While the tech world has been waiting for Apple, Microsoft, and even TechCrunch to introduce their tablets, a company called Camangi has gone ahead and released its own device: The WebStation is a 7-inch touchscreen tablet that runs Android 1.5. The device features 802.11 b/g WiFI, a GPS module, and a built-in micro SD Card Reader.

The WebStation features a number of baked-in apps, including a Web browser and Gmail. The device can also serve as an e-book reader and a music player, and there's a stand on its back, so it can double as a photo frame or movie-streaming device. The WebStation also has a USB hub and a rechargeable battery, which should give you four to five hours of media usage, according to the company.

The WebStation will be available early next month for $399.

Using a laptop computer in a car can be uncomfortable, but no more. The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk hooks on to your wheel to give you a convenient place for the computer, your lunch, or whatever else you're working on.

Clearly there are great uses for this product, but it's also easy to imagine some dangerous abuses--especially considering all the recent hubbub about problems with people using cell phones and even texting while driving. And we've all heard stories of people shaving, putting on makeup, doing crossword puzzles, you name it.

You just know that someone will try to use their computer while they drive now that they have this table. Probably on a highway where the turns aren't so sharp. It's this image that inspired some of the hilarious user reviews and submitted pictures on the Amazon.com page for this product (check one out, after the jump).

Amazon.com seems to be the main place to buy the Laptop Steering Wheel, although the manufacturer, Mobile Desk, makes a wide variety of computer mounts and other work tools for cars. And the average police car these days seems to come with a computer designed for the driver to use.

Just as awareness of the dangers of distracted driving are increasing and laws are being developed all over to penalize users who phone or text while driving, the industry pushes the envelope more and more. Please keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel.

Do you tweet? If so you could win a WowWee Cinemin Swivel pico projector. This tiny portable DLP projector (normally selling for $299.99 list) lets your share video and photos from your iPhone or iPod as well as from a Sony PSP, digital camera, Flip video camera, netbook, and other mobile devices.

To enter, just check the daily question posted on Cinemin's Twitter account (@cinemin) and tweet the answer, including the hashtag #cinemin. (I don't know how winners are chosen, so in case it's not random, choose those 140 characters well!) The first winner was picked yesterday, so there are six more chances; the daily contest ends November 22. Find the official rules at the contest Web site.

Why be without television for even a moment? With the Personal Television, launching today from Flo TV, you won't have to be. The Flo TV Personal Television is a surprisingly compact digital TV, offering a 3.5-inch crisp display. The whole thing measures 3 by 4.4 by 0.5-inches and weighs just over 5 ounces, so it's small enough to take anywhere. It gets over five hours of viewing time on a charge.

You'll need a Flo TV subscription to get shows on your Personal TV, but six months of free service is included with the $249.99 list price. After that, signing up for a three year subscription gets you content for the equivalent of $8.99 per month. There's also a one year commitment plan, but good luck finding subscription info on the site. The company offers a coverage map, so you can check out ahead of time whether or not Flo TV broadcasts in your area.

How does this gizmo actually measure up? Take a look at Zach Honig's just-posted "hands on" review of the Flo TV Personal Television at PCMag.com.

Call it a portable projector for audio. SMK-Link has unveiled the GoSpeak! Pro, a bizarre-looking folding PA (public address) speaker system that weighs less than five pounds and fits in a laptop bag.

The company designed the GoSpeak! Pro for gatherings of up to 200 people. It contains flat-panel NXT technology SurfaceSound speakers, and works with an optional Audio-Technica Wireless Microphone System. All of the requisite controls, quarter-inch jacks, and AC port are on the back panel.

The GoSpeak! Pro will list for $399, while a version packaged with the Audio-Technica setup costs $499. Look for the GoSpeak! Pro this month in consumer retail outlets, online reseller channels, and direct from the company's dedicated GoSpeak! Pro website.

Talk about a fail whale. Withings today announced that its recently introduced WiFi Body Scale now works with Twitter. Users can step on a scale and have their weight displayed nearly instantly, all over the World Wide Web. Why would a company create such a thing? Because it can, apparently. Says the company's general manager, Cedric Hutchings:

This social media feature was the next logical step in the evolution of the WiFi scale for our customers. Here at Withings we are committed to roll out new features and services on the field thanks to automatic updates. Adding this social functionality makes the WiFi scale by Withings the first true flagship of the Internet of Objects.

As the company is quick to point, results won't be automatically posted to Twitter; you'll have to enable that feature. Once enabled, the feature tweets your current weight and how much you've lost or gained. Ah, technology.

Quick, someone get Oprah on the phone.

Intel this week released its Reader, a new e-book device aimed at the visually impaired. Like the latest Kindle, the $1,499 device can read aloud from digital book files. Unlike Amazon's device, however, the Reader can capture digital images with a high-res camera and read aloud from those as well. The device can also capture text from Web sites.

"We want people to experience the independence of being able to read on their own in a public place or anywhere they want to," the device's developer told Venture Beat. "A metaphor for this are the ramps that make buildings wheelchair accessible. This reader is like a ramp."

