The Latest High-Tech Accessories

by Sarah Bernard, Host of The Thread, on Fri Oct 9, 2009 8:55am PDT

I'm not usually happy unless I'm doing two or three things at once. So these accessories really appeal to my multi-tasking sensibility-- and hopefully, yours.

Calvin Klein's USB Memory Frames look like a sleek pair of Calvin Klein sunglasses. They are, but they're also more than that. Hidden in the right arm of the sunglasses is a 4GB USB which you can use to transport data, images, music. . . anything. They'll cost $200 when they hit store shelves later this month.

Vivienne Tam and HP have a new "digital clutch"-- you carry it like a clutch but it's actually a laptop! The gorgeous butterfly design on the laptop's casing compliments the patterns in Tam's Spring line. This netbook is a follow-up to Tam's incredibly popular red floral-patterned netbook that came out last year. The new clutches will be available with Tam's 2010 Spring Collection.

Here's something straight out of The Jetsons: The O.R.B. It's a wireless earpiece for your cell phone that doubles as a ring. You twist it open and it transforms into a wireless headset for hands-free calling. How cool is that? It hits the market in 4th Quarter 2010 at $129.

Samsung new digital camera, the TL225, solves the problem of getting only half your face in a self-portrait. There's a LCD display on the back AND on the front, so you can snap yourself and your friends and actually see whether you're in the shot or not. And it comes in purple— the hot color of the season. The camera retails for $349.99

If you've stopped wearing a watch because you always have your cell phone to tell you what time it is, here's something for you: a cell phone you can wear on your wrist. The W PhoneWatch is the world's smallest cell phone with a touch screen, a camera and a wireless headset. The Kempler & Strauss W PhoneWatch is $199.

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Press Releases

ORB™ Wireless Earpiece Finger Ring Wins CES 2010 Top Honor (AbsolutelyNew, 11/18/09)

AbsolutelyNew Announces the ORB™ Wireless Earpiece Finger Ring (AbsolutelyNew, 7/23/09)

Featured News

On the Cusp of Something Big (Up North Live, 2/3/10)

The sleeper hit of CES? An "ear ring." (eHome Guru, 2/1/10)

Best Travel Gadgets from CES 2010 (Travel and Leisure, 1/22/10)

One awesome CES gadget you didn’t hear about (What's Your Tech, 1/13/10)

Best of '09 Innovations (Inventors Digest, 11/09)

The Latest High-Tech Accessories (The Thread/Yahoo, 10/9/09)

Bling and Ring (MSN, 7/29/09)

Springfield Roofing Brings New Energy Lighting Technology to Traverse City (TC Chamber News, 9/25/09)

O.R.B.::Cell-Ring-Earpiece (whu, 8/12/09)

The Orb Ring & Headset (Geeky Gadgets, 8/10/09)

Fone de ouvido pode ser usado como anel (terra moda, 8/5/09)

The Orb: The Future of Earpieces has Arrived (blackweb2.0, 8/4/09)

With This Ring I Do... Call? (SeO Deeds, 7/31/09)

On-Hand Gadgets (cheekmagazine, 7/28/09)

The O.R.B. fits a wireless headset into wearable ring design (Matthew Humphries, 7/27/09)

Orb Ring wireless headphone exposed (Cell Phone Web, 7/26/09)

Hi-Tech Comm Device Goes from Earwear to Handwear (TFTS Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities, 7/24/09)

WANT!: The Orb, A Wireless Headset That Turns Into A Ring (OhGizmo!, 7/24/09)