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I was quite surprised of my findings when I googled about turning iPod Nano into a wristwatch. I thought the Hex watchband was the only band you can wear the iPod Nano with, but later I found out that there are quite many bands had been invented to turn the iPod into an actual wristwatch, starting from just plain bands to the serious ones with bolt and screw to safely store the iPod. These are some of my findings:

Maratac Zulu Watch Straps, $17.00
I think this is the simplest straps to wear the iPod Nano with. Well from the look I guess you can say that this isn’t specifically design to hold iPod. It’s just the 22mm nylon bands to go with other kinds of watches.

The NanoWatch, $11.99
I didn’t know why this one is called the NanoWatch; first it’s only the strap, not include the nano or a watch, and second it wasn’t released by Apple either. But when I took a look at the picture again I read the lines ‘Designed in Copenhagen by NanoWatch’. So, I guess it’s the name of the company that produced or designed it. This one is 100% made of eco-friendly materials, and comes with 3 fun colors: Blue, Grey, and Pink.

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I was a little confused in deciding which category this article should belong to, fashion or gadget. Because the idea of lights within the bag makes it a gadget, while the item itself is a part of fashion items. But well, I guess I will leave the problem behind because the most important thing to do right now is to give you a brief explanation about this clever product.
So what does a Solas bag do? Like I told you before the bag has a light inside to help you finding certain items you put there. This is actually a very simple but clever and effective idea. And why haven’t we thought of that before? I mean how many times we have the trouble in finding our keys or any small items we put inside our bag, especially at night, or when we are in a movie theatre? Most people perhaps will do what I do, that is using the cell phone as flashlight to search inside the bag. That was also what Kara Kurcz did to find her keys in her handbag on a warm Hollywood night, which made her boyfriend teased her by saying that she needed a light in her purse.
The tease was soon turned into a creative idea. With the help of her boyfriend, Brian, the television producer started to Read more!

I found these cool laptop concepts designed by an industrial designer, Nikita Buyanov, for HP. The concepts are really clever and ladylike. Even though there is no news on when these are going to be real laptops, as we girls love anything smart and girly (especially for gadgets), I think you all deserve to know about these concepts.

HP Make-Up
What can be more girly than a pink laptop? Especially when it has a make-up palette tray attached at one side, and that the screen can be turned into mirror for you to do your make-up or when you need a little touch-up. Not only that, you can also have your nails polished by inserting your fingers one by one to a small hole on the other side of the laptop and have your favorite nail art design on each finger. Yep, because this clever laptop is also completed with a built-in on-nail printing device. Read more!

Chatimals actually inspired by the inventor’s son who had a soft toy to which he used to talk to. The son was later asked his father, “Why don’t you try to talk to him?” and offering him the toy. That moment, the father started to create Chatimals.
The idea is basically to have a toy that records and repeats what you have said before. This is probably not the first toy with sound recording and repeating capability, but what makes Chatimals unique is that they repeat your words with their own voice while their mouth will move to the words, so it feels like you have a toy-friend to chat to.
You only need to press the paw, wait for the indicator light, and record your voice with a 30 seconds long message. Your Chatimal will later repeat back your words either with a high-pitched voice or a deep adult manly voice. The chipmunk-like voice will simply make you laugh, especially when you record a giggling sound. Chatimal will automatically turns off if there is no voice for 30 seconds.
Chatimals have an on/off switch, and are operated by using 3 AAA batteries. These 8-inch tall plush toys are available in Read more!

We all love our music gadgets and bring them anywhere we go. But what’s a music player without earphones or earbuds? We will normally bring them as well or let them stay attached to our players. So as the pair has become a part of our life (without meaning to be hyperbolic), have you ever thought of making your earphones an accessory? Well Elizabeth Miller and Katherine Haggard do think of it, that is why they created Jewel Buds.

