Happy New Year! The Geeks at Gizmos for Geeks would like to wish you a new year of health, happiness and HDTV! Seriously, why would you not purchase a HDTV if you needed a new TV? While we’re not saying go out and buy a TV now unless you’re a TV geek, if you had to purchase a new TV, why not purchase a HDTV enabled beauty like this one Dell offers?

By the way, when did Dell become a force in the HDTV market? Considering Dell’s LCD monitors have done so well in sales and reviews, the transition to providing high quality LCD TVs couldn’t have been to difficult

Dell’s 37″ LCD HDTV looks absolutely marvelous and comes with Dell’s HD-Built in digital tuner with video processing by Pixelworks.

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Are you trying to get organized for the new year? The Power Station Organizer could help tidy up all those cords that are gathered probably in your kitchen or your main TV room where you store your gizmos such as cell phones, iPods, and portable gaming equipment.

With a three outlet power strip inside the device, the Power Station Organizer will support up to three portable devices hiding the wires inside the unit and out of sight. This is a perfect solution to help reach that New Years goal!

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How would you like a PSP that would support not only games, pictures, music and video but also e-books and the ability to snag free emulators including MAME for most older gaming systems on the open source Linux OS? Oh yeah, all of the above for only $179?

The Gamepark GP2X is a new dual core (ARM920T Host Processor – ARM940T Video Coprocessor) gaming machine running on Linux and encouraging anyone to develop emulators, games, applications, practically anything for this device.

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As I sit and watch Octopussy, one of my favorite Bond movies, I ask the same question Joker asks of Batman after he escapes: “Where does he get all those great gadgets?” The beautiful thing is we have great stores like Smarthome that carry items like the 8×21 Binocular/Digital Camera!

This combo unit sports a 3.1MP digital camera with a fixed 10x optical magnification and allows you to capture up to 40 pictures with it’s internal memory or to an SD/MMC card. It even has a TV Out which will allow you to view what’s in your binocular (set on a tripod for example) on a TV! Definitely a Bond sort of gizmo!

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Otterbox is known for creating waterproof cases for those with active lifestyles (or inactive lifestyles near a pool). Otterbox has an entire line of waterproof cases that will protect your iPod (photo, 20gb, mini, shuffle, nano and video). We’ve choosen to highlight the iPod Mini’s Otterbox as the Gizmo of the Day today.

Unlike any other iPod case we’ve seen (and we’ve seen quite a few!), the Otterbox will allow your iPod to be fully submerged in water without breaking the electronics. The Apple ClickWheel is protected by a thin membrane so you can still control the device even while fully protected in the Otterbox.

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NaturalPoint’s TrackIR 4 Head Tracker helps gamers by increasing the situational awareness in simulation games. With compatible games, you can change your field of view by simply moving your head.

Some of the compatible games include MS Flight Simulator, Falcon 4, Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed and Nascar Sim Racing.

Using infrared light to track your head movements, as you move your head the TrackIR sends a real-time stream of instructions to your computer via USB. What an excellent gaming gizmo!

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As the superbowl of gizmo shows is coming to Las Vegas Jan 5-8th, analysts with the Consumer Electronics Association expect spending for electronic gizmos to rise nine percent this year. Many of these new gizmos will be on display at the CES where 1.66 million square feet of exhibit space has been leased and attendance should reach around 130,000 (including the Geeks from Gizmos for Geeks!).

In addition to the convention center space, we’ve received invitations to the Sands Expo Center and suites at seemingly every hotel on the strip from vendors. We plan on reporting daily from CES letting you know about the various new technologies and products being shown! Let us know what you’re interested in at CES and check in several times a day between Jan 4-Jan 8th to see our reports.

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The BuddhaPad may look like a regular mousepad but the manufacturer says that rubbing the Buddha belly on the pad will grant you spiritual enlightment. Also, 10% of the price of the BuddhaPad will be contributed to Make A Wish helping grant wishes of children with life-threatening conditions.

Personally, I have had a Buddha on top of my work computer since 1995 and my various work machines have never had issues! Maybe I’m superstituous but I do believe Buddha brings happiness and simply looking at the BuddhaPad should bring a smile to people.

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Absolute Software has come up with a solution that everyone else wishes they had thought of – LoJack for laptops. According to the FBI, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds and 97% are never recovered. Laptops are taken from coffee shops, hotel rooms and automobiles every day. Losing your laptop can be devastating. Here’s how it works: When your laptop is protected with this service, software installed on your laptop works behind the scenes to silently and securely contact Absolute Software’s Monitoring Center, and if stolen, report its location using any Internet connection. Then Absolute works with with local law enforcement to recover and return your laptop to you.

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First Roku brought you the Roku Soundbridge for streaming your music around the house. Now they’ve created the Roku SoundBridge Radio for bringing you 1000s of Internet radio stations wrapped in a tabletop box that provides the simplicity of one device with rich audio quality. Other features include a headphone jack, SD/MMC card slot and volume ramping alarm that wakes you up to digital music, Internet radio, AM/FM radio, playlists, podcasts or a choice of several alarm tones.

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