A very swiss and very nice ‘thank you’ gift from a fellow blogger!

Thanks Heather! The chocs were very yummy

Not a product by apple (yet), instead a bonkers and rather cute toy from Hasbro. Awww!

The press release says:

This is one cool cat!  The I-CAT Interactive Music Companion is a fabulous feline that not only loves to listen to your favorite tunes but can also play funky ‘scratch’ sound effects along with the music and will groove along to any song it hears.  Owners can plug their music systems directly into I-CAT Interactive Music Companion and music will broadcast through a built-in speaker.  Simply petting I-CAT will allow owners to mix things up and play meows, purrs and ‘scratch’ sound effects with the music!   Owners can play these sound effects along with the music depending on how they touch or pet I-CAT, making this new interactive pet the cat’s meow!

Owners can also sit I-CAT in front of a speaker or plug it into the headphone jack of any music system and I-CAT will move and groove to the rhythm of the song.  In addition, I-CAT Interactive Music Companion comes complete with a dual jack so that its owner can plug their headphones in and dance along to the music with I-CAT.  Either way the owner chooses to listen to their favorite tune, as soon as I-CAT hears music, its face will light up or its ears and head will wiggle and sway with the tune.  

There’s also an i-Dog. I might have to get one for my desk at work

In the “if I had infinite money” category of gadget lust, I present to you the DVDO iScan VP30, which is a nifty little box o tricks that takes any video signal known to man and scales it up to lovely crisp High Definition quality, to be shown on a very large HD projector (in my infinite money world, anyway). It’s retail price is a tiny bit under $2000… eek!

The neat trick is that you can plug existing s-video, composite, component or RGB sources into it, as well as newer high definition HDCP sources…. and it will scale them all!

For extra bonkersness, you can buy a package of a very high end DVD player & the iScan VP30 in a package with ‘SDI’ modification to get an extremely high quality digital connection between them. (SDI is what actual film/TV production companies use to move their video about the place). The ultimate in home DVD movie watching (sans speakers, amplifier or projector) for ‘just’ $2,899.