Time Off For Christmas

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY HANUKKAH
HAPPY KWANZAA
SEASONS GREETINGS
HAPPY NEW YEAR
etc...

See you next year!

Your Watch Roids Pong

You know those times when you're sitting at the train platform or in the movies just wishing you had an old 1970s video game to play? Yeah, neither do I but apparently these guys misinterpreted Nintendo's old "Game & Watch" systems and thought it'd be a great idea to whack Asteroids (or 'roids to the cool kids) into a watch.

Now, that's no ordinary watch there as it doesn't actually display the time but it does have a tilt sensor so the little triangular spaceship points downwards to aid in targeting. There's also a Pong version in case blowing up polygonal asteroids isn't "your bag, baby". Check the video out below and thanks to Engadget for the tip.

Top Gear Does Tesla

Time for my weekly Tesla Roadster post (not quite). This time it's about a story run by the whacky guys on the original (and best) Top Gear. The shows wordsmith Jeremy Clarkson got his hands on not one, but two of these zippy zappers from the valley of silicon and thrashed the crap out of them (as he does).

I don't want to ruin the surprise ending for you but let's just say that he's finally found a car that runs on electrons he'd consider buying thus making him a "volt head" instead of a "petrol head". The Tesla manages to do quite an impressive run around the test track with The Stig at the wheel but the driving range of the car was markedly different to the official Tesla figures.

Click onwards for the video and thanks to AutoBlogGreen for the tip.

eSATA Flash Drives Go Fast

I'm sure everyone has at least one USB key/flash drive sitting around or at least knows someone with a USB key well throw them all out, now. Actually you might want to wait a little while until these new fancy eSATA flash drives actually hit the streets.

While not as cheap as their USB grandparents these guys will kick it up a notch in the transfer speed stakes with eSATA almost doubling the speed of USB 2.0.

Engadget says there was no price announcement but Register Hardware estimates it'll be $32 for the 8GB model, $56 for 16GB and $160 for 32GB. That's USD.