Special Mugs

Swiss Military Pen

The Swiss are highly regarded for their precision pen knives. And now they're taking things one stage further by fitting 13 essential items into a precision pen!

Constructed using Aircraft Grade Alloy, this sleek bit of kit includes a flat screwdriver, hole puncher, steel file, short cutting blade, ear pick, nail remover, long cutting blade, tweezers, phillips screwdriver, steel fork, saw and a writing pen. (Kitchen sink not included).

James Bond would be lost without one of these beauties.

The pen un-twists into three cylinders, each with storage slots to hold the various blades. The two knurled cylinder joints also contain tools on each side. Made out of a rugged yet lightweight aluminium alloy, the Swiss Military Pen is great for campers, hunters, do-it-yourselfers, repair people and gadget-levers.

[Via BoysStuff.co.uk]

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Butt Station Office Gadget

At first glance this could just be some crude desk ornament, but look closer and it is in fact an incredibly ingeniously formed desk tidy.

Tuck your Post-it Note pad in the cistern, let the little fella hold a roll of sticky tape for you, and he’ll hold a pen between his gritted teeth. Even better lift him up and rather than nasty surprises, you’ll just find a neat little cubby hole for storing paper clips, drawing pins, or any other small items you may want to.

This is sure to make a stylishly welcome and useful addition to any desk!

[Via Gadgets.co.uk]

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FTW! Mug

In an increasingly sterile corporate world, where the dress code is dictated and your cubicle decor is reviewed for appropriateness, the coffee mug is the last bastion of personal expression. Sure, you could desperately ask "Is it Friday YET?" or advertise yourself as "Number 1 Dad!" (or Mom - both of which are especially entertaining if you have no children), but you're better than that. Declare your defiance against the corporate drones with this FTW! mug. Fill it with your favorite caffeinated beverage, and taste the victory.

[Via ThinkGeek]

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Cubistorus Stack Blocks

Cubistorus is designed for furnishing first office.

Its basic element is an easily assembled cube module measuring 15.7×15.7 in. Blocks are universally interattachable and have five optionable colors. Cubistorus can be put together effortlessly using specially designed clips.

[Via ArtLebedev.com]

Not Paper

"I Am Not A Paper Cup," the packaging says. Designed to look like you just stepped out of one of those hip and trendy coffee megachains with a triple grande one-percent two-pump hazelenut no-foam crappuchino with one of their paper-cups. In actuality, you may have made a simple pot of Folgers at home with a blue-packet of sweetener and a glug of milk. Maybe your coffee's not "gourmet" but you can look like you're drinking some of the expensive stuff.

What's more, you're able to simply wash and reuse that cup indefinitely. The cup itself is ceramic and double-walled for extra thermo-goodness. Fill the inner chamber with hot water and keep the coffee warmer longer!

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Office Sleeping Cube

If you don't have to be so conspicuous with your sleeping habits at the office you may want to look towards the Nappak, the inflatable sleeping quarters. While it's rolled up when not in use, the Nappak takes up very little room, but inflate this unit up and expect it to take up a big chunk of your office, or your entire cubicle.

[Via Dvice.com]

Ridibundus CD Case

New 12 disc case is both handy and smiley.

Soft and fuzzy with tongue sticking out.

[Via ArtLebedev.com]

Portable Power-Plant

The potential for power is pervasive - perpetually permeating the planet from pole to pole. The sun, that massive orb of glowing plasma fires down countless quintillions of photons which we can directly capture. Those we don't cause temperature gradients that, when coupled with gravitational tidal effects, cause that heat to be transformed into kinetic energy in the atmosphere. The wind blows in lazy vortices around our big blue marble.

All this power floating around us is there for the taking, so why not make use of it? What we've got now is a simple battery pack that can absorb and store 1200mAh of electricity, rechargeable by wind or solar power. The wind mini-generator is the core of the system, housing the battery and the simple windmill. Strap it to your handlebars or your own body via the optional attachments. Supplement your power-generating ability by adding a solar-panel. You can even attach up to four panels and daisy-chain them together for additional oomph!

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Office Monkeys: Monkey See, Monkey Do

Monkey business is a term that is thrown about a lot when referring to office shenanigans (normally with a negative connotation - like "stop all that monkey business and get to work").

These monkeys have not heard of business casual, as they are all dressed up in their finest (just like some of the monkeys in your office). The Office Monkeys Playset is a great stress reliever. Name the monkeys after folks in your office - and where you go from there is up to you. You can recreate office drama, act out fictional office playlets, or just throw them across the room if their real-life counterparts make you angry (it's a lot safer and easier on the back then throwing the real person across the room). Monkeying around was never so much fun.

