Looking for the perfect gift for that friend that just have everything? Look no further, this site has just what you need;
http://www.bttfhardware.com/index.html
Imagine pimping your car (or as mentioned giving it as a gift) so it looks like the famous Delorean from “Back to the future”, it would be utterly cool (and perhaps a bit geeky) 
So I ended up buying the HTC Wildfire phone and am very happy with the buy. Rather quickly I installed CoPilot a GPS navigation software which is fairly cool, however it was annoying that I had nowhere to put the phone in the car, if I tried to leave it on the dashboard it would fall over or whatnot.
Anyway a bit of googling ended up with something called a “Dash Genie”, a universal phone mount for your car. It works quite simply by having a VERY sticky red dot on the holder that will “glue” your phone so it won’t rummit around (see the video clip) and a suction cup for your dashboard or window. It works perfectly, there ishowever however a minor annoyance – for some reason the mount interfere somehow with the touch screen of my phone (yeah I know it sounds strange, but true never the less) – I think it is because the elastic capacity of the mount, anyway you may need to hold the phone steady with one hand when operating the phone – but hey minor annoyance.
From what I can tell it will work with almost any phone smartphone or regular alike.
I got mine here;
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/dash-genie-in-car-holder-p23796.htm
By coincidence I stumbled across an interesting gadget, it’s something called JawBone.
Initially it seem like an ordinary blue-tooth headset, well it is but with a twist – it uses an elaborate background noise cancellation technology and it seem to do so very well indeed (watch video below). So if you use your blue-tooth headset in noisy environments then this may be something for you.
For more details refer to WIKI or their web-site;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawbone_%28headset%29
http://www.jawbone.com/
We all heard of the iPhone4’s antenna problem, the problem is a fairly simple one – if you happen to ’short’ the two antennas (wifi/3g) which are divided by a thin line on the outer casing then reception may drop. The Apple way to solve this is to ask users not to hold the phone is such a way that they ’short’ the two antennas (not place a finger on the thin black line on the casing while using the phone), others have come up with ’simpler’ solutions – eg. place a piece of tape over the thin black line…
But the BEST solution is this, a small sticker to place in the affected area (Hilarious!!!!);
Buy it here; http://www.etsy.com/listing/52058857/iphon-end-call-now-sticker-stops-signal
A not so funny solution is this;
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/antenna-aid-bandages-your-iphone-4-reception-issue-hopes-for-ro/
Bummer, just as I finally had decided on the Iphone 4 over the androids I’m hit with continuing bad luck, I want the White Iphone but due to reasons beyond me these are apparently VERY hard to make!? Ehhh, why?? White color/Black color how hard can it be!?
“Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4
White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.”
AAAAAAARGH seem to be the right word here…
Source; http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/apple-delays-white-iphone-a-second-time-wont-ship-until/
You may, as I have missed the news about a new XBox 360!? Well, here is a preview;
Noise cancelling headphones are really cool, what they do is to monitor the background noise around the user and then sends inversed noise into the headphones thus canceling the noise. This technique is among other places used on aircraft carriers to protect the ears of the flight crews, and many frequent fliers use them to remove the annoying humming when flying.
So, the technology is cool, however two problems exist with most noise cancelling headphones;
But these Blackbox i10 headphones seem to have something going for them, 1) Not THAT expensive (still the price is not for the faint hearted) and 2) The power issue has been solved in an excellent way by using the ipod 30pin connector (which does require an ipod or an iphone)..
I read on a Danish news site some time ago that a researcher claimed that the antenna design on the new IPhone 4 could cause problems, this video seem to support his claim;
Quite sad, I was considering buying one of those nice devices but now I am not so sure….
More on the Iphone antenna problems (with a humoristic touch)…
I was beginning to consider shifting my old trusty Sony Ericsson cell phone with a smart phone, basically I do not NEED one but as it is annoying me that I can’t use my IPOD Touch online when I’m out, and thus I am playing with the thought of going smartphone (also to stop my brothers wife from seeing me as a neanderthal for not having a smart phone 
).
Should it be an IPhone 4 or the HTC Desire that is one of the big questions, one that likely can’t be answered before the Iphone hits the stores..
One thing however that seemed cool to me was when I heard that the HTC phones could be used as WIFI hotspots, basically this would mean that you could (not that I would) skip your broadband at home and just use your phone as your wifi hotspot… Sadly it would seem that this requires some kind of hacking/jailbraking/rooting your phone which does not seem too appealing..
One thing that seem to way for the Iphone is the option to buy a fully featured ‘offline’ GPS suite (not using 3G data connection), sure HTC has Google navigation but I dare you to use it when abroad 
you’ll be ruined as a result of the map data transfer.. and there does not seem to be any ‘offline’ GPS software for the Android phones!? (well this is not 100% true, there is something called 
http://www.mgmaps.com which caches Google maps, but from reading about it it does not seem convincing)..
Anyway, I’m still thinking
Here’s something about the ‘Rooting’ you need to do to get an Android phone to work as a WIFI hotspot (tethering);
Update!
Christian and Rhys was kind enough to inform me that there does indeed exist several GPS solutions for Android (see comments)..
Eg. http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/android/
Update2!
It would seem that an update to Android 2.2 will offer some cool things to the Desire, it should allow for the phone to be used as a HotSpot (Yeah) and allow video recording in 720p (HD)… Very interesting indeed..
Are you one of those guys that just dig retro design? then you should order your next keyboard, screen and whatnot here;
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm
Quite facinating, I don’t know about the writing comfort though.
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