My first complaint about the otherwise luxurious Ableplanet Noise Canceling Headphones I reviewed this week was the fact that they don't work with my new iPhone. Why? The iPhone has a recessed headphone port and requires an adapter. Sure, the iPhone ships with a regular white Apple iPhone Stereo Headset, but what if you want to take it up a notch and use a more comfortable and sound-focused set? You are in trouble. If you plan on using a third party set you'll have to buy an adapter like this one from Belkin, $10, which lets you plug in to the recessed port. Of course, that means you have to plug one end of the adapter into the audio jack of your iPhone and the other to your existing headset. A tad clunky, no?

Wow, NYC is really getting techie tranformed! First with the NYPD purchased segways to patrol popular tourist areas, then they added touch-screen monitors to city cabs, and now they are introducing large surveillance cameras all over Manhattan! According to ABC News, the NYPD hopes to have 3,000 public and private security cameras to track terrorists and criminals. With night vision capabilities, tilt, zoom and rotate, these cameras don't come cheap as some of them cost a whopping $60,000. Cameras in other cities like London have proved to be beneficial, especially during the 2005 terrorist attacks where British officials were able to track the perpetrators with CCTV footage, and many other cities are using similar technologies. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think these cameras are an invasion of privacy?

A close cousin to the new Elan Snap-In iPhone case, the Elan Holster from Griffin offers all around protection for your iPhone. Instead of having to turn your device around in the case when you aren't using it (like you do with the Snap-In), the Holster serves as a full body suit for your iPhone.

The phone can easily be pulled out, but you can transport it or keep it in your purse or pocket without wondering if it's turned itself on or automatically dialed your mother in law.

The case also has a nifty removable clip, which threatens to ruin your street cred if you attach it to your belt buckle, but can serve as a perfectly chic option for clipping the device inside your bag or laptop carrier. It's made of an embossed black leather shell with a no-scratch lining and costs $29.99.

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I like to think of myself as an expert when it comes to geek jewelry, mostly because I feel like I've seen it all. From Computer Key Rings, to Mike and Maaike's "Stolen Jewels," the market seems endless, but often lacking that truly chic luxury item mystique. The release of the iPhone makes all the iPod jewelry look like last season's rejects, so we decided to create a couple faux iPhone jewelry pieces for you to drool, joke and daydream about. I mean, people are willing to throw down $600 for a tiny wifi-enabled iPod/phone combo. Toss in some gems, platinum, gold and Tiffany & Co. and Apple-branding and these babies would sell like, well iPhones, am I right? I mean, it may be silly, but if it came in a little blue box...

Jewels from Tiffany & Co., icons from the iPhone and ridiculous idea courtesy of yours truly.

With millions of people uploading videos to YouTube daily, it's no surprise that camera companies want in on the action. Casio has just announced their agreement with YouTube. which will include a YouTube capture mode and bundle software on the newest EXILIM-S880 and EXILIM-Z77 (shown below). This new software is intended to simplify the steps of creating and sharing videos on YouTube as it provides ideal settings for recording, storing and uploading videos online. These new digital cameras not only come with the YouTube uploader that accesses your clips from a flash card to the web, but they also have auto-tracking face detection technology, image stabilization for movie mode and anti-shake blur reduction. The 8.1-megapixel Exilim EX-S880 costs $300 and comes in black or red, while the 7.2-megapixel Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 $230 and comes in four additional colors.

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Whoever said the release of the iPhone would make people forget about the iPod was wrong! Belkin is about to release a new line of cases for the iPod, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle that hope to "dress up your iPod while protecting it from everyday scratches and scuffs."

The line is colorful and obviously aimed at female consumers. The iPod nano "Charm” and “Style” cases (pictured in pink and light blue) will cost $24.99 and feature heart or line-art pattern laser-cut into high-end leather as well as a wristlet for easy carrying and an interior mirror that doubles as a picture frame. The cases will be available this August.

This is one of those questions I've always wanted to know the answer to: What is up with the nine minute snooze on alarm clocks? Our friends at Switched thankfully found the answer to this brain-teasing question for us.

Basically when the snooze feature was added to alarm clocks in the fifties, the new parts needed to mesh with existing gear configuration. This forced engineers to create a snooze that lasted just over nine and ten minutes. Apparently ten minutes was too long for a snooze because people were falling back into deep sleep, so nine minutes became the standard snooze time on alarm clocks. It's a standard we still use today.

I don't know about you, but a two or thirty minute snooze usually feels the exact same to me! I'd say the best alarm clock/snooze button is training your body to wake-up at the same time everyday. That way when your alarm clock goes off, your body doesn't go into shock and a few extra minutes of snooze time doesn't completely throw you off. It's not a science, but it seems to work.