Boynq Wake Up. Sometimes having a cute piece of white tech sitting by the bedside can actually make you want to wake up early. Well, so we’ve heard. This attractive artifact contains a charging dock, FM radio alarm and 20W amplifier. Available in white or black.   Tags: gadget, boynq+wake+up, ipod+alarm+dock

The Vero ENB-100 Solar Powered Bluetooth Hands Free Car Kit lets you talk for ever in your vehicle as long as you sit under a sunny sky somewhere nice and warm. Cave dwellers or vampires, however, need not apply. £59.99.  The Vero ENB-100 provides wireless freedom within a distance of 10m/30 ft from a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone in your pocket or at any place in your car. You can talk wirelessly on the phone with your hands on the wheel while…

15” Gigantor Digital Photo Frame. The story here is not so much the fact that this is a large digital frame, but the price. $249.99 is teeny, tiny digital frame levels, which makes this one heck of a bargain. It’s got a cherry wood frame, plays JPG or BMP formats and contains a memory card adapter which copes with most anything you can throw at it.  Luckily the 15″ Gigantor Digital Photo Frame really delivers with a sharp 1024×768 resolution,…

USB Mini Battery. Aw c’mon, there’s no way that you’re going to drag this puppy out of your pocket and hook it up to charge your iPhone now is there? A gorgeous, sleek and delectable icon of design history connected to the worst phone in history? OK, OK, joking, joking. But look at that charger will you, all grey plastic and October 1998. Sheesh! $36.00.  Have you ever had experiences that devices are running out of battery while in use? It…

Spy Clock. Shiny, convex, glass mirror with hands. Sure it’s a clock, but what else can it show behind you? $25.00.  A convex glass mirror with sleek metal hands, the Spy Clock lets you know what’s going on at all times. One AA-battery A convex glass mirror with sleek metal hands, the Spy Clock lets you know what’s going on at all times. One AA-battery Tags: spy+clock, mirror, gadget

Bontempi Audio Tutor Drum Kit. How well do you know your neighbours? OK, scratch that. How well do you *want* to know your neighbours? This puppy teaches drumming through the use of LED lights, flashing drumheads and a plastic effigy of Ringo Starr sitting on the high hat singing “yeah yeah yeah” in a Liverpudlian falsetto. OK, so we lied about that, but the rest may be true. $129.95.  This childs three-piece drum set includes a built-in electronic tutor that…

AlarmWear Personal Alarm Clothing. So person, just how paranoid do you feel today, eh? Twitchy enough to put on a fleece jacket with a built in 125 db alarm? You get alarmed by someone or something, you pull the ring and suddenly everyone around you is having a heart attack as you bathe them in the sweetly equivalent sound level of a jumbo jet landing on their heads. Nice. Priced from around $38.00 upwards and kids have their own range of alarming clothing…

The Singing Alarm Clock wakes you up with the gentle twitter of 9 species. Not all at once of course, because that would be silly, wouldn’t it? You can also insert Identiflyer compatible cards to hear noises from other members of the natural world, which is nice if you’re that way inclined. $29.95.  The Singing AlarmClock has its own special card: Beautiful BirdSongs, a selection of the 9 most beautiful bird songs from the Identiflyer collection. Simply insert the card…

Bling My Desktop. Well a couple of tatty desk tools clad in pink plastic and rhinestones may be your cup of tea, but it leaves this reporter cold as an ice cold Ferret in Alaska. Early on a December morning. With no coat on. Or hat. The calculator is solar, the mouse is optical and the stapler is..well…what d’you expect, a stapler. Sheesh! A$59.95.  Every desktop needs an optical mouse, calculator (solar-capable of course) and stapler – but why ‘blend…

The Heated Doormat makes absolute sense to us. Yep, we’ve seen Al Gore’s little movie and we reckon there’s no better way to show solidarity than to try and heat up our front yard some. Heck, next year we plan on embedding underground heating rails in our front lawn. Pass me another Vermouth, sweetie, will ya? $129.95.  This is the only heated doormat available that provides heat up to 50 F higher than the ambient temperature, allowing you to keep your entryway…