Hasta La Gadget!

Dude. Those headphones are totally rad. Do the kids still talk that way on the slopes? If so, you could hear that in reference to a new line of headphones and earbuds designed by a group of seven pro-snowboarding friends — one of who is Olympic medal-winning Scott Lago. The hip-looking earphones range in price from $29.95 for earbuds, to $59.95 for headphones.

These earphones are rugged, and have been tested by the Frends crew for durability. According to Frends, “We test our gear on the mountain, at the party, in the Jacuzzi, in the mean streets–we make sure that by the time you get a product from Frends, it’s perfect. We don’t want to look like chumps, so we’ve made sure our products are legit. Nothing’s worse than when a friend lets you down, and here at Frends–that just doesn’t happen.”

Nothing is worse than when a friend lets you down. How true. Frends headphones come in four different styles, and in a variety of designs for each style. The Classic, and the Alli are both headphones, though the Classic covers more of the ear (see photo above). The Coupe, and the Clip are earbuds. Every Frends headphones feature the brand’s custom mic, which works as a play/pause feature in addition; and a fabric cord, which alleviates the frustrating cord-tangle problem that so many of us have suffered from.

Frends believes in using earth-friendly materials. “Using recycled corrugated cardboard and biodegradable plastic helps to satisfy our tree-hugging inner neo-hippy souls,” the group said on its site.

You can check out Wearefrends.com to find stores that sell Frends headphones. You can also buy them online at Zumiez.com. [Via Thrillist]

If only we lived in a world where we could actually have robot-maids like Rosie from The Jetsons, or those creepy butler robots from Sleeper. Okay, so technology has advanced enough to give us Roombas to vacuum our floors for us, but what happens when you’re eating a flaky croissant at your desk at the office and realize you’ve created an ant’s dream? Do you clean it up yourself? 

The answer is no. The Mini Robo Vacuum will be your new robo-BFF. He’ll sit upon your desk, and, with the simple push of a button on top of his tiny head, he’ll clean up all the messes you make. This little robot takes 2 AA batteries to sweep up your debris. The Mini Robo Vacuum comes in red, black, or a rather R2-D2-ish gray.

You can get it now for $20 at Fredflare.com. But, lucky for you, Fredflare is having a holiday preview sale. Enter code “flare” at checkout to receive 30 percent off sitewide. This deal ends on November 15, and cannot be combined with any other offer.

I imagine that there’s a pretty healthy overlap in the Venn
diagram of pizza lovers and Star Trek fans, and the clever kids over at Think
Geek have done a pretty great job splitting the difference.

The Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter is a realization of
the true purpose of that big round thing atop the NCC-1701 Enterprise–cutting delicious
pizza pies. The cutter is made of stainless steel and features a laser-etched four inch blade and a zinc alloy body.

The utensil is an officially licensed Star Trek item, but it’s
only available through Think Geek for $24.99. Here’s something for the Star
Trek fan in your life who has everything–save for an amusing way to break
homemade pizza into smaller portions. 

I won’t lie to you–Viewsonic doesn’t jump out at me as the ideal manufacturer for consumer tablets. Sure, the company knows displays and has ventured into the PC market more than once, but one wonders what will set the company apart in a space so dominated by a single company (Apple) with what seems like dozens of companies battling it out for second place (HP/Palm, RIM, Samsung, et al.).

The company this week announced that it will bringing two new tablets to our shores–the Viewpad 7 and 10. The former offers a 7-inch multi-touch screen with 800 by 480 resolution and ships with Android 2.2. The tablet also has front and back cameras and Wi-Fi and 3G on-board, plus 512MB of built-in memory, which can be expanded via microSD card.

The Viewpad 10, meanwhile, features a 10 inch a 1024-by-600 screen and dual boots with Android 1.6 and Windows 7 Home Premium. There’s a 16GB hard drive built in, a 1.66GHz processor, and a 1.3MP Webcam for video conferencing. It’s certainly the more business-minded of the two devices.

The Viewpad goes on sale later this year for $479. The Viewpad 10, meanwhile, will ship next year for $629.

If there’s one thing that Steve Jobs hates more than Adobe’s Flash, it’s naked people on his beautiful devices. The executive has infamously cracked down on the presence of adult material in the iPhone’s App Store, even going so far as to censor the worlds “boobs” and “booty.”

Of course there are workarounds. For starters, there’s the fact that any device that can freely access the Internet freely can freely access porn. A number of sites have even gone so far as to optimize adult content for the device.

And then there’s the FleshDrive, creators of the adult-oriented flash drive of the same name.

Says the company’s VP, Michael Gruosso, “In a world where a certain company President has looked down upon the adult industry, it is the consumer who decides if they want to watch porn on their iPads. It was important to our company that we developed a creative way to make this happen.”

The device works with the iPad Camera Connection Kit (“also a great item for your digital cameras,” says FleshDrive, enthusiastically), letting users transfer smut directly to the tablet.

The content works without an Internet connection, obviously, which should make it great for watching hardcore pornography on the bus or a plane. “Take the convenience of the iPad with The FleshDrive and you have a porn match made in heaven,” says Gruosso.

I must have missed that part during Sunday school.