SanDisk’s latest MicroSDHC card has a 12GB capacity. If you’ve ever held one of these cards, you’ll appreciate the true beauty of this article. If you haven’t, we’re talking small. MicroSD is a very small form factor, about the size of a small pinky nail. (The actual memory bank on the whole chip takes up about half the space.)

Currently you can buy the 8GB MicroSDHC cards for around $130. That’s about $16 per gig, and factor in the +$2 per gig on the next model up, we’re talking about $18 per gig on the 12GB model, totaling $216.00 USD is our guess at the price (SanDisk hasn’t released pricing info yet).

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1200FPS is high enough quality to watch something drop in a pool of water and watch every single droplet’s path, and effect on other objects not normally visible to the naked eye. This enables the average user to record super slow-mo clips (Like Myth Buster’s High-Speed camera, just not quite that fast) and play them back at 30-60FPS which can slow it down quite a lot (by a factor of 40 (1200/30=40)).

It can shoot in full resolution at 60FPS for stills, and 300, 600, or 1200 FPS for video. This is an amazing accomplishment for this price range, especially when you factor in the lens quality needed to support the exposure time, and the processing capabilities needed to handle 1,200 images every second.

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The guys over at touchmods.net have proven it possible to use your iPod Touch as a phone - no lie. Using the iPod’s wifi it can connect to a free SIP- VoIP and make phone calls.. to anywhere. See their proof below.

What’s interesting? Well, aside from the obvious, the fact that it’s free is pretty cool. It’s almost like having the iPhone, but no service plans, and a cheaper device. It still seems a bit unpractical, but cool nonetheless.

Today, you traditionally get 21 gears to choose from on a mountain bike. Leonardo da Vinci, back in the 1400’s, sketched out a transmission system that utilizes ball bearings and discs to set an infinite amount of possible gear ratios. A knob at the handle bars controls the angle of the ball bearings within the wheel hub. You pedal to rotate one disc, and the other disc transfers power to the wheel. The bearings have a wide range of motion, which gives you very precise control over the energy being put in, and the speed coming out.

Within four years you can expect to see this technology in cars, wind turbines, or anything with need for a transmission system. It will dramatically decrease the amount of energy needed to be mobile, and will reduce wear and tear on engines (or bikers). The system is called NuVinci to credit the genius behind it all. Visit http://www.ellsworthbikes.com/ for more information on the bikes. Sketch of transmission after break.

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BlackBerry has always been a household name. Everyone knows if you have a BlackBerry, you’re obviously a business man/woman whose on top of things. But recently more and more people are making the purchase, whether it’s for office/business use or personal use.

Until recently, it wasn’t very common to see more then a handful of people with an RIM device, but if you look at a group of people now, regardless of profession, chances are at least one or more of them have a BlackBerry hanging off their hip. This is funny as well, since just a few weeks ago I received my first BlackBerry for free from Amazon, and I noticed other peers making the same move. As a result, RIM gained over 1,650,000 new subscriber accounts, and also shipped over 3.9 Million new devices. All this tallied up to a doubling in RIM’s earnings.

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It’s not uncommon in nature for a species to have a false look of security and strength about them. So why should us humans be any different? I can remember when I was a kid I always made it look like my computer was recording your every move when you entered my room whenever I was away. I gave my many sisters something to fear about my room, and me that false sense of security.

Well now we don’t have to rig anything up, apparently you can get your very own security camera… well, at least something that looks like one! Feel safe and ward off wrong doers with this little gadget that could fool even the purchaser. it even sports a little flashing LED too add even more to the reality of it all. TG has plenty in stock! But hurry, they’re bound to go fast with all of us security hungry Americans out and about

We all know the hardcore gamer: sit around and just play all day, only getting up when nature calls and the snack bowl is empty. Well, deep down inside we all feel that guilt have leading the sedentary life, right? Well, guilt no more because that’s all about to change with these two products from Gamercize. Burn calories while playing your video games on either the PS2 or Xbox. The fun part is, if you stop exercising, the game will quit working! The ultimate motivation.

You can get either the power stepper version, or the bike version. On both you can burn more than 600 calories in just an hour. It works by detecting how hard your pushing yourself to exercise, and if you start to slack off, it cuts the connection of your controller, interrupting your game play. The PS2 versions are readily available, $79.99 for the power stepper and $99.99 for the bike version. In order to get the Xbox version you have to contact the sellers via e-mail. Found via TG. Prices are at “closeout” so get yours while supplies last, would make a perfect Christmas gift!

If there’s any perfect gift idea out there, this is it. Perfect for your techie boyfriend or even for yourself. We here were so amazed with this products size, yet long list of features that we tagged it with ‘Tech Achievements.’

The credit card sized media player is just that. It’s a… media player… the size of a credit card! It comes pre-loaded with 2GB of storage with an expandable memory drive for MicroSD or TransFlash. (SDHC compatibility not specified). You can transfer the data and also charge the device’s 8 hour battery right over USB.

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You ever see people who recently purchased a new phone? Usually they will have their hands tied with both phones, rapidly typing to transfer over the contact lists, and depending on how much data in contacts, important dates, appointments or other important SIM stored info there is, you might not be seeing this person for quite some time.

Well now that’s a thing of the past! With this handy little gadget, you can easily and seamlessly copy over stored data from one SIM card to another! Or, if you commonly are a forgetful person and are in constant fear of losing your cell, the device has two data banks to backup up to two SIM cards. You can also use the device to browse the calendar as well as the contacts. The data in the internal memory is also password protected, so you can feel safe that no one will get a hold of your beloved backups.

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Christmas is on the horizon, and as always cool, unique and sometimes weird products are popping up all over the place. Such as this colorful USB device that will be sure to draw attention to your cubicle. This little tree is packed with over 18,000 colorful fiber ends that flare through colors of red, blue, and green.

Feeling like you need to take Christmas with you to the break room? No problem, this little guy also runs off of 3 AAA batteries. The USB cable is about 5 feet long, and the tree itself measures 31cm tall, and is slightly wider than a standard computer mouse. Will also make a great cheap inter-office gift You can find it at ThinkGeek for under $15.