Take a gander at this. This may be the weirdest makeup compact in the history of makeup. The thing looks like a handgun, but instead of bullets the gadget hides all the make up a well to do woman with a handgun fetish would need for a night of dodging the cops or sitting in security at the airport. The device is made by Ted Norton, a Dutch Jewelry designer.

There are two versions with one in white called Dior 001 and the other in black called Channel 001. The Dior 001 version will cost $11,500 and packs inside a Dior lip gloss, antique hairpin, 18K gold toothpick, perfume, and a 50-gram 24K gold bar. It also has a spot for a umm…Viagra pill… and a flash drive.

The other version is the Channel 001 you see here in black. This one is $17,000 and has the same stuff inside with Channel branded cosmetics. You have to go back to the designer’s studio to refill the makeup if you need to. The gold bar is the weird thing to me, it’s not like in a pinch you can pay the cabbie in gold and get change.

[via BornRich]

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We have all been there, 30 outlets, but only able to use 6. Nothing is more frustrating than buying a monster power strip with 30 or more outlets only to find most of them are un-useable. Not because there is something wrong with the outlets, but the shape of the power adapter you are plugging in ends up covering 2 or 3 additional outlets. Then there are those fat power adapters that can only be plugged in from one angle and naturally that angle makes almost half the power strip useless. Pivot Power, from Quirky has a solution. Pivot Power is a flexible power strip that can help reduce some of that frustration.

Each outlet on the Pivot Power can bend or flex to help find a more convenient angle to plug something in. There is a hinge between every outlet on the strip. This allows more flexibility when choosing how to plug something in, literally. They only swivel in the side to side direction; it would have been nice to see one or two of the outlets bend in the vertical direction also. But as it is, the Pivot Power could probably help simplify the process many of us have to deal with when trying to find a free outlet.

It comes in white with six feet of cord and six flexible outlets. Six outlets is not enough for most of us, so we will have to buy a few. Just don’t give in to the temptation to daisy-chain the power strips together in a long line with one plugged in to another. It offers 672 Joules of surge protection, and is available for $29.99. Not the only power strip solution of its kind, but we like the overall design. It looks like it will match Ikea style décor. (That may or may not be a positive for you.)

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Sometimes, all it takes to size an object up is one look. It doesn’t have to be a very long gaze or detailed inspection. And in the case of Sharp’s new AQUOS IS11H Phone, it just takes a second or two to glance at the images and know that these phones are geared towards Japanese women. (Japanese, since they’re being released in Japan for now.)

The entire phone is pink and the phones in the promotional image have a similarly pink and flowery wallpaper to boot. Need I say more?

I don’t know about you, but I’m a girl myself and I do not really find this phone appealing. I mean, it looks okay and all that, but I think there’s such a thing as too much of a thing. Appearances aside, it’s a smartphone that is capable of displaying 3D graphics on a 960×540 3.7-inch display. It runs on Android 2.3 and even has an 8.5 megapixel CMOS camera to boot. You can also use the AQUOS as a mobile wallet and watch some TV  on it, and typing is made really easy on it with the slide-out keypad.

All these features make the phone seem and sound more worthwhile. I just can’t swallow all that pink, though. Maybe if it came in black or white… Now that’s more up my alley.

[via Gizmodiva via New Launches]

I’ve mentioned before that when it comes to gadgets and electronics, my wife and I are fundamentally different. I want something that looks cool, but primarily it has to work. I am the form follows function type. My wife, on the other hand, will gladly take an inferior product that looks better.

Novero has a new Bluetooth range for women who want something that not only look good but that work well too. I have reviewed many Novero devices and they have performed well across the board, so these Victoria items should as well.

Basically, what you have here is a Bluetooth headset that looks like a necklace and comes in several styles. Presumably, they all have the same hardware inside.

Novero talks more about the looks than anything else. The line comes in Victoria Lapis, Pearl, Stripes, Wave, and a style called “Victor” for the guys.

And if you’re a really rich geek, you can get versions made from precious metals and jewels for as much as $120,000 (USD). Pricing for the normal versions is unknown.

I can say with a high degree of certainty that this is not the new iPhone 4G.

Nope, in fact, this strange oval phone is actually called the “Leady Apple.” I assume that the bad Chinese translation was supposed to say “Lady Apple”, given it’s girlish figure. The backside of these curvacious phones both have Apple logos and say “iPhone,” so they must be legit, right?

From what I can tell, these phones have all the standard features you’ve come to expect from every cheap Chinese mobile these days, including built-in games, media playback, a digital camera and an FM radio. And thanks to a super shiny mirror-finish screen, it looks like something that could help you put your makeup on, too.

While I’m certain that Apple had nothing to do with these, I do find the fact that they managed to create a round display kind of slick. Although surfing the web and watching movies probably sucks with the corners cut off.

[via M8Cool]

My wife uses her iPhone for listening to music a lot. She uses these cheap pink earphones when she listens that sound worse than the stock Apple earphones. The other day I got a really nice set of earphones for her from V-Moda that sound great. I handed them to her and told her they sound much better than what she has and her first response was those aren’t very cute. I’ll never understand women. It seems many care more for what something looks like than how it works.

