The Gerbing Heated Jacket and Pants Set. Got a 12V battery handy? Then you need be cold no more with this elegant (!) matching jacket and trouser set with integral heating pads.Water resistant, washable, temperature controlled. We’re talkin’ toasty here. $329.00. Electrical gloves and socks available too!  One of the truly unique features of our heated clothing is our High-Density heat pads. Rather than apply the resistive wire directly to the garment, we first sew it into a special fabric…

Gotta say that the new Philips 7 inch Photo Frame looks really nice. None of this clunky big desk thing, just a simple perspex (or is that glass?) affair with an elegant feel. £169.00/$293.00, so it’s not exactly cheap, but it holds 50 images up to 12 megapixels in resolution with 11 transitions. Also sports an SD, Compact Flash, Memory Stick slot, so that’s useful. Soon every home will have one. Well, when they reduce the price.  Simply plug your camera…

The Stress Eraser bio feedback device. Mmm…interesting idea, although it should be called a stress controller, rather than eraser. But what’s a marketing puff between friends, eh? You can feel calm in 15 minutes a day, it says here. Golly. Available for $299.00, a price guaranteed to lower your blood pressure instantly. [Via gizmowatch]

The Wireless Pointer with Flash Memory. Store your presentations and lunch money on the flash memory drive and control them remotely using the combo controller and laser pointer. Works up to 15 metres away, so you can actually do your presentation from the office restaurant while your hapless colleagues sit through those dreary Excel slides of your vacation in Spain. Marvellous. £32.50.  Dual Function – laser pointer and wireless remote control – Wireless control of Microsoft Power Point, Excel, Internet…

Orange Peeler. Such a simple concept, so hard to accomplish. Even  for a peeler which isn’t orange, but white…Probably. Around $132.00 and pith. Lots of pith.

The new Grundig VP6200 personal media player is a master of convergence all right. Not just a media player with 30 GB drive, 3.5 inch TFT screen and FM radio, but it also sports a 1.3 megapixel camcorder with 4 x digital zoom on board too. And it does direct audio encoding into MP3 on the fly. Gosh. £349.99.  The new Grundig Personal Media Player has a 3.5″ TFT LCD screen, a built-in digital camera/video camera, a 30GB hard disk, an…

The AngelSounds JPD-1005 Fetal Monitor. You wanna listen to your baby’s heartbeat, you go ahead. Me, I’m not that interested in adding any more paranoia to my life. I can find plenty of other ways to get that kind of thrill, really I can. £48.00.  The safe and easy to use AngelSounds baby heart beat doppler…enables you to hear your baby’s heart beat from as early as 12 weeks, in the comfort of your own home – and at an…

The M-7 Spy Ear. Super sensitive microphone for eavesdropping on friends, colleagues and family. Because you can never walk around with enough beige plastic stuck in your ear, know what we mean? And hey, they’ll never notice it. Honest. $29.95.  Imagine having a bionic ear that would allow you to secretly hear from great distances. Well now you can with our M7 Secret Agent Spy Ear. Its mini size, light weight and skin tone color allows for the wearer to…

The Fingerprint Safe Box. Well it looks as though biometrics are slowly but surely moving into the home environment. So no more losing your fingers down the back of the sofa, eh? $399.95.  Keep spare cash, precious family heirlooms, expensive jewelry and anything else of value stashed away with the peace of mind that it’s safe and secure and all it will take to open it is the touch of your finger. Hide your valuables safely and securely without worry…

The Color Weather Forecaster Atomic Alarm Clock. All you need to know about this puppy is that it wakes you up with a ‘colorful photograph’ depicting the day’s weather along with sound effects. Sound effects! Oy yoy yoy! $159.95.  …the 3.8-inch color LCD forecasts look and sound like this: “Sunny”: palms and cabanas, a clear-sky and sounds of seabirds and surf; “Partly Cloudy”: an ocean cove under partly cloudy skies with sounds of a brook and songbirds; “Cloudy”: grassland under…

The USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Cable Adapter is one of those really boring products until you need it. Then it becomes rather valuable rather quickly we suspect. Basically it lets you connect up SATA or IDE drives to your PC via the USB port. Supports CD/DVD drives too. The clever thing? Now it’s a cinch to move your data from older IDE to that new SATA drives. $35.00.  The Hi-Speed USB interface provides an easy plug-and-play installation. It supports all SATA…

The LAN Cordless DualPhone. Those clever Danish peeps at RTX have come out with a cordless DECT phone which supports SIP and also has enough data smarts to beam emails, weather, news and other stuff to you via the colour screen. Oh and it also connects to a standard landline, so you’re covered with all your calling needs. Of course you’ll still have to source your SIP provider to make the most of it, but that shouldn’t be a problem should it?…

The Ottoro Robot Cleaner. If I was ever to get a robotic cleaner, which is about as likely as me breeding Shetland ponies, then this is the puppy I’d probably choose. Why? Well apparently it’s got 2 cameras and 30 sensors on board, which means that it probably makes really really sensible decisions about where to go clean. And it’s even got a neat edge to edge suction brush up front. And it just looks cool. Super cool.

The Elecom JC-PS101USV USB to PS2 adapter. When you absolutely, positively have to use your Playstation gamepad and other peripherals on your PC, this is the little gizmoid that you will turn to. Includes support for vibrational stuff too. Goody! Around $9.00.

The Voice Travel Mate. Pocket sized translator offers 700 phrases in 12 languages – Klingon, Farsi, Urdu, Marathi….nah, just kidding.  $29.99.  Carry this pocket-sized translator when you travel, and you’ll never be lost for words again. Translates 700 commonly-needed phrases between 12 international languages including Spanish, German, French, Italian and Japanese. Also incldes world time alarm clock, backlit display and storage for 60 phone numbers.