Jambox Gets an Upgrade

The original Jambox is our favourite wireless portable speaker so we’re delighted that Jawbone has unveiled a bigger version called Big Jambox. It’s nearly six times the size of the lightweight version which makes it less portable but more of a party. The number of times Jambox has saved us from awkward silences is staggering, not to mention the number of arguments about which colour looks best. Seriously, we’re that sad.

Prototype makes maiden flight while the company behind it is raising funds to take the hyrbid into commercial production.

Movie theater on your face

The Epson Moverio BT-100 is a battery-powered movie theatre headset that's marginally less ugly than a pair of glaucoma sunglasses. Fortunately, it more than makes up for its design by providing the type of 3D-capable 80" screen you dream of having after taking your glaucoma "medicine".

Brand debuts with three headphones designed for three types of audiophile.

Refurbished Polaroid for the 21st Century

The Impossible Project has given a boost to Polaroid lovers the world over by releasing the SX-70 Black. The camera takes us back to a time when you held photographs in your hand, rather than looked at them on a computerised slideshow with annoying music playing in the background that you can’t seem to turn off. We take more photos than ever before, but because of the increased volume, we care less about them. But it’s time for a backlash.

VICE gets inside the largest military trade show in the world where generals chit chat before purchasing weapons to destroy each other.

Cool Chinese Lomography Camera

Lomography is an analogue photographic genre that's just introduced the Diana F+ Cai Guo-Qiang camera. The limited edition snapper commemorates an exhibition by Cai Guo-Qiang in Doha which explores the artist's hometown of Quanzhou, China. We all know how crazy the Chinese go over anything limited edition - witness the frenzy over 'special money' we saw a couple of months ago - so this beauty could light the blue touch paper.

Cool Fridge Disguised as a Speaker

Some products reek of cool and the Marshall Fridge is one of them. It does exactly what it says on the tin (it’s a fridge that looks like a Marshall speaker) and it makes you want to be a rock star. Or at least play Guitar Hero in you living room at full volume with icy lagers pouring out of the fridge, surrounded by gorgeous leather bound women calling you their demi-god.

iPhone Case with a Brain

The Intoxicase is a cool if slightly fanciful iPhone case which combines a bottle opener with an app and some other jolly features. It's handy for junks or trips to the beach but it's also got a purpose at home because bottle openers tend to go missing. Their ever-mysterious location might relate to your state of mind in which you use them, but there's no denying they've got a penchant to disappear.

Disguised Hipflasks for the 7s

Smuggling booze into the 7s is a worthwhile task, not only because you save a penny and skip the mammoth queues, but in the case of Binocktails, you'll have a laugh while you’re at it. Their hipflasks look like every day objects but they’re just shells you can fill with your favourite tipple. An eagle eyed security man would realise your Blackberry is in fact a Bev-Berry (we like) but you’re not going to be taking it through HKIA. And for everything else it works just fine.

Speaker Solves Device's Key Problem

The major flaw of the iPad is its puny speaker. It’s less effective than the UN envoy to Syria but fortunately we’ve come across Zooka. It provides five times the sound of the iPad’s built-in speakers, attaches to the top of the gadget, and sets you up for the most outrageous YouTube sharing sessions known to man. ‘Related Videos’ are the devil incarnate.

No More Key Hassles

Lockitron is a new door locking system that uses your smartphone so you never have to use a key again. We’ve all thought it would be a good invention (locked out on our doorstep with nobody inside) but none of us ever followed through. Critically, if you’ve forgotten your phone the key still works so you’ve got double the chances of getting back in. And apparently we lose keys more frequently than phones so either way you're in the money.

Hollywood Legend in Bike Form

The great estate of the late, great Steve McQueen has joined forces with Triumph to create a limited edition motorcycle that's the epitome of cool. Sure, you might be terrified of a big motorbike - a 50cc scooter in traffic free Vietnamese countryside is all we can handle - but you have to take your hat off to this beauty. There's not only a story behind the engineering but only 1,100 are being built - all individually numbered.

