"The mPower Reserve Battery offers an unprecedented minimum shelf life of 20 years and has an immediate activation to full power. Through an intricate battery design, mPhase developed a way to eliminate power dissipation before initial activation."

The flashlight uses an intense, high-performance LED, and has an accessory USB connection to charge your mobile devices. It's slated to arrive in March, but we hope to get a better look at it at CES in January. [CNETand Yahoo News]

An assortment of winches, dollies, and something not unlike courage helped these workers send the car on its 1394-foot journey up the Shanghai World Financial Center, leading to this set of photos that looks more like a behind-the-scenes diary for a set in Die Hard V: Die Die Die Die Die than preparations for a trade show. Check the full gallery here. [WCF via Jalopnik]

We're not sure how old these photos are, but they're supposedly of updated "Boxters, Caymans and even a 911". Is nothing safe? Do I have to put on my pants when I leave my house? I, for one, will not stand for this. [Street Maps! via Garage 419 via Jalopnik]

• Quad-band GSM, with GPRS and EDGE
• 2.8-inch touchscreen display, 400 x 240 pixels
• 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
• Internal GPS
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• Media player functions
• FM radio
• 2GB memory card included in the package
• Talk time: up to 240 minutes
• Stand by time: up to 300 hours
• 115 grams
• 112 x 49 x 12 mmOh, and it does have a fingerprint sensor aboard too, so you can protect your data in the case of casual theft. All that tech, design and the Porsche name means it carries a bigish price, though: somewhere between $750 to $800, apparently. Still, if you can afford a "real" Porsche, this is just a drop in the ocean, right? [Unwiredview via Navigadget]

[RaceChairs via Geekologie]

Almost six-and-a-half feet in height, expect to see these stainless steel monstrosities in the kitchens of F1 drivers in time for their Christmas parties. [Sybarites]

One of the pics showed us something we didn't realize before—you know that highly visible Porsche Design logo on the lid? The numerals on its outside screen are displayed in a similar typeface. That's a cool detail. Our major complaint about the phone is its outrageous $1634 price. [Crave UK]

• Not the thinnest cellphone in the world at 91x48x18.4mm (3.6 x 1.9 x .72 in)
• Heavy at 140 grams (4.9 oz)
• 2.2-inch AM-OLED screen (good energy saver), 262,000 colors, 320x240
• 3.2 Megapixel camera, auto focus
• Fingerprint reader
• Records MPEG4 video
MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and iMelody 1.2, Midi, Wave, AMR NB [recorder and player] and WB [player]
• Bluetooth, but no 3.5mm audio jack
[LetsGoMobile]

Toasters, kettles, sunglasses, coffee makers, cellphones—now add drills to the endless list of things made by Porsche that don't have five wheels and go "Vroom!". They've gotten into bed with German tool company Metabo and have come up with an (admittedly) super-sexy drill that is made of carbon fibre and aluminum. The price and a couple more pics are after the jump.

$665. I look forward to seeing it in one of those films where the handsome plumber comes to fix a pipe and ends up—oh, it's time for breakfast already. – Ad Dugdale

Porsche design multihammer power drill [Sybarites]

Porsche Designed Nespresso Espresso Machine [Single Serve Coffee]

Before you get all over-excited and think that the German carmaker is about to team up with Vertu, à la Ferrari, think again, because the Porsche people are far too cool to do that, preferring to redeploy their technology to the kitchen toward sleek toasters and kettles.

This, my friends, is a cellphone embedded in the model of a Porsche 911 (although, perhaps in an attempt to confuse the Porsche people on the copyright front they have called it the Cayenne). And admit it, that's some wheeltrim on the phone.

There's a 2-megapixel camera buried in the windshield, the 262K color screen has an MP3 and MP4 player, it supports micro SD up to 1GB and runs on Dualband GSM. Apart from the kitsch value, there's a great reason for having this if you have kids. You'll never need to buy them a mobile, as they'll always be happy to emulate you by sticking a Matchbox car next to their ear. There's a picture of it business-side up after the jump.

It's not as cool as the packet-of-fagsphone, in my book, though. – Ad Dugdale

Talk to the wheels with the real Porsche cellphone [Gearfuse]

The boat maker already has several models in the works, with the longest reaching 150 feet. While details are slim, we've included the next two boats in the gallery.

–Brian Lam

Fearless and Porsche Designed Yachts [via Yanko]

We started whipping voice recorders, and Scoble whipped out this monster podcast recorder the size of a small lunchbox. Scobble rattled off some stats, and I added that it was probably good for giving other podcasters inferiority complexes. Bill cracked up, and it made my day. The guy is human. Quite human, as he'd later tell the story of how he got arrested in Albuquerque in 1978.

I'd asked him about the mug shot on Wikipedia, and at first he looked a bit apprehensive, but answered. Apparently, Bill loves fast cars. In 1978, he told us, he'd gotten 3 speeding tickets on his drive to move up to Seattle. Two from the same cop. It was a Porsche 911 from that era. By the end of the story, he seemed to pleasantly distracted. Maybe he was thinking about the sensation of the road tearing underneath him at +100MPH, in a fine German automobile, instead of Vista.

