Who’d have ever thought that a touch-screen cell phone could be the size of a matchbox? Well, the sWaP Nova is here to remind us that technology CAN keep getting smaller and smaller.

Verified by the Guinness World Records in April 2011, the sWaP Nova is now officially the world’s smallest mobile phone – with a size of just 6.8 x 3.8 x 1.6 cm and a weight of 40 grams.

However, its size does not compromise any of its features…

This palm-sized mobile phone has a 176 x 132 pixel touch-screen and a slide-out USB port, and comes with an additional USB cable for charging and connecting to your computer for data transfer.

It features an innovative and accessible interface – making it functional and simple-to-use. And just in case you were wondering how you’re going to text your friends on such a small phone – it comes with an included mini stylus.

The sWaP Nova is also an MP3 Player and Multimedia Center, and comes with built-in software that allows you to listen to the radio and your favorite MP3 files, look at some pictures, and even watch a few movies.

With no fixed contracts or any ties to specific networks, the sWap Nova is compatible with pretty much every mobile phone network SIM card (except for Three Mobile) and supports WAP Internet, Bluetooth CSR V2.0 A2DP and up to 8GB of external memory.

The sWaP Nova is available at IWOOT in black for £179.99 and white – with encrusted Swarovski crystals – for £259.99.

We’ve always been led to believe that water and electronics don’t mix. Well, the FINIS SwiMP3.1G Waterproof MP3 Player is here to show them all how wrong they were!

Perfect for swimmers, triathletes, surfers, and pretty much anyone involved in water activities, the FINIS SwiMP3.1G is unlike other waterproof MP3 players as it relies on your bones to transmit sound vibrations from your cheekbone to your inner ear — resulting in exceptional sound quality.

The FINIS SwiMP3.1G Waterproof MP3 Player is Windows and Mac compatible, making it easy to drag and drop any MP3 or WMA files directly into its 1GB storage (approx: 240 songs), while also recharging its lithium-ion battery straight from a USB port. It can run for up to eight hours on a full charge and can be easily attached to any swim goggle or snorkeling mask thanks to its strap clip.

The SwiMP3 1G has playlist functionality and its control panel integrates On/Off, Volume, Pause, Next/Previous track, and Shuffle functions.

Great for training as it keeps you entertained with your favorite tracks whilst doing laps (and in the water longer), the FINIS SwiMP3.1G Waterproof MP3 Player is available over at Amazon.com (rated 3.5/5 stars from 138 customer reviews) with FREE Super Saver Shipping for $99.99.

Just arrived from 1969…

Some old gadgets never go out of style, but most have outlived their working life. Now a great source of entertainment, the Stylophone, is available brand new!

The new Stylophone has all the original features, as well as some new improvements – including three new sounds with a vibrato option on all, and most amazingly, plays MP3s for you to jam with.

Including a headphone socket for listening on the go, as well as a speaker unit for sharing with friends – the new Stylophone also now comes with volume control. That little option would have saved your parents from going deaf.

This little wonder has all the novelty of yesteryear, without sacrificing modern capabilities and is available now from Prezzybox.com for £14.95.

The days of re-purchasing music to fit the music player are over! With the Cassette To MP3 Converter, not one cent will be wasted on what you already own – as it allows you to keep your original cassette copy and upgrade it to modern formats.

Connected through any USB port, the Cassette To MP3 Converter uses included audio editing software to quickly export each track in either MP3 or WAV format. It also doubles as a standard cassette recorder with all the normal functions, for those of us who still believe mix tapes should really be tapes.

The Cassette To MP3 Converter features a 2 1/2″ internal speaker and a microphone too, which you can use to add voice recordings before, during, or after any track. Suddenly you have your own producer’s cut of any album you want! You can use the included RCA input/output jacks to play your tapes through any auxiliary audio source (including your home entertainment system), and it works with most cassettes (including CrO2).

Now that digital formatting allows us to preserve your media, why not pass it on to your favorite audio? Visit hammacher.com to save your music for just $119.95.

We all have secret desires to be musicians…and with the Zoom H1 Handy Portable Digital Recorder – now even the cheapest and least-technologically coordinated among us can.

The Zoom H1 records in WAV or MP3 format with selectable levels of compression available at the press of a button, and features two onboard microphones (configured in an a special equidistant X/Y pattern) that prevents phase shifting. The result? Stunning stereo sound.

Including a built-in reference speaker to instantly replay sound bites and a 1/8″ stereo headphone output to monitor live playback, the Zoom H1 also packs an auto-adjust recording level to ensure top-quality recordings straight from your pocket.

Featuring a blue-backlit LCD that displays all your button-selectable settings, a USB 2.0 port for rapid file transfer to your computer and up to 10 hours of operation on one battery – everything about this baby screams convenience. It even comes with a 2GB microSD card (expandable to 32GB) and one AA battery to get you started.

The Zoom H1 Handy Portable Digital Recorder is ideal for professional use by musicians, journalists, and business executives, as well as students, budding YouTube stars and podcasters alike and is available now (rated 4 out of 5 stars from 62 customer reviews) with FREE shipping from Amazon.com for $99.00.

