Weird Stuff – Clocky Alarm Clock – weird Clock

In the realm of weird stuff, Nanda Home makes a really bizarre, but kinda cool, alarm clock / sick toy.

Clocky, the robot Alarm Clock is the hi tech solution for people who have a really hard time waking up and getting out of bed. You know, the ones that tend to just shut off the alarm and go back to sleep.

Clocky is not an ordinary, stand there and beep type of clock. Clocky has wheels and the ability to jump off your night stand and roll around your room.

The manufacturer has this description of Clocky:

The patented alarm clock that runs away and hides to get you out of bed. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide, beeping all the while. You’ll have to get out of bed to silence his alarm. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time.

Definitely a cool idea, too bad I can’t see these lasting long since by the time you catch the thing, you may be inclined to throw it out a window and silence Clocky for good.

Clocky runs on 4 AAA batteries, comes in 2 different colors and retails for around 50 bucks. Lumens has one for 49.99

The Ovation iDea, A Guitar with a built-in MP3 recorder / player. Now you can record your music to an MP3 as you are playing it without needing any other gizmos or devices.The Ovation . This is actually a really cool idea and pretty simple. With a press of a button record your session.

The new Ovation iDea acoustic/electric guitar comes with a built-in MP3 recorder that records the strings right off the pick-up and a separate, player-facing microphone for voice.

The Ovation Idea retails for around 600 bucks.

Ovation iDea guitar

If you spend most of your time at the computer and you have around $1500 burning a hole through your pocket, you may want to take a look at the future of keyboard… Step up to the Optimus line.

The  Art Lebedev company presents a new generation of keyboards.  This is not a keyboard, this is a high tech work of art that may be framed in the homes of true computer nerds.

Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it.Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian,Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity.

Each key on this ultra cool, and did I mention ultra expensive, keyboard is a screen display. The keyboard keys are not really keys, but individual modules consisting of a moving cap, a microchip and a display, yep, each key has a chip and display in it.

The Optimus Keyboard also has room for many plugs, even a card reader.

If The Optimus is not fancy enough a gadget for your hi tech taste? Check out the companies next generation of keyboards. This other Optimus line is so advanced, it doesn’t even have keys.

The entire keyboard is a video display that can be custom programmed in many configurations, no price tag on this one yet.

Keyless Keyboard of the future

and you can even watch videos on it.