People think about Larry Ellison's fighter jets, and Steve Jobs' hipness. But why does no one talk about Bill Gates' speed freak tendencies? It's a story that isn't quite new, but it definitely isn't told often enough.

From a Time piece on Bill Gates:

When Microsoft was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in its early years, he bought a Porsche 911 and used to race it in the desert; Paul Allen had to bail him out of jail after one midnight escapade.

Later, he ripped into Scoble for not quoting numbers when Scoble gently asked about whether or not MSFT was power-saving conscious. "Before you ask the question, do the math...Be Numeric!"

Pwned by Bill! He's actually a cool guy. –Brian Lam

Product Page [Via Josh Spear]

The USB versions are $10 to $30 cheaper than the Firewire versions, so keep that in mind if you need a Firewire one for your older Mac. The 160GB is $99, 250GB is $129, 320GB is $159, and the 500GB is $249. But honestly, you'd think Porsche designers could come up with something better than a brushed-metal brick. – Jason Chen

Press Release [LaCie]

From what we can gather from the rough translation, the device will cost around 749, or around $955 and will be shipping in October. So you'll pay dearly for such swank design. But just look at it. Heck, that logo alone is probably worth a couple of hundred bucks. – Charlie White

Porsche and Navigon bring P9611 on the market [Pocketinfo]

Yup, figured I'd give you a quick break from all the tech to take a look-see at the brand new Porsche Cayman S, shown at the Greater LA Auto Show, which is also going on this week. So basically, the biggest geeks in the world are all over on the West Coast right now. The Cayman S is a 295-horsepower, two-seat coupe that is being marketed as a "bridge between the Boxster roadster and the 911 Carrera." No price yet, but would it really matter?

Styling at the LA Auto Show [Cnet]

No doubt Eton makes some gorgeous electronics. Its Porsche radios, which always look as good as they work, are obviously made with the same care to design as to engineering. This year at CES, the company is showing a few things. Its et n E1 XM combines four radio technologies—AM/FM/Shortwave/XM Satellite radio—resulting in a stunning-looking, full-sized, all-in-one portable world radio. It's got a 5.7 inch backlit dot-matrix display, 1700 station presets (thanks XM), and five tuning methods to make it as easy to use as it is pretty. No pricing on this product as of yet.
The ego 4000 Plus is a CD/MP3/AM/FM travel clock radio (love the name, by the way) with removable speaker boxes that can be stored in the gadget's lid and deployed anywhere, making it the best portable stereo and travel clock I've ever heard of. Also includes electronic skip protection, dual alarms, and sleep timer. Retails for $150.

Finally, the Ovation music system is an 80 watt CD/AM/FM compact sound system which incorporates three active loudspeakers including subwoofer, each powered with its own amplifier. It includes a customizable eight-color LCD screen and alarm with snooze, timer, and nap functions. Retails for $500.

et n Receives Three CES Innovation Awards
E1 XM, CD-ego 4000 Plus, and Ovation radios honored for design and engineering [Eton]

Vertu, maker of expensive phones, recently got some credibility handed to them it seems. The company is marketing their Ascent Motorsport Edition, which is an ultra-luxurious phone made with petroleum-resistant automotive leather inlaid with carbon fiber and Liquidmetal—you know, the stuff the future Terminator was made of. In short, it's strong. So Vertu claimed the phone could be run over by the very car it was based on: an F1 Porsche. So the New York Times called bull and got one of these phones and ran over that thing five times with a Porsche Boxster. Oh, no! What horrible things happened to the expensive Vertu phone, you ask?! Nothing. Nada. Not a scratch. Score one for Vertu.

Vertu AScent Motorsport, Run Over Five Times, Survives [Oh Gizmo!]

Gear & Gadgets... [Rainy Day Magazine]

So you can now stink up the bedroom in style, and tell your girlfriend you only spent $360 on your humidor. If she bitches, tell her it's usually $400, but, uh, JoesHumidor is having a 10% off sale. And, well, you know girls and sales, right? -DP

Robusto Pocket Humidor [JoesHumidor via Yankodesign]

When driving a car, the right foot works in a different way than the left one. The quality that more than anything else makes this shoe unique, is the exclusive projection of the soles, designed with different profiles in order to optimize the use of pedals during driving. The right sole has a series of splines (stabilizing element) to improve the hold on the pedals and to enable a faster passing of the foot from the gas pedal to the brake, ensuring an optimum support to the heel.

Hmmm... I've always had that problem. My feet just get all tangled up. Why is it that because you design an iconic car that you also think you can design footwear, watches, hats, and adult diapers?

Porsche Design Shoe [YankoDesign]

UPDATE - Andrew writes -

Even though this may seem a bit odd- usually "transportation designers" are trained in Industrial Design and have skills that allow themselves to adapt to the product category they are designing for. Actually, the deal with footwear and transportation is that they are both high style design. Many people who study transportation as a focus wind up at Nike designing shoes. They have a great deal of style elements in common with each other, which makes this extremely common...

Ok, fine.