They call it a Dandella, named for a dandelion floating on the breeze, though it behaves more like a sunflower: this hand-held GPS tracking device lights up and physically bends and points towards its location or another Dandella that it’s been synchronised with. If you’ve lost your friend in the crowd, just activate the Dandella and it’ll point you the way you should go to find them. Great for parents looking to keep track of their kids at the mall, or people travelling in a group who like to wander independently for a bit and rejoin the rest later.

Of course, the Dandella needs to be set up with locations first, through a docking system (aptly designed like a basic flower vase) with a computer that allows it to be programmed to track a particular GPS location or a fellow Dandella. When you’re out and about, an activated Dandella then relies on GPS technology to identify its own location as well as to find the other location or Dandella that it’s configured for.

Designers Yong-kai Tan and Priscilla Lui say they were simply trying to solve the problem of losing someone and having to find them. “The Dandella simplifies the often complex and confusing GPS interface, with many messy buttons and intimidating numbers,” Tan adds. Simple, indeed — you could hand one to a child or a Luddite, and they’d still intuitively know how to use it to find their way home, as it were.

Aving Pen Music Player.

Just what you’ve always needed (though you didn’t know it) — a ball point pen with MP3 player, USB2.0 memory, and voice recorder (5-6 hours of recording time). It enables you to record, listen to music, and take notes simultaneously. Talk about multi-tasking.

The company offers 5 different models from 128MB to 2GB at a price of 99,000 to 198,000 Korean won (about $104 to $209).

Wing Inter, the exclusive distributor of the N007PEN, already offers other ball pen models that support voice recorder, USB memory with laser pointer, and USB memory with SD/MMC card reader, respectively. I’m waiting for the pen phone, myself.

From Aving, it’s only available in Korea right now, but we’ll be sure to let you know when it comes Stateside.

Short story about petcell

“Two years ago, we had what may be the worst Christmas morning as a family. That’s because our dog disappeared overnight. We spent all Christmas Day looking for him and the next week was spent putting flyers all over the neighborhood, announcing it on radio, and posting on sites like Craigslist pictures with hope that someone would call us and say come get him.
Two weeks later, we got him back. He had gone on a “walkabout” and ended up 50 miles away – although in reality, someone found him down the street and took him home. They made a few calls with the number on his collar and finally, we were put in touch with the one who found him and got our dog back. But the holidays were a mixed bag that year since we had no idea where our pet was. This must’ve been the motivation behind PetsMobility’s PetCell.”

Halo 3 fever is running high, and Microsoft has already prepared for the game’s launch by stacking up tons of Xbox 360 Halo Special Edition bundles that feature Xbox 360 Elite features without sporting a high price tag. According to Microsoft, this version of the Xbox 360 will come in green and gold colors to usher in what is considered to be the biggest title for the Xbox 360 platform for the year. This is definitely good news for fans of the Halo franchise and have yet to pick up the Xbox 360 for this generation’s console war - after all, they’ll be able to pick up this unit from a nearby local electronics and games retailer now while waiting in anticipation for Halo 3.