The Lingo Voyager 5 is a portable translator that can speak the word or sentence aloud in 20 languages including English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and more. What makes this gadget cool is that it can also speak over 46,000 commonly used phrases from around the world. Other features include FM radio, some games, a voice recorder, a 200 city world time clock with alarms, a calendar, a 12-digit calculator and a currency converter. The Lingo Voyager 5 is priced at $249. [Product Page]

Toshiba has new 1.8 hard drives that were previewed at CES 2008 that come in Carbon Gray, Hot Rod Red and Gecko Green. They’re able in 60GB, 80GB and 120GB versions that come with backup and encryption software. If space is an issue you may want to try the 320GB model for $199.99. No price is available for the 1.8 versions right now however they are said to release sometime in Spring.

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Eye-Fi Inc.’s wireless card beat nine other contestants for the top spot in the Last Gadget Standing session, a CES contest staged by Yahoo Inc.’s technology section. The winner was determined by the volume of audience applause. The $100 Eye-Fi card has 2 gigabytes of memory, uses Wi-Fi to zap pictures to computers and photo-sharing Web sites. Eye-Fi’s other competitors include: the Asus Eee PC, the LG Voyager, Dash Express GPS device, Sansa TakeTV (similar to Tivo), iRobot’s iLooj, Toshiba’s TDP-EW25U a wireless DLP projector, Electric Spin’s Golf LaunchPad, The Fujitsu u810, and the Logitech diNovo Mini Keyboard.

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Apple launches its GPS device called the ‘loco GPS’ for the iPhone which is linked with Google Map software and based on SiRF Star III chip, the loco GPS will be available in February 2008 for $89.

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Check out the Yego USB Drive from RiData. The drive is available in 1GB ($13), 2GB ($26), and 4GB ($37) models and features two USB ports.

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Although winter has hit, people in more humid areas might appreciate this USB fan. It not only keeps you cool but has power from USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports. Now you don’t have to sweat while chatting with a hot babe online. $17

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