Our favorite Italian expatriate living the geek's life in Japan, Francesco Fondi of the Hobbymedia blog (all in Italian), sends along a gadget that might make any geeky circuit-bender excited. Yes, it's a soldering iron that can be hooked up to USB ports for power.
One wonders if this is what the Terminators will use for self-repair when they're in the field. You can find it here for only 4,560 yen (a quick Google search turns upsome U.S. sources for it as well).