Swedish company Tonium presents Pacemaker, an ultra- portable pocket-sized DJ system. In spite of its size, Pacemaker is being billed as a pro-DJ system and has 120-gig hard drive. It’s tricked out with basic DJ tools of the trade like the Line Out crossfader, headphone crossfader, song cueing, and sound effects. It connects via USB 2.0 and the battery lets you DJ for five hours before the porta-party ends. This one is in “pre-booking” at press time, but is expected to hit the street at approximately $1040 US.

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Today marks the beginning of the biggest week in gadgets all year.  All the big names, and many of the small ones, will release their latest and greatest gadgets today– and GearCrave’s got our eyes on the prize.  Stay tuned to GearCrave for all the CES news and updates to feed your techno fix.  We’ll keep you up-to-date on all the gadget releases as they happen.  So stick around, GearCravers.  Be sure to grab our RSS feed for up-to-the-minute news.

The Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Vegas hasn’t even officially kicked off yet,and already cool gadget news is trickling from Sin City. Among the early reporters is this sweet iLuv combo DVD/iPod player. We love the integrated iPod slot, and while we’d never encourage you do to anything illegal, this sort of setup does seem to have an appeal to a certain sort of person who might connect a DVD player to a laptop. The player lets you view iPod video onscreen just like an ordinary DVD, so it does have its handy legit uses, too. All those TV show downloads via iTunes and Amazon are now much more accessible for home use, and with a price tag set below $200, this is awfully tempting. This is slated to drop in March.

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Plan on doing it yourself in 2008? Check out this great cordless set from Makita, which is getting rave reviews for use in tight spaces. You shouldn’t try to build a high-rise office block with this set, but for typical DIYer use, it’s perfect–lightweight, easy to transport, and quick to charge up. Makita’s Compact Cordless Combo is a three-piece lithium-ion powered kit including the LXT 1/2-inch driver-drill, an impact driver, and a rechargable flashlight. These are all cordless and rechargable with the included 15-minute rapid charger. It comes complete with a contractor bag, so the whole thing is self-contained.

Buy for $239.99.

Laptops just got a million times more stylish with Orbino’s premium calfskin leather cases. There are four compartments, including a center space for the laptop, and three full-sized gussets for your accessories, power supply, discs, cell phone, etc. This luxury laptop briefcase has custom-made closures and clips made in Italy, and is compatible with most standard-sized laptops. Options include black or caramel leather.

Buy for $1550

The Sony Net Sharing Cam, NSC GC1 drops today with a $50 price cut, making this around-$150 gadget a great holiday gift. It shoots in MP4 format, streams to the web or to your hard drive via USB, and if you like Sony Crackle web sharing service, you’re in luck as this is primed and ready for Crackle. The most attractive feature of this–based on Sony’s marketing hype–is the 5 hours of video you can shoot without being tethered to the USB cable. It shoots that five hours in QVGA format at 320 x 240 size, all stored on a 2gig memory stick sold seperately. It also shoot stills. Pretty tasty as a handy carry-along for parties, vacation shots, and any You-Tube worthy embarassment you want to subject your friends to. It’s as small as a deck of cards, so it’s also a nice spy device for those obsessed with furtive video capture of unsuspecting dorks. Just don’t go getting sued.

Buy for $150

Hyundai’s W-100 cell phone watch makes your James Bond dreams come true, minus the wrist-laser. Mp3 player, Bluetooth, a 1.3mp camera. Back in the 60s they would call that a “spy camera” but since everybody’s using tiny little lenses these days, spies are going to have to come up with something else to stay cutting-edge on the secret snapshots tip. This GSM phone stores media (including video) on a micro-SD card, and as a timepiece it’s no clunkier than any sports watch on the market. Check out the lens placement on that camera! You have to point your wrist like a goofy Power Ranger to take the pics, but as long as you aren’t in the middle of a chop-socky fight sequence, there’s no problem, right?

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Amazon Kindle dropped today, promising a new wave of convenient e-book reading. The e-book has been a troubled concept, as people just plain like to turn those lovely pages. And who can blame them? Still, this is one of the most promising developments; in spite of completely misguided hype about a screen that Amazon calls “Revolutionary electronic-paper.” Amazon marketing flacks, listen up: nobody is buying that one, no matter how cool the screen actually is. Book lovers won’t be taken in by such breathless nonsense. That said, Amazon does answer the chief complaint about e-books (readability) with the Kindle’s high resolution screen. It looks pretty sweet on first glance. From the sample pics, it does appear that the text appears much more “printlike” than other attempts.

The real cool thing about this? It’s ten ounces, and wirelessly receives newspapers, blogs, and any book you care to purchase–in seconds. It holds 200 blogs, books and other material. 88,000 books are available for Kindle, including 100 of 112 current New York Times bestsellers (for under ten bucks!). Amazon says you can get thru War And Peace in a single charge, but what’s more appealing is that you do not need ANY computer assistance to read with this. It is a complete standalone product, and because of the blog, book, newspaper, and Wikipedia access, is also cross-platform in terms of access to books, newspapers, mags, downloads, etc. This is definitely a step forward for travelers who hate lugging heavy loads of reading material.

Buy for $399.00