If you linger and yearn for one of these displays (like I do), here is NEC’s latest – the 24-inch LCD2470WVX with 1920 x 1200 resolution, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, a 5 ms response time, and a 400cd/m2 brightness rating. NEC adds Ambix dual analog and digital input technology, as well as its NaViSet software, and you can tweak this baby to your heart’s content.

My dog can recognize my face, and so one might be tempted to think that NEC’s LaVie notebooks, with their "face pass" feature, is no big deal. But come on, this is a computer–recognizing your face using the 2 megapixel Webcam and using it as a password is a pretty robust feature. Otherwise, the specs are pretty typical: Core 2 Duo or Celeron, depending on model, 15.4 inch displays, and optional Blu-ray drive. Prices range from the low-end LaVie L at $1,300 to the LaVie C at over $2,500.

For anyone who ever remembers being a kid with a krazy straw, this just might help overcome those feelings of nostalgia. NUOP Design presents the DIY Drinking Strawz, a kit contains 36 components (16 translucent straw pieces and 20 flexible rubber connectors) to make the Ultimate Straw. The pieces are dishwasher safe and kid friendly. It’s also perfect for those adults who sometimes feel that the regular straw is just too dang boring.

Retail price of $12.99

We want better cameras in our phones! Hearing those cash registers and plastic rustling, Kodak announced a five-megapixel model to come, and now NEC is already shipping samples of a "system chip capable of processing cameraphone images at resolutions of up to 8 megapixels," which even includes "image stabilization circuitry as an option."

I love it when those R&D departments are scrambling.

P-ISM : A Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package, basically its a Palm Pilot in a pen. It has some pretty neat features though: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function.

The best part of them all is that they are all connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function. This personal gadget in a minimalistic pen style "enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing".

Personally, I wouldn’t buy it, but what i think has real promise is the keyboard, although my fingers would get super tough from typing on the hard floor or table all day, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Fingers of steel? I’ll take it!

Until next time…