The PenPower WorldCard Office is a dinky little business card scanner that’s hardly bigger than a business card itself. The $129.99 doohicky can beam card data to PDAs and phone via infrared or to a PC through USB. It can even do double sided scanning. Neato. ‘It’s as easy as pie to use WorldCard. All you have to do is to press the “Scan” button on the scanner, it will automatically perform the all [sic] process from scanning to recognizing…

The BeautySurge.com site bills itself as a ‘cosmetic surgery supersite’. I suppose you’d call it a portal for potentially plastic people. The site features a huge array of plastic surgery information and also – get this – offers a virtual surgery section where you can upload a digital photie of yourself and receive back an image showing how the ‘new you’ could look. No really! ‘Using the same digital imaging technology employed by plastic surgeons all over the world, highly…

Q:When is an inkjet printer not an inkjet printer? A: When it’s an Epson PictureMate Personal Photo Lab. ‘PictureMate is the first and only personal photo lab that allows digital camera owners to easily print brilliant, long-lasting lab-quality 4″ x 6″ (10 x 15 cm) photos at home at a cost that is comparable to some of the most affordable lab print prices.’

Boffins at the Cambridge-MIT Institute have announced a project to design a silent aircraft. The team has some pretty heavyweight partners including British Airways and Rolls Royce, and the objective is to design planes which you can’t hear at all outside the perimeter of the airport. I suggest that they put together something that can run on a couple of Duracell AA batteries. That should do the trick!

What you really really need for your Symbian Series 60 phone is FaceWave. The ability to send bizarre animated voicemail MMS messages to your friends and family will guarantee you instant popularity and a seat on crowded buses. Trust me! $18.50. ‘FaceWave��s appeal is due not only to its strong entertainment value, but also to its exceptional ease of use. In recent trials, conducted by an independent marketing consultancy, FaceWave� proved 3 times more popular than both picture messaging MMS…

The Boktai game from Konami for Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance must be the world’s first sun-powered game. It ships with a ‘solar sensor’ cartridge which uses sunlight (light from a window will do apparently) to charge up the hero’s weapon and fuel puzzles and other gameplay elements. Fascinating eh? You’ll recognise a good player by sunburn marks on the trigger finger I suppose. ‘Although “Boktai” requires sunlight, you can play at night and in other situations when there is no sunlight….

Four of the big names in mobile telephones – Ericsson, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson and Siemens – have just announced that they are working on interoperability tests for push to talk systems. So where’s Nokia, pray? Oh and I love the new acronym too – PoC (push-to-talk over cellular). I suppose that this is to differentiate it from push-to-talk over string and tin can. ‘The PoC function enables mobile phones to be used like walkie-talkies, providing communication at the touch of a…

The Similar Minds site offers a range of different online personality tests to help you discover who you really are. A personality portal, if you will. You can also register and search for people who score similarly to you, to find compatible or complementary people. Sounds like an intellectual’s doggy heaven. ‘All the tests at SimilarMinds.com are developed based on scientific measures used to ensure test validity. Multiple statistical measures are used to ensure test questions measure what they are…

The Digital Archive Project is on a mission to preserve all the old TV programs that the networks would rather we forgot about. Lots of episodes, lots of bandwidth and serious dedication to downloading and uploading. TV nutz should also consult TVShowsonDVD as often as they can.

Ooh look, it’s another PDA watch. For people with incredibly strong wrists. And long cuffs. And flippers. $69.95. ‘What also makes this databank watch even more unique is that this wristwatch is water resistant up to 100 meters. The data is transmitted through a touch pin as seen in the bottom picture so the watch is water tight.’

DIY to the max. Forget about case modding, just pop over the the Lubic [Japanese] site and you can order a sort of ultimate DIY meccano kit for assembling your PC from scratch. Literally. I’ve heard of geek dedication, but this is ridiculous. More here. [Babel]

Hmmm, the PR machine for the movie iRobot is starting to wind up to full power. So what surprise then, to receive an email at Ferret Towers pointing towards the Anti-Robot Militia site. [Thanks, Nick…er…I think!]

The Spider – billed as the world’s smallest single board computer. 800MHz, two on-board Ethernet ports, Linux boot ROM and 32K of user flash memory, all occupying ‘30% less space than a credit card’. That’s small. (Hmm wonder how they worked that one out?)

The Lexar Media JumpDrive Trio is a pretty cool tech accessory. USB flash drive with internal Memory Stick/SD/MMC card reader.

Typographic Illustration. Take some hip music, throw in some typographic lettersets and you’ve got….er….art. Rather funky art actually!