Just a gentle holiday weekend reminder to get your answers in for the gold and silver Jawbone 2 giveaway: Who can find the cheesiest song, music video, or album with the word Gold or Silver in the title? We’ll be grilling meat, and charring ourselves with tanning and illegal fireworks. But, before we let you go, why haven’t we seen these obvious answers?

3. Black Gold - Soul Asylum (Now that is grunge … and for some reason, George Wendt.)

2. Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac (If you want to see Stevie Nicks live, she’s probably playing a casino near you.)

and our #1 pick after the jump. Happy Independence Day!

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Doctor Popular has many talents. Not only is he a blogger and a yo-yoist, but he can work denim on a sewing machine like nobody’s business. This last talent comes in handy when it comes to concocting crafty creations such as his Raw denim wallets and iPhone cases available in his DocPopEtsy shop. These suave casings serve are a welcome respite from your run-of-the-mill leather-made money holders and i-cessories. Your belongings will be safe, secure and snug as Doctor Popular demonstrates on his youtube video. Paging Doctor Sensible.

We gushed about the release of the Aliph Jawbone 2, but when it launched it was only available in black (as shown here on the right). It’s very stealth, but not sexy enough for some. The new Jawbone is a vastly improved product with a much smaller form factor, more comfortable leather ear loop, and the slickest charging dock on the market. Oh, and as you can see, they just launched gold and silver versions of the headset. And guess what? We’ve got one of each to give away to two lucky readers. Glitzy gold and sparkling silver — one could be yours very shortly.

Last time around we had you talk dirty, sweet, and trashy to win. This time, we’re giving them away to the best answer to the following question:

Who can find the cheesiest song, music video, or album with the word Gold or Silver in the title?

Post in the comments — whoever gets me laughing the most, wins.

Related: Jawbone Limited Edition Headsets

One of the most usable and underrated apps we have in our Mac OS’ is Stickies. I find myself using them all the time– for taking notes, jotting to-do lists, scribing passwords, editing text, etc. SketchBox is a donationware app for OS X that expands the functionality of our default Stickies by adding drawing functionality, timers to remind your forgetful self, and a sexier interface that helps you organize your notes. It’s admittedly cliché to to say “we all know we could use a little more organization in our lives”– but it’s so true, dammit!

Via Lifehacker

With consumer space voyages looking more and more promising, and freak kitchen accidents an ever looming possibility, Omega is bringing back - in a limited release of under 2000 units - its Speedmaster Moonwatch “Alaska Project” timepiece. This design was cooked up in the 70’s during the early days of NASA forays into the void, and boasts temperature resistance encompassing more than 400 degrees Celsius (from -148 to +260) thanks to it’s red-anodized aluminum construction. You get one of these on your wrist (price TBD), and you’ll set the standard both on Mars and at Burning Man– same difference, I guess.

Via men.style.com

We are all excited about the new iPhone, announced yesterday– 3G, GPS, Push (everything) and light on the wallet. So light on the wallet, in fact, that you’ll be able to get a nice carrying case for it. Fortunately, the designers at Want Design already know exactly what you… eh… want. They just put out a really crisp black leather iPhone case with a zipper. Its pretty safe to assume that the iPhone 3G is going to be pretty widely disseminated and that there will be a lot of crap accessories hitting the marketplace– everyone wants a piece, as it were. Safe to say, you’ll be looking for something that will stand out from the crowd. Peep the case (and a big sell) over at Jake.

Well, all of the mystery surrounding the new iPhone we’ve been shrouded in for the past couple months can finally be put to rest. Mr. Jobs just revealed the particulars at today’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. Jason Chen and crew at Gizmodo did one hell of a job live blogging the event, and I found myself hitting ‘command-R’ just about every 10 seconds anxiously awaiting new nuggets of info. On July 11th, we’ll get (black or white) iPhones with a fast 3G network, the availability of tons and tons of 3rd party apps, impressive battery life, GPS functionality, and it’s going to be sold in 70 countries for the drastically reduced prices of $199 for the 8GB version and $299 for the 16 Gigabyte-er. Doesn’t look like they squeezed copy/paste in there, but we always need something to look forward to, right?

Photos and other informational goodies courtesy of Gizmodo.

