This is a fun and efficient surge protector... with a timer. Belkin’s new Conserve Surge with Timer turns out 50 per cent of office power used up by devices on standby mode. This system will switch off lights at the office during the night when the office is empty hence saving a lot of energy and money....

There was this movie with Joe Pesci where he had this odd competition with his neighbor in showing who does things better. In that he had made his home like a crazy carnival with all sorts of paraphernalia. The one thing that stood out was the projector works on it. You can also now do it with the Panoramic Holiday Projector to make your home into a holiday fun movie screen. You can choose one of 10 designs including...

Sometimes, watches look really interesting. So many of the designs just make you want to grab it then and there. This is a conceptual watch that may give you mixed thoughts. It is a pretty funky looking one and has a measuring-tape look-alike thing as its dial. Termed as the Ora watch, this one tells time on a series of three crisscrossed analog time strips. The top one gives time in minutes, overlapping a smaller band with the hours,...

Shower curtains are normally boring and monotonous with similar designs. Some person may have had a random click of the bulb while taking a shower and thought to come up with a shower curtain with space invaders on them. Now this is a great gift idea for people who are crazy about space invaders and games. They can now satisfy their hidden dreams to fight aliens in the shower. No information on who made this or where it is...

Robots and robots. That is all the Japanese seem to be thinking these days. Maybe they should use this energy to bring back the samurais of yesteryears. Anyway, Japanese robot builder Takeshi Maeda has come out with the demo of the latest and ninth version of his OmniZero robot. It can transform from bipedal fighting machine into a rolling vehicle as well as a walking. The creator can even ride piggyback on the robot when its head tilts back....

Speakers are another idea aside from robots that is taking a lot of space in the technology scene. This is the Little Horn Speakers. It has these huge horn-like attachments to the speaker’s base as though it ready to screech out some cries. Seems these can work with any stereo. The horns are made using a high-density fiberglass, while the bass is made out of heavy, void-free Baltic birch plywood. If you want them, buy them now for $1500...

In the olden days we used to move the antenna to all sorts of angles to get a decent sound out of it. This creation is more unique. It is the Human Antenna which is a carpet radio where you use your body as the antenna. To change the frequency, you need to just walk over the carpet, which is made of looms from conductive thread. Your body is the antenna and the carpet picks up the radio waves,...

I don’t like sci-fi. It’s a personal feeling – it scares me. It makes me actually think that a day of having no tree on earth is a possibility. So this news of a thought reading robot is not that thrilling. This robot is created by Taku Ichikawa of the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and it seems it can respond to the guy’s thoughts. Taku specially designed this non-invasive thought-control interface so that he and his robot can...

This would be an excellent gift idea for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day because this will surely freak him or her out instead of the usual love atmosphere that surrounds on that day. Give the Plush Beating Heart a simple shake and it will start beating on its own just like the real one. Go ahead get one for yourself for only $17.99 and freak your better half. It will be fun! [Ohgizmo]...

I know of a person who has named his child Pixel (no, I am not kidding). Maybe, Pixels friends could gift him this cute little Pixel Bulb, a 2D electroluminescent electronic paper light source for his 16th birthday. It is designed by Marcus Tremonto and looks really cute, hanging from the ceiling, all pixilated (no pun intended). [Unplggd]...

When the plans for this project first broke out in Bahrain, the residents held their hearts from collapsing or crushing in horrific anticipation as the Qataris disrupt traffic and life even more. The news said in big, front line fonts that it will be complete by 2011 – the world's longest marine causeway connecting Qatar and Bahrain called (yeah, how corny) the Qatar--Bahrain Friendship Causeway. Good news finally says that this 13 mile long bridge will only begin construction...

If you like doing things alone and in small quantities then you may enjoy gadgets and devices that are cute and compact. This is a unicycle - U3-X from Honda that is really futuristic and funky looking. It has a regular large wheel of a unicycle made up of several small wheels in a series. These wheels can rotate independently as in it can go forward, backward, side-to-side and diagonally – all by the rider leaning about on the...

I love smileys. It is such fun things – online or not. I even use it in letters. With EMO ball you can have a more interesting and emotional life than you ever thought. The EMO ball can connect to your computer through a USB and through this you can emote in plenty and not be upset your true feelings aren’t conveyed. Such an interesting thing! Don’t know why some people cannot seem like smileys. I like them J...

Lover of games, lover of fashion, lover of insanity – they all fit the formula well. An evening wear line was showcased by a fashion major student. So much is her love for Super Mario brothers, she decided to use this game theme for her first fashion show. It was very interesting and contained some amusing designs such as sequined Mario dress, a bob-omb and mushroom dress. [Geeksugar]...

Motorola is also joining the bandwagon of introducing fun and funky Bluetooth headset – the Motorola H17. It is very small and has a small flip boom mic. It also features CrystalTalk noise-cancellation, voice prompts, several ear bud options, multipoint technology, up to five hours of talk time, and the capability to toggle the power by flipping the boom. No details have been given about prices or when it will be available etc. [Cnet]...