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Right after hearing how much the Python pimped iPhone is going to cost (at least you’ll be showing off while calling your mom on the tube), here’s a new high-end device that will probably have you selling your organs to bring one home — the new BeoVision 10-46 LCD that …

Vacuum (and blade-less fan) extraordinaire Dyson has revealed a new handheld vacuum that brings Dyson power and design to a small form factor.  The Dyson City DC26 weighs just 8 pounds and is as wide and thick as a standard sheet of A4 paper.

The MIT Fluid Interfaces Group has teased a new technology that could change the way short order restaurants — and us at home –  prepare our meals.  The MIT Cornucopia Food Printer Concept does precisely what it’s name suggests, it prints food by using ingredients as its ink.

MPower’s flashlights (or ‘torches’ as some on the TFTS staff would call them) really are for gadget people. For starters, it’s a powerful LED flashlight that uses less energy and gives off higher lumens than a conventional flashlight. The CR123 is intended to be used as an emergency flashlight, and …

Home Electronics giant Sherwood showed off the iNet 2.0, a powerful new iPhone dock that is filled with new features. The most noticeable thing about the iNet 2.0 is it’s big 8-inch touchscreen display. As an iPod/iPhone dock, it can play music off of your device with a bigger set …

Google’s Android is slowly showing up everywhere. It was the hot mobile OS of 2009, and has made appearances in GPS units and even netbooks, and now, Android is heading to your kitchen and laundry rooms. A company called Touch Revolution is planning to bring Android to washing machines and …

Communications giant AT&T wants to get rid of landlines. The phone empire sent a 32-page filing to the American FCC, asking that regulations that make it support an analog landline phone network be phased out, allowing them to go entirely with VOIP-provided phone service. This could be troublesome for the …

Catalog company Hammacher Schlemmer is offering “The Picture Scanning Digital Photo Frame”, a small digital photo frame that as a vending machine style slot that will scan your pictures and automatically add them right to the internal memory of the Digital Photo Frame. As for the photo frame itself, it …

It’s not every day that we see hotels here at TFTS, but a five star hotel in London that gets buried under a former golf course deserves our attention. After all, we’re talking about lots of technology involved into making an underground house accept guests.

Taiwan’s ASUS is planning to release an automated robotic vacuum cleaner, similar to the famous Roomba from iRobot. The ASUS ECleaner will first be offered in China and Taiwan. While the ECleaner appears very similar to the Roomba, it has a few key features that make it stand ahead of the Roomba.

Panasonic is going to create one of the hottest batteries available to date. The new lithium-ion storage cell should power up a whole house in 2011 when it could be available to the general public. I don’t know about you but I’d want to plug that battery right into my …