Imagine how more inspired you’d be to get everything done on that Post-it note to-do list stuck to your fridge if it was your wife or significant other’s face screaming at you to get it done. I’m sure that was the inspiration behind this Digital Video Memo Recorder which features a 1.44 inch LCD display and a front facing camera allowing you to capture video reminders instead of just writing them down.
Now I’m a little confused as to why the video is captured at 320×240 at 20fps, when the 128×128 pixel display doesn’t come anywhere close to that. Not to mention at that resolution the built-in memory can only hold about a 30 second clip, which kind of makes the $66 price tag from Geek Stuff 4 U a bit ridiculous. Give me a pad of 20 of these for that amount of money and we’ll talk.
It’s not the biggest globe your money can buy, but the 6-inch City Lights Earth Globe makes up for it with some clever tricks. Once placed on its base the globe not only begins to rotate on its own, but it also lights up, providing a glowing view of our planet during the day, or at night. That’s right, at one time or another we’ve all had a poster or desktop wallpaper featuring that mesmerizing photo of our planet’s cities lit up at night, and now you can have a 3D representation of it sitting right on your desk. The product shot is a bit misleading since you can’t actually show both at the same time, it’s either day or night, but for $49.95 it’s a minor misrepresentation.
Even though standing in long lines at the airport can quickly suck your soul away, it’s at least a few minutes where you’re not working. Or at least it was a few minutes, because thanks to this rolling luggage trolley that converts into a miniature office, you’ll be expected to spend every free moment you have toiling away.
It weighs about 10 1/2 pounds, but is able to support up to 20 pounds, and has a large enough surface to hold a 17-inch laptop. It folds down small enough to fit in most overhead storage compartments, and will set you back $129.95 from Comfort Home. The only question I have is what exactly is that woman in the product shot sitting on?
Microsoft has managed to cram a lot of extra functionality into this Bluetooth mouse, including the ability to control a PowerPoint presentation or a home theater PC, a laser pointer for being ‘that guy’ in the meeting and a usable wireless range of about 30 feet. But I can’t help but feel that after just a few weeks of regular mousing the labels on those buttons on the underside of the mouse are going to get rubbed off, making it a crapshoot when it comes to figuring out which one does what. I mean for $79.95 the least they could have done is etched them into the plastic or something, but maybe I’m putting too much thought into this…
Remember the Notepod? They were essentially just notepads designed to look like the iPhone, and I guess it was inevitable that the company behind them would also create a new version that looks suspiciously like the Apple iPad. So say hello to the magical & revolutionary Notepod+, available for just $19.95 including shipping.
I admire what SUCK UK is trying to do here with these pre-doodled pads of sticky notes for the non-artistically inclined, but half the joy of opening a fresh pad of stickies is knowing you’ve got a blank canvas for whatever kung-fu fight you can imagine, no matter how crappy your stick-men fighters might look. It’s like getting a brand new copy of The Catcher In The Rye in high school and finding it’s already got an animation of an awesome motorcycle jump inside. That and they’re $3+ a pop, with 3 animation styles to choose from.
It’s nice that paper can be recycled, but usually you don’t get to experience the end result of that recycling process in a direct and immediate manner. Not this direct of a manner, anyway. This machine is called White Goat, and if you feed it 40 sheets of waste paper, it will produce a roll of toilet paper. The entire process, start to finish, is completely contained within the machine: it shreds the paper, dissolves it in water, dries it out, and winds it into rolls that are probably not huggably soft. Total cost? A mere 10 cents a roll, although the entire White Goat machine (which goes on sale this summer) will cost about $100,000.
And just in case you were wondering (although I’m sure you weren’t wondering), according to the resident OhGizmo livestock expert, for only $120 or so you can get an angora goat (plus a friend, since goats need company) who will eat a newspaper’s worth of waste paper every day (along with other food, of course) and produce cashmere, with which you can make what is surely the most luxurious toilet paper known to man. The actual goat won’t work as well in an office environment, but it does produce a bunch of free fertilizer, will pull a small cart, and if it dies on you, you can eat it.
I don’t care what Apple unveils today, it can’t possibly compare to the brilliantly simple innovation that is the Pocket Clip Pencil. Long story short, it’s a handmade wooden pencil that features a pocket clip carved into it, allowing it to be attached to pockets and book covers. Sadly, since they’re handmade in east London, each pencil costs about $7.26 (£4.50) which would make me reluctant to ever sharpen it down.
I’ve seen a number of different “desktop organizers” before, and most are just boring hunks of plastic or metal that don’t do much. Here’s one that still doesn’t do a ton, but at least adds a little style to your workspace, along with a few extra USB ports.
The Space Bar is essentially a tray under which your keyboard slides when it’s not in use. Its aluminum construction will definitely fit in with anyone owning a Mac, but should also look good with any setup. Three USB ports can be found on either side of the Space Bar, giving you easy access to a free port. Will this thing revolutionize your desk? Probably not; but the $42 price isn’t exactly terrible for what you get, provided you don’t have a keyboard tray built into your desk.
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