Jewel Buds is the most uniquely styled earbud in the world. It was designed in New York and made with the highest quality components and materials. Not only they look chic and stylish, they also deliver high quality noise isolating sound to the most discerning listeners. This is the right item you would want to have, especially if you are a hip, trend and conscious iPod or other music players’ user.

Jewel Buds was created by E Star Designs, a company which was started in 2007 with the dream of recreating the earbud Read more!

We all love Apple and the company’s brilliant products, and after the release of iPad we are quite curious about the second generation of iPad, which according to rumours will soon be released. So, how will it be?

Here are some of the latest iPad 2nd Generation rumours, as adapted from Techradar.

Cameras and a Gysroscope
As complied from several gadget websites, it is suggested that the new iPad should have a front-facing camera like the iPhone 4, or twin cameras instead. It is also suggested that there will be a three-axis gyroscope like in the iPhone , but another source said that after doing a gyroscope testing, Apple decided not to put one in the original iPad.

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Watching video on wristwatch? Well, I can’t decide whether it will be a good idea or not, considering the watch’s screen size, but beside of playing audio, this watch does play video as well.

OLED Video Watch, is the watch which displays videos and images very nicely with a 128 x 128 pixel resolution. The full color OLED screen gives an impressive crisp and bright display with a very well proportioned 1.5 inch size which is not thick or bulky for your wrist. You can play your favorite videos by converting the ASF, AVI, MPEG, WMV, DAT and ASX files into MTV with the included software. The software will help you compressing as well as resizing the video that it will fit to be viewed with the watch.

It also accommodates audio files with the format of MP3/WMA playback complete with 6 equalizer modes. Read more!

Like the title, this product is still a concept and has not been released yet. Even though this concept has been widely spreaded since 2008, we still can’t see the music player designed by Gopinath Prasana in the market yet.

I made the review of this product because I have previously made the reviews of other wrist-wearable products, such as the iPod Shuffle Bracelet concept by Isamu Sanada and the iPod Nano Gen 6, which because of the size, it can be wrapped around your wrist by attaching it to the additional wristbands. The iBangle concept, however, came before those two products, that is why I feel I have to made the review as well.
So the concept is unique, as well as ground breaking, and it comes with a very fashionable thin aluminum design too. One for the cool features of iBangle is that the band has inflatable cushion at the inner side; this allows you to have it snug to your wrist or dangling like a regular bracelet. Just press the blue button on the band to inflate and deflate the cushion. Read more!

Anytime you need music you can simply turn on your MP3 players or those fancy phones you have and use earphones or earbuds to listen to your favorite music. But, what if you want to share it with your friends right away? If it’s only one friend, maybe you can share your one of your earphones either left or right, but what if you have let’s say a group of friends whom you wish to share the music with? And in this case, your phone is not the speaker-phone type and your MP3 is definitely only has one small hole to plug in the earphones/buds. Of course I’m not suggesting you to carry a bulky speaker system around just to share a single track of music (well, not even for sharing the whole album either). We always want something portable, don’t we? Even for this purpose. So forget about a big speaker box or the troubling wires and cords that come with it, because what you need is this Earphone Speaker Keychain.

This little gem can come along with your other keys because wherever you take your keys to, there your speaker will be since it is attached on your keyring. The Earphone Speaker Keychain looks like an oversized earbud, it fits into any Read more!

We have always wanted to have mini MP3 players, and in our time, we have seen some. Such as the iPod Shuffle, which size is relegated to a gum-stick. The best thing about tiny gadgets is they can be carried easily and can be used at anytime and in anywhere we want. So here’s another tiny MP3 player which will force us to revise the definition of ‘tiny’.

Thanko Micro Sport MP3 player is a very tiny Japanese MP3 player which comes with the size of ONLY two sugar cubes. With its tiny size you can store your favorite music for up to 4 GB, and you can hear them in full stereo sound. The main unit of this player is attached directly to the side of one of the earbuds, while the other earbud trails on a cord around the back of your head, just reaching the opposite ear.

It is incredibly easy to load the music into this gadget. You can simply plug the player into the USB port of your Read more!