Among my favorites were the alarm clock, the CyberShot, the old-school Discman (I have one like it hiding in a drawer!), the PSP, and, of course, the Playstation 3.

Those are the Sony toys which got my attention, but you can check out the rest of the gadget porn over at Wired, and then maybe make some of your own. [Wired]

Major findings (and we use the word major so loosely we might as well not have bothered): The Magic Mouse uses the Broadcom BCM2042 Bluetooth chip, it's covered in capacitive sensors from the Apple logo on up, and it's hard to break into. Science fails to beat magic once again. [iFixit]

Yes, people, this is the iFixit teardown of a Blendtec Total blender—the one from those Will It Blend? videos that we basically stopped writing about sometime in early 2007. It's nice to see you again, Tom.

The innards on display here are decidedly cruder than the carefully-designed gadget guts typical to these kinds of teardowns, which makes sense: this isn't a pocket-sized piece of painstaking industrial design, this is a commercial grade blender. It transcends gadgetry by powderizing it, or something!

And even though the blender is clearly unplugged and, er, disarmed, the whole thing feels like a higher-stakes affair than usual. Maybe it's the 1500W+ motor, or the 28,000 RPM rotor, or, you know, the blades. [iFixit]

Major Component Breakdown:

2GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
$118.35

GeForce 9400M
$65.16

120GB Hard Drive
$46.00

Pioneer DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive
$32.00

WLAN/Bluetooth Module
$18.00

AC Power Adapter
$14.25 (Apple spends more money on the Mini's power adapter than its RAM!)

1GB DDR3 RAM
$10.00

Manufacturing Costs
$10.94

Interestingly enough, I've always looked at the Mac Mini as one of Apple's most expensive products in terms of the hardware you actually get for your money—while iSuppli's report offers proof to the contrary. Of course, the Mac Mini's profit margin is a bit different when you look at what Apple charges for their more premium model of the system—$800—when the only differences are 200GB more storage and an extra 1GB of RAM. In this case, the "Apple Tax" helps subsidize the pricing of the base Mac Mini.

As usual, these pricing figures only reflect the build and materials of a product, not development, testing, etc. [iSuppli]

Rapid Repair went out to France to snag the iPhone 3GS at its first site of release, the Orange Boutique in France. The teardown is pretty basic so far, just an instructional really. But as is Rapid Repair's style, we're sure they'll have more info (like component prices) soon. In the meantime, if you're dying to see all the dirty little bits inside Apple's newest iPhone, head over and check it out. [Rapid Repair]

TechRestore has used this technique before, and we've already glanced the DSi's innards, but the combination of a gratuitous teardown with 1304 frames of Tim Burton-style animation is kind of perfect. [TechRestore]

This teardown is a little different than most, mainly because of just how simple this device is; once it was cracked open, there was one screw to worry about. The pictures tell the story here, so check out the gallery below or the whole gruesome ordeal at [iFixit—Thanks, Jivesh!]

To add a bit or strangeness to the whole thing, have a look at the picture taken with the lens before it gave up:
It's a ridiculously apropos snap of a dynamic art installation at the Arab-Islamic museum in Paris. The installation evidently passes outside light through a giant wall of adjustable apertures, which to a DSLR might look a little like some kind of bizarre out-of-body experience. [FredMiranda - Thanks, Sam!]