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Fancy thousands of radio stations from all over the world in your car? Wish you could listen to the best US rock stations or the most popular Australian channels from the comfort of your own motor. Well, the waiting’s over - the internet car radio was unveiled by Blaupunkt and miRoamer at CES earlier this year and proved a big hit.

The gadget will bring you thousands of global radio stations which you can preset and listen to through the panel in your dashboard. At the moment, internet connectivity is through an external device such as 3G/HSDPA/HSPA devices which then connect to the panel via Bluetooth but later models will come with a built-in modem. However, this Bluetooth connectivity means that you can also access your phone, address book and sat nav through the radio. Anyone else thinking Knight Rider?

The Blaupunkt/miRoamer internet car radio will be launched in Europe late this year for around £275 US $399. It’s sure to be the first in a line of new and exciting in-car technology.

Happy 2009!

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

Let’s kick off 2009 with a time and space saving gadget. There have been lots of rumours about the Powermat but at this year’s CES (Consumer Electronics Association), we’ve finally heard that they will be in stores this year.

What are they? They’re mats that can be plugged in and will simultaneously charge a whole heap of gadgets, all at the same time, wirelessly.

That’s no more chargers cluttering up your house, no more tangled wires and no need to use multiple plugs when you need to charge up more than one thing at the same time.

The Powermat uses magnetic induction and, according to the website, “When a Powermat-enabled device is placed on the mat, a “handshake” process synchronizes the mat with the receiver and electric power is generated to meet the specific energy needs of the device.”They’ll then monitor the power in the device and disconnect power to each device once they’ve finished charging.

Powermats will also be able to be used in cars with their universal, window mount car charger for hand-held devices.

At the moment, you can use the Powermat with mobile phones, laptops, iPods, digital cameras, handheld games consoles and sat navs.

Pretty exciting stuff but we still have no word on prices. So we’ll wait and see about the price tags on these things before we go ahead and liberate our chargers.

For more info, check out the website.