Archive for January, 2007
Join Puzzle Alarm Clock uses devilish method
Looks like Coolest Gadgets is going on an alarm clock spree, with the Motivational MP3 Alarm Clock mentioned earlier followed by this Puzzle Alarm Clock that comes with the manufacturer’s guarantee of waking you up. If pouring cold water on your face or sprinkling frozen marbles all over you bed still fails to get you out of bed, perhaps the Puzzle Alarm Clock will be able to help. When the appointed time arrives to open your eyes, the four puzzle pieces connected to the Puzzle Alarm Clock will be fired up in the air – followed by an incessant ringing that will not stop until you manage to find all four pieces and place them back into the clock itself.
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Motiwake Personal Development Clock
We are now in the middle of the week, and somehow Friday is like a welcome drink in the middle of a burning desert while the memory of Monday makes you wretch last night’s dinner. Other than throwing truckloads of money in your direction, what are some of the other ways to keep you motivated at work? Some of us are stuck in jobs that we absolutely loathe, but we roll up our sleeves and go through the daily grind just because we have a family to support, bills and mortgages to pay at the end of the month. This scenario makes waking up very hard for some, and this is where the Motiwake MP3 Alarm Clock comes in handy.
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Money Maze Puzzler is a stumper
If you’re a sucker for puzzle games and have long outgrown the tried and tested Rubik’s Cube, perhaps it is time to move on to more challenging brain teasers. The Money Maze shares a resemblance with a transparent Borg starship, but it offers nothing of the assimilation sort. Instead, the Money Maze encourages you to place a valuable piece of paper inside, forcing you to work for it during retrieval. Of course money comes into mind, but it could be other priceless items like your recently deceased Uncle Bill’s will, a gift certificate, or even tickets to the opera. Sadistic users will torture themselves by stuffing money inside, while other well meaning adults can give a cash gift inside the Money Maze.
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Revenge in the form of the Annoy-a-tron
Some people are just annoying and deserve to be messed with for whatever reason. Seriously, you just need to show them what being annoying really means. Well, thank God for Think Geek, because they’re here for you with the Annoy-a-tron. And although it looks like it goes in a computer, rest assured, it doesn’t. That would be too nerdy.
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Seagate introduces DAVE
I was thinking to myself the other day how cool it would be to have a bluetooth hard drive. Then I see this story. It would be nice if everything you wished for would just materialise out of the ether like that 
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USB Tardis
My nine year old daughter is a massive Doctor Who fan which makes me so proud in a geeky kind of way. So this next gadget made me chuckle, the USB TARDIS.
The USB Tardis(Time and Relative Dimension in Space) may look like a 1950s London police box but like the real Tardis it hides a hidden function, it’s also a USB hub.
Okay USB hubs are a dime a dozen but this one’s more cool than most, as not only is it the Doctor’s Tardis but when you plug devices in you getting the flashing blue light accompanied by the sound of de-materialisation – ‘vworp, vworp’ .
Maybe you need to be nine (at least mentally) to appreciate this, available from FireBox for £19.95.
Transforming clothes?
Apparently yes. There is a fashion designer called Hussein Chalayan who created a partnership with an engineering company to create futuristic dresses that change themselves on the fly. The morphings range from necklines that disappear to skirts that shorten and dresses that zip and unzip autonomously.
Here is a description from Rob Edkins, director of the engineering company that teamup up with the designer: “Basically, the dresses were driven electronically by controlled, geared motors. We made… little pads for the models… within these containers we had all the battery packs, controlling chips–the microcontrollers and microswitches–and little geared motors. The motors we used were tiny, about a third of the size of a pencil and nine millimeters in diameter. Continue reading » Transforming clothes?
Cubisto – The 3D Frame
This is a novel way of making your old junk into a work of art, Cubisto, a frame for 3D objects.
Cubisto works by wrapping the object to display in a cling film like substance, which is then stretched inside the frame to make it look like your object is floating on it’s own. So now even the crappiest of empty beer can collections can be displayed with style.
The Cubisto frames are available from Firebox for £14.95 each.
