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It’s been a while since we’ve been impressed by a portable DVD player…as in forever. But with a slight design alteration, the Philips PET830 gives some hope to a formerly dead end of electronics.

Add in DivX, MPEG4, MP3 and WMA support and the PET830 is almost as good at playing media as the laptop you’ll purchase instead. No pricing info yet. – Mark Wilson

If streaming your iTunes music via Airport Express isn’t for you, then perhaps the iHome iH21 is more your fancy. Consisting of a dock and matching speakers, the iH21 let’s you beam your tracks to the basement, the kitchen, and even your bedroom.

Plus, the speaker is water-resistant and remote control-friendly, meaning your music’s safe even during your wet and wild orgies. Too bad the same can’t be said of the rest of your furniture. – Jason Chen

Product Site [iHome]

With phones, headsets, and speakers getting Bluetooth, it was inevitable that alarm clocks would get them too. iHome’s iHC5 dual-alarm clock radio has wireless capability that lets you both stream music from your PC/phone and act as a speakerphone for your cell. The upside? You won’t need both an alarm clock and speakers. – Jason Chen

Product Site [iHomeAudio]

Here’s a leaked Garmin Nuvi GPS. Two things. The Nuvi’s new widescreen format makes it harder to pocket, and the whole nuvi concept was pocketability. Secondly, this one pulls data from MSN Direct. You know the same tech that powers spot watches. Those things sucked, but this could work out nicely. It probably will cost a few bucks, like many of today’s traffic solutions. but this one will be neato, including data for “geo-referenced information like traffic conditions, weather forecasts, fuel prices, and movie times.” Could be decent competition to the new wave of smart GPS navigators like the Dash Express.–Brian Lam

Duh. Who knows if this’ll see the light of day, but the DirecTV SAT+GO!, or Satellite To Go, has both an annoying name, and a brown color reminiscent of the swampy Zune. The briefcase sized box folds out to reveal a dish in the back, and an LCD on its face, with controls below it. I’m doubtful it’s HDTV, but if so, that’s a double leap in tech innovation. Sources also say this setup will have a data component to it, at least for the channel guides, if not for other data hookups. Of course, this photo is a pretty rendering a 2nd year design student could have pulled off. Don’t get me wrong: It’s a real honest to god DirecTV product in the making. But taking something like this to market, well…I’ll believe it when I see it at Best Buy. Portable satellite TV is the TV Shoe of this decade. –Brian Lam

DirecTV Sat+Go! [Thanks Ryan!]

If you’ve got a professor, a co-worker, or sibling that you really, really hate, this Annoy-a-tron is the perfect thing to drive them up the wall. The small-ish gadget fits discretely under desks, in bags, or in closets and lets out a short beep in 2 to 8 minute intervals.

We had a cellphone run low on battery and beep every few minutes, and since we have about 57 cellphones here you can imagine how hard it was to identify the source. This is that idea taken a step further—just enough to drive someone batsh*t insane.– Jason Chen

Product Page [ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron]

A perfect gift for those who were alive during the depression, this Drink-O-Matic holds 10 cans at 30-degrees less than room temperature. Essentially a small refrigerator made just for drinks, this thing will set you back $149.95, which in Grandpa-money is like 847 Werther’s Originals.

Better get one before he dies. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Sharper Image via Uncrate]

With all the weird digital clocks we feature, we thought it’d be a nice change of pace to show you an analog one for giggles. The Flipperoo clock has hand-drawn words and numbers that flips as the days pass, letting you know that you’re one day closer to your eternal slumber.

The manufacturer’s only making 200 pieces in this batch, and they’re going for $60 each. However, we have no doubt that they’ll make lots more once they sell out thanks to all the Gizmodo readers snatching them up. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Gama-Go]

If your meat could talk, it would probably scream in a high pitched voice about the cruelty of slaughterhouses, the pain of being cooked on the grill, and the indignity of being eaten by a chubby guy in an A1-stained “Vote for Pedro” t-shirt. Which is why there’s no technology out there to give a voice to the silent meat population, natch.

