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 watch ring is made by Charles Windlin. The watch ring works for a man or a woman and has an lcd screen embedded into a silver band that is edged in gold.

The only problem I see with this concept is durability since we all know that lcd screens are easily damaged and rings, no matter how carefull you are, always end up scratched and banged around.

Anyway, a stylish and sleek way to tell time.

For the truely punk rock we have the Sputnik Atomic Watch. The watch looks totally hard core and may be considered a lethal weapon. The crazy watch sells for $25.99.

This watch here is also one to be afraid of, but not for the same reasons as the punk rock watch above. Seems wearing this watch attracts a lot of attention.

Japanese Watch designer PIMP created this untra hi tech watch called the Jive Turkey.

The Pimp Turkey Jive has 60 led’s inside the watch that give you a psychedelic light show on your wrist and

” The infinity effect is nothing less than awesome. In the bar I visited last night I had 3 different girls come over to ask me about the watch and the bartender even gave me a free beer when I let him try the watch for a while. Now that’s what I call Pimpin!”

The Pimp Turkey Jive can be found at Tokyo Flash for $135.51.

The crazy watch below has a 1.5 inch video screen, 8 Gigs of memory and supports multiple video and image formats including support for e-books. Good luck reading that e-book on a 1.5 inch screen though.

Seems manufacturers are trying to stick an lcd screen onto just about everything these days, so why not a video wrist watch? The picture may be a bit too small to see clearly and forget about trying to decipher the titles on any music videos. The idea is that it looks ultra hi tech and you will look either very cool or very geeky wearing it.

Here is another model of the video watch…

This hi techpower watch is made in China, go figure, by Chinavision. China is great for hi tech useless gizmos.

The crazy watch supports media files of AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, DAT, RM, MOV, MP3, WMA, WAV, JPEG and BMP formats with 8GB of memory. The display size is 1.8 inches, making it a very large and manly watch.

Tata motors created some buzz when they first showed off the air car some time ago, now seems the project is picking up steam with plans on bringing the air powered car to the US next year.

The models were called oneCat and miniCat and rumor has it that those same models that were slated for Indian roads may hit U.S. roads as well.

The company planning to bring the air cars to the U.S. is called ZPM (Zero Pollution Motors).The first air-powered car to hit U.S. streets is supposed to be priced at around $17,800 with about a 75-hp engine. There are also plans for a 6 seat,  large version for the U.S. market.  The Indian models, OneCat and MiniCat are 2 and 3 seat models.

The air cars are said to be able to go as fast as 95 mph and have a range of 1000 miles on each fill up of, well, air. As it stands now, the cars should be available in the U.S. by early 2010.

Here’s a really cool car even though the concept sounds a bit far fetched but seems a professor in Japan has created a car that runs on water, talk about cheap, easy attainable fuel.

The company responsible for the car is called Genepax. The hi tech car works by extracting the hydrogen from the water that is poured into the cars tank. Electrons are then somehow released producing electricity to power the motor.

The company does have plans for this concept car with plans to mass produce the water car.

Water-fuel car unveiled in Japan

(01:21) Report

Jun. 13 – Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water.

The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car’s tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.

The post is from 2002 and much has changed but what “Lisa” says seems very reasonable so I will republish it for anyone interested in trying to figure out what their domains may be worth.

I have outlined 13 metrics to judge a domain name in a self-appraisal.

1) Marketability
2) Phone Test
3) Name Length
4) Brand Recognition
5) Development Value
6) Dot Value
7) Site Traffic natural
Site Traffic by Search Engines
9) Industry Strength and Positioning
10) Search Engine Popularity
11) Grammatical / Linguistic value
12) Revenue Generating
13) Comparable sales value

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1) Marketability
How many parts make up the name?

A part is classified as a word, a hyphen, or a number.
Example.com has only 1 part, the word “example”.
JoeTheFisherman.com has 3 parts, the parts “Joe”, “The”, and “Fisherman”.
Joe-Fisherman.com has 3 parts, the parts “Joe”, “hyphen”, and “Fisherman”.
1Fisherman.com has 2 parts, the parts “1”, and “Fisherman”.
eFisherman.com has 2 parts, the parts “E”, and “Fisherman”.

1 part award 100 points
2 parts award 10 points
3 parts award 2 points
4 parts award 1 point
5 parts or more award 0 points

2) Phone Test
Try giving out the Domain Name on the phone. How does the domain name sound on the phone.

Does the domain use a hyphen or a number?
Do I spell out a number inside the name ex: (“one”)?
Does the domain use a miss-spelling at all?

If the answer to these questions is all “no” then multiple current score by 5.
If the answer to any of these questions is “yes” then divide current score by 2.

3) Name Length (doesn’t include the length of “www.” or “.” or the ending extension)

Find the highest rule that applies.

If 1 part and the name is less then or equal to 8 characters, then multiple current score by 6.
If 1 part and the name is less then or equal to 15 characters, then multiple current score by 3.
If 1 part and the name is less then or equal to 19 characters, then multiple current score by 2.

If 2 parts and the name is less then or equal to 10 characters, then multiple current score by 4.
If 2 parts and the name is less then or equal to 16 characters, then multiple current score by 3.
If 2 parts and the name is less then or equal to 19 characters, then multiple current score by 2.