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Gravity Pen

The gravity pen uses the principle of intersecting magnetic fields to hold itself in place as if suspended by nothing but air. Combined with a contemporary design it is the perfect desktop accessory. A beautifully weighted pen finished in chrome.

[Via GadgetsUK.com]

Mug of Perl

Perl is basically the standard for regular expressions. And when our expressions are regular, our whole outlook on life improves.

The Mug of Perl collects a nice smattering of arrays, hashes, variables, and regexes, and displays them all the way around. Add some caffeine to the inside of the mug (i.e. Bawls, Jolt, or coffee), and you will feel refreshed in more ways than one. Because everything tastes better when surrounded with Perl - and keeping your expressions regular will help you be a healthy coder.

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Vous Mirror - Thumb Up Mirror

Each time you look in Vous mirror it tells you: “Awesome!”

[Via ArtLebedev.com]

Drink Selector Mug

How many times have you gone to do the tea run with the best intentions and a memory full of 'black with one, white with two, etc' and inevitably someone ends up with the wrong combination? With the Chunky Drink Selector Cream Mug worry no more.

The Selector Mug ensures you get your cuppa, just the way you like it. Perfect for the office when a brew is on and being made for several people. The moveable stainless steel rings allow you to select exactly what hot drink you want, avoiding any confusion. You can first choose from Tea, Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Herbal Tea, Latte, Cappuccino, Mocha and Decaf. Then whether you require your drink with Milk, Cream, Lemon, Ginger, Whipped Cream, Soya Milk or just Black. Then finally you can choose from No sugar at all, 1 sugar, 2 sugars, 3 sugars, Honey, Sweetener, Cinnamon or even Syrup. Why stop with just one you could get the whole office and/or family sorted with a Drink Selector Mug. This is definitely a Mug with a twist!!!! The Selector Mug comes in a cream ceramic finish, with stainless steel rings. Measures approx.105mm x 110mm (including handle).

[Via BoysStuff.co.uk]

Ultra-thin Digital Voice Recorder

When it comes to portable electronic gadgets, thin is always in. We constantly want to see our electronics becoming lighter, smaller and thinner so that we can have the justification to buy a shiny new toy. Yes, new features are always nice - but what we really want is a gadget so thin it will blow the mind of anyone who even gets a passing glance of it.

This credit card size digital voice recorder measures in at just 6.5 millimeters in thickness and features 1GB of built-in storage, a flip-out USB connector, and flush-mounted controls. It can also be used as a MP3 player and USB flash drive. It records in high quality WAV file format and files can be easily copied or deleted just as with a standard USB storage device. Convenient and highly portable design mean you can take it with you just about anywhere with minimum hassle.

With only 36g weight the Ultra-thin Digital Voice Recorder offers a 69-hour recording time and built-in Li-Ion battery that is rechargeable via USB connection.

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

B-52 Stratofortress Ejector Seat Chair

The novel chair gives you a close-to-life simulation of the ejector seats from the legendary B-52 bombers.

Feel free to drool all over your monitor for now.

[Via BornRich.org]

Digital Measuring Tape

The Digital Measuring Tape features a large easy-to-read display that is capable of memorizing your measurements with the push of a button. It can give measurements in either feet and inches or metric units and will even display fractions of an inch (as small as 1/16th) just like a standard tape measure. There is also a setting for adding the case length for taking inside measurements. The Digital Measuring Tape turns on and off automatically, when the tape is extended (on) or fully retracted back into the case (off).

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Animated Business Cards

The card exist of a outer sleeve with vertical raster and the animated pictures are made in a special way.

[Via ChungDha.com]

Water Powered Clock

The water clock will display the time and date in clear easy to read numbers just moments after you fill the liquid reservoirs in the back with the liquid of your choice.

How does it work? Magic mostly. And a little bit of science too. The internal converter simply extracts electrons from water (or other liquid) molecules and provides a steady stream of electrical current acting as a fuel cell to generate power to the clock.

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Novinkus: Put Stickers All Around

With this stack of 50 stickers of different size and color you can in no time mark ‘New!’ everything in your workplace.

[Via ArtLebedev.com]

Colour Changing Projection Clock

This projection clock improves on the standard projector though, it allows you to choose the colour of the backlight. Restful red, soothing green, luscious lilac, or hi-tech blue. Choose it yourself or leave it to the whim of the random colour selector. Not only does the clock show the time, but date and temperature too!

You don’t even need to set the clock manually either. It is linked by radio to an international standard atomic clock, to make sure it is absolutely accurate.

[Via Gadgets.co.uk]

Superbitus

Superbitus is a one-piece bomb-shaped plaster-made money-saving box. Supplied with a white marker to write the purpose of savings.

