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Here’s an interesting concept by Paul Priestman. It has 3 different shades of lights: green, red and yellow. You can pretty much guess which colors mean what. Red means you need to get your tail out of the shower, yellow means you should speed things up a bit (tell this to your wife ) and [...]

Japan and its alarm clocks. This so-called Twist Alarm Clock , makes you solve simple math problems. The way it works is that when the alarm starts ringing in the morning, the clock uses its two displays and two rotatable parts to create a math problem, for example 8+2=?. It won’t stop ringing until you [...]

Here’s a PC you can carry around. Too bad you still need wires, a keyboard, mouse and a monitor … but it’s nice . Specifications: 300 mhz atom 64MB of SDRAM external video connector supports 1280 x 1024 resolution. Flash memory card slot USB port Ethernet and a serial port. I know it’s not usable [...]

The refined Pencil Printer part II comes with detailed explanations and a better understand of saving the environment from paper trash and permanency of Ink! In here we see how the lead shavings feed the cartridge toner and prints effortlessly on paper. Mistakes are easily erased, and once the crappy memo is done with…you can [...]

When you hit Clocky’s snooze button, he will roll off of the nightstand, fall to the floor, and run around the room, searching for a place to hide. When the alarm sounds again, you have to get out of bed to find it and turn it off. He finds a new spot everyday, “kind of [...]

The Sfera alarm clock hangs from the ceiling above your bed. When the alarm goes off, you can reach up and touch it to activate the snooze function causing it retract towards the ceiling. When snooze goes off again, you have to reach higher to activate the snooze again. Each time you activate the snooze [...]

The world’s smallest printer – Printstik – weights a mere 1.5 pounds and uses thermal technology to print. In terms of green cred, eliminating toner cartridges can save a whole lot of packaging waste, especially given how quickly ink supplies can run out. Plus, the printer derives its power from Lithium-ion polymer rechargeable batteries. Rechargeable [...]

Check one, check two. This Mic PC has both practicality and a retro look that many would not mind having inside their home. Whether you have dreamed of being a famous singer, a radio disc jockey, or simply would want to build your own computer case mod, this Slipperyskip do it yourself Mic PC is [...]

A CES Innovations Honoree in both the Media Player and Personal Electronics categories, the Light Touch from the house of Light Blue Optics is an interactive projector that featuring multi-touch technology turns any flat surface into a touchscreen. Liberating the multimedia content from the small screen, thanks to Holographic Laser Projection (HLP) technology, the Light [...]

Lockface, developed by Futen in Japan, uses your computer’s web cam to identify you before letting you access its data.   The flash drive holds 4GB of memory – though larger capacity models are planned – and employs 256-bit AES encryption. To use, you register several pictures of your face, which will then be checked [...]