Nokia have just revealed 3 new high end N-Series mobile phones at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2007, which is held from 8-11 January, in Las Vegas.

Nokia N76

Nokia N76

Nokia N76 is a 3G multimedia clamshell smartphone. It has been perceived to be the answer from Nokia to Motorola RAZR series as it has a thickness of only 14mm when folded!

Just like the Motorola RAZR models, Nokia N76 also features a flat metal keypad too. In term of multimedia features, Nokia N76 is integrated with a 2-megapixel camera, a MP3 player, a FM radio and a 2.4-inch colour screen. An advatage N76 has is that it comes with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack to enable you to use your own headphones to listen to music. The hot swappable microSD slot allows you to expand the memory up to 2GB without turning off the mobile phone.

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Nokia Revealed N76, N93i and N800

The quest in making laptops into thinner size with longer lasting battery life has gone one step further as LED backlighting, a new technique for LCD illumination, will be used in new Apple and HP laptops’ LCD screen. Furthermore, with LED backlight LCD screen produces better color saturation and distributes backlight more evenly than the ordinary LCD most laptops are currently using.

Apple and HP are among the few laptop manufacturers that will be releasing LED backlit laptops in Q2 of 2007, while Sony and NEC already have their LED backlit laptops available in the market though in a limited range of laptop models.

Anyway, as expected LED Backlit Laptop will have brightness ratings of over 1,680cd/m² as compared to most laptop nowadays are only having brightness rated for 200-400cd/m².

Getting bored using your normal looking USB thumbdrive?
Want something cool?

Then it’s time to get one of these:

Humping Dog

or

Chameleon

Humping Dog will be released in December, 2006, whereas January, 2007 for Chameleon. Humping Dog costs only 998 yen (USD$8.55) each and Chameleon is priced at 2940 yen (USD$25.17). For less than USD$10, I would sure want to get one of the Humping Dog. By the way, who came up with such name? LoL…

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Cool Thumbdrives - Chameleon & Humping Dog

I know some friends who collect Zippo lighter as a hobby, they might be interested in getting one of this pocket stealth camera. The untra small size camera is named l’espion S Digital Dream .Com Ltd. It is a 0.3 Megapixel camera which could possibly hold over 300 images at the resolution of 320 x 240.

In fact, it is not permanently attached to a Zippo style-like lighter casing, it can be removed from the casing. It uses ST Micro technology and LiteSync technology, which enable the camera for high quality image capturing and store them in a small file size. Moreover, at such a small size, the l’espion S amazingly has all three functions of snapping pictures, video recording and voice recording.

To use the camera is pretty easy, flip the cover of the casing, press the snap button, close the casing. It is no doubt a great tool for spying, isn’t it?
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Zippo Lighter Style Digital Camera

So far, we have seen some interesting PC modding like Intel Outside, Pumpkin PC and even Mac Mini modding. Well, I saw another nice one not long ago. There was this top of the class PC modding which has won ExtremeTech annual case mod contest : Batman Begins PC!

Yes, this is a PC case.

The creator, Alex Wiley, used about a year and five months to complete the astonishing 55 inches wide PC case. The aluminum PC case has in 2 harddisk slots with an additional 16x DVDRW drive installed just above the motherboard.

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Batman Begins PC Modding

San Francisco has become the first city in the U.S. to offer safer sex advice to teenagers via SMS. With this latest service come to live, it’s no doubt the city is currently ranked just behind Seattle as the nation’s most “unwired city” in the U.S.

The text-messaging program is basically directed at young people ages 12 to 24. According to Michelle Irving, a 22-year-old peer educator with the city’s Department of Public Health, a lot of teenagers don’t go to clinics, and they’re afraid to ask questions regarding sex, such as problem with broken condoms and how to respond to pressures to have sex.
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Safer Sex : Ask For Sex Info Via SMS