If you were one of those who planned to give the new 80GB red-colored Microsoft Zune to your sweethearts for Valentine's Day, then chances are that the device won't arrive in time for that special day. However, Microsoft manages to outdo themselves somehow and make up for it. Read all about it in the full article.

With Valentine's Day just a month a way, have you already given thought to what you'll be giving your loved one? If not, you might want to consider Microsoft's Valentine offering, the 80GB Red Zune. It comes with 20 laser-engraved designs to choose from, which are fully customizable. If you're curious to know what  it looks like, check out the full article for details.

Everybody's a designer at heart, even if the most you've designed is that Valentine's Day card you gave your teacher back in first grade. Gadget designs, on the other hand, require a very specific gadget-design-oriented mind in order for them to be noticed by the average consumer. Think iPod. RIM's Blackberry.

Sleek, sexy stuff.

If you're aspiring to be one of the people who design these uber-gadgets, you might want to take a close look at gadget blog Gizmodo's gadget designer guide (or "How to Please the Internet"). The guide asks such hard-hitting questions as "Does your gadget have a lot of buttons?", "Does it help avoid the cruelties of life?", and "Can it do more than three things?"

Kidding aside, the guide actually does have a lot of valid points, as exemplified by this right here:

Finally, is it actually useful? Sure, breasts are nice—but so is usefulness (which isn't to say that breasts are useless—just that you probably don't need to have your LCD screen covered in them). It's all good and well to make a bright, colorful gadget with 17 features and a promise to "revolutionize the world"—but you've really got to mean it.

The market is as oversaturated with useless gadgets as the Internet is oversaturated with videos of naked people—make something useful, something that helps people or impresses them, and your gadget is a guaranteed success.

Click on the "read" link below and get started on your way to designing the ultimate uber-1337 gadget. Or at least something that looks cool.