Meet Hello Kitty’s arch nemesis: Domo. A Japanese television station - NHK - created him as their mascot at the end of the last mellinnium.

Expect to see a plethora of flash drives by way of massive-marketing-onslaught when Domo comes to America’s Nicktoons Network this fall.

Dunno if you’ve noticed, but Apple have these new glass or aluminium iMacs. Since they can’t hold pinot noir or Stellar Artois I say, just get a skin..i.e. one of these little wrap around plastic covers from ChroMac.

This has to be either the most wonderful idea ever, or the most impractical. Part of me loves the idea of carrying a laptop bag which looks like I’m packing some serious heat. Get away criminals! Stay away evildoers!

The other part of me says this is useless outside of the USA where you are more likely to be shot yourself for carrying an illegal weapon.

Let’s put it this way - I won’t be carrying this when I travel over to England this week….

[ via Geek Sugar ]

This is one of those really funky devices we love at Pretty Gadgets. Firstly, it’s not bad looking and secondly it has a real practical purpose.

The solar beach tote actually recharges your PDAs, PSPs, Music players etc from inside the bag thanks to its nifty inbuilt solar panel.

You can pick this back up for only $249.99 which is not bad considering the amount of free charging you will get out of it thanks to our lovely free solar supply. Additionally, you can remove the solar panel. Use it separately from the bag, or just to clean your tote!

[ Product Page via Chip Chick ]

Somehow I don’t think I will be wearing these items any time soon, but I love the idea. Mike and Maaike have come up with pixelated leather jewelry called Stolen Jewels.

They say the items are - “An exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and perceived value. Using Google Image Search, we browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, the resulting low-res images we found were stolen, doctored, then transferred onto leather, creating a tangible new incarnation. With the expense of the jewels and the intricacy of their construction stripped away, their essence and visual intensity are extracted.”

Just how geeky is this? Admit it, it’s a fun idea and will certainly give you plenty of attention if you were to wear them.

Not sure if you really WANT male geeky attention, mind you.

[ Mike and Maaike via Geek Sugar ]

Philips has decked out a whole heap of technology in lovely Swarovski crystals. The company is clearly targeting women who love shiny gadgets by saying these accessories take “technology to a fashionable new level for women.”

Various headphone and USB memory devices are fully fitted out, all ready to be snapped up by women who really want to ramp up their gadget fashions, according to the team at Engadget.

Pink Laptop Bag by Generic Pricetag: $24.99

Like an idiot I just put away the electric blanket last week. I also stored the UGGS - will be retrieving both this evening.

Who does that in March, huh? I’m sitting here in bed (under a luscious new duvet, mind) freezing my kneecaps off. USB Heated Gloves seem an appropriate item of the day.

Colourful, fashionable (apparently) with a warming pad inside. Plug these little wool babies into your USB port for toasty digits.

USB Heated Gloves Pricetag:$22.99

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’m only slightly ashamed to say things tokidoki make me feel all pink and girly on the inside. It’s the same feeling you get from Hello Kitty. The sense that you’ve been slightly brainwashed into thinking something an eight year old would like is pretty.

A friend of mine, who is into all styles Japanese, dropped me a note to say that TokiDoki are launching a clothing line at the end of the month and that the tokidoki shoes will be available from Fornarina.

Ah, Japanisme!

TokiDoki Fashion Pricetag: Coming Soon.