All CELLPHONE AND ACCESSORIES REVIEW

Are your desktop and/or work area cluttered with adapters, wires, and all sorts of junk? Even if the answer is no, the Gadget4All all-in-one mouse pad can improve organization and offer more functionality for anyone that currently uses a mouse pad. Combo gadgets are usually a good thing - they save space, offer more functionality, and when they’re designed properly, can be an item of beauty. Similar to the SourcingMap All-in-One Music Mouse Pad, Gadget4All recently designed a new combo gadget disguised in the form of a mouse pad. Gadget4All’s all-in-one mouse pad consists of built-in speakers, 4 USB ports, a 3.5mm audio port, and a speaker in port so that you can connect your iPod, Zune, or other MP3 player. The roll-up capability makes it perfect for use when traveling. As already mentioned, combo gadgets are great, but for only $22, this combo gadget should be of particular interest.

Samsung won IDEA Winners 2007 with LCD Monitor that has triple-hinge design. The monitor has three-dimensional, puzzle-like form, give a new meaning of optimal ergonomic. If you think this lcd monitor was created simply to look interesting, then you’re wrong ! The design began with the intent to offer versatile adjustment capabilities and features to make computing more comfortable and effortless.

Not only practical and functional, but a dramatic, dynamic form: a complete departure from the usual symmetrical, seen-a-hundred-times monitor base. Provides a welcome and original freshness on the desk, changing its aspect from every new angle. A pleasure every time you see it.? - Richard Sapper, Consultant

Another innovative design concept from Nokia, the morph concept. Featured in The Museum of Modern Art ?Design and The Elastic Mind? exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. Developed by NRC (Nokia Research Center) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom), Morph is a concept phone that using nanotechnology which enables materials and components that are flexible, stretchable, transparent and remarkably strong. Users should be able to transform their cell phone into different shapes.

Google Chrome is a surprise release by Google into the web browser market.  Although many had speculated about a GBrowser, the immediate availability without much pre-release buzz was indeed unexpected.  The first word came yesterday from the official Google blog, with a link to a trailer-style comic book presenting the product.  The beta version has since been released as open source.  The web browser market is not saturated, but is highly competitive, with Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Firefox from Mozilla, Safari from Apple, and Opera from Opera Software being the established solutions.

Although the new browser is not yet as feature-rich as other browsers on the market, it does offer superior speed and a few unique touches.  Google Chrome will definitely be a browser to watch going forward as it matures.  Unfortunately for Google, shortly after the release, it was reported that the browser has security vulnerabilities.  It’s not entirely unexpected with a new product since both Internet Explorer and Firefox have ongoing vulnerability issues, but I’m sure that’s not what Google was hoping to hear about on the same day the browser launched.