The Powerseed is a new piece of techno-wizardry to help you lose weight, or rather gently ease you into eating properly by the power of suggestion. Imagine the scene: You're just about to put a big spoonful of trifle into your mouth when suddenly, a tiny dayglo LED blinks at you to stop, desperately wishing you to put the spoon down.

Do you take heed? Like hell you do. If the website is to be believed, the Powerseed 'imparts a new sense of control over the eating process, enhances the filling effect of the food and improves digestion'. But, like an impotent genie trapped within a diminutive black plastic lighthouse, all it can really do is flash at you. And that's unfortunately it's only - but very major - downfall. It can't even kick you in the shins when you go for that 'one more mouthful'.

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Here's one for the geeky ladies in the audience. Apparently, Perfect Nails on 128 Hoe Street in Walthamstow will do you a manicure populated with binary. Our very own Jane lives up in E17 so we may have to send her along for a tester. I bite my nails so you can fit zero on them. I wasted precious minutes of my life thinking up that gag - and for what?

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Hot on the heels of Sony Ericsson's decent looking 3G mobile comes the 6280 from Nokia - another 3G handset that's managed to avoid any prods from the ugly stick. The phone comes with those extra 3G features that most of us never use, including video calling and streaming, as well as a hefty 2-megapixel digital camera and MP3 playback. Nokia has announced about 400 other new phones this week as well (well, seven if you're going to be pedantic). You can find out all about those on Tech Digest, which saves me writing out all the specs here - because I'm lazy like that.

Tech Digest

Yes, it appears you're no one in the mobile phone world if you don't have a ladyphone amongst your portfolio. Sony Ericsson's Z520 clamshell can't claim to have been especially designed by women for women like the LG and Siemens ladyphones, but they made it quite clear at the press launch that they were pitching this one at us lot. Apparently, the big pull for the ladies is likely to be the blue lights along the rim that can be programmed to flash differently for specific callers. It's got all the usual stuff - Bluetooth, VGA camera, Email and MMS - and it also comes in a number of colours with a selection of Style-Up covers in Pale Blue, Sandy Grey, Ceramic White, Espresso Brown, Peach, Mint, Pale Yellow and Pale Pink.

Press release

Speaking of stapling things to my body (there seems to be a theme running through today's posts), these gold plated staples from OOMS will ensure that I look hip as the blood pours from my tiny puncture wounds. Apparently, they're designed primarily as jewellery that you can staple to anything you fancy with a regular stapler - rather than as stationery supplies for someone with more money than sense.

OOMS [via Coolhunting]

Speaking of my perpetual disarray, Mia's just stuck up these stick-on Stik watches on Popgadget. They're basically glorified plasters with digital clocks stuck in them, but are drawing me in nevertheless much like the Time Tags. If I stick them to everything I own maybe, just maybe, on those rare occasions I do actually get to leave the flat, I might not have to make a mad dash to the station to make my train.$6.50 each at the Old Navy stores apparently.

Old Navy [via Popgadget]

Basically, my life is a shambles and unless something's stapled to my body, chances are I've already lost it. So while these Tempo Time Tags would probably snag on something and vanish unnoticed down a gutter as soon as I clipped them to an item of clothing or bag, they appeal to me simply because there's a slim chance they might help me run my life slightly more successfully. Or at least they would if only they sent a few thousand volts of electricity up my jacksy whenever I was late for something.

$20 for two at FredFlare

Remember those Tulip E-go laptops I stuck up here what feels like an age ago but turns out to be March? Well, apparently there's a Louis Vuitton one knocking about somewhere. I can't find it on the Tulip site, but since I really can't work up any enthusiasm about the LV print maybe it's just because I'm not trying hard enough.

Tulip [via Akihabara News]

Delia Smith* may have made a living teaching a nation how to cook eggs, but the fact is, any idiot armed with a timer and a pan of boiling water can make a soft-boiled egg... in theory at least. Thing is, just at the crucial moment something shiny always catches my eye, or my mind totters off to ponder higher matters, or I panic and realise I haven't put the toast in yet. Which is how I would manage to justify the purchase of this Automatic Egg Cooker. For not only is it called Henrietta and shaped like a motherly mother hen, it will also boil up to 7 eggs or poach up to 4. Just one minor quibble though: what kind of sicko designs a cooker for eggs (available in half-dozen and dozen packs) for seven eggs?

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*NB to Americans: Delia Smith is our equivalent of Martha Stewart minus the doily-making and the criminal record.

JVC's Everio camcorders were the first to ditch tape or disc in favour of a hard drive memory, and now the latest batch have become even more iPod-alike, with the inclusion of 20 and 30GB hard disk drives. Previously, the 4GB hard drive only gave you room for an hour or so of footage, whereas you can now cram 4.5-7 hours of hilarious family capers and japes, dull weddings and poorly executed school plays onto the compact camcorders. The GZ-MG20 will be around £600 (ouch) when it arrives in September, while the 30GB GZ-MG30 should go for about £650. Both these cameras have an 800,000-pixel sensor, but the top-end 30GB GZ-MGH50 has a 1.3-megapixel CCD and will be on sale at about £700. Which is a lot to pay for a camcorder, even if it is a small, good looking, 30GB hard drive one.