[Via ArtLebedev.com]

Pencil Bench

The Pencil Bench is an art project from Boex Studios. The squab is made up of 1600 pencils, and every one of them is removable for use in any pencil related task. It's curiously beautiful, and is probably great for removing cellulite.

[Via Wired.com]

Retro Dial Telephone

If you were to ask an average gadgeteer to sketch a telephone, this is what they would draw. Oh yeah, this is a proper telephone. It doesn’t have a thousand memories, it doesn’t do text messaging, customised ring tones or multi-megapixel photos, and it certainly doesn’t do slim-line or lightweight.

What it does have in abundance though, is telephonic style. Think of all those classic 1960s/70s Brit films and TV series; The Sweeney, The Avengers, James Bond, all those Michael Caine thrillers, they all used the classic dial telephone. When Life on Mars came out, the classic dial telephone was up there with the Mk.3 Cortina when it came to period cool.

The classic GPO type 746 dial telephone was introduced to the market in 1967. It rapidly became a design classic and was still available to BT customers until the 1980s. Its robust and reliable design made it a universal favourite in homes and offices around Britain.

These are genuine, professionally refurbished, BT telephones fitted with brand new, totally original, case mouldings. Features include a real rotary dial and classic bell ringer. It has also been rewired for use with any BT-standard phone socket so all you need to do is plug it in. No messing!

[Via Gadgets.co.uk]

Gucci's Eraser

Gucci's eraser with black case.

[Via Seihin-World.com]

Mouse Mus II

Mus2 is a cordless optical two-button mouse. It not only controls the cursor on your screen, but looks like one, too.

It features an in-mouse power indicator that lights up when the batteries are low or need replacing.

Despite this unusual shape, Mus2 fits well into the hand and doesn’t cause any ergonomic problems.

[Via ArtLebedev.com]

Dead Fred Pen Holder

Having a bad day?

Take it out on Fred! Stab him in the heart as many times as you want, he won't mind 'cause he's already dead!

Picture your worst enemy as you slam your pen into Fred's chest, perhaps that annoying guy in accounts who constantly questions your expenses. Its like having your very own voodoo doll constantly at your side.

A strangely "cute" addition to any desk, Fred is made from blood red silicone rubber. He'll keep your pen safe from harm and provide an interesting talking point.

What's more, your colleagues won't dare mess with you once they've seen you in murder mode.

Notes: Do not use for constant stabbing - Fred is already dead! For serious frustration seek anger management classes.

[Via Gadgets.co.uk]

Expressive Pen

The designers at Philips have been busy "emotionizing" their products, what with the cuddly Aurea TVs, and their emotional reactive jewelry. Now they have got designs on the humble pen, with a patented invention for a writing implement that actually records the mood of the writer while they're writing stuff. Its finger contact sensors detect give-aways like heartbeat, skin temperature and the pressure you exert on pen and paper, which it then uses to actually morph the look of the ink stroke.

While a biro may be a fantastic at scribbling notes, Philips thinks that they can actually increase your self-expression with this device. By processing data from the skin sensors, the pen switches flow from different ink canisters and uses actuators to modify the pen nib, allowing for different colors, stroke widths, styles and even ink flow continuity (presumably for that scratched-out-blobby desperate note to loved ones).

Since your emotions are given away by things like skin conductivity and heartbeat—after all, that's how lie detectors work—this idea may one day end up as reality. Future documents of historical note may yet be signed with such a pen, giving away how nervy the signatories are and "Dear John" letters may never be the same again.

[Via Gizmodo.com]

Green Laser Pointer

This new 10mW green laser is incredibly bright - crazy bright you might even say. The beam is easily visible in dark conditions. The green laser dot can be seen miles away from the laser source.

In addition to its impressive output this laser requires a master key to turn it on. The key is part of a 5-point user safety system designed to prevent someone who is unfamiliar with the laser from mistakenly pushing a button and accidentally shooting a green laser beam across campus. The 5-point safety system is also designed to underscore the fact that this laser completely rocks the house and will dominate any other laser to cross its path.

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Personal Digital Copier

Personal Copier, Single Cartridge System. 4 Copies per minute. 50 sheet paper tray for multiple copies up to 9 at a time or set the full-feed mode for up to 50 copies, the adjustable exposure slide gives you the freedom to control how light or dark the copies come out, requires no warm up time, auto shut off.

[Via GarysGearAndGadgets.com]

Shelf Window

Shelf Window is made from colored spruce.
Designer: Roman Ficek.

