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If there’s one thing about touch screen devices, it is the fact that there are tons of fingerprints left over once you’re done with accessing whatever function. Take the iPhone for example - chances are you’ll be wiping fingerprints off it for a few times each day, no thanks to grease-coated fingers that leave a fine layer of oil all over the display which subsequently attracts other stuff like dust and dandruff. Nice to know there is a way to keep your precious iPhone’s display in pristine condition - the iPhone Stylus and Touchscreen Cleaning Kit.

Forget the snazzy name (and you probably will), this is the world’s first ‘wet cleaning’ system for touch screen gadgets, and it’ll keep your smartphone, iPhone, PSP or whatever looking like it’s just stepped out of the salon. Simply pop off this ultra sleek doodah’s cap to reveal a sponge tip that soaks up special cleaning fluid from an internal (refillable) reservoir. Then rub the tip over your gizmo to ‘wet clean’ its surface. Finally give it a buff using the included micro-fibre carry-pouch. Genius. As well as removing dust, stains and fingerprints, the Cleaning Kit provides an anti-static, anti-bacterial finish so screens stay cleaner for longer. Plus you won’t catch some weird lurgee if greasy-pawed mates have been having a fiddle.

What makes this £7.95 iPhone Stylus and Touchscreen Cleaning Kit all the more special is the inclusion of a pin that helps you remove stubborn iPhone SIM cards that love to stay in their enclosure.

For those of us who travel frequently for holidays living the good life, many of our friends would love to see pictures of all the exotic places where we’ve gone to. Instead of going through archives of digital photos and printing them out, why not carry those in a Digital Album like the one you see here? Available in Tan and Black colors to look like a standard photo album, the Digital Album retails for £179 each.

This portable device is a digital photo gallery that can be taken everywhere with you. It has a 7 inch screen and you don’t even need to worry about hooking it up to your PC to upload new photos - it can be done on the spot by connecting it to your digital camera or by inserting an SD card. Even without any extra memory cards the Album still packs a whopping 4GB of memory (that’s up to 40,000 images), and it can be expanded to a staggering 20GB. We can’t even begin to try and work out how many images that amount of memory could store (not because we’re lazy, we’re just terrible at maths). It can playback your photos one at a time or, if you just can’t resist making your friends jealous, you can use the slideshow function. It can even be charged anywhere in the world via USB or by using the handily included universal charger.

Grandparents would also do well to tote this around considering how they love showing off pictures of their third generation to friends as well as random strangers.

Picnics and pot luck dinners share something in common - plastic utensils and paper plates. Not the kind of equipment if you’re seeking to make the dining experience a little more classy. Fundraising dinners, for example, which don’t have the budget of a political campaign can’t really make an elegant impression and still keep the costs low. Enter Snap and Dine

With a design that rather reminds me of a snap kit plastic model car, Snap and Dine uses a single plastic injection mold process to create a complete, yet recyclable, table setting to make such culinary endeavors a little more elegant and yet, provide for the convenience of a portable or temporary meal. It offers a complete 3-course setting with a very ornately designed plastic plate and recyclable plastic cutlery designed to look like elegant silverware.

Snap and Dine is not only an affordable way to make an impression on a date or fund-raising benefactor, but is both easy to use and dispose/recycle at the same time and reintroduces a disposable society into the notion that dining can be an elegant experience now matter where the table is set.

I don’t know why someone didn’t think of this sooner.

Hat Tip â€" Tech Blog