Unusual 3-color 72-LED watch selling for about $250.

The time displayed on the face of the above watch is 1:00.

The Dal Lamp is an Internet-connected lamp that changes color according to various circumstances. Similar to the Ambient Orb, the Dal can be programmed to alter its colors to reflect the weather forecast, the receipt of an email, or changes in the stock market or traffic conditions. $950.00

Dal can receive messages sent via email or [...]

The Changing Room is a small portable tent intended to provide privacy while changing clothes. It folds out into a 6 feet 3 in x 3 feet x 3 feet standing unit.

Price is about $70.

Discussed for years, if it is ever built, the Freedom Ship will be the largest ocean-going vessel ever built. The current specs call for a length of 4,500 feet, a width of 750 feet, and a height of 350 feet. This ship would be about 4 times longer than the Queen Mary 2, currently the [...]

ClimatePrediction.net is a joint effort by the University of Oxford, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, The Open University, and others, intended to improve the accuracy of climate prediction. The approach is to run hundreds of thousands of simulation models of the earth’s climate, and identify those conditions and parameters that modelled past climate successfully. The group [...]

Apex Digital Inc. will be releasing their ApeXtreme combination PC game console, DVD player and Digital Video Recorder later this summer. Price will be$499.

Winner of Best of CES 2004 Winner: Home Audio and Video. Specs include:
-AthlonXP2000+ cpu
-NVIDIA nForce2 IGP graphics processor
-5 USB ports
-broadband connection; up to 4 simultaneous players
-40GB hdd
-no subscription DVR capabilities

Ok, it’s not a gadget, but reports of new forms of life do not appear very often…
A team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic is gathering evidence for the existence of a previously-unknown form of life to be called nanobacteria. Ranging in size from 30-100 nanometres, nanobacteria (if they are confirmed to exist) would be [...]

Gottlieb Daimler co-founder of Daimler-Benz AG was building motorised bicycles in 1885. Now they have come full circle with the introduction of the new Mercedes-Benz 27-speed Sport Edition and Comfort Edition bikes.

The Sport Edition Mountainbike, shown above has an aluminium frame, hydraulic disc brakes and an adjustable front suspension fork. Priced at $3,100-4,000 depending [...]

The Mainichi Daily News in Japan is reporting that a number of people have been arrested for staging about 100 robberies of hospitals in and around Akita in northern Japan.
What’s innovative is that the robbers, not being familiar with the area, used their car’s GPS system to locate target hospitals in the vicinity, and then [...]

I was amazed to see that someone had built a robot that solves the 3×3×3 Rubik’s Cube.

The solution involves a Lego® Mindstorms™ base, 3 arms for grasping and turning the cube faces, a Logitech Quick Cam to scan the cube faces and recognize the colors, and some VB code to control the arms & interface [...]