Now here’s a bit of fun. The Box Office Oracle lets you enter in the details of any film you would like to see made (with your choice of actors, directors etc) and receive an automatic guestimate of just how much money it would make and the chances of it winning an Oscar. Purely for fun, folks. [via metafilter]

The PS3 Resource Centre is a site chock full of….well…er….fake logos, unofficial concept artwork and other such paraphernalia for anyone interested in what form the next Playstation product could take. Purely for the obsessively imaginative!

Mr Postman is a free – read GNU licensed – Java program which lets you ‘access Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and other webmail services directly from your favorite mail client’. Looks cool and a neat free alternative to Web2Pop.

Pioneer Electronics has announced the Elite DVR-57H, the world’s first DVD recorder machine to incorporate a TiVo service. So now not only can you use TiVo to automatically record your favourite shows or series whether you’re in or out, but you can then archive the lot onto DVD-R or DVD-RW. This sounds like the kind of product which is really going to change the way we access television programming in the future. And – get this – it also incorporates…

So apparently Honda has just announced a radar based pre-crash braking system which will brake for you and tighten the seat belts if it ‘thinks’ that you’re just about to experience an unpleasantly close encounter of the painful kind. Muses: I wonder how long it will be before the cars start driving themselves? Shirley not more than a decade at this rate?

Convergent Technology’s Compact Flash GSM/GPRS Card is a neat little doo-hickey that lets you turn any Compact Flash capable PDA or laptop (via an included PC Card adapter) into a cellphone clone. It’s tri-band and unlocked so you can just slip your existing phone SIM card into the slot and off you go. Priced at $249.99.