Never thought, you would see a bin on a gadget website? Well, here it is the Brabantia bin with a motion sensor activated lid! Look at it, enjoy the view, browser their website and then never think twice about it! Brabantia is a famous Italian design brand when it comes to rubbish bins, but their move into gadget land clearly failed. The idea is great: spare yourself from spreading more bacteria from the bin/rubbish lid to your hands each time you open it. Brabantia's solution to this problem was to create a lid which is activated by a motion sensor. The problem? Well it doesn't always open when you want it to, which is one reason enough to avoid it. The first lid I had was simply broken, so that after some email exchanges I got a new one posted (thank goodness for the 5 year or so warranty!). Perhaps in the future they will be able to make it work and be more sensitive to hand movements and equally important they need to add a faster motor into it. It simply takes too long to open the lid if you have something dripping! Enough about it! Visit the official site or read more at Amazon. I forgot to mention, this thing costs a fortune at around 200 EUR.

The bin's official homepage :)

This is yet another failed attempt by Nokia to produce a Blackberry like email friendly phone.  The Nokia E71 is a huge improvement on the previous E61 super slow brick, but none the less it remains a Nokia.  What is the main issue with the Nokia E71?  Its the speed of accessing emails and typing new messages, its an extremely painful process.  It takes quite a while before you can actually starting writing an SMS or email.  Perhaps I am just used to Blackberries and biased, but if your main purpose of a phone is calls and email, this is far from the best solution.  Yes, it has all nice multimedia features (3m camera, video recorder, voice recorder, etc) but the menu system is far from being user friendly and intuitive.  Probably the worst gimmick is the "read your messages" feature which I have switched on by mistake in very embarrissing situations, it simply starts reading your messages and is impossible to switch off when in panic!  Just imagine... So no, stay away no matter how cheap you get it!