[Via Comunistar.com]

Cat's Arse Sharpener

There are no words that readily spring to mind to soften the blow. It's a cat, you stick your pencil in its derrière, it meows, and it sharpens your pencil. Your feline friend stands in his own litter tray that catches your pencil shavings. Of course not many people use pencils much these days, but this is perhaps the best reason there has ever been for going out and buying one right now.

No animals were harmed in the making of this product. Don't try sharpening your pencil in a real cat if you value your life. Or even if you don't come to think of it.

[Via IWantOneOfThose.com]

Cushion from NASA

Relieve severe back pain from hours of sitting at your desk with the revolutionary NASA invented Memory Foam Seat Cushion.

The cushion utilizes one of the most fantastic inventions to come out of NASA's laboratories in years - "Memory Foam". The Therapy Memory Foam Visco-Elastic Seat Cushion utilizes Thermo-Sensitive properties to provide contouring support according to natural body heat. That means it conforms and changes shape to accommodate any body shape or position.

Studies show that 80% of the population begins to see the deteriorating effects of bad posture around age 60. That means most of us will end up with the debilitating and painful effects associated with spine and disc compression as we enter our golden years.

The Memory Foam Office Chair cushion is the first orthopedic cushion to alleviate pressure that causes harmful back strain and permanently damaging spinal conditions.

[Via BoomerGadgets.com]

Printing Calculator

Casio HR-8TM printing calculator:

12-digit printer; prints 1.6 lines per sec; easy to read LCD display; cost/sell/margin; tax & currency exchange function; independent memory; function command signes; profit margin percent; 5/4 rounding; simple algebraic logic; requires 4 AA batteries.

[Via LNHSales.com]

Clock of Nines

Math enthusiasts who don't want to move totally into the digital realm might appreciate this analog clock.

Each number is expressed as a calculation involving three instances of the number 9.

For example, 5 o'clock is the square root of nine (3), factorial (3x2x1 = 6), minus 9/9 (6-1 = 5).

The trickiest time is 7 o'clock, whose calculation works out to 6.99999..., with an infinite number of nines. Wikipedia assures us that 0.99999... really does equal 1, so no worries that the clock is cheating there.

[Via News.com]

Currency Calculator

Clever calculator with currency convertor offers many features. It tells the time in 16 cities around the world with just the push of a button. Features a full-function 12-digit calculator & built-in currency converter. Alarm has a 5-minute snooze function, easy-to-read screen & even displays the date & temperature.

[Via AddedTouch.us]

Tix Clock

Millions of patterns are possible with the futuristic-looking Tix clock, yet the clock is extremely simple to read once you grasp the basic concept. The four seperate fields act like the four digits of a digital clock. The value of each digit is simply the number of illuminated squares in each field. So any given time of the day may have thousands of different ways of displaying the time. The clocks in the image are displaying the time 12:34. It's that easy! Of course your friends are just going to take a look at your Tix clock and think it's just modern LED art.

[Via ThinkGeek.com]

Affirmation Ball

Sometimes life is kind of rough. Why wait for some kind soul to give you the praise you deserve? With the Affirmation Ball, a cheery thought is just a shake away! 20 inspirational messages, like "People like you!", "Your breath is so minty!", "Have you lost Weight?" and "You smell nice!"

[Via KlearGear.com]

Self-Stirring Mug

Perfect for milkshakes, cup-a-soups (or any generic powdered soups) tea, coffee... basically any drink that you need to stir!

The Stainless steel mug has a small rotating blade at the bottom - simply press the button on the handle and it whizzes into life.

The self-stirring mug also comes with a colour co-ordinating plastic lid to save you from splashes.

[Via GadgetStorm.com]

Massage During Work

Some forward-thinking companies have started offering massages during work for their most stressed-out workers.

For under a tenner you can have a relaxing and invigorating massage without leaving your computer. Simply plug the massager into a USB port on your PC or laptop, press the on/off switch on the back and massage the tension away.

Available in either blue or pink, the USB massager requires no extra power source, and because it's a USB device, you can have as many as you have spare ports.

[Via GadgetStorm.com]

Pen Features 4GB of Memory and Rechargeable Laser Pointer

This ball point pen looks ordinary enough, the only visible difference is the small button located near the top of the shaft, and the hole at the tip. As almost anyone would guess, that button controls the laser pointer on the end of the pen. That’s not the only useful feature of this pen, as it also opens up to reveal a 4GB USB flash drive. While those two features are somewhat common these days, you don’t see them built into the same pen very often.

[Via Coolest-Gadgets.com]

CD Shaped Like 3.5'' Floppy Disk

Recordable compact disk shaped like 3.5'' floppy disk.

Storage space 200 Mb.

[Via DesignBoom.com]