Normal stickers made for gaming handhelds are usually ridiculously cheesy or tacky or both. Korean camera peripheral company Gariz is gearing up its gaming department with this metal stickers which make the DS Lite look, in our eyes, better than when it’s plain.

For $28.99, the Gariz metal sticker package includes a top cover sticker, two LCD borders, and d-pad decoration stickers. If you desire, you can even get a personalized cleaning cloth or LCD Film. They even include a metal sticker detacher. But it is separate. (more…)

What if you could store all your data in one place, and access it anywhere - TV, desktop, laptop, cellphone? That’s the question chipmaker Agere is asking with the BluOnyx, which they describe as a “mobile content server”. The device is the size of a credit card, though thicker (think iPod size), and is equipped with Bluetooth and USB connectivity and an SD card reader. WiFi connectivity is slated for the next version.

The BluOnyx is designed to be controlled via cellphone. When a cellphone connects with the BluOnyx, it pushes a Java applet to the phone that allows media streaming - pictures, music, and video - to the phone, and data to be read back from the phone, including its phone book and stored emails. When another storage device, such as an SD card, is connected to the BluOnyx, it automatically copies all the data from the device, and can output to a printer, TV, or computer screen. Agere has no plans to market the device itself, but isntead plans to license it to other companies, hoping to maximize the number of devices the BluOnyx can interface with. Watch for the prototype at CES 2007 in January. — Mike Payne

[via Ars Technica]

This sweet little eBook reader and mp3 player from Sharp boasts a 4.3″ TFT LCD display and Voxware audio technology. So far, the only eBooks available for the RD-CX100 are dictionaries, but Sharp already has 63 different dictionaries for it! No word on how much storage space it has, or whether the QWERTY keyboard hints at text-entry capability. There is also no word on whether the dictionary eBooks can include an audio component, so you can hear the proper pronunciation of words. Also no word on price or availability (gee, there’s a lot of unknowns here, aren’t there?), but the RD-CX100 is currently only available for Korea, and is likely to stay there. — Mike Payne

RD-CX100, the latest Sharp eBook reader and dictionary for Korea [AkihabaraNews]

Fuel cells seem to be the rage these days, what with LG showing off a concept laptop powered by one, and now Casio has developed this tiny wonder. Measuring just 27.2 x 46 x 2.8mm, Casio’s new fuel cell converts methanol to hydrogen gas. DigitalCameraInfo claims the device can remain ‘autonomous and continuous’, though it’s unlikely they mean that literally, which would make this a perpetual motion machine. In any case, this tiny chemical engine could be driving a camera or laptop near you soon, as Casio plans to release it early next year. — Mike Payne

[via DigitalCameraInfo]