Babies get a raw deal in the modern, digital age. They’re left to languish in the analogue world with analogue toys, analogue clothes, analogue food and analogue phones. You can’t buy an iPad for a baby or a toddler, and don’t even think about trying to get hold of a jack-in-the-box that connects to the internet. This awful situation does show signs of abating, however, with the Baby Bidou Mp3 player.

That’s right. It’s an mp3 player for babies. The main reasons you wouldn’t give a baby a standard mp3 player are as follows: 1) they’d choke on any small parts, 2) they’d chew or vomit in any usb connectors, 3) they wouldn’t know how to use them, and 4) normal mp3 players don’t look like baby toys – they look like mummy and daddy toys that need to be snatched and broken in some ridiculous manner that only a baby can achieve.

The Baby Bidou Mp3 Player (and yes, it is as French as it sounds – the pre-loaded songs are only intelligible to French babies) solves each of these barriers to baby mp3 ownership. 1) The whole thing is locked down with screws, so there are no parts a baby can choke on. 2) Yes, you’re going to need to get out your screwdriver every time you need to connect it to your PC via USB. 3) There are large, simple buttons your child will eventually work out how to use, and then one day explain to you. 4) It’s shaped like a teddy bear. I hear babies go nuts for teddy bears.

The Baby Bidou holds up to 32 hours of music, and just two AA batteries are enough to play for that long through its volume-capped speaker and then some. $59.99 is what it takes to get this cute teddy that plays your baby’s favorite songs.

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Why settle for the dull tap-tap-tap of your fingers against a desk when you’re bored? The Finger Drum Mousepad lets you become a one-man band.

With an integrated electronic drumpad built right into the mousepad, you can play up to eight percussion sounds using just your fingers. Beat a riff on the snare drum while hammering out the beat with the bass drum, finishing off with a slap on the cymbals.

Play drum solos over any song in your digital music library with the MP3 player input, or let the demo mode do all the work with four preset beats that can be adjusted with the tempo control. Create your own killer beats and record up to 30 of them for future playback, and make sure to use the volume control or headphone jack so you don’t bother your fellow cubicle-dwellers.

Four AAA batteries and $19.95 (reg. $39.95) gets you started on the road to stardom. Groupies not included.

Notice how every little thing a character does in a movie is filled with tension and excitement? In real life, opening a door to a dark apartment or scoring a date with that hot girl always seems to lack something. What do the guys in the movies have that you don’t? Two words – background music. It’s all about the soundtrack, baby, and the Personal Soundtrack Shirt can make that magic yours.

Imagine having a drum roll on standby when you have big news to share and never having to wonder if laughter will follow when you tell a joke. The Personal Soundtrack Shirt makes all auditory possibilities…possible.

The shirt comes with 20 built-in sounds, but you’re not stuck with those if they don’t accurately reflect the soundtrack of your life. Simply slip in your SD memory card loaded with your own MP3 files. The shirt also makes a great speaker for your iPod or other Portable Audio Player. You’re not still toting around a Discman, are you?

The shirt features a working speaker on the front, a pocket remote giving you control over 10 musical themes and 10 sound effects, and it only requires 4 AAA batteries to make everything work. Taking care of the shirt is a piece of cake. Simply unplug the remote, remove the speaker and chuck it in the washing machine. Yeah, I know it’s a really cool shirt, but you really do need to take it off and wash it every now and then.

Audibly illustrate your life with that Hollywood touch for the special discount price of $19.99 (regular price $39.99) at ThinkGeek and kick dull and boring in the ass.

If you’re the kind of person who likes their tech miniaturized to the max (and who doesn’t, right?), then you’re going to love this exclusive import from Japan. Called the Micro Sport Japanese MP3 Player, it integrates 4GB worth of tunes into one of the two earbuds – which not only looks unbelievable, but is bound to reduce frustrating cord tangles with its single short ear-to-ear neck tether.

Including all the basic features of the iPod Shuffle, only squeezed down to the size of two small sugar cubes – the Micro Sport Japanese MP3 Player includes on/off, forward/back and volume control, and like its larger cousins, syncs and charges over USB on any OS.

With full stereo sound, a built-in lithium battery and an included USB cable, the Micro Sport Japanese MP3 Player is available now from ThinkGeek for $79.99.

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ThinkGeek

For those of you who like the form-factor of the new iPod Shuffle, but just can’t justify laying down $80 for a display-less player, comes this little gadget. Called the Coby MP565 Micro-Clip MP3 Player, it has similar dimensions to the aforementioned Shuffle, costs a quarter of the price and includes a high-contrast LCD with 7-color backlight.

The Coby MP565 includes 1GB of memory which will store around 250 songs, gets 5 hours of battery life from its rechargeable Lithium Polymer cell and sports a clip on the back, making it easy to attach to your jacket, shirt, belt or bag.

The player supports MP3, WMA and WMADRM10 audio file formats, comes in your choice of either a silver or black anodized finish and measures just 2.63″ (66.8mm) x 0.41″ (10.4mm) x 0.94″ (23.9mm).

Unlike the new Shuffle, the controls are on the player itself, not on the earphone tether, so you can replace the bundled earphones with your own higher-quality or personalized cans without any losing functionality. As long as you don’t mind the smaller storage capacity, the Coby MP565 Micro-Clip seems like a good mini-MP3 player alternative and with a price starting at $18.97, is quite a steal.

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Amazon.com via PopGadget