It is an annual event that fans of new technology await with bated breath, but this year, thanks to Apple, the winner is a foregone conclusion.

British technology magazine T3 has revealed its 2010 pick of the 100 hottest gadgets on the planet, and it's no surprise to find the forthcoming iPad top of the pile.

"Rather than ranking products based on specifications and ratings,", says the magazine's online editor Kieran Alger, "T3's annual Hot 100 takes the pulse of the tech world at this moment in time and highlights all the products that are getting T3 hot under the collar right now."

As such, the much-hyped successor to runaway successes like the iMac, iPod and iPhone is a logical choice for the number one spot, having driven much of the technology world into a frenzy ever since Apple's announcement of the gadget on 27 January.

The aftermath has seen such a flurry of preorders that customers expecting to pick up a launch device on 3 April in the US have been told they may have to wait until the end of the month for their devices to be delivered.

We never cease to be amazed by the number of projects spawned from that one scene in Minority Reportwhere Tom Cruise goes massively multitouch, but we'll also never tire of seeing those projects in action. The latest is the Glove Mouse from Tony Hyun Kim and Nevada Sanchez at MIT and, while they've been on the project for some time (winning the school's George C. Newton Project Prize in 2009 for their work), they've recently made the gloves wireless and posted some photos and videos. Each glove sports an LED on the back of the index finger, picked up by a low-res webcam to act like a cursor, along with buttons under the index and middle fingers activated by the thumb. It's a little like Wiimote meets Peregrine and the result has a lot of potential to say the least. Click on through for a rocking video demonstration, but be sure to dust off those Guitar Hero controllers before you do.

We've been fortunate enough to spend a bit of time with an Eyefinity setup before, but up until now, it's been somewhat of a hassle to get a fully functional six-screen setup into a consumer's home. Today, AMD is taking the legwork out of the equation with the introduction of the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, a standalone GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and innate support for pushing a half-dozen panels at once. Outside of that, it's essentially the same card that we saw last September, and based on the cadre of reviews that we rounded up, the doubled memory bank doesn't do much to boost frame rates. What it does do, however, is enable six-screen gaming. Unfortunately (though understandably), this type of gaming scenario is only meant for a select segment of users, and many critics found the novelty wearing off exceptionally quick. In fact, it wasn't long before NeoSeeker became fed up with the bezels ruining the experience, and just about everyone agreed that you needed to sit a good half-mile away to really enjoy it. Either way, we'd encourage you to hit up Hot Hardware's collection of videos before biting the bullet, buying up an extra five LCDs and then regretting it for the rest of your Earthly life.

TomTom has announced its latest entry level sat nav - with the TomTom Start2 'shifting car navigation up a gear'.

TomTom bills the Start2 as having premium features to its entry-level device which includes things like advanced lane guidance, spoken street names and compatibility with RDS-TMC traffic.

The latter offers traffic information to the device, including what's happened, the area it affects and the estimated delay - if you have the separate receiver and subscription of course.

Alt route

"The device will also plan an alternative route, helping drivers get to where they want to be on time," explains TomTom's release.

The device also features TomTom's IQ Routes and is available for £119 with a regional map or £139 with European maps with a UK release date of April

I have a couple of plug-in emergency lights, but they aren’t nearly as attractive as these Philips lights. Sure, my lights work just fine, but they look like something an elderly woman would keep plugged in within her bathroom. There’s something to be said for attractive back-up lighting. This Philips light will also come in handy even outside of emergency type situations.

The light is soft, so that it won’t disturb others within your home when you’re wandering around the house in the dark. The portable light can be popped off of its base and carried around, then when it needs a charge it’ll just need to be put back on the base. It automatically turns on when the power is out or when it senses movement. You can purchase it for $22 from Amazon.

If you’re an iPhone app developer or know someone who is, then stay tuned for some exciting news…

From early 2010 we’ll be helping creators of the best iPhone and iPod touch applications get themselves heard above the din made by all those fart apps and even worse junk that so often buries the quality apps.

We’ll mainly be working with Japan-based developers to get their work seen in English-speaking markets overseas, but will also be doing the opposite in bringing new apps to Japan and helping them fly here.

Devs or friends of devs who’d like to know more, please get in touch via the contact form and we’ll spill the beans. Confidentially assured if that’s the way you want it at first, BTW.

Oh, and a shout out on Twitter, Facebook or wherever you hang out would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mark…

Update: Our new PR agency, Snapp! Media, is live and good to go - English here, Japanese here. Tell us about your app and we’ll take a look to work out the best way to generate downloads aplenty whatever the target market or territory.

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.

• We're not quite sure how we missed this last year, but Segway tours now have a competitor for sheer nerdiness. The ElliptiGo 8S is the world's first elliptical bike, with a peddling mechanism tied directly to the elliptical motion. This, of course, enables you to pedal on real streets and get a high intensity, low-impact workout. [From: YouTube]
• With music downloads coming from multiple browsers, BitTorrent, FTP apps and more, keeping iTunes in sync with your downloads folder can be a daily struggle. Lifehacker has an in-depth guide to automating the process, freeing you up to scour the Web for torrents of rare Malaysian jam bands. [From: Lifehacker]
• The Hollywood Reporter writes that James Cameron created 100 separate version of 'Avatar' (each optimized for a different screen size) for different theaters around the world. [From: The Hollywood Reporter, via: Kottke]
• IKEA, primary furniture supplier for college dorms everywhere, gets into the electronics game with a baby monitor set. The name? PATRULL