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From Italy comes a new design in cheese-grater fun, the Gira & Gratta Rotary Cheese Grater.

Inside the bottle is a fresh block of Grana Padano cheese, with a twist-style cheese grater cap. It allows pasta lovers to enjoy a convenient way of dispensing freshly grated Grana Padano cheese in a hygienic and stay-fresh format.

Agriform Scarl, the product’s marketer, says in its product literature, “litle consumers like its easy and funny use.” Great, but what about us big consumers?

Each container comes with 250g of cheese, and retails for €4.50 ($5.45 USD)

Via Junk Food Blog

Originally from Strange New Products on October 27, 2005, 3:03am

Move over paper clips, ’cause there’s a new gripper in town!

Biters™ Paper Grippers are like paper clips, except they hold together more sheets of paper, up to 40 pages. You place the gripper between your thumb and index finger, squeeze it open, and slide it on! Now you’re grippin’!

Biters are made of recyclable polypropylene, and the bag they come in is biodegradeable. Costs $2.50 AUD ($1.90 USD) for a pack of 30.

Originally from Strange New Products on October 27, 2005, 4:48am

For those times when you wish your pen was actually a Saturn 5 rocket!

Yup, the Rocket Pet doubles as a writing instrument and time waster. Set the Rocket Pen into its launch pad, and press the button. Zoom! Up into the air it goes!

Ok, now retrieve the pen, and get back to writing!

£4.95 ($8.91 USD) at Boys Stuff

Originally from Strange New Products on October 27, 2005, 6:28am

Casio just released yet another super-slim model in its Exilim line. The EX S600 is a 6 megapixel camera that features an anti-shake DSP that’ll reduce blurring. It also features a 3x optical zoom, a 2.2-inch LCD, increased battery life (about 300 shots per battery charge), and the ability to shoot VGA-quality MPEG-4 movies at 30fps. Each unit measures 90 x 59 x 16.1 mm and weighs 115 grams. There’s also a unique “Revive Shot” mode that’s optimized for taking digital shots of old album photos (!!)—sounds very “Waking the Undead.” The EX S600 will be available in “Sparkle Silver,” “Mistral Blue,” and “Latin Orange”—what, no “Oopsy Brown?”—in early 2006. Price is still being worked out.

Casio Exilim EX S600 [Letsgodigital]

Originally from Gizmodo on October 25, 2005, 10:04am

Just when you thought Canon already spent its Powershot load for the year, here’s another one, and this time, it’s wireless. That’s right, the Canon Powershot SD430 Wireless has wireless support, with an antenna built right into the camera. But before you get all excited that you’ll be able to post your high-quality pics to Flickr with ease, the “wireless” here just means you’ll be able to wirelessly transmit photos from your camera to your computer. Still, it’s not a bad start — you can transmit your already taken photos, or have it “auto Transfer” immediately when you take a photo. You can also print out the images automatically, and operate the shutter from the computer. It’s a 5.3 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom, a 2.0-inch LCD, an “ultra-high refractive index glass molded aspherical lens,”—which means it has a lens—and the processing power of DIGIC II.

Price and availability are unknown right now, more as we get it.

Canon Powershot SD430 Wireless [Letsgodigital]

Originally from Gizmodo on October 25, 2005, 10:43am

I have a soft spot for LED watches and the guy who sells these, Simon in the UK, comes out with a new one every fifteen minutes or so. This is the XRay, which looks kind of like a TV. Brushed case, red face, and sexy glowing numerals. What more could you ask for?

He’s got this limited edition series priced at about $100. Much less bulbous than the Space version and it looks quite fetching with a pocket protector and an Altair.

Product Page [LED-Watch]

Originally from Gizmodo on October 25, 2005, 11:04am

Korea gets even more goods from Samsung today! The SPH-2300 DMB, which we talked about yesterday phone gets the satellite treatment with BIFS technology. BIFS, you ask? Who cares. It lets you interact with Spanish soap operas is all we know. You can enjoy the DMB on a QVGA screen with video-on-demand as well. Oh that’s not all, it packs TV-out, so you might as well tell your Korean friends to ditch their DirecTV boxes. You get all the other expected goodies with this phone too. An MP3 player, Pictbridge for mobile printing, EV-DO for awesome speeds, IrDA, and a bag of popcorn for your viewing pleasure. Could you ask for anything more (aside from a US release)? The SPH-B2300 will be available in December for KTF subscribers in the Korean region.

Samsung introduces the SPH-B2300 DMB handset [SamsungHQ]

Originally from Gizmodo on October 25, 2005, 12:13pm

Samsung launched yet another CDMA cellphone, and this one will run on Windows Mobile 2003. The SCH M600 is a slider with a 2-megapixel camera, a 3GB hard drive, 520 Mhz Intel XScale processor, a 2.2-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth, EV-DO, text-to-speech, video-on-demand, and MP3 playback. Pricing is 700,000 KRW (about USD$670). Not too sure on availability outside of Korea, but with EV-DO built-in, we’re hopeful that it’ll make its way stateside.

Samsung announces the SCH M600 for Korean market [Phoneyworld]
Samsung Introduces the SCH-M600 Smartphone [SamsungHQ]

Originally from Gizmodo on October 26, 2005, 1:44pm

We’ve talked about tapeless camcorders before JVC Everio GZ-MC500 but this is the first close look we’ve had at the new JVC Everio MG50. Weighing only 380 grams (including the battery pack), the MG50 has 30GBs of storage space and can record 7 hours of video on its highest resolution setting. And again, that’s with no replaceable media. It has an easy to use, point-and-shoot mentality, with the only available buttons on the body being record, zoom and power. Opening the LCD panel gives you access to the more intricate functions like the still/video mode switch, buttons for deletion, menu, light and info. Manual controls are also available to adjust for things like picture exposure, white balance, backlight compensation and shutter speed. And unlike the older MC series of camcorders, the MG50 uses an external battery so you don’t have to go through the internal drive to replace it.
In terms of quality, the MG50 excels in low light situations, and has good color separation and accurate tonal qualities.

But best of all, you can compress raw video into a more manageable size and transfer it easily directly to a DVD. One warning: Battery life from a single charge lasts under 70 minutes, so best to get yourself some aftermarket batteries of a larger size for your more important shots.

JVC Everio MG50 Camcorder [Hardwarezone]

Originally from Gizmodo on October 27, 2005, 7:44am

If your kitchen or Christmas tree looking a bit dull and lifeless? Why not add some warmth with these Red Hot Chilli Lights (£17.95). The 20 red bulbs should add a gentle, glowing ambience to the room. The lights measure 7.25 metres in length, and plug directly into the mains. Spare bulbs are included.

Originally by Chopper from GadgetryBlog on October 26, 2005, 3:06am