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Becco

Becco is a Melbourne institution that has been going strong for eight years. The food is stylish modern italian, the quality is consistantly outstanding.

You can't miss a visit without trying Fiorina's stuffed olives for starters and ending with the amazing torrone.

The wine list is extraordinary both for the massive array of wines on offer and the quality.

YUM

http://www.becco.com.au

Bloody beautiful Ukranian pasty

These lovely ladies whip up the tastiest treats, not that there is a huge variety available - you have the choice of with or with out with out spicy meat - either way this has got to be the best $8 meal you can eat standing up!

you can find them at the Rozelle Markets ever Sunday.

Remember High Fidelity

finally there is a cool disc to save your music mixes that really does bring back the days of the LP and the soppy tape mix you made for your girlfriend. Yes High Fidelity had it right, the perfect mix does need perfect media - perhaps this is it?

check out the High Fidelity movie on imdB

check out the vinyl CDR at 5inch.com

Streamers

There are a whole bunch of streamers on the market, as I predicted some 8-10 months ago, the hot product for christmas is video and everybody wants to get the media they have been busily encoding onto the pc back off and play through the TV or the hifi.

well that's where this beauty comes in and it really is a lovely player, with only one major fault - but we will get to that in a moment. Firstly it has a nicely integrated, remoted driven user interface, this means you have a great TV like experience for browsing your photos or selecting which album you want to play.

The LinkTheatre supports a huge range of formats including DivX, WMA, WMV, WMV-HD etc.. It plays out as either standard definition or HD TV, and it has a bunch of USB ports on the front for you thumb drives.

But that shoppers is not all - no this little hottie comes with 802.11g WiFi (Grrrr - I hear you all say) yes it really does whip in and discover all your media just the way the media centre PC promised it would and all for only approx $449 AUD.

So whats wrong with it??? well the only thing I could find is that there is no published support for AAC and that means all the music I have encoded using iTunes is pretty useless. So this particular box is not the one for me but it is a great jump in the right direction.

http://www.buffalotech.com/

- damm just posted this and went back to re-read all of the formats it supports, and would you believe it does fully support AAC and M4A so there is no reason not to whip out and buy one for $449 it also includes a DVD player - what more do you need?

Polar Pursuit

The Polar Heart Rate Monitor (HRM if you are in the lingo) is pretty tightly aligned with having a seriously buffed bod and a penchant for early mornings and a good sweat.

This model is not really different except it is not designed as a watch rather it is designed as a bike super computer.

The guy in the shop said to me - call it what you like but this is a really great bike computer, with heaps of features, like your average heart rate, max rate , top speed etc and you can load the whole thing on to your pc or up on to the internet where you can build a full training program.

the best comment however was "..as a watch its bloody ugly, but as a bike computer - its sexy technology!"

approx $335 AUD

http://www.pursuit-performance.com.au

San Disk the smarter SD

this 1 gb SD card comes with something a little extra, it bends in half and exposes a USB connection, now that is very cool.

thanks to Life Hacker for the tip

http://www.sandisk.com/

Henk - the $20,000 suitcase

thanks to our correspondent Rob Cooper in Washington DC for this entry

The worlds best (and most expensive) suitcase. I’d like one, but at $19,000 (USD), I think it will stay on my list and out of my hands for a long, long, long time…

Nice, Very Nice - check out the site to explore more..
http://www.henk.com/henk/index2.html

A seriously powerful laser - may the force be with me

ok so you always wanted a home laser to cut garbage bags or burst balloons with well here you go - this is super powered and they go up and up in power from 15mw up to 125mw.

check out the site at http://www.wickedlasers.com/

Oh My God.. Its a truck...

www.redferret.net

Portable Video Player upto 100gb - now that is cool

so this is 30gb and they are talking about expanding it to 100gb by the end of the year. Plays music, pictures and MP3s. But that is not where it ends.. It has a TV doc for recording and playback on your TV, it supports DivX, MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG4, WMV and PlaysForSure WMV, BMP and JPG the video plays back at a max res of 720 x 576 pixels.

Let the portable video fest really begin

Read all about it at dapreview.net