New $300 Wal-Mart PC is Bloatware-Free

She ain't much to look at, but the Everex IMPACT GC3502 is a basic box, running a 1.5GHz VIA CPU, 1GB of RAM, 80GB of HDD and a DVD burner, and for $300 includes keyboard, mouse and speakers, but no monitor. Best of all it comes with Vista home, OpenOffice 2.2 and is free from craplets infestation.

We're glad Everex is taking a stand, and hope other mainstream companies see the writing on the wall and stop shoving AOL trial widgets down our throats. We know how to use PCs, and we want 'em shiny and new on the inside when we buy 'em. The PC isn't on Walmart's site yet, but it should be soon.

Sanyo Easy Streetnav NVM-4070 GPS

Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech for reading off street names, 1.8 million points of interest, Video/Photo/MP3/WMA playback and an FM transmitter to get the nav and music channeled through your car stereo.

It also has Bluetooth for phone functionality, including address book sync and speakerphone. (I assume when a call comes in, it shows callerID and pauses your music, but don't quote me on that.) It has an SD card slot and a lousy 64MB of internal storage. My bet is at $500, it's not a big HDD. There's a $400 version (NVM-4050), which loses auto-rerouting, traffic, photo and video playback and the FM transmitter.

iLive’s Extra-Wide iPod Surround Speakerbar

The iLive Flat Panel Docking System is a virtual surround sound bar that uses magnetically shielded 2 full mid/high range drivers and twin internal woofers. You can pretty much hook up whatever you want—DVD players, TVs, computers via USB, other audio players—but considering it has a specially built motorized tray that fits an iPod, we're guessing that's what iLive had in mind. The unit also has a headphone jack. Weird.

Now why would you plug in your iPod just to use the dock's headphone port? Once your iPod is docked, you can control it by the player's buttons, or by remote. It's got pretty much everything else you'd expect in the way of frills, from the usual AM/FM tuner to a backlit LCD clock that has an alarm, too. Expect to pay around $350.

Cellphone Transforms Into Deadly Robot

Check out this transforming cellphone concept found over at Parkoz Hardware. It turns into a little bi-pedal bot, complete with twin miniguns. Definitely reminiscent of scenes from Michael Bay's Tranformers, with a little bit of Batteries Not Included, Short Circuit, and Robocop (ED-209, anyone?) Koreans get the coolest cellphones, so it figures their concepts are going to be kick-ass, too. Video of the miniguns chewing up a desk, post jump.

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Ghetto Wii Wheel From Billet Mechanical Takes

If you thought the plastic-looking Nintendo Wii Mario Kart wheel was a little too classy, Billet Mechanical has the wheel for you. First, it's not even a wheel. It's a Knight Rider-like half steering wheel that has grips on the two ends for gripping. It's not like you're doing hand over hand on regular wheels anyway, but shaping it like a wheel is probably the least you can do for the authentic wheel experience.

Also, this thing is $44.95. We're guessing that some of your money goes into the aluminum and velcro build, which probably feels quite a bit nicer than plastic. The rest? Into the fantastic product design. But hey, if you're ever pretending you're Michael Knight, this and a talking watch with the voice of William Daniels will get you all the way home.

Further Playstation 3 Price Cut Predicted

Capcom, the developer behind multiple treasured video game series such as Street Fighter and Resident Evil, is forecasting yet another substantial price cut for Sony's Playstation 3. Said Capcom Chief Financial Officer Kazuhiko Abe to reporters:

"…the price has been cut once and it is likely to be cut again towards the end of the year. I expect the (PS3's) installed base to grow gradually."

This prediction comes after last week's $100 drop in price, bringing the cheapest Playstation 3 to $500, and also because of the console's significant lag in sales behind the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360.

So what's in store for us next week? Yet another discount? Our hope: a Playstation 3 with every Happy Meal.

My Pet Fish Soap

At first glance you might thought is a pack of water with fish inside but it’s not. It is My Pet Fish, a soap that shaped like “water in a bag” with fish inside. The soap has no scent, measuring 3 1/2″H x 3″ at widest; 5 1/2″ and available $6.95 per pack.

Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound 6 DAP

Style-maven Bang & Olufsen introduced their new DAP called the Beosound 6. It is a simple design candybar-shaped audio player with stripped-down controls. It features 4GB of flash memory, a 65K color LCD screen and USB connectivity. The player is available for £400 ($812 US) and comes together with by a leather case and the company’s A8 earphones.

