What is OQO? According to TechRepublic, OQO is an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC), but when you pick it up it simply feels like a device that combines the best mobility and connectivity features of a high-end smartphone with the computing power of an ultraportable notebook.OQO is a powerful device, yet the size is petite. According to Guinness World Records, the “OQO” is the smallest full-powered, full-featured personal computer. The U.S. Army uses them at security checkpoints in the Middle East. Others are using them as mini PCs for workers who don’t sit at a desk. For these workers, the OQO is helping to create a new category of PCs - one with a very high geek factor.
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Although this post is not directly related to gadgets, I believe cars are one of the best gizmos ever invented, hence we should definitely talk about them right? Seriously, what’s the price tag you think could make it to the “Top 10 Most Expensive cars”? 1 million or 2 million? Even the $1.4 million Bugatti Veyron is too ‘cheap’ to be on the Top 10 list!!! If you are a millionaire (most likely a billionaire), would you buy one of these Vintage cars?

1962 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM

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We’ve been hearing vague rumblings about potentially flawed MacBook hard drives for a day or two now, but a report from UK data-recovery firm Retrodata finally backs up all the noise with some hard data — according to the company, revision 7.0.1 Seagate drives manufactured in China have defective read / write heads that can become detached and slide across the surface of the platters, making recovery impossible. Apple says it’s only received “a few reports” of the problem, but Retrodata says the issue is severe enough to warrant a recall. MacBook users will want to fire up Apple System Profiler ASAP and check under the Serial-ATA listing to see what kind of drive they have — and probably start backing things up, just to be safe.

A year has passed since the Nintendo Wii first burst onto the scene, becoming the simultaneous joy and frustration for gamers around the world, as huge numbers were sold and even bigger numbers of frustrated parents and fans began a year-long struggle to obtain one of the elusive white boxes.

This cake is so pretty that I don’t want to eat it!

Total of 13.17 million of Units Sold

• Americas 5.46 million as of Sept. 30th, 2007
• Japan 3.67 million as of Sept. 30th, 2007
• Other 4.04 million as of Sept. 30th, 2007

Toyota Motor Corp on Friday detailed plans to study U.S. consumer demand for a version of its hot-selling Prius hybrid that could be recharged at a standard outlet and run on electric power only.

A senior Toyota executive declined to say when a plug-in Prius would be launched or whether it could beat rival General Motors Corp to market with a technology seen as capable of slashing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Bob Carter, who heads the Toyota brand in the United States, said it was more important for Toyota to understand consumer expectations and hone the battery-centered technology behind plug-in cars than to race to bring them to showrooms.
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This is what I called a James Bond Pen! It’s a pen and a cell phone which you can talk while you write. Still in concept stage, the pen is designed to connect with Bluetooth headsets, a USB connector, microSD slot, an mono LCD screen to show numbers, day and date, and cell signal strength information. The are micro (and we do mean micro) phone and earpiece slots at either end of the pen. The only thing really missing from the phone is a camera.
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The possible gPhone prototype we pointed out yesterday named the “Dream” might just be this HTC Omni communicator. The first reason is that HTC’s actually seen and commented on the internal Google prototype, even going so far as to consider developing a real version of the reference design. Unwired View matches up the description of the device to the leaked specs of the HTC Omni, which mesh quite well in both size, shape and functionality. So is this the real “Google Phone” design? If so, it looks less like a phone and more like a fancy—and pants tearingly-large—communicator. We wouldn’t have our Google Phone any other way.

Facebook, the social media network, will become the advertising network tonight when it launches Facebook Ads. Facebook made the official announcement today at Ad:Tech New York. The new ad network fires a shot across the bows of Google, which is trying to take Facebook head on with its own social-networking platform call OpenSocial.

Facebook Ads is comprised of three parts:

• Social Ads: Ads targeted at Facebook members using their profile data.
• Beacon: Ad widgets that advertisers can put on their own sites that allow Facebook members to become product endorsers, and spread that endorsement to all of their friends on Facebook through their personal feeds.
• Insight: Aggregated profile information that is exposed to Facebook advertisers that tells them what kind of people are getting their ads and who is clicking on them.

With over 50 million users and a very targeted demographic profiling of those users, Facebook is going to be very attractive to brand advertisers. However, I have a feeling Internet marketers will be finding ways to make money off the new platform as well.

As previous post [cref 36], there are many rumors about the gPhone. No Google phone exists yet, but the search giant’s announcement of an open platform for mobile-phone apps is a step in the right direction. So when will we see the so-called Android phones from members of the newly founded Open Handset Alliance?

We have answers to some of these questions!

1. Will a Google Phone ever be made?
2. So what is this Android?
3. When will I be able to buy a Google-powered phone?
4. How will Android phones differ from today’s coolest smart phones?
5. Why is a Google mobile platform any better than an existing mobile OS from Palm or Microsoft?

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