JVC

As anyone who has ever played The Sims can tell you, there is something disturbingly appealing about manipulating digital versions of your friends and loved ones. UnFortunately, The Social Fabric project is not designed to allow you to control the fate of your friends, but rather to show you who you've been spending all your time with (and who you've been ignoring (and shame on you)). 

Working with your mobile, Social Fabric provides avatars of the people in your life, and then keeps track of all your digital communications (emails, phone calls, appointments) you have with them.

It was remiss of me not to cover this last week, but I'm always too busy clutching at my aching sides to get near a keyboard when I see this press shot. Vodafone has come up with a selection of entirely ridiculous "Costume Covers" for its V501T mobile over in Japan. I think this one is meant to be a Bull, but there's a selection of others including "Cheese", "Mermaid" and "Dinosaur Egg". The sooner these things get over here the better - there's a void in my life that only a bull shaped mobile phone cover can fill.

[via Gizmodo]

 
Not quite as swanky as those designer PSP cases, but at just $11 who's complaining? Made from leather, the Kroo cases come in a choice of garish colours ensuring that all extroverted types are kept placated.

Kroo [via GameGirlAdvance]

If filling your home with Hello Kitty gadgets isn't enough to satisfy your insatiable appetite for the ubiquitous feline, you can fill your belly with her too!  The Hello Kitty Pop-Up Toaster will mark your toast with Kitty's face, reminding you that even at breakfast, no one is safe from Hello Kitty's apparent quest for electronics domination. [Star C. Foster]

The Hello Kitty Pop-Up Toaster  - Available for $36.99 from the Sanrio Store. [via Chip Chick]

Somewhere between futuristic, post-apocalyptic, urban chic and just plain silly lies the Tsaya, a purse alternative you strap to your leg.  A 21st century response to the fanny pack, the Tsaya can accomodate your mobile, identification and cash.

I'm imminently distrustful of any wallet purchase that requires my thigh measurements - but if you're looking for a hands-free way to carry your goods when running about in a skin-tight catsuit while trying to escape The Matrix, the black-patent leather Tsaya could be the ideal accessory for you. - [Star C. Foster]

Available for $79.00 on the Tsaya website.

I'm not much of a breakfast chef (cooking before coffee = small kitchen fires), but even I can manage toast.  So I'm wondering - could serving bread that's been seared with the words "I Love You" alongside a cup of strong, bitter coffee make me seem a romantic, capable morning person?

I'm guessing no.

Still, the Love Toaster is a cute idea, but $78.00 seems quite expensive for a toaster...no matter how much it loves you. - [Star C. Foster]

The Love Toaster from Bim Bam Banana [via gadgetryblog]

It's time for your weekly update on what's new from the world of Shiny Media.

Tech Digest: And Now, A Robot Power Suit, Nokia & Intel To Develop WiMAX, Seagate releases first 160GB 2.5 inch hard drive

Bayraider (eBay blog): Flaming Segway, Two Ronnies Fork Handle, Dirty Harry Shirt

Shoewawa (Shoe blog): See Up JLo's Skirt, Shoewawa Solves More Shoe Woes, Recycled Denim Sandals

The Bag Lady (bags & accessories): White Trash Charms, Cheap Chic Beach Bag, TuffCooki Oilcloth Totes

The Casio people just sent over this pic, so now I can confirm that the EX-S500 is in no way tubby. There's no mention of that red one on the release, by the way, so it's probably not launching here. Boo to that.

Casio has made a nice living creating teeny tiny skinny cams that oblige you to make oohing noises when you pick them up. Looks like its latest is no different either. The EXILIM EX-S500 is a 5-megapixel camera that also manages to include a 3X proper optical zoom despite the slim casing (although, the press release is pretty vague about giving the EX-S500's exact vitals so maybe it's tubbier than usual). It's also got a 2-inch preview screen and can also record up to an hour of video (if you happen to have a 1GB SD card, that is). Yours for £299 in silver or limited edition white. It'll be on shelf in July.

Casio

Like any sane person (well, no one's managed to successfully section me so far) I'm not entirely convinced by technology jewellery. Some of it is better than others, but the majority of it falls into the latter category. And it's into the category of "others" that this latest bit of technology jewellery surely has to fall. Pretec (makers of those super tiny pink USB keys) has come up with these earring and pendant memory sticks for its latest wheeze. The flash storage devices are the smallest around and the company has cobbled them into jewellery without really bothering to make the front side appealing (hint: try taking the huge Pretec logo off). Still, being able to make my friends impressed by whipping off my earrings to transfer some files does appeal (for "impressed" read "vomit in horror").

Pretec [via Gizmodo]