolution with 14 IPS tracing speed and 2G acceleration
• Up to 10 meter operation range in open space
• Low power consumption with smart power saving function
• Available in Black/Silver and White/Silver
• Uses 2 AAA batteries

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Newport Media is introducing a new single chip mobile TV receiver called the NMI300 which it claims to be the world’s lower power consuming chip available. The NMI300 Sundance H mobile digital TV receiver will significantly increase viewing time while cutting the size of handsets and reducing overall costs to build such players.

Features of the Newport Media NMI300 include:

• Ability to receive up to eight simultaneous channels while maintaining 3.0 dB noise figure
• 7 mm x 7mm footprint
• 55 dB of adjacent channel rejections
• 110 MHz Doppler Frequency Performance in 8k mode

The NMI300 is initially focused on the DVB-H market but Newport Media plans on supporting other interface standards such as T-DMB, ISDB-T and MediaFLO.

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Feel like ponying up some cash? Microsoft has partnered with La Brea Massive to hold a silent auction of several customized Zune media kits. If you’re not familiar with La Brea Massive – they’re the folks behind behind famous urban streetwear companies Stussy, Union, and UNDFTD.

If you drop on by the three LA stores of these companies, you’ll be able to see the Zune media kits on display. Each store will have two kits available for the auction.

The customized Zune Media Kits include:

• Zune MP3 Media Player
• Shure E5c Earphones
• JBL On Tour Portable Loudspeakers
• ZeroHalliburton 5″ Black Aluminum Attache

Each Zune player is customized featuring logo art and staff picked playlists.

The silent auction began on October 28th and will run until November 13th. You don’t have to be here in Los Angeles to make bids on the players of course. You can send in your info and your bid via email and then you’ll be notified if you won one of the kits.

Click here for additional information on how to go about bidding for the customized kits.

I’ll try and drop by one of the stores this week to snap up some pics. Would love to go today but I don’t want to deal with the Halloween celebrations taking place in West Hollywood along the way…

[Check it out via ZuneSphere.com]

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Conexant Systems is introducing it’s next generation audio/video decoder for PC TV and consumer applications called the CX25845. The new chip is targeted at applications such as digital televisions, set-top boxes, DVRs, and home theater PCs. With the CX25845, Conexant has merged three different functions onto a single package – a multi-format video decoder, a 3D comb filter, and a worldwide broadcast audio decoder.

Features of the new CX25845 include:

• Worldwide AV decoder with 3D comb
• Integrated 16 Mb SDRAM
• Pin compatibility with the CX25840/1/2/3 and CX25837
• Support for video NTSC/PAL/SECAM video standards
• Support for BTSC/EIAJ/EIAJ/A2/NICAM and other broadcast audio standards
• FM stereo/mono and AM audio
• 12 x 12 mm TQFP
• Single crystal operation
• Support for 16-24 bit, 32-96 kHz I/O I2S
• CCIR 656 and VIP 2.0 output

The new CX25845 is sampling right now and expects to have volume production by January of 2007. It’ll be priced at 8.00 per unit in production quantities.

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With the new Bond movie right around the corner, it’s only fitting that companies begin promoting products with the Bond name embedded somehow.. but somehow I never thought I’d see a Sony product with a James Bond title embedded within it.

That’s exactly what we see here with the James Bond 007 TX Spy Gear bundle VGN-TXN007. Included with the bundle are:

VAIO® TX Ultra Portable PC (VGN-TXN17P7)

• 2.76 lb portable notebook measuring only 1 inch thin
• Support for Sprint Mobile Broadband
• 11.1 inch WXGA widescreen display with XBRITE LCD technology
• DVD+R Double Layer DVD+/- RW drive

Cyber-shot® Digital Camera (DSC-T50/JB)

• Slim camera with 7.2 megapixel resolution, 3x optical zoom, and a 3 inch touch screen.

Sony Display Privacy Filter (VGP-FL11)

• Privacy screen makes on-screen data visble only to people in front of a PC

Aluminum Attaché Carrying Case

• The attaché is constructed of black aluminum and features an embossed 007 Gun Logo.

You can pre-order the bundle now at SonyStyle’s website for a mere ahem.. $3899.99. It’ll be available in mid-November.

Get this bundle and you too might feel a bit like James Bond. Um.. no. we were kidding.

[Check it out via GearLog]

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