It actually sounds a bit too good to be true but Sagem is a trustworthy company and the invention was actually announced sometime last year. Today they announced that they have managed to embed a whole GPS receiver into a traditional SIM card which would make it possible to bring GPS functionality into any phone.

Sagem to Embed GPS Receiver into SIM Cards [cellular-news.com]

Over at Cellphonebeat you can browse through a huge gallery containing some of the best concept phones of 2008 (and I think some of them are a bit older than that as well). Above you can see the concept Siemens phone called Gigaset Eco Leaf from Formwelt Studio. Anyway, a nice gallery.

Best concept phones of 2008 [cellphonebeat.com]

I haven’t tried it yet so I don’t know if it’s any good but it’s at least a pretty good idea. Since the iPhone features pretty advanced accelerometer technology, SGN has created a bunch of games that is played on your computer but where you use your iPhone to control the actual game.

Turn Your iPhone into a Computer Game Controller With iFun [mashable.com]

This got to be one of the coolest home made designs I have seen in a while. It is a bowl made out of plastic war model soldiers. The bowl is designed by the UK designer Dominic Wilcox.

War Bowl [dominicwilcox.com]
via [likecool.com]

This got to be one of the most tacky iPhone/iPod cases yet but it’s a bit funny as well so I wanted to share it with you guys. It’s made out of some kind of felt but looks pretty authentic, right?

The Bacon Case [de.dawanda.com] (via Google translate)
via [Engadget]

I don’t think I have seeen a gallery before with as much geekiness collected at the same place. 25 plus images with nothing but geek stuff.

25+ Images That Might Give Geeks a Hard On [techyshit.com]

Google planned to launch their new voice search for iPhone already this Friday but it wasn’t possible due to Apple. According to an article over at TechCrunch the updated app will go live sometime today. I just checked the app store and it wasn’t there yet.

Update On Google iPhone Voice Recognition App: Look For It On Monday []

Another follow-up based on the stories I published yesterday is this list of 20 essential iPhone apps. The people at Gizmodo have put together a really nice list of applications that you really should check out if you haven’t already.

Gizmodo’s 20 Essential iPhone Apps [Gizmodo]

Yesterday I told you that Google is about to launch a new voice search for iPhone and I just wanted to share a short video demonstration of the new service. Looks like a neat service. I especially like the motion detection that eliminates most of the button pushing. Video after the link.

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If you would force me to guess the price of the earphones above I would most probably guess that they would cost $29 or something similar - but that is far from the truth. The Casa Di ear pieces is coated with 18 carat gold and 118 diamonds and the price tag reads $5200(!). Crazy.

The World’s Most Expensive Earphones Go On Sale! [gigwise.com]