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Design firm Storm out of London has created a very cyber friendly watch that should appeal to futurists everywhere.  This stainless steel watch uses bright red LED’s to display the time, and will definitely make you stand out in night life scenarios.

Priced at $200, it just may be cheap enough that that watch connoisseur could have one of these in addition to all the other cool watches he already owns.  What would make this watch a lot cooler would be a matching prosthetic arm to go with it.

[via CrunchGear]

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I’ve got me a bike light, but I have yet to purchase a portable bike pump because it’s just too much gear to tote around with me.  The PUYL (I assume it means Pump Up Your Light) is a bike pump and LED light in one.  It requires absolutely no batteries to shine your way home since 20 seconds of pumping provides up to 45 minutes of power – brilliant.

Right now it’s a prototype, and its maker, Kai Malte Roever doesn’t seem to have any plans to manufacture it, but given the amount of buzz it’s currently receiving I’d say it’s just a matter of time before we see one of these in REI.

Update: It’s patent pending, so maybe we will see it sooner than later.

[via Gizmag]

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Well hello novelty, at least according to one commenter on the linked product page.  The LED Credit Card Pocket Light is small enough to fit into a wallet and uses a 3V built in battery to power its light source – not sure how you recharge it, though.  My mom might enjoy this product for reading menus in dark restaurants, but beyond that its practical applications have to be few and far between.

Meritline currently has it on sale for $3.99 including shipping.

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All right, road warriors, pay attention–because this is some really awesome news, especially if you have to do a lot of time-zone hopping in the course of your travels.  This is also awesome for anyone with a hugely variable schedule that requires you to work, and sleep, at different times every day.

We’re talking about Daylight Savers from Flinders Tech, glasses with a pair of bright blue LED lights that shine directly into your eyes, causing a delay in your circadian rhythm.  Now, circadian rhythms are those things that generally cause you to get tired at the same time every day, or wake up at about the same time every day, or even get hungry at certain times.

There are literally dozens of different uses for this product, though I have to wonder about the long term effects of artificially altering your circadian rhythms. However, for people whose time clocks are already out of whack, this could be the answer to your prayers.

They’re not yet ready for market, so there’s no pricing or release data, but they hope to have them available within the next year.

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Got twenty bucks?  Easily entertained?  Then what I’ve got for you will quite literally blow your mind wide open.

It’s called the HoverDrone, and it’s a little toy hovercraft that actually hovers.

It’s not that much bigger around than a silver dollar, and it floats by generating its own cushion with a small fan on its undercarriage.  It also blinks a little blue LED.  But where this is interesting is not that it’s a tiny flight-capable toy, but rather that it’s the SMALLEST remote controlled flying device ever made.

No, really–it’s just over sixty millimeters in diameter, and it flies.  You can even control the height of the flight by remote, even if the remote is basically “up” and “down”.  And the best part is, you can have one of these for just about twenty bucks.  Even if you’re not that interested in flying a little blue toy with an LED light that blinks, well, it’s almost worth it just to have that piece of toy history in your hands.

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I didn’t think a cake platter could be anything but boring, but the Musical Cake Tray Model is anything but that.  To insure everyone scores an evenly cut piece of cake there are a set of built-in LED lights to guide your cutting.  It can hold up to a 12-inch cake, and if that isn’t enough the tray can also play the happy birthday song, that is assuming the royalty policy aren’t sniffing around your child’s birthday party.

Yours for $59.99.

[via Gadget-grid]

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This time of year, glow in the dark anything gets just a little extra street cred, but even I can’t help but wonder if this is going just a bit too far.  It’s called the LiteCube, and it is basically what it looks like, a lighted ice cube.  They’re made of sealed acrylic plastic with an LED light inside.  They cost a whopping $2.40 each, and you get a quantity discount if you order over 24, then another price break at 288.

If you throw a lot of outdoor parties, or parties in low light, then the lighted drink special might be exactly the kind of thing you want.

Plus, Glowsource, the company that makes these, also offers plenty of other light-up bar supplies, like stir sticks and olive picks, among a host of others.  So for all your light-up bar needs…well…I think about the only place you CAN think of would be Glowsource.

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If you’ve ever spent time cruising around looking for a WiFi hotspot to patch your laptop in to, you’ll know that sometimes that’s a tall order that’s much easier said than done.  But now, thanks to the WiFi Seeker and Light, finding WiFi is as easy as consulting your keychain.

One button on the device activates a one-LED flashlight, where a second button will tell you the strength of any surrounding WiFi signal.  Talk about your simple operations…but interestingly, the WiFi Seeker And Light doesn’t seem to be available online, but thankfully, the folks at Amazon are more than ready to step in and offer, if not necessarily the product you want, then at the very least a product that will do what you want it to.

Of course, you don’t really NEED a WiFi finder like this–just bring your laptop–but the idea of being able to possibly find WiFi spaces while walking around the neighborhood with a little thing like that that probably makes you feel like a Ghostbuster tracking Slimer around is almost unavoidably cool.

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For those of you survivalists out there compiling your “apocalypse gear” collection, this may be the flashlight you have been dreaming about.  Harnessing an appropriately titled Flashpoint Power Technology, the flashlight uses environmentally friendly ultracapacitors to help manage the the flow of energy in terms of performance and run time.  So without the help of actual conventional batteries this 5.11 tactical flashlight can be fully charged in 90 seconds.

With that full charge you get 23.5 hours of continuous light.  Sounds freaking amazing to me and if there is any downside to this awesome technology it would have to be the $170 price tag.  Even so, check out the specs below if you’re still not sold.

• Recharges in 90 seconds
• No batteries – uses ultra-capacitors, no memory loss
• Made of a firearm-grade high-strength polymer
• Impact, abrasion, and water resistant
• Contains 3 LEDs rated for more than 50,000 hours
• Will charge and hold its charge 50,000 times
• 4 output options: Standard (90 lumens), Peak (270 lumens), Strobe and Standby
• 12 Volt DC Charger, Plastic Belt Ring with Nylon Strap, and a mounting bracket
• Size: 11.5″ x 1.75″ diameter

[via TheGreenHead]

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So in case you haven’t heard, Californian gadget buffs, there’s a push on in Sacramento to ban certain types of big screen TV that use too much energy.  Of course, by “certain types”, I mean roughly a quarter of all TVs in production today and every single plasma TV over sixty inches.  Needless to say, the people are not happy about this, and small businesses are firing back also, but perhaps the worst news came today with a simple pronouncement from Wired Magazine’s Gadget Lab that declared that such a law would be useless within two years, as “energy hogging TVs” would be gone by then anyway, thrown over in favor of LCD and “greener” TVs.

Basically, California’s planning to blow a bunch of money it doesn’t have to make a law it can’t enforce that’ll be rendered moot in two years anyway when the kind of TV it would ban can’t be found on the market.

Way to go, California legislature!  Best start checking the want ads–come November I’d be plenty of you will be run out on a rail.

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