Meet FoxFury’s MF 1000 Tac-Fire flashlight with a vision distance of over 200 yards! This beastly beacon is also water, fire, and impact resistant. It uses 9 LEDs and 15 lithium CR123 cells that last only 1 hour at 100% power or 3 hours in 33% power mode. This 1000-lumen flashlight will run you $1000, not bad for the brightest flashlight in the world.

The company that created the M2 Heliodisplay mid-air projector has just unveiled their latest version of the device. IO2 Technology’s new M3/M3i Heliodisplays both support a 30-inch viewable diagonal ‘free-space image’ like the previous version, but there are some significant improvements.

Apparently the latest models use “an improved tri-flow system for increased image stability and uniformity…” Other improvements include: enhanced brightness and clarity, a 1,024 x 768 resolution, 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratios, 2000:1 contrast ratio, USB, NTSC/PAL compatibile, VGA/S-Video inputs, and is “significantly quieter.”

The price tags are hefty with the M3 going for $18,100 and the M3i (”utilizes cursor control interactive capabilities enabling ‘virtual’ control of the mouse to interact with floating images.”) for $19,400. Press Release

Meet Logitec’s new mad stylin’ Bluetooth ear candy, giving you freedom to roam a nice distance of around 32 feet from your favorite device. You can enable/disable Bluetooth with a button on the side. Also, there’s a microphone on the right earphone below the area where the clip is attached to the body. And the rechargeable Li-Ion battery charges via USB. Available in mid-March but no price has been announced. Press Release

You can now get real time traffic information in Google Maps! Currently this information is only available for major highways, but it’s sure to help you figure out a better route. To see this traffic information, Googlehas added a “Traffic” button, just click you’ll see the traffic situation for the selected area.

The traffic information is shown in four colors, each depicting how fast (or slow) vehicles are moving… Green: more than 50 miles per hour, Yellow: 25 - 50 miles per hour, Red: less than 25 miles per hour, and Gray: no data available

This traffic information feature was, and still is, available in mobile version of Google Maps. Now I’ll probably be using Google Maps everyday.

• Dell to Linux users: Not so fast [InfoWorld]
  
• Publishers allow book browsing on the Web [Reuters]
• Warevoz worm fiends target Skype [The Register]
• The AMD 690G: first fruits of AMD/ATI merger [Ars Technica]
• E-mail overload: Is there really a cure? [CNET]

Pioneer’s PLC (Power Line Communication) Music Tap system lets you stream music throughout your pad easily. The PLC transmits a signal through your existing house wiring from the main unit to speakers in other rooms.

The XW-PSS01 is the central unit which has five inputs, two USB inputs and three audio inputs. The station supports MP3, WMA, and MPEG-4 AAC. First, connect external devices to the main unit, then plug the station into a wall socket. Now audio is detected and played by speakers plugged in any socket in your house.

The S-speaker in this system has a motion sensor so it will turn on when it detects your presence in the room and turn off after a set period of time. Complete system comes with one L-speaker, and one S-speaker. No pricing announced, but will be available in mid-March. Press Release

Shown at the Grand Rapids Boat Show and created by designer Joey Ruiter, this is the ‘Front Runner’  concept boat. But it doesn’t just look sweet, according to Core77,  it’s “a hydrofoil with twin forward-mounted 215hp jet-drive motors. the unique design allows the boat to run in extremely shallow water.”

This is one of the nicer tablet PCs, featuring a swiveling8.9-inch touchscreen WXGA display. Guts are made of: an 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo U1400 processor, 512MB or 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 80GB drive, and fingerprint reader. Check it…

Linux is creeping into everything these days, like the ROAD HandyPC and the FIC Neo1973 smartphone, to Virgin America’s Red In-Flight Entertainment System. Features of the latest Linux device, the Grundig U900, include a 2-inch QVGA 262k color display, an external 94×64 OLED-display, a 2-megapixel camera with flash, built-in FM radio, Bluetooth, USB, video/audio capability, microSD slot and 100MB of internal memory. More from LinuxDevices.com

Voice call trials within Second Life and EVE Online were successfully conducted back around April of 2006. Next week, Linden Labs plans to do a small beta trial of ntegrated voice chat, and have a beta for all users by the end of March.

According to CNET, the voice chat can be done “either in group mode–in which anyone with the feature enabled will be able to hear voice conversations in their immediate proximity–personal voice chat, or group voice chat.” and “latter two options don’t require people to be near one other to have a voice conversation.”

Additionally, voicechat functionality will be free of charge to everyone during the beta and will work on any computer that can currently run Second Life. The VoIP technology is being provided by two Linden Lab partners: Vivox (Press Release) and DiamondWare.