If 3 parts and the name is less then or equal to 12 characters, then multiple current score by 2.

4) Brand Recognition
Do people know what the site does even before they even go there?
Either through the meaning of the name or by advertising.
An example of advertising is everyone knows Microsoft.com or ATT.com.
Normal people will need to use the domain meaning to score on this point.

If name has Brand Recognition then multiple current score by 3.

5) Development Value
How much work as been put into Developing the site?
Just a Splash page then multiple current score by 2.
Something more then a Splash page then multiple current score by 3.
Has the domain ever hosted a website that received more then 1000 visitors a day then multiple current score by 25.

6) Dot Value
If .COM extension multiple current score by 3.
If country extension multiple current score by 2.
If country extension is now generic no bonus (example .CC, .TV, .WS)

7) Site Traffic Natural
10-39 natural type-ins multiple current score by 4.
40-100 natural type-ins multiple current score by 8.
100+ natural type-ins multiple current score by 25.
Natural type-ins means (Unique IPs without referrers)

Site Traffic by Search Engines
10-39 Unique IPs multiple current score by 2.
40-500 Unique IPs multiple current score by 3.
500+ Unique IPs multiple current score by 4.

9) Industry Strength and Positioning
Does the domain have a calling? If the domain has a targeted industry how crowded is that industry? Does the domain accurately and generically describe what it was registered to do. Here is an example, For a travel agent, FlyCheap.com is a score 3. For a travel agent TravelCheap.com is a score 7.

Describes generically the industry then multiple current score by 7.
Describes specifically something in the industry then multiple current score by 3.

10) Search Engine Popularity
How do the terms in the domain name rank in Search Engines?

“Great”, then multiple current score by 7.
“Good”, then multiple current score by 2.
“All Right”, then no bonus.

11) Grammatical / Linguistic value
Does it sounds correct? Does it read like a human normally speaks. For example: ShoppestMall.com, this sounds wierd. But ShoppingMall.com sounds correct. The plural form verses the singular form makes a huge difference.

If the name sounds correct, then multiple current score by 2.

12) Revenue Generating

Multiple yearly income of the domain by 2.5, add this dollar value to your final price.

13) Comparable sales value

What other domains have sold at that price. Is your name the same score?
Market analysis on your domain price is very important. Being able to justify your price against other domains selling price is key. Don’t do marketing analysis off of list price. Only selling price will work. To find prices of domains that have sold use Afternic or other domain auction sites.

The highest score possible is something huge like 6,615,000,000
Score doesn’t correlate to actual price very well, You need to use percentiles to figure out what the price is.

Total score:
Lowest = $15 (40 percentile)
Low score = $25-$40 (30 percentile)
Mid score = $100-$300 (25 percentile)
High score = $500-$1000 (3 percentile)
Extreme score = $1000+ (2 percentile)

the post can be found here

For anyone who lives in a small apartment with limited space this would be a blessing. The product I am talking about is the plastic, shrunken version of the clunky, expensive, metal, washer / dryer units available in most American Stores.When I walk into a Sears, there are isles of huge, stainless steel, washing machines and dryers. All of them need to be installed in a laundry area with appropriate hookups and the cheapest, no-frills, single cycle models start at around $300 USD.So, whats going on? why is it that in other countries, small, plastic, portable washer / dryers are available with tons of features and cycles for a fraction of the cost of ours here?  

The mini washer available anywhere but the US, I guess since I have never seen one in any store. The mini washer weighs a few pounds and seems perfect for apartment living.

The model on the left is one of 100’s available from many manufacturers in Asia. The mini washer weighs under 20 lbs. and can handle a few lbs. of clothing at a time. For larger loads, there are larger portable washers in a slew of colors and cool designs.

 There are also twin tub models available so you can do your delicates and cottons at the same time… ultra cool!

To dry your clothes, there is the mini dryer below. The dryer is only about 1.5 ft in height and can pretty much sit on your counter top. The product description from the manufacturer is below… remember, this is a made in china product and their english translation is not too hot. Also, I gotta add, the no fire thing… makes me wonder about previous models.

Product Features The dryer is recently developed by our company, it is suitable for all families, no fire, automaticly control temperatures according to different kind clothes, and clothes quality can be protected properly and unfold clothes fibre, after drying the clothes will be soft and level up as original new; It can keep air pollute form clothes and kill bacterium etc., it is the best coachfellow and assistant of your life. 

Here is another cool mini, portable dryer

I want one… sooooo badly.

The TQ Raver is now improved with streamlined design and advanced technology to enhance your clubbing experience even further. The technology has been visibly refined with an even lighter thinner display, brighter colours and more responsive graphic equaliser. 

The TQ Raver literally turns you into a human graphic equaliser, as its wide spectrum controller processes the music around you. Each musical frequency detected activates a different coloured equaliser bar, just like the equalisers on home stereos and the latest digital recording equipment. The built-in controller can be intuitively adjusted to respond to chilled out low level sound or the heaviest loudest metal and house that you can stand. 

Yes, your clothing can also move with the music on the dance floor. The downside may be having to dance with a battery pack strapped to your chest, but hey, I hear it unplugs for easy washing.

The t-shirt is hand wash only 
100% cottonThe battery pack can be unplugged for easy washing. 
Requires 4 regular AAA Batteries.  Sold and made by Zhenteng Toys Gifts Co