Don’t cha wish your washer was hot like mine! If you’re not channelling the Pussycat Dolls, you’re doing it wrong. Take a look at the Hauzen Washing Machine.

Should have known we could count on Samsung to bring us a household appliance that’s more than just an industrial standard chicken-in-a-basket piece of equipment.

This isn’t a new age washer, just a pretty one. With designer Andre Kim opting for glamour over gadgetry. The Samsung Hauzen won’t boil your tea for you, but if a gilded finish, stainless steel door ring and a royal emblem on the glass is what you’re looking for. Look no further.

The paint job is a little Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and will go a long way toward clashing with the Mediterranean feel of my kitchen, but who cares. I bet you wish your washer was hot like mine.

Samsung Hauzen Washing Machine designed by Andre Kim Pricetag: Check back later.

It’s been, what? Ten years since I first heard Phoebe from Friends sing the Smelly Cat song. I belt it out on a regular basis and think about it whenever I see this phone. Sony Ericsson have teamed up with NTT Docomo to bring us the SO703i - A new smelly phone. But don’t worry. That’s not a bad thing. These babies smell pretty. Like flowers and cotton candy and Chanel.

How do they work? The SO703i mobile / cell phone includes a slot for replaceable scented sheets. I imagine they’re something like those dryer sheets my mother keeps telling me to use. Anyone lucky enough to get their paws on one will have eleven different scents to choose from. No news yet on whether any of those will be Chanel. If it helps, one may smell like apple pie.

Of course they’re only found in Japan right now, hence the ‘anyone lucky enough’ from above. But like most really good gadgets, if we’re good, the SO703i may eventually make it’s way to Yankee Doodle Dandy Land.

Sony Ericsson SO703i Mobile / Cell Phone Pricetag: Once again, See Japan.

I know I keep posting gadgets that aren’t yet meant for American shores, but who can blame me when they look like this. Sony Ericsson are set to release the first proper Bravia handset some time in June. And by Bravia I mean a mobile phone that has a built in TV tuner with time-shift video recording. A 3 inch wide screen with a slide function allows horizontal TV viewing. All the obligatory camera/mobile bits are also there. Bad news? Right now the Bravia phone will be staying in Sony country.

Just another goody the Japanese will be getting before us.

Sony Ericsson SO903iTV Bravia Mobile Pricetag: Check back later.

Since three way calling was first taken up by the masses, I’ve been a little paranoid about who may be on the other line. Because, it could totally be a Mean Girls type scenario where your best gal pal phones to hear the scoop on your other best pal who just happens to be a little loose and listening in on the other line….unbeknown to you. Of course.

You get my point. Still, the paranoia hasn’t stopped me from liking and loving calling up the entire circle at once. It’s called multitasking, and you can now do it for free with FOONZ. Foonz is an online Skye like application that let’s you start group calls anytime from any phone for free.

It works something like this, apparently: You set up your free account, set up a Foonz contact list - all your chics and chiclets, and maybe the random family member - and get a free Foonz access number. Then you dial Foonz and they’ll fill you in on the rest. Whenever you want to three way, or six way, or how ever many ways suit your fancy, you just dial in, and a text message or IM message will be sent to everyone in your contact list asking them to join you.

International users will get the SMS. US peeps, will have to be satisfied with the IM.

I saw this a few weeks ago but didn’t post it, because I’m lazy and because it’s hitting shelves in the US no time soon. But the new photos, coupled with the designer label, are just too good to resist. It’s black but, whatever, it’s sexy and it’s PRADA. This isn’t just a dressed up version of an already existing handset like the Dolce Gabbana Razr.

The LG KE850 Prada phone, which looks like Apple’s iPhone to me, will be going on sale in select mobile shops and PRADA stores in Europe (read: the UK, France, Germany and Italy) at the end of February, and in parts of Asia by March.

While I’m at it, I’d like to take a moment to moan about the quality of mobile phones / cell phones available in the US. I’ve voiced more than once my annoyance at being relegated to the ubiquitous (and by ubiquitous I mean ‘Even the terribly unfashionable girl who still has 1980’s hair has one’) RAZr whenever I’m in America.

Yeah, I know, I could pay roaming charges on my British baby but…not gonna happen. I just bought my US laptop for half it’s UK price. Why can’t I get a decent phone here? Why can’t I get the PRADA? *Sigh*

Technophiles go here.

LG KE850 Prada Phone Pricetag: €600/$778

I spend most of my time outside America. Where carrying things like this, could get you in a bit of trouble with the Met. Not so in the lovely U S of A. If anything, handy little bottles of mace and pepperspray are considered absolute musts where personal safety is concerned. My mom wanted to send me something akin when I moved to Europe. If it’d been cute and shiny and from Pepperface, I may have let her. “Self defence that doesn’t compromise style or conveinence.” That’s the billing on the product page.

Get standard pretty-purple or go for a Prevention Purple™. For each of these models sold, Pepperface.com will contribute a dollar to support the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence. Best part? They’ve got a little number designed by Crabman himself. And Earl.

Pepperface.com Designer Pepperspray Pricetag: $35 - $395

I hear “X5″ I think “BMW”. That’s just me. The other day my dear friend Clare - a total Nigella - told me she’d just ordered the FrancisFrancis! X5 Espresso Machine. In pink. She says “It has a 48-ounce water tank with rear access and a battery-powered clock on the front.” I say “Great. Will stop by to try it out sometime soonish” and think Does it also come with a compass in the stock?

Then I go straight to my Product Review Source. The X5 is small and shiny and comes in a rainbow of colours. But it looks nothing like an airplane or ship that might be invisible to radar - despite the manufacturer’s claims.

FrancisFrancis! X5 Espresso Machine Pricetag: $650

I’m posting this gadget just because I love the look of the product page. It reminds me of the bedroom I wish I had when I was five.

Luxeed’s new colour keyboard really is something straight out of Whoville. The board can be personalised by turning each key one of 512 different colours. I prefer the candy shades, but if you’re into primaries, you can do that too. I’m not sure how serious you’d be taken at the office though.

Those with photo-sensitive epilepsy or an aversion to striking light patterns in general, should probably stay away.

I really don’t know what to say about the iPhone. Except this: I want one. Now.

The gadget world has been all abuzz recently about this 3-n-1 little beauty due out sometime this summer. Maybe. (See Legal-ease Stuff).

Apple’s iPhone is this. A state of the art mobile phone, a widescreen iPod (for video and photos) with touch controls and an internet communications device with “desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching”.

If you’re interested in new and improved technical bits, google “iPhone” or go straight to Apple.

Apple iPhone Pricetag: $499 (4Gb) - $599 (8Gb)

This morning I sat down to google BLACKBERRY PEARL - the spiffy black one - because I’m sorta craving it this week. (Yeah, my girlfriends crave chocolate. I crave gadgets. And handbags. But that’s another blog.) And I noticed this particular piece of eye candy is now available in white - or pearl, or whatever. I still prefer the sleek steely look of the original, mind, but I thought it worth the note that the Pearl will now be doing a little more to live up to it’s name.

FYI: The Blackberry Pearl in Pearl is being launched today by T-Mobile, my use-to-be provider.

Blackberry Pearl White Pricetag: $150 w/a 2 year contract