A wristwatch-style pulse monitor reports your recovery time in addition to your heartrate. It’s easy to read and, at $350, pretty stylish, too.

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Brainy Trainer: Workout Monitor Tells You When to Chill

In Gears of War 2, getting hit in combat is bad enough, but when the wall you hide behind doesn’t even protect your character from damage, that’s just downright glitchy. Video after the break. Gears of War 2, for all its single-player improvements, has multiplayer problems. That patches don’t seem to fix.

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Gears of War 2 "Fake Walls" Glitch

More than just creative marketing, this “new advertisement for MINI uses augmented reality (AR) technology to create a truly interactive media piece out of a 2-dimensional magazine ad.” Video after the break. All you need is a copy of the ad, a webcam, and a web browser (sorry, Internet Explorer/ActiveX only) to view the 3-D AR effect

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Amazing Magazine Ad Looks 3D

Small enough to fit in your pocket, the PlayStation Compact deftly balances portability and ergonomics in a gaming console/digital camera hybrid gadget. Utilizing the integrated Wi-Fi, users can link up for some multiplayer gaming action

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PlayStation Compact

Who needs Psystar? Apple says it’s had “pretty interesting ideas” for a Mac netbook, but it’s everyday users who’ve already taken action. Due to their similar technical underpinnings, most of the popular netbooks can run OS X, but there are plenty of caveats: non-functioning components which lack drivers and need to be replaced—or which simply can’t be gotten to at all. Unfortunately, the Googles are choked with info, and much of it’s out of date

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Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart

In this clip, Buzznewsroom takes a look “back at 30 plus years of Apple products, the most buzzworthy consumer technology products — [includes] Apple IIe, Lisa, Newton, iMac, iBook, Macbook, iPod and iPhone.” Video after the break. Its interesting to see how the product design has evolved, it has some flops and forgotten products along with the classics. I never knew Apple once made a digital camera. [via Newlaunches - Buzznewsroom ]

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The Evolution of Apple Products in 3-Minutes

Another piece of brilliance you never knew you needed from the venerable Hammacher Schlemmer: A simple GPS device that points the way back to a single spot. That’s it, for $80. [ Hammacher-Schlemmer via Chip Chick ]

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GPS Homing Device Remembers Where You Stashed All Those Dead Bodies [GPS]

Yes, a lighter will blend, but it won’t go without a bang. The fireball was captured in slow motion with a high-speed camera. Continue reading to watch. Will lighters blend? Yes, they will.

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Lighter in Blender as Captured by High-Speed Camera

The X-Touch Mixer faucet trades analog knobs or levers for buttons so you can regulate exactly what temperature the water is. Better, it has a digital readout to show you exactly what temp it is. X-Touch is a product of Newform Italy, and looks to be either a sink faucet or a bath faucet

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X-Touch Mixer Faucet Is Precise and Informative [Faucets]

At $1,000, Fujitsu’s netbook-esque LifeBook U820 is nothing if not a tough sell, but NotebookReview.com seems to think that the category-defying device will appeal to at least a few folks out there, even if they are aware that they can get a similarly equipped netbook for less than half the price.

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Fujitsu LifeBook U820 gets reviewed