75-year-old has world’s fastest private internet connection

Swedish news site The Local reports that 75-year old Swede's home has been tricked-out with a record-breaking 40 Gb/s connection - the first time a private residence has tapped into the internet at such high speeds. The lightning fast Internet connection is thanks to the money and her son Peter Löthberg a Swedish optical internet guru working at Cisco. Ma Löthberg's house was converted into a broadband dog-and-pony act in an effort to promote high-speed fibre connections as a commercially viable platform. With such a connection she can download a DVD in 0.14 seconds and a HD-DVD in 3 seconds.The secret that stands behind this speed is in new modulation technique. This technique allows data to be transferred to de distances up to 2,000 kilometers directly between only two routers. This does not involve any intermediary transponders which makes the connection even faster.

Japanese Sophia Nani Is A Full Touchscreen Phone, Media Player

It would seem that a certain black-and-silver phone has attracted a bit of a following in the design department. The Japan-only Sophia Nani, launching next week, sports a massive 4.3" touchscreen TFT display running at a crisp 800×400 resolution. A digital TV tuner rounds out a complete multimedia package, but one crucial feature will inevitably doom this newborn phone to the "design-only" box: Windows CE.

Yes, the beauty of the Nani is deceiving. The onboard WiFi capabilities will be handicapped by a sub-par web browser and multimedia capabilities will be bogged down by Windows Media Player 10. While the dual cameras are a unique addition (VGA in front, SVGA in back), the Nani boasts a simple Micro SD card slot in lieu of a more robust storage option like a hard drive. While it certainly won't challenge anything else out there for dominance of the phone/PMP market, the Sophia Nani is proof of the new design direction cell phones are heading in.

Control iTunes from Your iPhone Using Signal

If you're looking for an incredibly simple way to control iTunes at home from your iPhone, look no further than Signal. Once you're running iTunes and Signal, all you have to do is connect to your Wi-Fi network (Yes it uses Wi-Fi, so you can go all over your house no more of this IR tomfoolery) and then point your iPhone to the web address that Signal provides you. Instantly you've got yourself a fully functional iTunes remote, complete with playlist access, album art and even customizable queues. While it is a bit on the pricey side, $29.95, it does do just about everything that you could ask from a media remote webapp.

Sagem my300C

Sagem has announced the my300C an entry level handset. The dual band clamshell is only good in Europe, it comes with a currency converter which will be helpful on your Euro trip. The phone has a VGA camera, WAP, 3 MB of onboard memory, SMS, MMS, Java games and Polyphonic ringtones.The price of £40 ($ 80) is not as disappointing as the specifications. The Sagem my300C is available on Vodafone PAYG, in black or white & pink.

Fujifilm IS Pro Digital SLR Camera Has Predator Vision

Forget the visible light spectrum, any camera can hack that. The Fujifilm IS Pro is the most recent camera in Fujifilm's pro lineup that can shoot in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums as well. Tooled for professional snoops, it also has such gumshoey features as one-touch black-and-white Live Image Preview, post capture face-detection that identifies up to 10 faces per image and Mirror Lock-Up and Shutter Delay to reduce image blur in a long exposure. It's simply the choicest thing to accompany your coffee thermos and box of doughnuts on those long overnight stakeouts. Jump for the details, right from the horse's mouth.

Morito Bone Aqua - Bone conduction headphones

Morito Japan has announced Aqua Bone waterproof bone conduction headphones. Available in four bright colors you can go out jogging or cycling on a rainy day and be rest assured that the rains or sweat will not mess with it as the headphones confirm to IPX7 waterproofing. It touches the bone in front of the ear and like every bone conduction equipment it transmits sounds by vibrations which are picked up the brain. The company is working on a Bluetooth version as well.The Morito Bone Aqua will be available by August in Japan for 9,980 Yen ($ 82).

Samsung SPD-1000 a super stylish surveillance camera

The Samsung SPD-1000 is an interior speed dome camera that is customized to suit indoor conditions and spaces while providing outstanding function. Equipped with a 10X optical A/F zoom lens, the new SPD-1000 lets users zoom in with accurate focusing, and it provides up to 100X zoom capability with vivid images. The SPD-1000 lets users specify up to 128 preset settings for automatic monitoring of a designated area. In particular, you can customize the monitoring to suit large areas by setting the conditions for different sectors with the multi-language OSD, or grouping up to 6 areas for effective surveillance. If the subject in motion is moving behind the camera, the digital flip function allows an immediate automatic 180¢ª turn for improved tracking.

With its high-performance CCD image sensor and unique DSP chipset, the camera gives you a high resolution of 520TV lines and an ultra low light sensitivity of 0.005Lux. A 10X interior speed dome with smart and stylish monitoring, the Samsung SPD-1000 provides easy installation without complicated cabling for a range of locations, including: department stores, discount stores, museums, galleries and lobbies making the camera the right choice for 24-hour always-on surveillance.