The RT Ideas clock is very cool looking. Very. [Warning: Flash link] There’s a collection of other fun Flash stuff on the site here. Including this rather funny Online Physician.

If you’re an ultimately sad geeky type person, you’ll probably want to build your next PC inside a life-sized Lara Croft style action model. Won’t you? Takes your breath away, don’t it?

Scientists have come up with a glucose fuelled battery which can produce 2.4 microwatts from a single grape. They now hope to start trials using the biofuel cell inside insects and small animals. Which sounds a bit yeuch actually, although they claim it will be useful for use with tracking modules and the like.

The Free-Ed site offers a whole passel of free courses covering everything from Anthropology to Pharmacology. Pop up advertising funded. ‘Free-Ed is committed to providing an online, virtual university where users from around the world can study, take courses, and participate in community activities at no cost.’

Russ Walter’s Secret Guide to Computers is an excellent free tutorial site on all things personal computer-ish. It’s comprehensive, simple to read and just perfect for your granny. The only caveat I would give is that it has the feel of something that was originally written quite a while ago. Why else would there be such a lot of space devoted to the ancient and all but defunct dot matrix printer? However it has obviously been lovingly updated continuously over…

The BBC Jam Cams site is terrific. A listing of all the major traffic Web cams across London. Why’s it taken me so long to find this?

The Nap-Strap looks like the total answer to sleeping in transit. Now if only I could prove that it worked. $19.95 from an outlet near you. Maybe.

Aunty is reporting that the UK Civil Aviation Authority has come up with some firm evidence that mobile phones do in fact endanger aircraft if used while in flight. ‘In tests, compasses froze or overshot, navigation bearings were inaccurate and there was interference on radio channels. ‘ There’s also a story in a sidebar on the page which details how a plane had problems landing because some muppet passenger was using her phone at the time. Mmmm, not nice.

The Digiana Wireless Portable FM Linker is a $28.95 doo-hickey which you plug into the headphone slot of your MP3 player, PDA or Walkman or whatever. You can then tune it to a radio channel and listen to your player through the nearest radio. Cool for the car eh? Here’s a rather favourable review.

The Freaky Dreams site offers to analyse your dreams. Simply enter in the details of the dream and press the Interpret button. Freaky is the word.

E-Paper appears to be on the way to commercial production after news of a new ultra-thin electronic ink display from E-Ink Corporation of the US. The new screen is so thin that it can be used as a thin screen. Honest.

Make your own paper kite. Fun for all the family.

The MSN iLoo. I just don’t understand. ? Oh and while we’re digging around at the bottom of the news pile (*cough*) how’s about the Internet Toilet Roll Browser? Look I don’t write ’em, OK? I just find ’em. :-)

The Visual Route Server site provides a very cool Java application to trace a route from their server to any other server you define. It also lets you track any problems with your own ISP service and see where any logjams are by tracing a route back to your own IP address. Along with the Internet Traffic Report, this looks like a great connection troubleshooting tool.

Hybrid technology continues its onwards march with Toshiba’s release of the SD-H400 progressive scan DVD/DVR (digital video recorder) product. The unit contains an 80GB hard drive and includes some basic TiVo technology. It’s expected to cost around $549 when released later this year.