Deck LED-Backlit Keyboard

Ever since The Fast And The Furious revved its way onto big screens with cool-sounding stuff like Nitrox and undercar neon lights that make your vehicle's undercarriage glow in the dark, it's been nifty to own a piece of modified hardware that says individuality. Here's one that won't bust your pocket but looks just as cool as those undercarriage neon accents. Each key, frame and gap on this keyboard is backlit, and claims to be good for 200,000 hours or about 22 years of non-stop usage. Cooler still in the dark.

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Price: US$99.99 - US$119.99
Availability: Think Geek
Device: Keyboard
Basic specs: 82-key layout with individually backlit keys, switchable to 7 layers of brightness, support for WinXP/2000/ME/98, Mac OS9 and OSX, choice of four colors

Nike Maxsight

Wanna look like a possessed Darth Maul? Just plonk on Nike's Maxsight contacts. Specially made for football players to help them see the ball better, particularly in bright sunlight, the lenses come in two tints to enhance different parts of the light spectrum for different activities. Amber lenses are said to be best for fast-moving ball sports, while the grey-green ones are better for those like golfers and runners who focus more on the landscape. Made in partnership with Bausch & Lomb over seven years, Maxsight is certainly a sight to behold when worn, since you'll either spook your pals with those fiercesome colored lenses or weird out strangers. Cool!

Price: Box of six 30-day lenses for US$60
Availability: Just out this month, at opticians in the US
Device: Performance-enhancing contact lenses
Basic specs: N.A.

Osmooze

Having attempted once to burn aromatherapy sticks at the cubicle and ending up with smoke inhalation instead of a calming balm, here's a doo-dad that sounds like a safer bet. Just plug the scent diffuser into the nearest PC USB port, and you're ready to smooze. Developed in France (the real thang), there's a choice of 20 gel cartridges containing 100 percent natural essential oils, with lovely names like Eden's Garden and Lavender. What'll make this nifty is if it could release visible puffs of fragrance, like New Glade's Wisp Home Fragrancer.

Price: €39.90 (US$48)
Availability: osmooze
Device: Fragrance dispenser
Basic specs: N.A.

Purrfect Mood Detector

Cat lovers will tell you they know when their pet's in a good or foul mood. However, as a gimmick, the Purrfect Mood Detector will do the job for US$14.95. Less brainy than Takara's Meowlingual translater, this mood-o-meter wears like a chunky collar charm which, if your cat hasn't already pawed off, sports an onboard microphone. This picks up your feline's purrs and illuminates an LED light to let you know your purdy's content. Though it's not terribly hard to pull your little kitty out of a blue funk. A dish of tuna treat always does the trick.

Via The Red Ferret

Price: US$14.95
Availability: Advanced Pet Products
Device: Pet product
Basic specs: Choice of pink or white, included CR2032 battery

Ougontou Kenzan

Excite's translation engine just can't get past reading this as Gold Tou. Taken literally, the Japanese characters are equally hilarious--Golden Head Sword Mountain. It's actually a lot less painful (in name and usage) than it appears. Think of this as a flexible brush with 93 pointy bits on one side which you saw across your scalp to massage it. Osama No Idea (don't we just love the site) says it's oh so good for your blood circulation. Go ahead, we dare you.

See: How it's used | alternative

Price: 2,940 yen (US$26.25)
Availability: osamanoidea.com
Device: Head massager
Basic specs: Made of polyethylene and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene resin

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