Gadget Dose

Think of this as a portable screensaver with all sorts of extras. Something you’d put in a room to relax, soothe, or catch the eye of guests.

Featuring a backlit LCD screen (320×240) - and all sorts of digital sounds, from the ocean waves and underwater bubbles, to whale sounds and others.

It comes stocked with more than 100 kinds of marine animals!

Speaker in jack to connects the audio output to another device - Yep, its sound reactive. And as if that weren’t enough, it has a clock and calendar too.

Heres a neat feature - it will remind you of special days ( New Year’s day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, April Fool, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas )

Annnnnd — you can set your own special days as well. Expect the sea creatures to celebrate your special day too.

All in all a pretty neat little device - You can get one HERE for the mildly expensive price of $135.41

One of my favorite places to go and gaze upon goofy gadgets ( Toys.brando.com.hk ) has just picked up ssomething I’ve been watching since it came out in Japan some time ago. Back then it wasn’t available for shipment in the states. Now everyone can enjoy this desktop space killer.

Its a small aquarium complete with fish (not real ones) that swim around the tank. Its powered by the USB connector on a 4 foot cord. You can also switch the light on via computer control too (blue led). As if this weren’t enough to get you to give away valuable desktop real estate - theres more!

With the enclosed software you can also feed and “play” with your fish - Feed / Medical / Play / Turn Light on /off. You fill it up with real water and a motor generates a real current.

Now thats probably enough for the goofy desktop toy enthusiast, but I’d actually take it a step further… You could hack the thing and put in real fish! - yeah sure - get that top off and put in a freshwater goldfish - or crayfish - or a small blue shrimp. All those do great in cold freshwater tanks. Here are the specs….

# Swimming fish with hinged tails and life-like motion
# Blue LED nightlight and water current
# Able to feed and play with your fish by using the interactive menu
# Plug and play
# No batteries required
# Compatible with Windows 2000/XP
# 4 feet USB cable
# Size: 11.2×11.2×8.8cm
# Weight: 343g

Youll need a usb port - and surprisingly 200 megs of hard drive space for the software …

A you can’t turn this down kinda deal at $23.00 HERE

And while your at it - you might as well hook up the scrolling usb message board to brag about your new fish tank.

Happy Friday!

Ok - this is one of those really questionable gadgets that could be super cool and could be super crap - what really sets my warning bells off is the massive disclaimer section in wonderfully busted up english….

Note:

1. Don’t use it in the environment below: especial hot cold, dust and wet.
2. Don’t drop down your player.
3. In the case below, you must charge it:
A. The sign show that no electricity in the player.
B. The system close itself, and you restart it, but it once again close the system
C. No any reaction when you press the button.
D. Connect with the computer did not have any identification, please use rechargeable battery charger.
4. When the player upload(download) your file or connect with the computer, please do not cut down the connection immediately. Or else maybe you will make the program error. If do not use the right way to operate this player and lose file. We don’t take the responsibility on it.
5. No matter you open or not, when you connect with the USB port of the computer, it begins to charge.
6. Don’t attempt to dismantle unit.
7. This watch have no waterproof function, be carefully of water.

So you may want to be carefully when buying - but if you have a spare $109 you don’t mind parting with - -this watch might be worth a look.

Gdget, Video Watch