Germophobes pay attention. Here’s the vacuum cleaner that will satisfy even you. The Halo UVX Ultraviolet Vacuum Cleaner takes care not only of the lint, dirt, and hair balls but even the most of the teeny weeny microbes on your carpet. This sure beats even the most hardworking traditional vacuum cleaners.

Halo UVX cleans using three different methods in one: it makes use of the more traditional powerful suctions to remove all the visible dirt; a patent-pending UV-C bulb chamber, which is the one responsible for killing the majority of the poor dust mites, viruses, bacteria, fleas, lice and molds who thought it was safe to live in your carpet and floor; and HEPA and Carbon Filters to clean even the air! In fact the Halo UVX ensures that 99.97% percent of harmful particles in the air are removed. It keeps the air from getting stale and smelly.

Other features of the Halo UVX include a telescoping handle, 31-foot power cord, a gear-driven brush bar, an electronic height adjuster, and five dustbags (of course!).

With the cleaning power of the Halo UVX vacuum cleaner it wouldn’t be surprising to see it being used in hospitals and other places where the environment should be kept sterile. It would be great though if the vacuum cleaner would also be used in all public places to replace those germ infested mops that never dry up. It might be too pricey for most households though since it comes with a price tag of $399.

Sony has always been the leader when it comes to camcorders. They have been pioneers in the field so now that the era of hard drive based camcorders is coming up, it is not surprise that Sony once again has something in store for us. Its new camcorder, the HDR-SR5C, is meant to capture high definition video and has the capability to store it too. With its whopping 100 GB hard drive, you can film for far longer than most any other camcorder today.

The HDR-SR5C has 10x optical zoon and 80X digital zoom and Carl Zeiss® Vario-Sonnar® T* lens. Perhaps our favorite thing about this camcorder – aside from all that storage space of course – is that you can operate on Dual Record Mode and take still pictures while recording video as well. On that note, you can take still photos directly and store them onto a separate Memory Stick Duo™ Media. This means that Sony lovers would already have this handy and merely insert the memory stick to other devices in order to view the photos they have taken.

Other features include the Super SteadyShot® Picture Stabilization System which reduces the effects of shaking and vibration. In order to access your videos and photos, the HDR-SR5C has USB 2.0 support. So just plug it into your computer’s USB port and you are ready to go. Seriously, this camcorder packs a lot of features that are enough to satisfy anyone. Of course, there is a price to pay for all that goodness.

Though still in the first stages of development the success of the SCORE (Stove for Cooking, Refrigeration and Electricity) is clearly a score against poverty. Poverty reduction is the main thrust of the SCORE project. However, instead of dealing with it through aid and other making your head twirl by talking about economic factors the project plans to take a small (although very hard and expensive) step towards improving the quality of life of the poor by developing a super appliance that is able to act as a high-efficiency cooking stove, electricity generator, and refrigerator (cool box) in one.

Now I know that the campers out there would be keen on getting their hands on one of these when they go out, especially since it is supposed to be really affordable. However since it is meant not for recreational use but for helping to make the world a better place there is no telling if they’ll release this to the general public or whether they’ll come up with an alternative purchasing scheme just like the “One Laptop Per Child” (OLPC) project. To buy an OLPC laptop you’ll need to purchase it a the price of two so that one can be donated to children who need it. But since this project is still in its very early stages there’s not much point in speculation about it.

Once in a while it just feels good to hear of gadgets and gizmos that are meant for some nobler purpose that to feed the insatiable wants of gadget geeks like me.