Hasta La Gadget!

Timbuk2 is best known for its rugged and reliable messenger bags and backpacks, but the company announced three new iPad sleeves designed to keep your iPad safe and secure whether the sleeve is going into a bag or you’re just carrying your iPad from one place to another. The new Plush Sleeve for iPad features thick memory foam lining and a faux fur lining on the interior to prevent scratches and damage to your iPad, and comes in a bronze, black, and silver Velcro sleeves that secures over the top by three heavy Velcro straps.

The Scuba Sleeve for iPad is made of neoprene fabric that makes for a more snug fit around your iPad and a wrap-over Velcro closure that’s designed to keep it protected from rain or splashing. The Scuba Sleeve also has the same faux fur lining, and comes in black, with your choice of a gray or red design.
 
Finally, the Envelope Sleeve for iPad features Timbuk2’s trademark colorful three-panel style and the same memory foam protective exterior, faux fur lined interior, and heavy Velcro closure that the Plush Sleeve does, just with the three-panel design and many more color options and combinations. All three of Timbuk2’s new iPad sleeves are TSA compliant, and all three are available now. The Plush Sleeve is the most expensive, at $40 list, the Scuba Sleeve will set you back $35, and the Envelope Sleeve retails for $30. 

Danish designer Mads Hindhed has created glasses that instantly take spoken speech, converts it into readable text, and project them onto the inside of glasses.

The tech is called “BabelFisk,” which is Danish for “Babel Fish”–not to be confused with Yahoo!’s Babel Fish translation site (hey there, impending Yahoo! law suit). This tech is designed to bring the hearing impaired into
any conversation. And that’s going to help a lot of people.

On a sidenote, BabelFisk offers a hint of what we should expect from augmented reality. For convenience alone, a pair of projection-ready glasses really makes far more sense than holding up a cell phone to gain additional information from the world around you. That’s clunky, offers no privacy from lookie-loos around you, and busies at least one of your hands which you could otherwise be using for all sorts of neat stuff.

Projection-ready glasses that combine the true world with added information will be the future. Think the way the Terminator saw the world. It makes me want to hunt down Edward Furlong just thinkin’ about it!  Expect something along those lines when we live blog Apple’s media event in 2014-ish.

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Ever sprint across the airport terminal to reach the gate and still miss the flight? Next time, skip the running and zoom through the concourse via a TITAN High-Roller Suitcase.

Still a concept, the suitcase comes with a footrest to transform into a scooter. The suitcase (with your beginnings) remain in the front. The three-wheeler uses the two wheels on the suitcase front and the single wheel  on the back footrest.

A laptop case slides off the top of the suitcase to slightly shrink the bag. When placed under the seat in front of you, the space cleared by the laptop case creates a perfect footrest.

Designed for the business types who fly regularly, the High-Roller would appeal to aynone who sees a kid fly by on a scooter, “I wish I didn’t have to walk.”

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That chair you’re sitting on right now–it’s nice, but is it really, you know, gamey? I mean, you don’t really plan on doing all of your gaming on that thing, do you? n00b. It’s hard to find good dedicated gaming furniture these days. Thankfully, professional gamer/licenser of video game-related products, Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, is on the case.

Fatal1ty has signed on with Southern Enterprises, a Dallas-based furniture company, with the intention to “develop and distribute a custom line of gaming furniture tailored specifically to the ergonomic requirements and performance enhancement features of gamers.”

So, what precisely are the needs and concerns of your average hardcore gamer? Says Fatal1ty, “I’ve played on a lot of different setups at LANs and tournaments and plan to build the ultimate experience in furniture for a gamer to dominate his world.”

Okay, well, that’s not really helpful. Let’s see what Southern Enterprises’ executive VP Dirk Brinkerhoff has to say about the matter,

It is our hope that our collaboration with Fatal1ty will enable us to create furniture gaming pieces that will provide enhanced capability and functionally, added comfort and ease of use, and that the combination of these features will ultimately enable each player who uses our Fatal1ty branded furniture to be a better gamer than they were without it.

Comfort and functionality, check. What about the cupholders?

The fruits of Fatal1ty and Southern Enterprises’ labor will arrive in spring of next year.

If you ask gamers whether they prefer the controller that ships with the PlayStation 3 or the one that comes with the XBox 360, you’ll probably get passionate defenders on either side, but most will likely choose the XBox 360 controller, mostly because of the way it fits in your hands and the placement of the buttons. If you’re one of those gamers who really wish they could use their XBox 360 controller on their PS3, the new Nyko Raven Wireless Controller for the PlayStation 3 is a dream come true.

The Raven looks like an XBox 360 controller, and if the buttons weren’t labeled with Sony’s signature square, triangle, circle, and X buttons, you wouldn’t think it was for the PS3. The entire controller is covered in rubberized plastic so it won’t slip during long, sweaty-palmed gaming sessions, and has a 25-foot range. It uses a rechargeable battery that can be connected to mini-USB for power, and alert lights that let you know when power is scarce. Best of all, the controller has motion and rumble support, so you don’t lose features by buying a new controller. The Nyko Raven can be yours for $34.99 list.