Slick Portable Wireless Speaker

The Jambox is the benchmark for portable wireless speakers but it's finally got some competition from the eSupply EES-SP021 which is classy in all but name. Can you imagine asking your friend if he'd remembered it:

'Did you bring your EES-SP021?'
'No Darth.'

It does actually look like something from Star Wars, or perhaps the sleeve for transporting a nano virus that Tom Cruise, shudder, has to save the world from.

Good whisky made even better by great gadgets

Magic Stones Keeps Coffee at Perfect Temperature

We love the future because we’re living in it. Coffee Joulies are newly released stone-like gadgets which chill your coffee when it’s too hot and then heat it up when it gets too cold. It’s a great innovation because coffee gets colder quicker than a girlfriend spotting you leaving the Crazy Horse. It means the end of keeping your coffee in a thermos or adding a dash of tap water only to forget about it until it’s too late.

Portable Projection Mouse & Keyboard

The Magic Cube projects a mouse or keyboard onto flat surfaces which liberates you from the small buttons on your smartphone or iPad. It’s the stuff of the future and has cropped up in many a pub conversation. “One day, we won’t even have computer screens. We'll just have gadgets that project on to…” This device is the commercial birth of that fantasy. We can only imagine what it means for pornography.

Cool & Affordable Watch Winders

SPIN-R produces watch winders that are green, offer value for money and look pretty slick as well. You don’t buy a smart watch without being able to maintain it but watch winders are also cool in their own right because they appeal to man’s love affair with gadgetry. They’re mechanical devices designed to serve other mechanical devices (watches) and what could be more masculine than that? Or more confusing to the opposite sex.

Portable Personal Clean Energy Generator

The nPower PEG Personal Energy Generator is as handy as it gets. Powered by passive kinetic energy, you simply carry the device in your pocket while it charges up to power your own gadgets. The amount of times you're watching a film in transit but your iPad runs out of battery just as Bruce Willis is about to apply the coup de gras is phenomenal; making this perhaps the simplest solution to a very new age problem we've ever seen.

World's First 'Smart' Watch

The ‘I’m Watch’ is a smartphone in watch form. It’s the first timepiece to run on the Google Android operating system and it’s very cool, if a little impractical. Can you imagine taking a phone call on your watch or writing an email? It would be very uncomfortable unless you were double jointed, plus you could just buy a smartphone instead.

Chinese Watches with Chinese Heritage

The Chinese Timekeeper (CTK) is a young watchmaker in Hong Kong producing timepieces rooted in Chinese heritage. It’s a smart move. You can’t move in this city without seeing some kind of watch advert. You arrive in Hong Kong and slowly change from being happy with a Casio circa 1999 to suddenly wanting a Moon Phase. Perhaps because you can’t see the moon here in the first place.

Track Life for Healthy Living

Jawbone has released UP, a wristband and App combo that helps you live healthier. It's not for everyone but it is surprisingly powerful so if you still need your mother to remind you to eat, or if you're a health nut who likes to monitor your body to CERN proportions, it's a savvy purchase.

See your Prey Underwater

We know it’s not wise to go near most of the water in Hong Kong, let alone go fishing in it, but we’ve found a gadget that will render your concerns redundant – FishEyes. It’s an underwater camera that lets you see underwater, and as any connoisseur of shark films will tell you, knowing what lies beneath is the key to conquering your fears. Combined with a harpoon gun and copious amounts of TNT of course.

High Tech Bed Includes Everything

The HiCan is the bed of the future, incorporating a built-in projector and a state-of-the-art sound system. It is both the essence and site of many a male wet dream. From the dawn of time, if mothers weren’t there to wake up their adolescent boys, men would have spent their lifetimes in bed and now finally there’s no reason to leave.

World’s First Personal Brewery System

Back in April Ian Williams and Anders Warn unveiled the world's first personal brewing device in Auckland but it wasn’t ready to ship to Hong Kong. Even though they haven’t ferried one over yet, they’ve now assured us if they get an order they will make sure it arrives here safe and sound. We’re doing our utmost to spend your money as merrily as possible - science, gadgetry and man in pure harmony.