While it may have to remain just a fantasy for some virginal geekboys, this USB-powered, CPU-cooling, laptop stand/sex scaffold from Thanko at least offers the promise of bringing together the world of virtual and real sex.

Our ladyfriend seems to be in the middle of inviting some lucky young Google engineer over to try the thing out. If he gets up the nerve to venture out into the real world, he’s in for a real treat. Maybe she’ll even liveblog the encounter.

The Gear: 6 out of 10. Except for the sexual benefits, is this really a desirable computing position?

The Girl: 7 out of 10. No telling what she has in store for whomever she lures into her lair.

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The fine people at Sony have rolled out an odd pair of spokesmodels to go along with their odd music thing - the Rolly.

These two kind of look like they could be air hostesses somewhere; matching dresses, odd matching headbands, but they are having a hard time selling the excitement of the Rolly. And with good reason - a dancing, robotic digital music speaker is a tough sell. I’d like to suggest to Sony that having the Rolly dance atop more scantily-clad babes might generate a little bit more buzz.

The Gear: 1 out of 10. I need the Rolly?

The Girls: 4 out of 10. The Rolly Twins wish they were someplace else.

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Comely young Asian girls tempt you with small laptops and heavy reading.

This scene comes to us from LG Electronics, which is pimping the XNOTE 12.1-inch laptop with a design that’s aimed for the “young generation” - which includes hot little sirens tempting studious young men with the promise of small but feature-packed laptops.

What this has to do with the “Crisis” book being read by the laptop nymph’s friend is beyond me, but the cute girl with the box seems ready to sell me an XNOTE right here and now. I’m sure she does quite well with this tactic.

The Gear: 7 out of 10. Style comes first, with substance a close second. Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, and the sexy 120GB hybrid hard disk in a 12.1-inch package.

The Girls: 8 out of 10. Nothing’s quite so sexy as being ambushed in the library with a couple of young hotties aiming to teach you about new laptops and crisis management.

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There used to be a time when getting in the Guinness World Records book meant something - like that you and your really hefty twin brother looked awesome riding minibikes. Nowadays, though, Guinness has turned their book into a huge collection of dubious records like Largest Wobble Board Ensemble.

So excuse my lack of enthusiasm for the awesome Samsung product line grabbing “world records” for “thinnest cellphone”, “highest photo resolution cellphone” and “thinnest 3G cellphone”. But the upside of the cheap publicity stunt is the chance to shoot the phones with the ubiquitous hot Asian product model.

And she’s a decent one. The hottie installed as the background for these phones brings a bit of Amerasian flair with runway bangs and a wry little smile. No word on how’s she’s faring is being listed as “world’ hottest Asian gadget model”.

The Gear: Nothing new to see here.

The Girl: 7.5 out of 10. Prominent facial features make it just slightly possible she’s a man.

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They say the LG KS20 smart phone is made for business, but the blonde/redhead product models rolled out with it look made for Europorn. The multi-hue hair, not-quite-American fashions and slightly desperate stares smack of Eastern European “lolita” features.

These two like to show off their smart phones, but I can’t help but wonder if there’s a smarmy old Croatian man already attached to the redhead out of frame.

The Gear: 6 out of 10. A stylus in 2007? Please.

The Girls: 8 out of 10. Standalone sixes, the double-team implications are worth a couple of bonus points.

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Sure, you’re showing off a slick new phone you’re calling the UFO that sports the potential for 7.2Mbps downloads, a nice form factor and 2 megapixel camera. But if you’re Samsung, you know what to focus on.

“Hey, that sexy Asian lady, she’s holding something, isn’t she? It’s a phone, and there are three more like it in front of her. Wow, nice cleavage.”

The Gear: 9 out of 10, I think. If I cared to read more about the phones, I’m sure Samsung would impress me.

The Girl: 9 out of 10. She’s just a little obvious. Hot, but obvious.

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The Sony Ericsson K770i is a thin (14.5 mm), feature-packed (3.2 megapixel shooter, FM tuner, RSS reader, etc.) camera / phone that comes in a highly-fashionable “Truffle Brown” package.

And I guess that explains the Earth-tone hippie fashions being sported by our model friend here. She’s plenty attractive, but you have to wonder about a girl who chooses multiple wood-ball necklaces that each must weigh five times as much as her phone.

The Gear: 8 out of 10. Does it come in a non-turd color?

The Girl: 7 out of 10. As fashionable as the phone, but doesn’t say “exciting”.

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For a low-end cameraphone, the Pantech C150 has a really impressive feature - it can apparently travel back in time and snap beach photos from the 1980s.

I mean, really … electric orange cowboy hat? Neon polkadot bikini? Are those BluBlockers?

The Gear: 2 out of 10. They don’t call it low-end for nothing.

The Girls: 3 out of 10. I guess low-end cameraphones seek out low-end gadget models.

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Is the tiny screen and numeric keypad of a cellphone the best platform for editing video? I wouldn’t think so, but Samsung will give it a shot. Twist this little number and you might think it’s an actual video camera.

Now, if I have the opportunity to shoot this hottie - and maybe find out what’s up with those purple bikini straps peeking out from under her shirt - I’d be all about picking up the Samsung. Apparently she’s a fine Christian girl, but turn that camera on and see what happens …

The Gear: 7 out of 10. One-device shooting, editing and posting just might come in handy.

The Girl: 9 out of 10. She’s Samsung’s fairly familiar product lady, teasing us with the purple straps and religious iconography.

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So you’re a phone manufacturer. You’ve come up with the world’s slimmest waterproof phone. It’s only 1.8 mm thick, sports a 3 megapixel camera and can live underwater for half an hour. How do you show it off? Get a shot of it at the bottom of a pool? Get a “famous” swimmer to endorse it? Of course not.

Just put a cute girl in a bikini that matches the girly pink color of your phone and call it a day.

The Gear: 8 out of 10. Impressive specs, and being piss-proof is a bonus.

The Girl: 8 out of 10. Fujitsu could have done better than the picnic-tablecloth pattern and odd assemblage of bows in the bikini top.

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