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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This is one minimalistic looking watch, the Dish Digital by Fossil.

Instead of having moving hands like regular analogue watches or LCD numbers like their digital equivalents it uses the LCD to display the hands with no numbers in sight, weird.

You can have your own for $95 from Amazon, found first on Product Dose.

Emtrace are showing their new WidgetStation in pre-release form this year. It’s an internet connected desk clock with two screens capable of displaying “Widgets” - small pieces of content that grab different bits of internet content. Stock ticker, weather, whatever - it’s all there quietly cycling around on the displays. It’s a nice piece of design and would look good on the average geek’s desk.

It should be available later this year, prices yet to be determined.

Yesterday we reported on the interesting ball alarm clock which to be honest was more novelty than useful, todays alarm clock however actually has a very valid reason for being a bit quirky, introducing the vibrating pillow alarm clock.

The vibrating pillow does what you’d expect, it vibrates. So instead of being woken up by tedious Christmas songs (I’m sure that all stations share the same CD at this time of year) or an annoying buzzer which has no sympathy for the night before you are awoken by gentle vibrating feel under your ear.

For couples who start work at different times this could be a real strop saver, instead of both parties being forced to wake up at the same time just the unfortunate early starter need hear (well feel) the alarm. I know I found it very incosiderate when my partner (girlfriend sounds stupid when you’re over 30) had to get up at 6AM to get ready for work whilst I had to arise at 8.59 to roll into my home office for a 9AM start :).

Anyway you can get the vibrating pillow alarm for £19.95 from Proidee.

This may look like a pretty ordinary bedside alarm clock but it does have one pretty unique feature. See that metallic sphere on the top, it’s not just there for decoration that ball is actually the radio station selector!

You program the stations as you would with a conventional radio but to switch stations instead of pressing a button you roll the ball into one of the nine indentations at the top of the device. Some may think this is somewhat pointless but I reckon it’s a cool, different and miles more fun than boring conventional buttons.

Available from Uncommon Goods for $60.

So you think your $500 silk shirt looks spiffy on your Versace jeans and Hugo Boss shoes, but that look just ain’t complete without a watch that makes you outpimp even the high rollers at Vegas. Touted to be the first high quality LED watch in the world that makes use of 72 LED lights to tell the time, the Pimp Ain’t Easy LED watch from PIMP comes in a polished black or stainless steel body. This neat watch that looks extremely futuristic must be imported from the Land of the Rising Sun as you won’t be able to find it anywhere else.

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Casio has taken the step to introduce yet another GPS watch with the GPR-100 which is a radical departure from the very first GPS watch they released some time ago. The new GPR-100 is actually the smallest GPS watch available in the market currently, measuring a diminutive 63.1mm x 49.5mm x 17.1mm. Since it also looks the part of a watch, airport security won’t be hankering after you as a terrorist suspect. The GPR-100 has its sights set on runners since it will be quite some time to get a general-purpose GPS navigation device slapped around your wrist, but it does come with a decent set of GPS features which we’ll take a look at.

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Everyone has fond memories of the Cuckoo Clock, with its trademark chirps making a ruckus every hour that you either have a love or hate relationship with. Thanks to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of modern man, we now have a car (yes, those things with four wheels and drink more gasoline that it really should) to replace our avian friend in the form of the Mini Car Cuckoo Clock courtesy of the Mini Cooper brand that is small in stature but big on style.

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