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Go Ahead, Throw Your Alarm Clock!

You done it before, of course you have, we all have, but it's a costly move every time you get made at your alarm clock for doing what you told it to do.  New alarm clocks and whole filler for your walls are eating away at your retirement.  Here's the perfect remedy, "Throw" Alarm clock does just that, It allows you to throw it, every morning.  Soon you'll get good enough that you'll throw it in such a manner that hit bounces back and hits you in the head.  That'll get you up.

This is smart idea.  All they need is a few more themes and they'll be a fortune500 company in no time.

"These brilliant alarm clocks can only be turned off by bouncing them or throwing them - It's the ultimate in morning anger management.

These clocks have all the features on would expect from an alarm clock : time, date, LCD display, alarm/ hourly chime (if desired) but come in our favourite sport ball shapes – Cricket, Golf, and Football (Special Edition Silver or Normal).

They also come with a circular stand to prevent the ball from rolling off your bedside table.

Get out that alarm clock morning frustration and get going with our ‘Throw' Alarm clocks!

Features:

·Available as Football, Special Edition Silver Football, Golf Ball or Cricket Ball.

·Comes with separate base.

·Made of durable, slightly flexible vinyl for durability.

·Requires 1 x LR1130 button Watch battery (included)

·Size: 10.2 cm diameter.

·This is not a toy - Ages 3 plus"

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The Worlds Smallest Mac! oQo Running Leopard

Get some coffee and set back because proof of life takes some time here.  But when the payoff comes, you'll see Leopard running on a oQo.  This is a work in progress and it isn't the smoothest running machine yet, but there is some serious promise here.

 

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Nokia N810 Internet Tablet (WiMax Edition) Buy.com

Oh yeah it's on for all of those who have been pacing the halls waiting for the much ballyooed Nokia N810 Internet Tablet (WiMax Edition).

Buy.com is stocked and ready to take your $455 after you hit submit. But you'll have to wait until they say go because there is no release date as of yet. but I'm sure they'll take your money.

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Honda Helps The Disabled Walk

It's like Bionics, but only on the outside.  Honda, fresh off the heels of making a Robot walk, a jet pack fly and recalling thousands of Honda's, is now taking on the plight of the edlerly, the disabled and the down right lazy.

The boys and girls in the Honda labs have been hard at work with their robotics technology, making up something that could possibly stun the world.  The Walk Assistant will go on display at the nternational Trade Fair on Barrier Free Equipments & Rehabilitation for the Elderly & the Disabled, in Osaka.

Right now, brushless DC motors powered by lithium ion batteries will grampa working in the yard for two hours.  But we all know this will be purchased mainly by parents with teenaged kids. 

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Re-Kindle Your Need For Amazon Kindle! Back In Stock

I don't know why, but this has always seemed to me to be one of those items we'll see at garage sales all across the land in about two years.  But for now the little bugger is hot, so hot that Amazon ran out. 

But fear not gadgets fans, that $399 device to service one need is back in stock and awaiting your credit card info. 

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Wallpaper Lights Up The Room

Why do I feel like this is like one of those Pharmaceutical commercials?  Take this pill to help with your irritable Bowel syndrome.  Warning: My cause diarrhea.

The Light Emitting Wall Paper is of course far cooler than a poop stopping pill.   The wall paper employs a silver based solution that conducts electricity.  phosphorous pigments sit on top of that and light up.  A transparent ITO conductor layer sits on top of it covered by wallpaper.

Genius!  But even though as you read this, I'm trying to figure out where I can put this in my house,  I have a sneaking suspicion that 10 years from now they'll find out that the Light Emitting Wall Paper slowly makes you lose your mind, leaving you to sit in a corner staring at nothing.

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Plug-In Hybrid Toyota 1/X Concept Car. I'd Rather Have A Hybrid Pacer

  Bio Plastic will make this 1/X Plug-in Hybrid Toyota, faster, stronger, able to leap a single Prius in a single bound. 

But it will never escape the ugly.  Who designs these concept vehicles?  I mean what was their childhood like?  Did they only get the reject Hot Wheels? 

Thank goodness this will most likely never see the light of day.

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The Van Der Led CellPhone Watch Is Sorta Sweet

  I don't get the whole CellPhone Watch thing.  Don't get it at all.  It's a really cool idea in concept, but in practical use it's useless to me.  Somehow I just don't think we are there yet.

But, having said that, this offering from Van Der Led, the WM2 Cellphone Watch is garnering a bit of glowing approval design wise, and I have to light my bic for it as well.

1.3” Display (260k colors)
1GB of user storage (music, videos)
USB connection
Bluetooth

Nice little feature list, but I will have to remain on the sidelines for this, even though I think it's the best I've seen in this category.

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Blockbuster TV? BlockBox Coming To Your Livingroom This Month

  Look out AppleTV, be afraid NetFlix,  Blockbuster has your ticket and they're hoping to get admission to living rooms across the country.

Blockbuster is developing a set-top-box that will deliver movies by streaming them straight to the television.

This one is officially classified as a rumor, but come on Blockbuster, you know you're trying to get into my house.

"We're talking to numerous companies and vendors about products, services, alliances and initiatives that can help us achieve our mission to transform Blockbuster into a company that provides access to media content across multiple channels -- from our stores, by mail, through kiosks, through downloading, through portable content-enabled devices -- so it's not surprising that there are rumors out there."

MovieLink is the top candidate for how the movies will arrive to your Blockbox (my naming) which is the company Blockbuster bought out to widen it's online licensed film offerings.

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The New And Improved Handheld Lie Detector

  No, that gadget pictured on the left isn't the little handheld contraption the UPS guy hands you to sign for your package.   Nope, this is the newest weapon against terror and those seeking to be evil doers.

The handheld lie detector will be handed out to troops in Afghanistan to help them figure out who's lying to them on the fly.

This newest "great" idea from the Pentagon is admittedly not a perfect one.  They admit the device isn't 100% accurate and it hasn't been fully tested, but they are ready to put it in the hands of American solders so that they can falsely accuse Afghan and soon, Iraqi civilians.   " the lead author of a national study of the polygraph says that American military men and women will be put at risk by an untested technology. "I don't understand how anybody could think that this is ready for deployment," said statistics professor Stephen E. Fienberg, who headed a 2003 study by the National Academy of Sciences that found insufficient scientific evidence to support using polygraphs for national security. "Sending these instruments into the field in Iraq and Afghanistan without serious scientific assessment, and for use by untrained personnel, is a mockery of what we advocated in our report."

American solders and their families have been screaming for better body and vehicle armor for four years,  but what do they get?  A handheld untested product to detect lies that will lie to them enough times that it WILL cause a major issue by falsely accuse someone.   

Imagine walking into your office and your boss tells you to slip this around your wrist, then holds this thing up and begins to ask you questions.   What color do you think will pop up?

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