Last year’s iPhone 4 launch brought more than 600,000 pre-orders within the first 24 hours . This year, that number nearly doubled, topping one million within one day of the device’s pre-order availability through AT&T, Sprint and Verizon.

Of all the “TV-like” all-in-one PCs we’ve seen, this Toshiba is perhaps the most convincing. Something about its glossy black, consumer electronic packaging and Onkyo soundbar just screams (tiny) HDTV.

There are a number of ways to achieve inner-peace, like years of meditation, for example — or you could just pick up an $80 Android handset. LG finally made official the release of its Enlighten handset today. The Gingerbread phone features a 3.2-inch display, a QWERTY slide out keyboard, a 3.2 megapixel camera and an 800MHz processor.

Flash fans can breathe a collective sigh of relief — Adobe has confirmed that the next version of Windows will, in fact, support work built on its once ubiquitous web publishing platform. Windows 8 PCs and tablets with x86 or ARM processors will support the platform — in the more traditional desktop mode, that is. The version of Internet Explorer 10 built for that interface will play nicely with Flash.

Anyone who commutes to a big city knows how loud and distracting things can get — whether it’s the whine of a bus engine, a subway car’s ca-clank or just that screaming baby seated behind you. Some folks may find cranking jams through their headphones helpful for blocking out the world, while others would prefer a bit more relative silence. Thankfully, in this modern age there exist headphones with noise-cancelling goodness to help you zone out. Sony hasn’t been a stranger to such cans, and recently introduced its $200 MDR-NC200D noise-cancelling headphones ; a mid-range option for folks wanting similar benefits of its over-ear NC500D in an on-ear package