Gamers tend to take their “vocation” seriously, as bragging rights are up for stake with winners feeling that nice, warm glow all over while losers look at their mouse and start cursing. That’s right – watch any average gamer duke it out with the rest of their mates at a LAN party and you’ll realize that the losing side tend to be more frustrated in terms of body language, sending forth a smattering of cuss words alongside banging the mouse on the table, touting that they missed that crucial shot due to being let down by inferior gaming hardware. Razer has been in the business long enough to know what they’re doing, and their latest release would be the Razer Abyssus gaming mouse that target those who are new to the world of gaming and want a feel of what professional gaming equipment is like before diving headlong later on with the gaming bug going at full steam ahead.

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I’ve been on long trips before, but never so long that I have had to sleep at the airport. I know I mentioned this when we covered the Vertical Bed, but there is something very embarrassing about taking a nap in a public place. This is why Russian architects Arch Group designed the Sleep Box. As you can see, it is like a phone booth, but bigger. Oh, there’s no phone in it, either.

However, there is a bed in there, with sheets that are changed with a roller like a conveyor belt. It also has Wi-Fi, an LCD display, and sockets for charging laptops, cell phones, or other mobile devices. There is even a place to stash your carry-ons. Hopefully there is some sort of alarm clock there, because I’ve always had this nightmare about waking up in the middle of an airport and missing my flight.

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There are clocks that just tell the time in a way that anyone can understand.  Then there are those other clocks that make you stop and stare for about 15 minutes.  Then after staring for that long you storm off and find the person that purchased the confusing clock and force them to translate it for you.  This is one of those clocks.  Admittedly, it’s definitely cool, but it will probably still make everyone around you a touch on the crazy side.

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Like any parent with younger kids, I have seen the Disney/Pixar film Cars way too many times. In all honesty, I do like the film, but not enough to purchase the Disney/Pixar Cars USB Email Alert.

Brought to you by our old friends at Brando, it is a device modeled after one of the Cars stars. You can choose from Lightning McQueen, The King, Doc Hudson, Chick Hicks, or Mater. Its purpose is to give you email alerts every time you receive an email message, and it does so using a twinkle effect on the front window and an authentic sound from the film. It is compatible with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express, and POP3, and no batteries are required. All the user has to do is plug it into a spare USB port, and it needs no CD-ROM.

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Even if we never tested it, we’ve all thought about using the cup trick to communicate with a nearby friend when we were kids. To be able to secretly talk without your parent’s knowledge is every kids dream.  Well with technology as it is, it’s a touch easier for kids to do that.  If you’d still like to enjoy that same feeling you got as a kid when you used those cups, maybe you could give this cup trick a whirl in an updated way.

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The Sandford police department from the film Hot Fuzz would definitely appreciate this particular device. Some of you might remember the “swear jar” that the clueless cops kept there, and the terrific scene where Nick Angel (Simon Pegg) fills it up when he vents his frustration against the other officers’ ignorance. I don’t think I ever had a swear jar growing up, but I can see where it would come in handy. I’m pretty certain that the entire budget of The Osbornes came from that family’s daily bleeping.

So why not make a swear jar that looks like something some comic book character would say when he or she is cussing? By comic book character, I mean those of old-school fifties and sixties superhero comics. I’m pretty certain comic characters can pretty much say anything they want, as long as their book didn’t fall under the Comic Code authority.

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As kids most of us enjoyed building things.  Even if it was just a sand castle or a Lego themed item that really didn’t do anything but sit there, it was still awesome.  For a kid to be able to build something that actually moves would be a whole lot more fun.  Especially if it’s a speed boat that they get to play with at the local pool or even in the bath tub.  Well this speed boat lets the kids construct it themselves and even teaches them about solar energy.

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