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If you like chocolate (and frankly, who doesn't?) this is a grand idea. Instead of picking through a box of choclates and discarding the ones with jelly inside, or that sickly sweet cherry goo,
Thortons chocolates offers a personalized online service that allows you just to pick your favorites. While you're at it, pick a customized box and message. If you're at a loss they can pick them for you but what's the point of that?

Box of 8 Chocolates - £5.25
Box of 16 Chocolates - £9.95

They do ship select chocolates to the States but check their website for charges.

Via Shiny Shiny.

Tired of wearing the same ring every day? Try switchring and have some fun designing a new ring every day to match your outfit.

Switchring is an interchangeable plastic ring; select a theme and purchase a package that contains four pieces, two wedges and two outer bands; you will now be able to combine the pieces into different styles.
Unfortunately, once you select a theme you can’t choose the colors and pattern that are going to be included in the package, so if you want to expand on one particular theme you might get stuck with doubles.

The rings come in three different sizes and new colors, printed designs and gemstones are released every month. Four-piece switchrings packs are available on the site for $9.99 and eight-piece packs for $16.99. The company ships worldwide.

Via Elmanco.

Being nerdy is so cool these days. And for those who want to flaunt their geekiness there's a calculator ring just calling out your name. "Genius" is what everyone will think you are when you're wearing this accessory. Because who else would have the bright idea to wear an ironic and funky little ring like this? Yeah, snicker all you want, but as time has shown, nerds do rule the world. So get a little "Dr. Evil" and flaunt your mensa status. Be proud. (Now if only the little calculator actually worked.)

Wow...

In the past, LCDs have been known to have issues with viewing angles and since LCD screens are backlit the blacks are not very accurate. These two issues are directly tackled by this Aquos display as the LCD provides a 176 degree viewing angle and a four-wavelength backlight system providing the most accurate black of any flat panel TV.

If you haven't seen this 52" LCD HDTV, go find one now... what are you waiting for?

Sure we featured video products as our #4 spot in the survey, but HDTV televisions have broken out into their own category this year. We knew HDTV was going to be a best seller this year way back in January at the CES show. Every time you turned around at the show, you'd bump into HDTV products.

Without further ado... let us present you with the three top selling items in this category so you too can start to check out newscaster's pores and other skin imperfections on actors and actresses!

Fosfor Gadgets is looking for an extra gadget editor or two who would be interested in publishing posts on Fosfor Gadgets on a regular basis. I really don’t have a high budget for this at the moment so you have to be driven by getting your texts read by thousands of people rather than earning big bucks. To apply send a mail to me with a few words about yourself, a sample post or two, your top gadget of the year and salary requirements.

This article over at Gizmodo made me smile. I’m sorry to say that it’s not a full test between the two players, it’s just a comparison between the specification sheets - but it’s a really interesting read, and you might wonder what you get for those extra $3446. One funny example is that the $3486 player (Arcam FMJ DV139) can’t playback DivX or Xvid files, something that workes perfectly with the $40 player (Toshiba upscaling player).

Dare to Compare: DVD Players, One is $40, the Other, $3486 [Gizmodo]

The community seems to love the Nintendo Wii more and more for every day, and here’s another reason for loving the Wii - a classic Nintendo controller made especially for those who would like to take a ride with one of those old game classics available for download on Virtual Console.

Nintendo Wii Classic Controller Gallery [Gizmodo]

We have posted 7 or so editorials about the Optimus keyboard. The last couple of hours two interesting details about the keyboardd has been unveiled. 1.) The first batch of keyboards (out in May 2007) will have a retail price of $1200 (yes, that’s right…) and 2.) the keyboard will only have black and white displays.

Optimus project live journal: More! More! [community.livejournal.com]
via [Engadget]

This got to be one of the coolest toasters ever. Stick a piece of bread inside the Rollertoaster and watch it get burnt. This toaster designed by Jaren Goh won the 2006 Red Dot design prize.

ROLLERtoaster: the best thing to happen to toasters since sliced bread [Engadget]

James Bond always had those cool tracking devices in the movies. He'd slip some kind of modified cigarette lighter into the bad guy's pocket and walk through a compound trying to track down some super secret nuclear cupcakes or something. Finally that level of technology is available for my household spy missions.

The Loc8tor is a handheld radio frequency locator for tracking small asset tags. Stick a tag on your car keys, and the receiver will point in the proper direction. At two ounces the tracking tags are light enough to stick to lunch boxes, dogs, wallets, or small children. It uses radio frequency broadcasts to work through walls in four dimensions so the handheld can give directions to go up and down stairs. Tags are married to an individual receiver so there's no danger of other users casually picking up signals from someone else’s tags.

Beyond the location features the handheld also has a proximity mode for notification when an asset tag moves outside a predefined area. The package is currently able to track up to 24 different asset tags at once, but the system will be upgraded mid 2007ish to fulfill corporate asset tracking needs and will support up to 6,000 simultaneous tags. $180 for a starter pack isn’t cheap, but it definitely is cool. The guys at Gizmag have some more photos, and a full copy of the latest press release.

This older player continues to receive positive feedback from people that purchase the gizmo and the sales ranking on online stores continues to be above average. The device has even been called an "iPod killer" but sales simply have not backed up that claim. Overall, the device is really a nice looking MP3 player. This is the MP3 player for people that hold a grudge against Apple!

Mostly we picked this MP3 player because we like the 1.5" OLED screen on the Creative Zen MicroPhoto 8GB MP3 Player... but, it's still not an iPod.