The Meritline 5in1 watch is certainly a fully featured beast. Not just an LCD watch, a 128MB USB memory drive and a digital recorder, but also a fully functioning MP3 player. Hey wait that’s only 4 in 1, what’s the deal? $139.00.

Face recognition technology developed at NEC and Samsung has just been approved for use in the upcoming MPEG-7 standard. MPEG-7, for those wot are interested, defines a set of tools that can be used to store and retrieve multimedia data. Expect some very clever surveillance systems to appear over the next few years! ‘MPEG-7 AFR (Advanced Face Recognition Descriptor)… is expected to deploy new services in the market of the spreading of digital broadcasting and the internet, such as video…

So Toshiba has come out with a wireless bone conducting speaker pillow called the RLX-P1. Sweet dreams! ‘The Pillow speaker system consists of the pillow itself and an infrared transmitter. Sound is transmitted directly to the inner ear unlike a usual speaker or set of headphones via the skull. Therefore only the person whose head is lying on the pillow can hear the sound being transmitted by the speaker.’

The Best Bus Shelter in Britain? [Thanks Dirk!] ‘This is our bus shelter on the most northerly island in Britain called Unst. It was named the Best Bus Shelter in Britain…’

One for the ladies. An online makeover service. Upload your photie, and play around with different looks and styles. Interesting.

Tag&Scan. ‘TagandScan is software you can download to your mobile phone. It enables your phone to mark real physical locations with an electronic tag. As you consider these things, you snap a picture with your mobile phone and tag the spot where you stand. It goes into a trip grid called, “Last stand in London”.’

They’re creating woolly covers for consoles? Weird.

They’re creating woolly covers for consoles? Weird.

One for all those pining for the roar of the engines and the scream of the tyres – a build your own Concorde paper airplane tutorial.

I really don’t like this stuff called ‘viral, I suppose because most of it is so obviously created by unfunny marketing committees. But featuring this Lycos viral site is one way of keeping tabs on the enemy, I reckon.

I simply don’t understand this photo sequence at all. Call me stupid.

The OneLook Reverse Dictionary. Super useful for doing things like generating a list of words in a given category (like ‘green fruit’). ‘OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.’

Take an itty bitty URL and make it HUGE. Why? Why not!

Detailed techy overview of some of the security changes coming to Windows XP in Service Pack 2. In a nutshell: 1. Firewall enhanced and switched on by default. 2. More secure attachment and general OE mail handling. 3. Anti spyware and ActiveX features. 4. Internet Explorer add-on crash identifier. 5. New Popup manager. Off by default.

It comes to something when the inside of a train service looks like Mission Control.