Gateway is giving away a $4,500 high-performance PC setup for the best user-submitted video. The rules are: 1) video should be no more than 3 minutes long; 2) a Holstein cow (real or fake) must be in the video. Oh, and you are not allowed to hurt any people or animals. The videos need to be […]

Resembling a gigantic LED alarm clock grafted onto an undergrad-era coffee table, the Time Table is nonetheless sneakily cool. The digits are glowing electroluminescent film that comes in at only 6cm thick. Unsurprisingly, it does include an alarm feature (but probably not a snooze button)

From the maker of the Optimus keyboard comes an equally quirky clock - the Art Lebedev Verbarius clock. The diffference? It doesn’t go for numbers, it goes for words. For example, “forty-five minutes past four”, “fifteen minutes to ten”, “six forty-five” or “midnight”. And yes, you can already see the problem - I would say […]

Point. Click. Drink! MugMouse is a new mouse that holds coffee or tea so you have to move it more carefully than a normal mouse. This means you have to move the mouse really slow, especially if its filled with hot coffee. Talk about slowing down productivity! The mouse works like a mouse - you […]

Don’t you just love your iPod so much you wanna love it and hug it and squeeze it and hold it and caress it? You’re in luck then, because Princess International (what a name) has been showing off these Plush MP3 Speaker & Radios at CES. And there’s no chance of losing your iPod down […]

I suppose it depends on how clean you keep your toilet seat, but new research shows that the average mobile phone contains more bacteria than the trusty throne. Dial-a-Phone conducted this vital research, taking swabs from everyday objects and testing them for bacteria. “The phones contained more skin bacteria than the any other object; this […]

After Etherfast presented the world’s smallest PC. It’s called Jack PC, and it can fit into a network wall port. Just plug your keyboard, mouse and monitor into the wall. The Jack PC runs Windows CE and it’s equipped with an equivalent of a 800MHz to 1.2GHz x86 desktop processor. The Jack PC comes in […]

Competition in the smallest MP3 player market is fierce with the likes of the shuffle and the Mobiblu offerings, so how about the thinnest? That’s what you get with the Walletex MP3 player. It’s just slightly thicker than a credit card, has all the controls you need to play music and will be available in […]

The Time Machine is fascinating. Somewhere between an abacus, kerplunk, a newton’s cradle and an executive toy, the Time Machine is actually a kinetic display clock. The clock works by releasing a series of chrome balls at timed intervals, which move through the machine until they fall into a series of slots. By viewing the […]

Charge your iPod while catching some sun at the beach. The 2006 ITP show of NY University showed off one of their most innovative projects: the solar powered USB Bikini. The photo voltaic panels stitched directly on the bikini puts out 6.5 volts of power, enough to power your iPod. So just sit back, catch […]

The Memory Ball Alarm and Radio is cool because it uses a giant magnet to change the stations, period. It has a crisscross on top which is not used to swap murders, but to change the channels on the radio by rolling the magnetic pinball to a new programmed spot on the grid. Allows up […]

Is nothing sacred these days? Once just an easy way for your gran to get her shopping back from the supermarket, the shopping trolley has had a makeover - into a powerful sound system. It’s now known as the Mskyo and was created by German design team Claassen and Partner. Looks-wise it hasn’t changed much […]

The Kiss Me Meter is a personal bad breath detector with LED display to tell you how bad is you situation. It will show you if you are too drunk to drive and as well gives you the advice not to kiss anymore. It detects the specific gases from your teeth or stomach, and shows […]

Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take Microsoft to court in a legal battle that raises the question of whether anyone can ever “own” the language they speak. The row was sparked by Microsoft’s decision last month to launch its Windows software package in Mapuzugun, a Mapuche tongue spoken by around 400,000 indigenous Chileans, […]