Over the years, I have seen some strange gadgets that are designed for the exceptionally wealthy geek. Things like cell phones that sell for $17,000 or gold plated iPods. These types of gadgets are meant for only one thing — to show how fabulously wealthy their owners are. Personally, if I were fabulously wealthy I would opt for exotic sports cars.

For the wealthy geek that wants a new iPhone 3G — but feels the need to be sure people understand he could have a much more expensive phone — might want to opt for the Noreve iPhone Diamond leather case. The diamond case retails for $14,990 and is available in 12 different colors.

The geek world waited in anticipation for Apple to announce the 3G iPhone this summer and now that it is here (and sold out in most places), geeks are on to the next round of speculation about coming Apple products. According to Daily Mail in the UK, a source has told it that another iPhone will be coming in time for holiday shopping.

The product is rumored to be an iPhone Nano. This is not a new rumor; many had a smaller iPhone pegged to be launching with the iPhone 3G this summer. That failed to materialize so now rumors point to a launch in time for the holiday shopping season.

I have said on several occasions that I really like my iPhone, but the battery life isn’t that great. Now that I can get games on my phone, the battery life is even worse. Spend an hour or so playing a game and half the battery is gone in a flash.

Chinavision has a new iPhone case that has a rechargeable battery built into the case. The battery in the case charged via the Apple charger that came with your iPhone. An adapter cable is included that turns the iPhone connector into a mini USB from the looks of it.

I have spent every day since the iTunes App Store launched fighting with iTunes tech support to get them to believe the fact that I couldn’t download anything from anywhere in the store wasn’t related to the amount of traffic the store was getting with the new iPhone. It seems that wait until later and try again was the best answer they could give me for 3 days until someone finally bothered to actually check my account and fixed it within 5 minutes.

With my account fixed I downloaded all sorts of cool apps today including the free game called Tap Tap Revenge. The game is sort of along the lines of Guitar Hero, but with tracks nowhere near as good. The game has a red, blue and green beams that have orbs of light and the occasional arrow that slide down them. The object of the game is to tap the orbs as the hit the bottom like you would do in guitar Hero.

Aside from the on-screen keyboard of my iPhone the thing I dislike most is the battery life. If I watch YouTube videos for an hour or so the battery is nearly dead. If you have the same problem with your iPhone or want to get more music and video playback from your iPod, i.Sound has come to the rescue.

i.Sound has announced a new 2-in-1 Charger & Battery Back Up solution that is compatible with the first generation iPhone, the coming iPhone 3G and all iPod’s using the 30-pin connector. The battery looks pretty cool and features LEDs on the front to show at a glance how much battery life is remaining.

If you are an owner of the first generation iPhone who was considering upgrading to the iPhone 3G, the day is getting close. When the iPhone 3G was announced the 8GB model was to be $199 and the 16GB was going to be $299.

Now we are finding out that original iPhone owners will be eligible for upgrades at the $199 price for the 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB version. AT&T customers looking to upgrade to the new iPhone 3G will get hit for much higher prices.