A company called chicBuds has some appropriately girly headphones that come in colors that would make Stevie Wonder say man that’s bright. You can get the things in a pink color that is typically only seen in an emo girl’s hair. If the pink isn’t obnoxious enough for you, a multi-color set is also available.

I wonder if the multi-color set was painted at a Blue Man Group concert. Either color headphones are available for $29.95 (USD) and will work with any gadget using a 3.5mm headphone jack. The headphones have 44mm drivers and a frequency response of 5Hz to 20KHz, not that the specs matter, they are (debatably) cute after all.

This little square box looks more like a makeup compact case than a mobile phone, but it’s definitely designed for making phone calls.

The compact K-Touch X90+ features an unusual twist-out keyboard that hides behind the screen of the square phone display. While it’s not totally decked out with features, the X90+ does offer built-in Bluetooth, dual SIM slots, dual cameras, and a touchscreen interface. The phone is available in three colors: black, white and a sort-of sparkly plum color that’s targeted at the ladies.

Unfortunately, the phone only works on 900/1800MHz GSM bands, so it won’t work in North America. Oh well, it’s not like I was going to buy one anyhow. It should work for the rest of the world, though. I’m also pretty sure this isn’t the official K-Touch X90+, rather some sort of knock-off (the photos seem to have misspelled K-Touch as K-Tcouh). But it’s not like you ever heard of K-Touch anyhow, right? If you still want one, you can find them over at ChinaGrabber for about $139 (USD).

I barely even notice most purses, which is pretty simple because I’m a guy. But hey, this looks like a great purse to me!

This makes the perfect Valentine’s gift for your girlfriend. On top of showing her how much of a geek you were for buying it, she gets this great purse that’s actually made out of 393 individual computer keys! The intricate purses shown here were designed by Portuguese artist Joao Sabino.

Unfortunately, if you’re a spendthrift, the 130 € ($180 USD) pricetag might turn you off. Fortunately, for you cheapskates out there, Neatorama is selling a cheap copy of this bag for just $40 bucks.

When I think of the word “boombox,” it usually conjures up visions of a massive luggable stereo, powered by 8 “D”-Cell batteries, riding along on the shoulder of some urban youth, while Boogaloo Shrimp does his best poppin’ and lockin’ to the rhythm. My, how times have changed. Here’s the 21st century version of the boom box.

At the front and center of Hyundai’s portable boombox is an oversized 12.1-inch LCD monitor. The spec sheet says the screen is 1280 x 800, but from the pictures I’ve seen, I’m not sure that’s really the case. It’s not like you’re going to be watching Hi-Def video on this thing anyhow. Unlike the classic ghetto blaster, these new compact stereos are all about the image, and not the sound. As a matter of fact, the speakers on this boombox have taken a serious backseat to the screen.

The Hyundai HY-1210 is all about watching movies and TV – not listening to your jamz. The portable has a built-in DVD player, and can play content in VCD, DVD, CD, CD-R, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-4, AVI formats. There’s even a Karaoke feature built-in so you can sing along. And if you don’t have any DVDs lying around, there are USB and SD/MMC/MS slots for watching media stored on digital memory devices. And there’s a VGA connector on the back for some reason too. I can officially say this is the first boombox EVER with a VGA port.

Unfortunately, the TV tuner is analog, so you won’t be able to tune in stations in many parts of the world. At least you can listen to the FM radio when you’re not watching those Harajuku girls on screen. And with a 10-watt per channel stereo amp under the hood, audio actually isn’t that bad. One other technological advancement – this boombox only needs 8 “C”-Cell batteries – so we have made progress in the last 25 years or so. Maybe by 2035, we’ll have OLED boomboxes that run on 8 “AAA” batteries.

The Hyundai HY-1210 boombox can be yours over at ChinaGrabber for $219.99 (USD).

More and more gadgets are starting to turn up in colors besides basic black, white or grey. It was only a matter of time before the good old camcorder got a colorful makeover – in pink.

This cheery pink digital camcorder is perfect for girls (and very confident men) who want to shoot video and are sick of the same old, same old. Just like the big boys, the pink HD cam can shoot 720p high-definition video at up to 30 fps in H.264 format. See, these girls are definitely stoked about those stats…

Girl on right: “Hey, did you know my HD digi-cam can shoot digital video at 1280×720 resolution with a frame rate of 30 frames-per-second and encodes its data using a Quicktime H.264 codec?” Girl on left: “Shut up and take my picture already! Can’t you see I was busy listening to some tunes in Ogg Vorbis format!”

The pink cam has even got a pair of SD slots, each of which can hold 16GB of memory, so you can store up to 32GB of digital video if you load up both slots. In addition to shooting video, the pink cam will take still photos at up to 5-megapixel resolution. Video is displayed on the camera’s large 3-inch touchscreen display. And it’s pink – with ruby-colored sparklies!

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but you can check back over on Chinavasion for more information. Think pink!