What there is technology for is a thermometer that talks to tell you when your meat is done being cooked. The Oregon Scientific Talking Wireless BBQ/Oven Thermometer proves that the pleasant sounds of “Your rare steak is done” are much nicer than the disembodied screams of a slaughtered bovine. What’s even nicer is that you can have it tell you that your food is ready in Spanish, German, French, or even Danish if you so desire. Jeres kød er beredvillig! –Adam Frucci

Here’s a accessory that could prove to be a fine enhancement to the upcoming holiday festivities: LiteCubes that light up your drink like a Christmas tree and have a gel center that you can freeze, cooling off that drink in cool style. They’re available in a variety of colors, each with an LED and battery embedded inside. Some of the LiteCubes, such as the green, blue, white and pink ones, required two batteries inside, rather than the single battery of the red, orange or gold ones.

These aren’t exactly new, but this is a good time to remind you of their existence—we especially like the Rainbow LiteCubes that can be set to different colors, glowing constantly or going into a discotastic color-changing mode. They’re $2.54 each, or $119.52 for a package of 48. – Charlie White

Product Page [Cube Lady, via Shiny Shiny]

Regular stethoscopes are all well and good if you’re working in a quiet country hospital where the only sounds audible are the quiet churning of some old Amish woman making butter on the front porch, but if you’re out in the field and you need to hear someone’s heartbeat it’s a different story. Have you ever tried to use a stethoscope on a helicopter or perhaps in the pit at a Cannibal Corpse concert? No? Well it’s no cakewalk, doc.

A new stethoscope for doctors in the field has been developed by Active Signal Technologies and the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory that basically uses ultrasound technology to see and hear right into the human body, no matter what crazy crap is going on around them. It was created for use in Iraq in Apache helicopters, but I like to think some death metal bands might pick one up for their tour physician as well. –Adam Frucci

Noise-Immune Stethoscope [American Institute of Physics]

For those of you without any sense of time, or easily gets distracted—this is the parking timer keychain. Program this $10 doodad with exactly how much you dropped into the parking meter and will warn you when time is getting close. It is also great for you frugal bastards that would rather underpay a parking meter and keep going out to feed it rather than overpaying and possibly wasting money. It also includes a voice memo feature for remembering where you parked your car: “Parked caddy corner from Starbucks.” Just hope that Starbucks doesn’t asexually reproduce like they are known to do. – Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Outblush]

Really, what the hell is the point of a coffee cup warmer? Isn’t coffee supposed to be served warm enough to heat any mug regardless? The Jura-Capresso Coffee Cup Warmer can hold 16 coffee cups or 24 espresso cups. It will warm the cups up to optimal serving temperatures for you prissy assholes who can’t have a room temperature mug like the rest of us. The Jura-Capresso warmer retails for the absurd amount of $1,000. I’ll take my coffee in a room temperature mug and go spend the $1,000 I saved at a strip club, thank you very much. – Travis Hudson

Jura-Capresso Coffee Cup Warmer [Born Rich]

For those who want a water-powered clock without having to insert wildlife—what am I, a florist?—this water-powered H2O clock survives for two months on one “charge” of water.

Fill the transparent tubes with tap water—canine saliva should work—and watch as the non-backlit time ticks away the minutes to your eventual retirement from the circus. It’s only $12, which is about as much as you’d expect to pay for a travel clock that isn’t backlit, doesn’t have an alarm, and whose only notable feature is that it can be powered by fluid from my body. And when you send yours to me to charge, please have a self-addressed, pre-paid return box and specify what type of bodily fluid you wish for me to use. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Select Solar via Crib Candy via Oh GIzmo]

The makers of a sound-activated vibrating sex aid, a two-man company in Osaka, Japan, have managed to get Apple all riled up. The reason? They’ve named their gadget the gPod, after “the G-Spot and jii, the Japanese word for masturbation.” Stuck inside the cooter (the official medical term), the gPod connects to iPods, cellphones or music players, and apparently vibrates in sync to the audio.

Apple started fighting the Japanese company when the latter started applying for trademarks around the world, eventually sending a Japanese lawyer and repeated requests to stop using the gPod trademark. The company laughed off Apple’s requests and said they would fight if Apple ever decides to sue.

Apple Computer Inc., meanwhile, is, unlike gPod users, keeping tight-lipped about the case.

– Jason Chen

Buzz on handy gPod a poison apple for US giant [Mainichi - Thanks Walter!]