Hasta La Gadget!

Quirky, the site that makes and sells the best of its community-developed concepts, just posted another why-didn’t-I-think-of-that product in the beamer: It’s an iPhone case that lights up to illuminate your phonecam photo subjects or just to help you find stuff in the dark. Press the button once for 10 seconds of LED light, twice to keep it on till you turn it off. The replaceable coin-cell battery is rated to last for 10 hours.

The case itself is hard plastic and comes in “one of Quirky’s funky case colors,” apparently including pink or black. If you want a beamer, get over to the presale at the site and “commit” to buying one for $32; when 500 people have committed, the case will be manufactured and shipped to buyers.

Along with a slew of other new devices like the Droid Eris, Verizon Wireless on Thursday debuted the Casio G’zOne Brigade–a waterproof flip phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 3.2-megapixel camera.

Verizon claims the phone is “water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, altitude, high temperature storage, low temperature storage, and solar radiation resistant.” Basically it’s the sort of phone a wilderness explorer, geologist, or Navy SEAL would love to carry around.

The phone is trying to target some of the office crowd as well by including a document viewer for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF support. It will also include standard Verizon software such as V CAST Music with Rhapsody and V CAST Video, along with support for VZ Navigator.

This new phone is the first of the G’zOne line with a QWERTY keyboard. We liked that the last unit of this family–the G’zOne Boulder–was seemingly indestructible, but it had muddy voice quality. Hopefully all the kinks have been worked out for sleek-looking Brigade.

Price and availability of the G’zOne Brigade will be announced closer to launch.

The Motorola Droid doesn’t go on sale until tomorrow, but Verizon Wireless is already pushing the second device in that line: the Verizon Droid Eris. Essentially a rebranded version of Sprint’s HTC Hero, the Eris (see it in action in the above video) goes on sale the same day as the Motorola Droid, but for $99 ($100 less than Motorola’s handset).

The Eris runs Android 1.5, features a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, and a 528-MHz Qualcomm processor (less powerful than the Motorola’s ARM Cortex-A8). For more information on the handset, along with a slideshow, check out PCMag.com.

Samsung Mobile has unveiled the Samsung Mythic and Samsung Flight, two phones that will hit AT&T stores and AT&T’s Web site on November 8th.

The black Mythic looks sort of similar to the existing Solstice. It sports a 3.3-inch touch screen, along with Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface for dragging and dropping semi-useful widgets all over the home screen. The Mythic also features quick Facebook and MySpace access, along with support for AT&T Mobile TV and AT&T Navigator.

The Flight (pictured), meanwhile, is a vertical slider–something we’re seeing more and more of lately, after a few years on hiatus. The Flight features a somewhat cramped-looking QWERTY keyboard and a touch screen. It includes one-touch access to Web favorites, app shortcuts, SMS, MMS, instant messaging, and mobile e-mail. The Flight will be available in red or white.

No pricing information is available as of yet.