Ben & Jerry’s Euphori-Lock has been around for a few years now, but is making the rounds again thx to a mention in Popgadget.
The device, which is intended to safeguard your ice cream from poachers, is a combination lock that fits over your pint container.
Ben & Jerry’s Euphori-Lock

The unremarkably-spec’d and oddly-designed and unfortunately-named Wizpac is an MP3 player disguised as a slider phone. Up to 1GB of memory with a 128×64 pixel two color OLED display. Panko Technologies Wizpac Specifications

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a small piece on mosquito & bug repellents. The article states that CDC-approved mosquito repellents now include DEET, picaridin and oil of lemon eucalyptus … all of which are to be used topically. As an alternative to the use of DEET, the piece makes note of [...]

A recent issue of the New York Times compares 6 new slim-profile digital cameras: the Canon PowerShot SD400, Casio Exilim EX-S100, Fujifilm Finepix Z1, Nikon S1, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T33 and Cyber-shot DSC-T7. These are mostly 5-Megapixel devices less than 0.8 inches thick and with 2 - 2.5 inch LCD screens and 3x optical zoom. [...]

The cover story of the May issue of Nikkei Electronics Asia is devoted to the Cell microprocessor from STI. The article provides a good summary of the capabilities of the Cell processor, and positions the chip at the center of the emergence of consumer electronics as the key technology driver for the electronics industry [...]

Self-help guides abound and are on a variety of topics , but there do not seem to be many credible ones around that purport to help your wetware. In this vein, New Scientist has assembled an eleven step program intended to improve your brain. Some of the items put forth by New [...]

Genetic Savings & Clone, the only company in the world selling cloned cats, has announced a 36% fee reduction … thereby bringing their price for replicating your feline down to a more reasonable $32,000. Too-cleverly-named GSC plans to expand their product line later this year by also offering dog cloning services . GSC [...]

The palmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager has just been reviewed by the New York Times. They liked almost everything about the device including the ‘gorgeous’ screen, the connectivity and synchronization features, email support, the mini-browser and the handwriting-recognition system. On the down side, the reviewer was disappointed by the 6-second delays that occur when [...]

The journal Nature is reporting that the wearing of red clothing enhances one’s chances of winning a sporting event. The article states that, in Olympic wrestling events, those donning red won 55% of the time. The effect also seems to be true for soccer and other sports. The authors speculate that red may [...]

Fortune Magazine has a piece about the new game consoles from Sony Microsoft and Nintendo and the upcoming video game wars, as well as some observations and predictions. To sum up the article, the author is betting on Sony’s PS3 with its Cell processor to be the “dominant game platform for the coming generation”. [...]