The Toyota Volta concept car – 150+ mph, 0-62 in 4.3 secs and 40 mpg? Now that’s 21st century.

Is it just me, or are those robot vacuum cleaners just a load of old hype? Especially when you’ve got things like the SweepEze. Just sweep the dirt up to this ‘always on’ broadband cleaner and bingo! Dustgone. ‘Gone are the days of bending over with a dustpan to pick up pet hairs, broken glass, and crusty food messes. The SweepEZE is always on and ready. When its patent pending “Eye-Vac” infrared sensor (driven by an internal microprocessor) detects the…

iCleaner (er..just how many i’s are there to go round anyway?) – ‘iCleaner Scratch Remover is a non abrasive alcohol free cleaner that removes scratches from the white and transparent plastic of your iPod (including the brand new mini iPod) or white iBook’s scratch prone surface.’

You use Compact Flash or SmartMedia cards? You need to keep the camera slots clean, right? So check out Kaiser’s cleaning cards. ‘They feature a cleaning tape at the contact positions. After inserting the card into the hardware, they are moved back and forth a few times removing fouling from the camera’s or reader’s contacts.’

A free Nokia phone online unlocking service? But – and it’s a big but – you have to hand over your IMEI number on the form. Hmmm….

BigString – the first recallable, erasable email. Including paranoia-friendly time out mail. ‘Through our patent pending technology you can easily change your email messages or even erase them completely. If you erase a message all that will be left is the original subject line, the body will be completely blank. You can change or erase an email even after it has been read.’

The Softswitch cloth keyboard, roll it up and off you go. Now this seems SO much more PDA friendly than those naff virtual keyboards

OneSixty. ‘Welcome to issue one of Onesixty, the world’s first SMS text message literary magazine.’ [via textually.org] ‘Since our launch at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature we�ve had over 200 submissions of poems small enough to be sent as SMS text messages.’

Hmmm…Deep Freeze. What a novel idea! ‘Deep Freeze Standard is Simple and Easy to Use: Install in Seconds. All computers are completely restored to their original software configuration by simply restarting the computer.’

The WRISTOMO waterproof wristwatch phone and other splashproof gadgetoids. ‘What made it difficult to create a waterproof handset was the chassis that comprises the “upper arm” installed with a speaker and an antenna, the “main body” with the display, and the “lower arm” that contains a microphone.’

How much do you love your GameBoy Advance? Enough to expend effort furiously winding a handle for 7 minutes to get 30 minutes of play time? No I didn’t think so. The SP Winding Handle Charger. Priced at $17.88.

The QuickPad Pro Mail is a small battery powered laptop replacement with a full size keyboard, 50 to 100 hours of life from 4 AA cells, integral modem, Compact Flash slot, and infrared and USB ports for transfer of data to PCs. The design and concept is certainly not new, but for real road warriors who need to get writing done this must be a better bet than lugging around a laptop with a measly 3 hours battery life. Especially…

Sony-Ericsson’s MMV-100 Bluetooth receiver will become really useful once mobile handsets begin to increase in processing power. I suspect that the first exec to walk into a business conference room, plug his MMV-100 into the projector and beam a PowerPoint presentation from his phone while sitting at the other end of the table will earn a fair amount of props. Or get fired for being a smartalec.

Liteon has released what it claims is the world’s first multi-format portable DVD recorder drive. The SDW-431SX will record onto DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W and all types of CD/RW. Versatile beast indeed! 190 euros.

John Buckman, the founder and head honcho of online record label Magnatune, has a blog. And it’s great. Every modern business chief should have one. Really. ‘I can’t accept that CD for Magnatune, because the recording is totally owned by a producer in London, who would then receive all the sales royalties, and none would go to the actual performers.’