Get a grip with egrips. Having trouble with your phone or PDA sliding out of your reach as you speed around your block at 100MPH? Then perhaps we have the solution to all of your problems, except for the speeding tickets, that is. [Mobile Burn]

Sharp's Bowlingual phone. Right off the bat we're wowed by Sharp's new V601SH cameraphone, which is another new handset being carried by Vodafone in Japan beginning in December. It has a built-in 2 megapixel digital camera (with an auto-focus lens!) that can record high-definition video clips, a video out port for watching those clips on a TV, and a large, 2.4-inch high-resolution display. But we get the feeling that someone went a little overboard when they decided to make it possible to turn the V601SH into a Bowlingual, that device which purports to translate a dog's barking into human speech. The phone comes pre-installed with the Bowlingual software, although users have to buy a special SD memory card which contains all the necessary Bowlingual translation data to actually use it. Read... [Gizmodo]

The Cyclone disposable cellphone. A "disposable" cellphone -- one that came with a half hour or an hour of talktime, and that you could either then refill with minutes, recycle, or just throw away -- isn't such a bad idea, but so far no one seems to have gotten it right yet. One such attempt, the HopOn, was massively overhyped, but never really materialized. You may remember last year that when the company behind the HopOn sent a bunch of handsets to journalists to check out, and one reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle cracked his phone open to see what it was like inside, discovering that Hop-On's $30 cellphone, with its "proprietary, revolutionary" technology was really just a $250 Nokia phone with a different case. That pretty much sank their chances of ever being taken seriously, but another company, New Horizons Technologies International is taking a stab at this with their Cyclone disposable... [Gizmodo]