The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch

This week's Tech Watch brings word of several fun new gadgets, as well as the latest gizmos for the iPhone and other news.

• The Joost online TV and content-delivery service no longer requires users to download a separate media player. Users can now install a simple browser plugin to enjoy Joost's content.

Veritocracy collects links to interesting topics and lets users vote on which links present the best perspectives on those topics.

• Weather geeks and concerned industry pros can keep track of tropical storms and hurricanes with StormPulse.com.

• Keep track of the 2008 presidential election with the new iPhone application Election '08.

• Electronic Arts will soon be offering iPhone versions of both SimCity and The Sims.

• Direct from the future comes this intriguing new lamp that looks like a tropical flower crossed with the Death Star.

• Video game buffs will be excited to hear about this new wireless controller for the Nintendo Wii.

• If you're an iPhone user who wants to watch a movie or otherwise set your iPhone aside in an inconvenient place like an airplane, check out the GorillaPod Go-Go adjustable tripod.

• Boing-Boing has a look at the new iTunes visualizer – that's the gadget in iTunes that lets users display a trippy visual representation of their music.

• Astronomy enthusiasts will enjoy stargazing with the new Stellar Window application.

• This futuristic new bike has an integrated iPod charger.

• For adult industry pros who have some money to burn, there's the OSIM uSpace chair, which is pretty much a thermonuclear version of the massage chairs sold at Sharper Image.

• This pillow looks like – well, it doesn't look like a pillow, but it looks very comfortable.

• Here's a ballpoint pen that doubles as an emergency cellphone charger.

• Gaming fans might want to check out this high-tech new keyboard and mouse combo that's optimized for video games. In addition, GameTrainer.com offer online training for online gaming nuts.

• What's going to be new in iTunes version eight?

• Crazy: A hacker is going to break an iPhone's security live on video on Sept. 11.

• The FBI and CIA have launched a super-secret social-networking website for intelligence professionals. They're calling it A-Space, but only people with high-level security clearance can access it. A-Space.com is an open domain, and a Google search for "A-Space" returns an anarchist networking site as its first result.

• TechCrunch has a review of Google's Chrome web browser that compares it to other browsers.

Overlay.tv gives web publishers the ability to add interactive text to any video online.

Zoho.com offers users a full suite of free online alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite of products.

• No one is sure what GetDropBox.com will do, but they're accepting advance sign-ups. It seems to be some kind of collaborative file-sharing utility.

Wixi.com lets users upload and access files and media from anywhere.

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