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Thanks to the amazing Bryce Durbin, we’re lucky enough to have our own jolly mascot, the Blue Squid or Blue Goo or Whatever You Want to Call Him. However, the poor soul doesn’t have a name.

In an effort to remedy that, we’re asking you, readers, to send us your best names for the Blue Goo. Creativity is a plus – write the proposed name on a birthday cake, on a shirt, or in the sky – or just email a list. We’ll go through to pick out the best on the winner will get the Samsung Trace we just reviewed on these very pages.

Here’s how to enter: send your name(s) to contest at crunchgear dot com with the subject “BLUE GOO” and we’ll go through them and then vote on the best five. If you’d like to add a little fun – maybe a photo or video – feel free. Your creativity makes us happy. The deadline is September 27 at noon – one week from today.

Feast your gadget-starved eyes on the Samsung Trace aka the T519 from T-Mobile. It’s thin, light, and magical.

It’s very SLVR-like – which is what T-Mo is going for here – and very inexpensive ($99). Unfortunately, it’s made of Samsung plastic and feels pretty chintzy but if you’re looking for something to slip between the pages of a book to hold your place, you can’t go wrong with this thin Lizzie.

Product Page [T-Mobile]

Product Page [My Mobile Watch via uber phones]

I never really thought of windmills as being something that I couldn’t bear to look at, so I’m not completely sure why everyone’s excited about these new windmills from MIT. The concept is simple enough, they want to tether large windmills to concrete blocks way out at sea. This way, nobody would have to stare at them dumbly windmilling.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which assisted Dr. Paul D. Sclavounos in this project, says that the windmills would be able to withstand hurricane-force winds and can generate twice as much electricity per installed megawatt as the currently proposed near-shore turbines because wind is stronger farther out at sea.

MIT designs ‘invisible,’ floating wind turbines [C-Net via engadget]

Product Page [Sharper Image via Coolest Gadgets]

During a Conference yesterday, Disney CEO Bob Igor spilled a key detail about Apple’s forthcoming iTV: it has a hard drive. While he didn’t state how large the hard drive was, he did explain that it would be able to store media directly within the unit. Iger see’s the iTV as having a significant impact:

It felt like a game changer to me in many respects… What I like about it, by the way, it may be an opportunity to actually charge people for a TVR experience. In that if they’ve forgotten to set their TiVo device or their TVR or they just have no plan to do it but they want to watch an episode that they missed, they can go to iTunes, buy it for $1.99, [send it] to the set-top box source wirelessly and watch it on the television.

I’m not sure it will be as significant as they seem to think, but I do hope it’ll be a solid product. I guess we’ll see next spring.

Disney’s Iger: iTV Has a Small Hard Drive [The iPod Observer]

Sony Ericsson P990i Unlocked [Amazon via Shopperism]

Pinnacle announced today the release of the PCTV HD Pro Stick, an ultra-compact USB 2.0 TV tuner that comes in an attractive stick form. It supports ATSC Digital SD, EDTV and HDTV. The Pro Stick can also play analog NTSC signals such as those from cable and DVD players. When coupled with the PCTV MCE Companion, it is fully compatible with Windows Media Center Edition. The companion enables your Media Center PC to serve as a DVR, with it’s TimeShifting function–which can then save directly to DVD, DivX, iPod and Sony PSP.

All-in-all this seems to be a solid HDTV tuner. It includes a remote and all that fun stuff. The PCTV HD Pro Stick is available for $129.99. While the PCTV MCE Companion is an additional $99.

Pinnacle

At first glance, the Rocket Bag just looks like another men’s bag. Don’t be fooled though, the Rocket Bag is more like THE men’s bag of the year. Designed by the infamous Bill Amberg, the Rocket Bag gets its name from the bag’s side panels, which have a rocket shape on them (DUH!). The bag features anodized handles and metal feet on the bottom of the bag to allow it to stand upright. According to our friends at Spungle , it can withstand the elements and even an atomic attack.

To open the bag, you have to lift its leather tab off the anodized aluminum notch which is located each side of the bag. This is one sleek, sophisticated and classy accessory. The inside even contains a purple suede lined interior, and there’s enough room for a laptop, PDA, pens and whatever else you may want with you on the go – a nice cheese, perhaps? It will set you back over $1,000.

Rocket Bag [Spungle]

Elecom TK-U09FG [Tech Japan]