Enjoying toast and tea is a luxury for us bloggers, who often dine on flat, room temperature soda and animal crackers in order to save money for heat, power and a 103-inch TV. Nevertheless, if we did enjoy her Majesty’s official libations, it would be with this Toaster Teapot that combines the two. Whether it’s a good idea to have liquid INSIDE A TOASTER is a question for philosophers and coroners, but it’s only £29.95 ($58), so at least it’s a cheap death. [Teapottery via Retro To Go via Uber Review]

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Here’s our hands-on gallery of the iPod Touch. It looks the same as it did when we saw it last Wednesday—sexy and thin—but now we have the added bonus of photographing it on our own desks. We also have video of the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store after the jump. Stick around for a review soon.

Video by Richard Blakeley.

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Want to exit a presentation with the maximum amount of casualties possible? Check out this MacGyver mouse from Korea, which is actually a mouse, but also holds a numpad on top and a laser pointer on the side. Being thin and square is pretty much one of the worst possible shapes a mouse can be, but the fact that it’s a MacGyver mouse means it’s got loads of hidden features inside designed to help you Jack Bauer yourself out of all but the toughest of conundrums. And if that doesn’t work, just shine the laser in your guard’s eye and make a run for it. [AVING]

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Watch justin live video and chat on Justin.tvWe’re down at Wired’s NextFest with Justin.tv, checking out the robots and cool stuff from the future. Check out the video to see what we’re seeing.

Update: Video’s done, but we’ll have more pics and news from NextFest soon.

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ThingM’s WineM is one part intelligent wine rack, one part light show. This concept, currently on display at NextFest, works by taking bottles of wine tagged with RFID stickers and placing them onto the rack. Now if you’re having Lamb Shank for dinner and want a decent Shiraz, just input into the computer that you want a Shiraz over $50, then WineM automatically lights up each bottle of wine that fits the description.

What’s too bad is that there isn’t an official wine database like CD’s have with CDDB. That way you could tag it with RFID and type in the brand, year and variety to get even more information. Currently you have to enter in all of the information by hand. Hopefully someone will bring the wine database to fruition, but in the mean check out the WineM in light show mode, it’s almost more impressive than the RFID locating.

[][Product Page via TodBot]

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Finally joined the Xbox 360 red ring club? Make it official with this Red Ring of Death T-Shirt from Split Reason. Besides the 2001 reference and the HAL-esque design of the lights, you’ll also make a bold fashion statement when wearing this—one that says, “Hey, I’m not too proud to admit I play Xbox, but I’ve also been forcibly deprived of it and made to go outdoors for 22 days while it was in for repair. The line starts here, ladies.” That, unfortunately, doesn’t fit on a shirt. [SplitReason via Joystiq]

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Lawn mowing, the bane of teenage boys’ existence everywhere, just got a whole lot easier. Husqvarna’s Auto Mower is the robot lawnmower we all dreamed about while pushing that POS John Deere around as kids, and now it’s here. Although, with the price hitting the thousands of dollars mark, it’s probably cheaper to just buy a crappy push mower and hire some local kids to do it for you. The cycle of punishment continues. [Product Page via Boing Boing Gadgets]

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Google and X PRIZE are teaming up to offer $30 million in cash rewards to companies and organizations that can land a robotic rover on the Moon and do a bunch of mission objectives. Their first prize is $25M, second prize is $5M, there’s an extra $5M in bonus stuff to the losers.

The challenge to engineers, physicists, space men, and aerospace moguls is to make and coordinate “orbital mechanics, remote-control robotics, and bring-your-own bandwidth” together in a cohesive unit so it doesn’t accidentally cause a rip in our Space Time continuum.

Of course, instead of that great speech that was given the first time we landed on the moon, the robot will throw up a couple 111000101, 1001010101, 010101010101, and a PREPARE TO DIE, EARTHLINGS. [Wired]

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Fulfilling a promise they made last November, TiVo and Cablevision are rolling out the first-ever Spanish-language TiVo, for cable customers in Mexico City. Mexico city? Who does a news release based on Mexico City? If this doesn’t demonstrate the bizarre relationship TiVo has with cable companies, I don’t know what would. The TiVos will have SeasonPass, WishList and the typical DVR functions, but probably not TiVoToGo, remote scheduling or any of the connected stuff. I am happy that the people of Mexico City are finally getting TiVo, but as a Cablevision subscriber in the New York area (Cablevision’s home turf), I am pretty pissed that all the carrier offers me is a POS Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD.

Press release:

TiVo Service Now Available to CABLEVISION Subscribers in Mexico City

- Spanish language version of TiVo user interface helps CABLEVISION further differentiate services and expands TiVo’s international presence -

ALVISO, Calif., Sept 13, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ –

TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and CABLEVISION, S.A. de C.V. (CABLEVISION), Mexico’s largest digital cable operator, announced that beginning today TiVo(R) DVRs and the TiVo(R) Service are available for the first time to CABLEVISION’s digital cable subscribers throughout Mexico City.

CABLEVISION subscribers can now access the first Spanish language version of the Emmy(R) award-winning TiVo user interface, which includes internationally recognized TiVo features like SeasonPass(TM) recordings, WishList(R) searches and TrickPlay functionality, which enables users to pause, rewind, instant replay and slo-motion live TV.

Chief Executive Officer of CABLEVISION Jean-Paul Broc said, “The combination of TiVo’s state-of-art technology and breadth of services with CABLEVISION’s superior digital cable programming creates an unmatched television viewing experience for our subscribers in Mexico City. We are extremely enthusiastic that the opportunity to bring the TiVo service to Mexico City has come to fruition and are confident that the TiVo brand will not only increase customer loyalty but serve as a driver of new cable subscribers.”

“TiVo continues to make sustained progress across international markets and CABLEVISION in Mexico is another example,” said Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo. “Growing our business with the right partners is critical and our strategic distribution relationship with CABLEVISION, and its parent Televisa, is proof of that. TiVo will enable CABLEVISION to further differentiate its pay television service and maximize its programming packages. The combination of TiVo and CABLEVISION will offer the best entertainment experience for subscribers in Mexico.”

CABLEVISION is introducing the TiVo service to Mexico City consumers through a broad-based media campaign including cross-channel and broadcast television, print, online, radio and outdoor advertising. In addition, CABLEVISION plans to leverage its extensive programming assets and celebrity spokespeople to promote TiVo capabilities on air.

TiVo service is being offered to CABLEVISION subscribers as a package with a monthly charge covering both service and box rental.

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If our mothers taught us anything, it was that more is always better—especially when it comes to number of wheels in our transportation devices. This Street Surfer, which neither surfs nor belongs on the actual streets, is a bike in the back but a party up front. What do the four wheels allow you to do that one big wheel won’t? Turn really sharply for one, and look like a total tool for two. Win, win. [Street Surfer via Oh Gizmo via Sci Fi]

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