So Halloween has come and gone for another year. I was surprised to see so many kids (and parents) take part in this mostly American tradition in a humble outer-west Sydney suburb. What was the best costume that you saw?

Here’s the best Halloween costume I saw this year and it totally hammer-scissor-rawwwks!

Watch it till the end and you’ll see why!

YouTube – Best Halloween Costume Ever

Who in their right mind would want to be a passenger in an iPhone Controlled Car?! What if the battery dies or the iPhone crashes? Despite my obvious struggle to think of any logical reasons for this, looks like some academics at a German university think it has some merits. They’ve named it, of course, iDriver.

Check out the video below – I loved the Wario music at the end.

P.S. I thought of a good application for this – when you find a spider in  your car but don’t know where it crawled to!!

iDriver Description

iDriver is an iPhone application to remote control a car. Go to http://www.spiritofberlin.eu for more information on “Spirit of Berlin”, a completely autonomous vehicle by the Freie Universität Berlin. It is equipped with various sensors and a drive-by-wire system for unmanned driving. iDriver is an addon to remote control the car with an iPhone. Powered by Appirion UG (http://www.appirion.com).

YouTube – iDriver – iPhone remote controlled car

While I was busy beautifying myself for the Nuffnang Blog Awards, I thought it would be an opportune time to fit in a review of the Dexim P-Flip Portable Power Dock for iPhones and iPods that was sent to me from iWorldAustralia. It was immediately useful to me on my trip here as in between events here in Singapore, I didn’t have time to hook up my iPhone to wall or laptop charger. The Dexim P-Flip meant that I could charge my iPhone on the run without carrying any messy cables or adapters. Being able to use it as a desktop stand is also a fantastic idea!

In this video you’ll see my long time friend and runner-up for Best Geek Blog in Asia Pacific, Mr.Michael Aulia. Cheeky guy who also loves gadgets!

Please subscribe and comment if you liked it. I got myself a Sanyo Xacti video camera while here in Singapore (I love SimLim Square!) so more videos will be popping up from now in.

Dexim P-Flip Portable Power Dock Charger for iPhone / iPod Description:

P-Flip Foldable Power Dock is world’s first foldable, portable, multi-functional and rechargeable power dock. This is a desktop holder with charging & sync, and is also a rechargeable back-up battery pack for Video/Game

Charge your iPhone/iPod Touch on the go. Extends up to 8 hours Talk time,15 hours Video/Game or 80 hours music.

2 pieces in ONE pack, share the juice with your family or friends.

Dexim Website

These cufflinks are engraved with an the image of DECEPTICON and an image of AUTOBOTS from the cartoon and movie “Transformers” onto a silver plated frame.You will also receive a black PVC covered cufflink box.Measurements (cufflinks): 0.80 inches (Height) x 0.75 inches (Width), which is equivalent to 2cm x 2cm.

Cufflink box measures: 1.0 inch x 1.60 inches x 3.25 inches (2.5cm x 4cm x 8.1cm).

Via Etsy

I’m expecting more and more Windows 7 videos and posts to pop-up as we draw closer to the Windows 7 release date this week.

I reckon Microsoft has to do a lot to convince the masses to upgrade to their latest version of Windows. For example, last night I was talking to a normal Windows user (a physiotherapist by trade who doesn’t spend more than 12 hours a day online) about Windows 7 and he shook his head and waved his hands saying that he would wait a couple of months until the bugs had been ironed out. He said he felt a bit shafted by the whole Vista experience.

Anyway here’s a video of some Family Guy characters discussing Windows 7!

YouTube – Sneak peek: Family Guy meets Windows 7

Getting chased out the door by creatures resembling Microsoft software icons, is not my idea of a pleasant experience. In fact, I’ll be honest and say that it’d be pretty scary.

Here’s an advertisement depicting this exact situation albeit with lovey-dovey music in the background. This is Microsoft’s way of advertising the new Windows Phone operating system for mobile devices.

Does it do bad things for you too?

Via YouTube

If I was a girl and slightly mad, I would quite possibly wear this outfit for 3D movies such as Up (which I should really go see sooner than later). Also looks like a cool getup for upcoming Halloween parties. For those with tight purse-strings, this is very makeable – white trash bag with red and blue cardboard cutouts should do the trick… [Friday Funny]

Via Foolish Gadgets

I started cycling seriously only this year and I was amazed at just how many people are taking up cycling these days in Melbourne. Has to be the cost of petrol and the increasing desire many have to be more green. My reason? I was sick of waiting for an hour or so in traffic when I knew too well that I could be spending the same time seeing some of Melbourne’s most scenic bits instead!

I’ve clocked up around 600km on the road to date, but never in my travels have I come across a bike like the above.

Can you believe that this same bike folds up so compact that it can actually fit a shape of a regular briefcase?

Here’s the proof below:

Read more about this Ultra Compact Folding Urban Bike at the TreeHugger link below!

Via TreeHugger

I’m always on the look out for unique stylish cufflinks and I think these Mini Lighter Cufflinks fit those characteristics quite well. Ok, maybe not so much stylish but very gadgety! This is either designed for those who smoke or those who want to be popular among smoking friends.

If you do end up getting a pair of these just make sure that your shirt is not flammable. Also not the best accessory to wear if you work at a petrol station either.

Via Foolish Gadgets

My love for tech gadgets came from watching movies such as Goonies, James Bond, Star Trek and Star Wars (just to name a few). Here we have Tom Merritt from CNet counting down what they believe to be the Top 5 Movie Gadgets of all time.

I think this list needs to be a bit bigger to include zany gadgets like to mention some, the Flux Capacitor (Back to the Future) and Batman’s Utility Belt.

What else do you think should have been on the list?