Related: Why I’m Taking My iPhone Back

A while ago you saw the totally immersible SwiMP3 here, and as a still-avid swimmer, I’m always on the lookout for improved tools I can use while in the water to help my workout. uCan is a new waterproof MP3 product that has a smoother, more elegant profile than the SwiMP3. Instead of using bone-conducting technology to deliver tunes, these rely on traditional in-ear earphones and comfortably rests on the back of your neck. It also packs in 1 Gb of memory and floats, two big things the SwiMP3 needs to improve to compete in the underwater music market. uCan begins shipping in July from Europe.

For some time now Alta Bikes have had a handle on the business of supplying simple, single-speed bikes for urban inhabitants. Despite the practicality of their pedal-able product, one thing has gotten in the way of the Norwegian bicycle manufacturer’s domination of the global market … location, location, location. Previously unavailable in the U.S., the bicycle makers have opened up a trade route to the Western Hemisphere, so that city cycling enthusiasts across the country can get their hands on one of these handsome modes of transport. The bikes are available in a wide array of colors. Fellow Americans, we encourage you to choose the shade that suits you and then promptly take to the streets.

Look at him. Look at your freeloading baby, with his onesie and his carefree drooling. It’s about time someone devised a way to make him pull his weight around here. Or at least give him the impression that he’s doing something productive. Atypyk introduces a working vacuum cleaner on which your child can ride while you clean. Your baby just might grow up with the subtly green notion that cars should clean up after themselves, and that’s something you can’t get with a Hoover.

We know you’re a regular prodigy on Final Cut and Photoshop. You’ve got all of the shortcuts down from A to Z. The problem with that: all of your friends know you do, too. Thanks to your speed on the Mac, when it comes to answering their queries on complex programs, you’re their go to guy/gal. Unfortunately all of that time fixing their flubs leaves you with little time to work on your own projects. If only there were a way you could share your keyboard knowledge, you might actually get something done it time. Well fret no longer, gifted digital denizen. The forward thinking folks at Photojojo have come up with a solution to your quandary. Their brilliant new keyboard shortcut skins for Mac versions of Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Pro Tools (amongst other programs) allows anyone to become endowed with the digital wisdom you possess. While that doesn’t make your skill set any less special, now you can help your friends in the amount of time it takes to say “figure it out for yourself” or, if you fancy being polite, “please go to photojojo and get a keyboard skin, I’m busy”.

It’s getting warmer and warmer everyday and I might need to pick up a bike to plow through the city streets on the weekends (HINT: my birthday’s coming). I’m digging the special edition Cannondale and G-Star collaboration called the RAW CANNONDALE. An incredibly sexy city bike with custom pedals, corked grips, Brooks saddle (so hot) and tube covers featuring G-Star materials (denim, cloth, nylon, the like). Sign me up?

Via Selectism and more pictures after the jump.

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BIG changes are afoot at Mimoco.Their impossibly adorable, data hungry Mimobot creations just got a little data hungrier for your precious filing. Everyone’s favorite portable USB buddies are now available in 8GB incarnations. That’s twice the size as previously available! Whether you trust Boba Fett or prefer rayD8 to ferry around your files, you’ll be delighted by the sheer amount of info these drives can digest depending on what you want to feed it. The new Mimobots up the input ante by boasting the ability to stuff their faces with nearly 20,000 photos, 2,000 songs, or 2,500 minutes of video. All you have to do is find one you want to make your own.

We keep killing our plants. It’s nothing personal, but remembering to water them just doesn’t rank as high on our list these days as making sure we’re home in time to watch women’s rugby. Thankfully we can finally buy the Vitamin I.V. plant pot. It will do everything, making us feel less guilty about our neglect. Just pop your little O2 producing buddy in the white pot (or in the limited-edition black version), set the watering schedule, and the I.V. drip attached to the adjustable metal rod will keep your flora green … until the bag runs out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t refill itself. That’s what’s we have ASIMO for!

From the company that brought you the SoundBridge networked audio device, Roku just introduced their Netflix Player. The player is $100 and roughly the size five stacked CD jewel cases. It has plenty of connections in back including HDMI, component, RJ45 and legacy ports. Anyone with a Netflix account over $9 can stream the entire online catalog. Interestingly, the navigation is done via Netflix’s browser interface. After you choose your movie, you hit play and it starts streaming. Movies start playing almost immediately and the quality level depends on your connection speed. There is no downloading here, only streaming (with a tiny buffer), so seeking is slow. For a one time investment and a Netflix account that most of us already have, the entry price for having unlimited access to a library of 10,000 titles is definitely enticing.