This is not that new, but nevertheless I love the Hermes concept ‘trike’ vehicle from Honda. It just looks like so much fun to ride. Check out the animation.

Following on from our gasp of surprise yesterday over the Soundcover product, comes news of yet more sneaky skullduggery on the mobile phone front. This Manila Bulletin piece reports on plans for 3G video phone makers to provide technology to mask where you’re calling from on a video call. That’s right more lying, cheating tools. Fabulous idea, no? ‘If the technology succeeds, a special setting will allow owners of 3G phones to select the background of their choice before answering…

Nice Nikkei piece about the seriously dedicated Japanese push to develop commercial robot products for the home. Apparently there are three types of robot coming down the pipe – housesitters, pets and pals. Personally I think that they’re ignoring limited function utility models such as the Trylobyte, Roomba or other home appliance models. ‘JARA also predicts that the Japanese market for robots will be worth 8 trillion yen in 2025, or equivalent to the size of Japan’s current software market.’

Your Wishes and Dreams. ‘Established January 2004 by a group of Entertainment and Business professionals, lead [sic] by internationally known fine artist Tom Pergola, YourWishesAndDreams.com has been created so that we, as an international community, can help one another. People have wishes, dreams and needs they might not believe can be fulfilled. This site was conceived to promote just that; the fulfillment of one’s wishes, dreams and needs through the generosity of others.’ Hmmm….

There are some people who have an insatiable desire to stretch things. In some cases, maybe a little too far?

Health giant GSK has put its NiQuitinCQ stop smoking products to work online with the launch of the Click2Quit site. The site offers all would-be quitters advice, tips and an email newsletter to help them on their way. Nice way of combining the Net, healthcare and product marketing to good effect? ‘Your plan will be completely unique to you, based on what you tell us about yourself. It will help you manage the emotions you’ll face, and break the habits…

The Colour Schemes site is a nice free service to aid in the design of colour co-ordinated web sites. (DefenceMechanism is also worth a look..and of course we have mentioned EasyRGB before. Update: And introducing the snazzy Color Wheel.)

This is quite clearly the most brilliant and cost effective mobile phone hands free kit in existence.

Got an old computer monitor lying around that you don’t use? Then why not invest $95.00 in a VEG 1111 (Visual Entertainment System) and convert it into a TV or games console screen? Review here. ‘The VEG is a compact external box that easily turns your VGA monitor into a multimedia center. Play console games in high-rez on a PC monitor with a digital TV tuner built in. Connects to your DVD, VCR, and camcorder. It also includes a remote!’

Freehand’s MusicPad Pro device is billed as ‘An easy to use sheet music reader in a handy tablet size.’ The touch screen tablet computer is tailored for musicians, and can hold up to 5000 music score pages, accept freehand annotations and features remote page turning by foot pedal. As well as two USB ports for downloading scores from computer to tablet. From $999.00. Product trivia? Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson from supergroup Yes are both on the company’s advisory board….

It’s interesting to see that even in these Google dominated days there are still folk out there trying to improve web searches. Queryster is one such attempt, and it’s quite interesting too. Not sure how useful it is at the end of the day, but definitely worth a look-see.

I don’t care if it is Photoshop, I just love the idea of a chrome finish car.

Soundcover for smartphones. $14.95. Boggle! ‘Did you ever wish you could hide your location when talking on the phone? Ever wanted to give the impression you were somewhere else? SounderCover gives you the ability to add a background sound to any incoming or outgoing call, giving the impression that you really are in the environment where the background sound is normally heard. Pretend you’re at the dentist, in the park, on the street, caught in a thunderstorm, near heavy machinery…

It’s kind of snowing in London – well actually not right now, but it’s been trying for days – which makes the idea of an igloo tool even more bizarre. Ladees n’gennlemen – The Icebox. ‘The ICEBOX� is an affordable, lightweight, and packable tool for building a snow shelter in any snow conditions…You already know the advantages of snow camping…’

Power to the music. The Belkin iPod Battery Pack lets you power your iPod with standard AA batteries for extended use. Gives 15 to 20 extra hours per set of batteries which is great for those long distance journeys. Priced at $69.99.