It’s lucky we’re the kind of good eggs who’ll spend Friday afternoon making sure you don’t go into the weekend without this essential knowledge. Here’s a round-up of what we spied in sunny Spain.

Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG engaged in a touchscreen battle for the ages with the Xperia X1, Samsung Soul and LG KF700 all launching their challenges to the Elvis of mobiles – The Apple iPhone.

All three are stepping on Steve Jobs’ Blue Suede Shoes, but will the iPhone get All Shook Up or are the pretenders on a one way trip to Heartbreak Hotel? Click on the links above for first-look videos at each handset.

Nokia upped-the-ante by unleashing the awesome N96 (video) and a new 6210 Navigator handset, with a built in compass for dumb-proof destination-reaching, also made waves.

We had a nice perv at the first phone with a Google platform, The Android, and also at the Wellness Navigator, a phone from DoCoMo which measures your body fat, heart rate and even how stinky your breath is.

Sony Ericsson also dropped a series of new muthas, including two new CyberShot snapper phones and an all-new G series – the pick being the G900 which boasts Wi-Fi and a 5.0 megapixel touchscreen focus camera.

We’ve cobbled together our remaining footage to offer you a quick viewing of the G900, Navigator, the LG KF600 and the LG prototype watch phone, which is definitely one to keep an eye on.

So, now you can impress the ladies at the pub with your cranium of new knowledge. Actually, perhaps that’s not such a flash idea.

We love a bit of gadgety prediction here at T3 Towers. And none more so when it comes to one of our all-time faves, Nintendo’s mighty Wii.

According to games blog Joystiq, analyst Evan Wilson from Pacific Crest Securities, reckons Ninty is lining up a new edition of its revolutionary console in 2010.

He says that this will kick off a new round in the ever bitter next-gan gaming wars, with the Big M ripping the covers off a new Xbox later that same year.

He also says that Sony will weigh in with a full redesign of the PSP, which will go up against an all-new DS Lite.

Seems terribly exciting to us, but whether these dreams come true remains to be seen. Analysts are tricky customers and can either be spot on, or, like Apple lover Piper Jaffrey, be very wrong a lot of the time.

In the meantime, we’ll have to content ourselves with news of an all new slim version of the PS3 later this year and hopefully a slew of improvements to the existing hubs.

Filed under: Household

It’s far from an out-of-the-box solution that some green(er) dryers are, but the folks at Hydromatic Technologies think their new “Dryer Miser” technology is the cure for all your clothes drying woes, and the most energy efficient solution short of hanging ’em out to dry. The key to that, it seems, is the system’s reliance on hydronic technology, which consists of a specially-engineered fluid that gets heated up in a self-contained system to dry the clothes. That apparently not only cuts the energy consumption of the dryer by up to 50 percent, but actually cuts the drying time by up to 41 percent as well. As you can see above, however, it’s not exactly the most elegant solution, and according to the company, it’ll initially only be available as an after-market kit that’ll need to be installed by a qualified technician. No word on what it’ll cost though, but the company is shooting for it to be available in the fall of this year.

[Via I4U News, image courtesy of Gizmag]

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Filed under: Cellphones

The House of Representatives just took a long weekend break without voting on the Spy bill sent down from the Senate. As such, our beloved carriers’ hopes for immunity from those pesky US privacy laws have disintegrated. At least for the time being — the fight between the baddies and goodies (however you define that) isn’t over by a long shot.

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Filed under: Home Entertainment

We’re still not totally convinced this isn’t just some joke gone too far, but given the fact that they’re accepting PayPal payments as we speak, we’re going to have to go with “scarily real.” The FM DockRadio is simply an FM radio for your Bose SoundDock. Obviously the iPod doesn’t have an FM radio tuner, so the need is there, but we’re guessing the $89+ cost isn’t going to fly for something as incredibly janky and featureless as this. Especially when we could just go out and buy a Coby for twenty five cents at Costco — which plays CDs and keeps you warm.

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