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Today HP announced the V1020h, a 720p-recording, SDHC card-reading pocketcam. It has a built-in USB plug and an HDMI port for sharing, but the real noteworthy tidbit here is the pricetag: $109. There’s not much more info on the V1020h’s specs quite yet, but at $109 it’s a good $30 cheaper than the least expensive pocketcams we tested in our most recent Battlemodo . It’s purple and it’s slated to hit shelves this summer.

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HP V1020h Pocketcam Is Less Pricey Than Its Peers [Pocketcams]

A leaked roadmap had previously indicated that Sprint would be launching a 4G WiMax handset sometime in 2010, but now the company has confirmed that we’ll be seeing the technology within the next few months. But is the network ready? Well, sort of. Sprint’s been working with Clearwire on building up a 4G WiMax network since 2007 , and while it’s taken longer than they thought they do have it up and running in 27 markets that serve 30 million people

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Sprint Confirms First WiMax Handset Will Arrive By Summer [Sprint]

Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlights are fast disappearing due to the more efficient and brighter LED swaggering onto the TV scene, but the Japanese company Sanken Electric claims its new CCFL technology is 60 per cent cheaper to produce. Too little, too late for the unfashionable technology? Sanken reckons TVs perform just as well using two of its lamps as opposed to the six normally required. As production won’t start until this summer, it’s unlikely we won’t see them in TV sets for at least another year—and by then, LEDs will reign supreme

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60 Per-cent Cheaper CCFL Lamps Could Outshine LED Backlighting in TVs [TVs]

Deep in my heart I always wanted a Snuggie or a Slanket , but my innate aversion to these naff devices from hell always stopped me. Not anymore, thanks to these cool full body blanket designs by Icelandic designers Vík Prjónsdóttir . Yes, I can most definitely do this.

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The Snuggie for Stylish People and Home Thespians [Blanket]

Palm’s Mojo devkit has leaked to the web ahead of schedule—they had announced it would arrive in late summer, and instead developers are treated to the SDK right now. Mojo is of the utmost importance to Palm: Without a huge and vibrant developer scene churning out tons of apps, the Pre might not excel as a platform enough to challenge the iPhone

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Palm Pre’s Mojo SDK Leaked: Bring on the Apps [Palm]

As expected, HTC has dropped the details on a new Android phone—the leaked-to-all-hell Hero, no less. And HTC’s fantastic, also-leaked Android interface overhaul is here, too: it’s called Sense, and it’s deep

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HTC Debuts Hero, With Fresh Face for Android [Htc]

Vizio’s feeling confident enough about their VF551XVT 55-inch LED-backlit TV they’re showing it off against Samsung sets now (though these kind of fights are rarely fair) and offering some harder specs. The price has creeped up $200 from what they’d announced in January to $2199, and the date’s slipped a bit to the tail-end of summer: Vizio’s promising late August/early September.

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Vizio Enters LED TV Wars: $2199 55-Inch VF551XVT Coming In September [HDTV]

T-Mobile’s followup to the G1 has gone through more than a few name changes, but it looks like we’ll finally be seeing the American version—the T-Mobile myTouch 3G —this summer. The Wall Street Journal , which we’d say is a reasonably respectable publication, has it on good authority that the newest Android handset to hit our shores will be announced next week.

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G (AKA T-Mobile G2, HTC Magic, Google Ion) Coming This Summer [Android]

This “New Ice Suit ” has integrated jacket icepacks , designed to alleviate some of the discomfort of Japanese salarymen who have to walking around scorching Japan streets during the summer. Looks like this newfangled ice technology isn’t just for elite-level athletes anymore! Crunchgear says the suits were designed by Japanese company Haruyama, who have created pouches up near the armpits for specially designed ice packs, which supposedly keep your body nice and cool (see: possibly meaningless graphic to the left)

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Japanese Ice Suit Equips Ice Packs for Hot Tokyo Summers, Salarymen Now Expected to Give 110% Effort [Japan]

Layar combines GPS, camera, and compass to identify your surroundings and overlay information on screen, in real time. It is available for Android now and it will be available for iPhone soon, but exclusively for the 3GS. The reason is that Layar needs a compass to work, as Maarten Lens-FitzGerald—from developer SPRXmobile—tells us: We are definitely going for the new iPhone 3GS because of the compass! We’re aiming for release after summer, but we depend on Apple accepting it

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Layar: First Mobile Augmented Reality Browser Is Your Personal Life HUD [Augmented Reality]