Stepping on the gas hard as regards most sophisticated OS in smartphones and wishing to leave behind other mobile manufacturing companies, Sony Ericsson created a new handset of the Xperia family. Called the Xperia arc, it was first exhibited at CES 2011. Full story

A baby monitor is a useful gadget for a considerate parent that wants to watch over the offspring – but that goes only for those who have no iPhone, because iPhone owners have got baby-watching capacities. Full story

Flap phones seem to excite designers’ imagination with multiple possibilities, just look at the latest one from Nick Trincia. He succeeded in making a cell phone look like a wallet, an idea that occurred to no-one before. Full story

Here’s a concept that is healthy, environment-friendly and, to crown it all, is a stylish-looking home gadget. A water purifier invented by South Korean designer Choi Jinyoung makes the inside air fresher and more wholesome by adding natural humidity converted from leftover water. Full story

Manfred Kielnhofer is one designer that took security onto a new level. Time is what we have to guard most in the new year, he believes, so his present to the world is life-size figures that he called Time Guards. It’s a bit off the mark whether he drew inspiration from the time of the inquisition or from Tolkien’s Ringwraiths, but the figures look like something created for a creepy movie. Full story

Considering that we don’t have squares for hands and square-angled fingertips, it is surprising that there are not too many curvy communication gadgets. We may even say there are too few, so this curvy cell phone by designer Fisher Thierry does rather stand out. Full story