Now this is one damn cool watch. So what if it's really difficult to tell the time - we have mobile phones to do that. The Nooka Zot Classic displays the hours as a progression of 12 dots.
This design feature allows the watch to display the month on the same
display with the date in the seconds window. It's housed in stainless, waterproof steel
with an LCD backlight. Available from Elsewares (they do ship to the UK) for $250 (around £125) BUY IT
Nooka watches are the brainchild of Matthew Waldman, a New York-based artist and designer.
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Mmm, I could eat up Apple's new coloured iPod Shuffles. Goddamn, they look like hi-tech Quality Street. Spec-wise, they're identical to the original silver 2nd-gen Shuffle - 1GB of storage, 12 hours battery life, belt-clip, impossibly small, easy to lose etc. BUY IT
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Still feeling a bit strapped after Christmas? Well, how about £1000 cash on us, plus the latest N60i sat nav system, courtesy of our sponsor, Navman.
To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, just send in an image of your favourite place - that's it! Visitors to the NavPix site can vote for their favourite - and if the picture with the most votes happens to be yours, you get the cash and the N60i.
The sat nav system is well worth getting hold of too. It features full European maps, Navpix (which allows you to navigate with real images of the places concerned), traffic and safety camera updates, not to mention a built-in digital camera.
So what are you waiting for? Get out and get snapping - and get your entry in by 11th February.
Visit the NavPix competition page
It's not even out until 19 March, but the forthcoming DVD release - the usual two-disc collectors' edition - of new Bond romp 'Casino Royale' is already a runaway leader at the top of Amazon's 'Hot 100 DVD' charts. You have been able to download shaky cam-recorded versions of the movie via Bittorrent sites for ages now, but there's not much satisfaction in watching one of those (so I've heard - Brandish would never engage in illegal downloading, hell no).
Having watched Casino Royale at the cinema over Christmas (remember Christmas?), I'm looking forward to watching it again. It's undoubtedly one of the better Bond films (up there with Goldeneye and Goldfinger) and Daniel Craig is the only 007 to give Sean Connery a run for his casino chips. PRE-ORDER IT
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Good to see the Great Bard, aka Shakey, aka MC Bill, getting some t-shirt slogan love at last. 'Exit, pursued by a bear...' is a stage direction from 'The Winter's Tale'. As stage directions go, they don't get more explicit than that.
This, and a range of other Shakespeare-inspired tees, is available from conceptshirts.co.uk. Price = £16.90 to you sunshine. BUY IT
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The SGR-A1 robot sentry is currently being developed by the Korea University and
Samsung Techwin Co. The latter has released a promo video
showcasing the robot's capabilities (watch it after the jump). The video shows how the robot
tracks its target, and also its ability to shoot at
targets that do not respond to an initial verbal warning.
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Let's face it. It's cold and miserable outside. In Britain, it's mostly cold and miserable. If global warming experts are to be believed, then the UK is just going to get colder and colder. One good thing about the chill is that you get to wear more stylish gear, and what better way to make an impression than sporting this fine Beaver Hat from Barney's in New York?
The Sheared Beaver Hat is going for $595.00 and has a quilted lining to make sure your head stays super warm. As it's sheared beaver, I presume it means there wasn't any culling going on to make it. It's made in Canada, and they know a thing or two about staying warm. Also available in black. BUY IT