Dov Moran has a bright idea for the coming age where fashion and electronics will become intertwined. When you want a new look for an MP3 music player, put a new skin on it. If you want your phone to play cool videos, give it a jacket. And when you want to turn that phone into an alarm clock, find it a mate.

Moran is chief executive of modu, an Israeli company that has created a tiny cell phone with a built-in flash memory music player that is highly modular. When you want to change the look and feel of the device, you simply slide it into another device. It's like adding a memory chip card, except it changes the identity of the new device. With it, you can change your electronic gear in chameleon fashion to suit your mood.

You can, for instance, take your little modu phone and slide it into a digital camera.

Video of my Out-of-Box experience with Amazon’s Kindle (and some ...

No. It's not a review of the Kindle, yet. There are plenty of those already circulating the Web and I'll get to mine (better late than never). But, after missing the Amazon press conference in NYC where the members of the press were offered Kindles to take home and try, I finally was able to get one sent to me and it arrived today. So, before opening it up, my multimedia wingman Matt Conner and I decided it would be best to fire up our camera and videotape the out-of-box experience (literally, out of the box that it arrived in, via UPS).

One thing you may notice: Amazon doesn't yet have a shipping box (or at least didn't use one for my unit) that's designed to fit the Kindle. I'll bet this changes. They'll probably have one that says "Kindle" all over it. The Kindle is smaller (and thinner than I imagined).

SpyTec 2007

I'm beginning to worry that I spend too much time concerned with the technological trappings of the world around us. I think Lord Vader put it best when he admonished Imperial Admiral Motti not to be too proud of the technological terror he'd constructed—after all, the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force. Or, for that matter, the power of the Internet to slowly suck your life away, gurgling down a series of tubes. But seriously, when you close your eyes at night and just see an endless parade of dancing cell phones, multifunction printers, and digital music players, you can be sure of one thing: your dreams are going to be seriously messed up, man.

So, you may ask, what do video camera glasses, a gaming projector, and a compact bag have in common? Other than all being featured in this week's edition of Gadgetbox, I have absolutely no idea.

Jonas Brothers out on their own

Following their graduation from Hannah Montana Middle School, kids might enroll at Jonas Brothers High School. Those aren't actual educational institutions, of course, but as kids age, they often tire of one musical act and "graduate" to another.

The Jonas Brothers are guitar-wielding Kevin, 20; acrobatic vocalist Joe, 18, and plucky multi-instrumentalist Nick, 15, who can play guitar, drums and piano. The band's concerts attract exactly the same demographic as a Hannah Montana show -- girls in their early teens accompanied by their patient, compliant mothers.

The TV wall-mount business must be fiercely competitive - I counted at ...

BBC journalists have done quite a bit of video from CES this year. You can see a round-up on the website here.

To Hell With the Chief!

It's true that Midwesterners have a great deal of just plain common sense and Madhoosier is very eloquent as well. Obama fills the bill for me and, as a great-grandmother offers hope and confidence that the next generations will restore the American Dream. Thanks all!

Samsung unveils Soul dynamic-touch phone

Preempting the Mobile World Congress show, Samsung on Friday revealed the Soul, its new flagship slider phone. Serving as the final bow for the Ultra Edition, it blends in a split-screen, context-sensitive touch control system similar to that of the LG Venus: rather than rely on fixed buttons or an entire front touch surface, the Soul includes a small touchscreen area whose buttons change depending on the immediate context for the screen above. When playing music, track controls replace normal commands, Samsung says in an example. The Soul is also the first Samsung handset to sport a themed UI where the entire look and sound can be replaced at once.

The handset is both very camera- and data-focused. A 5-megapixel camera is accompanied by a high-power LED flash as well as by face detection and image stabilization -- all features normally reserved for some of the better dedicated cameras, the company says.