The Reader is roughly the size of a paperback. It can read DAISY formatted text and plain text and can play MP3 files.

Looking to buy a Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader in time for the holidays? Better place your orders now.

When B&N first announced the e-reader on Oct. 21, it said they would be available by the end of November, but people purchasing the devices online are now being told that they will have to wait until Dec. 11, according to Brighthand.com.

If you already pre-ordered, you are scheduled to ship on Nov. 30, but future buyers will have to wait an extra week or so. That is, if the devices actually make it to the shelves. Last week, Spring Design filed suit against B&N, accusing them of stealing the idea for the Nook and asking the court to stop B&N from selling their device.

The enTourage eDGe, a dual-screen eBook reader that sports both a 9.7-inch electronic ink display and 10.1-inch LCD, is part e-book reader, part netbook, and will cost $490 when it hits the market in February. The eDGe was originally designed with students in mind, but I can see how the fully integrated device, which offers both Wi-Fi and an optional 3G module, could appeal to a much broader audience, including a variety of professionals.

Telephone giant/punching-bag AT&T showed off some undeniably cool future tech at last week's AT&T Technology Showcase in San Francisco--including a concept for AirGraffiti, where mobile phone users can leave videos, photos, and songs "in the air" for others to find--but the one that really grabbed our attention was the demo of "smart slippers."

These cushy slippers give the home network a whole new purpose. They contain sensors that can tell how a person is walking, and then report that data to the home network. If the wearer is unsteady on their feet, the system could issue a warning. If the wearer falls, the system could alert someone. While it's only a concept now, it could one day be a lifesaver for older people living alone.

For more, check out the video of AT&T Labs research director Lusheng Ji showing off a slipper and the monitoring software. At the end of the video, Ji also shows a connected pill holder that can tell people when to take their medicine.

Today's digital photo frames can do everything--except come down in price. Witness the just-released eStarling 802.11n Touchscreen Connected Frame. As the name says, it offers 802.11n connectivity, so you can load picture faster than ever. Each frame comes with a unique Gmail address, so you can transfer them over e-mail. It's convenient for the home, or for leaving with an older relative so you can add pictures remotely.

This frame has a few other pluses, including a touchscreen. That makes maneuvering through menus much easier than with a remote. Once you've got it connected to your home network, you can display photos from Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, and other sites. It can even access a Twitter stream.

You're not limited to photos with this frame: It can also display video. Imagine shooting a video of your kids on your smartphone, then uploading it to a frame so grandma can see it minutes later. When you consider that the frame also has a 10.2-inch screen, the $249.99 list price actually starts to sound reasonable.

While we have nothing against the Foxit eSlick e-reader (and I really like the company's PDF reader software) the eSlick has flown somewhat underneath our radar.

In part, that's because Foxit seems to be employing an unusual strategy of shipping the eSlick in rounds of products; for example, the eighth round of eSlicks should be shipping now, while the company is accepting orders for the ninth round, which will ship near the end of November.

On Wednesday, however, Foxit announced the second version of the eSlick's firmware, with support for the ePub and eReader formats as well as the previously supported PDF and text formats. Images are now viewable in GIF, EMP, JPEG, and PNG formats, and the firmware update even installed a touch keyboard, so that users can unlock password-protected files.

It sounds like the current round of preorders will ship with the new firmware; otherwise, existing customers can download the version 2.0 firmware at the company's Web site.

Best Buy is teaming up with Sonic Solutions to provide customers on-demand access to streaming movies and TV shows.

Best Buy will embed Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow technology on a number of devices, like web-connected TVs, portable media players, PCs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and mobile phones. This will include a variety of manufacturers, Best Buy said, but the store did not reveal any specific companies at this time.

The multi-year agreement allows Best Buy to license Sonic's technology to make its on-demand digital content delivery a standard feature on connected devices. As part of the deal, Best Buy purchased an undisclosed number of Sonic common stock.

When the service is in place, Best Buy customers can buy or rent from the CinemaNow catalogue, which includes access to new movies, TV shows, independent films, and older catalogue films. Some of those movies will likely be available on the same day as their DVD release, Best Buy said.

Both companies said they also plan to work with movie studios on "new service and content offerings" but did not elaborate.

If only there were a way to tweet from a mobile phone. Until Twitter and the mobile carriers concoct such a function, however, it looks like we're all stuck with the TwitterPeek, the latest device from Peek Inc. The new gadget features a color screen, which lets users send and receive tweets--and that's pretty much it.

The TwitterPeek is a slow little handheld that lacks some of the vital Twitter features one can get on their smartphone--like, say, reading full tweets. Says Sascha in his 1.5 star review (yes, out of five):

The main list of tweets only shows the first three and a half words of each message; to read more, you have to dig down by hitting the 'return' key. Then you can step through tweets, slowly, one by one, with the 'n' (for next) and 'p' (for previous) keys, or jump back up to the unreadable full list of truncated messages. The whole process is slow and annoying.

He does call the thing "frickin' adorable," however. And it's pretty cheap at $99 including 6 months of service, so you know, buy two so you have an extra standing by after you smash the first one.