Seiko Electronic Ink watch for women

One ring to rule them all? Seiko's Electronic Ink bracelet watch for women certainly looks like the female edition to Dark Lord Sauron's contentious piece of jewelry in The Lord of the Rings. However, while it's stylishly fashioned with a wraparound 360-degree continuous sapphire crystal, it's not all just about design. Or so Seiko would like us to know. In a bid to appeal to emotional wristwear, if the wearer is at work, the bracelet watch can be set to "efficiency" mode to make the display easy to read. In "mystery" mode, the panel expresses time in an evocative manner. Will this Seiko rule them all? Only time will tell.

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Via New Launches

Price: Expected price of US$2,000
Availability: Likely to be in limited quantities, more info here
Device: Bracelet watch
Specs: Outside diameter 75.3mm, inside 61.5mm, width 22.0mm, thickness 6.9mm, 80g

Kingston vending machine

Flash cards right out of a vending machine? The idea isn't so farfetched when one considers the tech stuff that have been vended, from iPods to phones. Let's not forget Japan where nearly everything, even the kitchen sink, can be bought right off a jido-hanbaiki, as the natives call the automatic dispensers. Kingston is billing its offering as the world's first flash memory vending machine, selling from SD to CF media to USB drives around the clock. Which ain't half bad an idea if your vacation relies on more memory for your digicam. With pricing the missing factor, let's hope all this translates to more bang for the byte.

Via Everything USB

Price: N.A.
Availability: Currently at UK airports
Device: Vending machine
Specs: N.A.

Reef Dram Sandal

What's afoot with Reef Dram? Its latest footwear may be chic in more ways than one for the highly spirited. But when you've been shuffling in and out of dirty loos and dusty tarmacs in your sandals, the last thing you'd want to do is whip it off to pour yourself a stiff drink. More flop than flip? Granted, that probably won't be an issue after you've imbibed all 3oz (about four shots) of hard liquor stashed away in the polyurethane encapsulated flask hidden in each heel. So would that be happy hour or happy feet?

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Via Acquire Magazine

Price: US$45
Availability: More info at Reef
Device: Sandals
Specs: N.A.

God of Clothes

Blame it on the translation engine, the "God of Clothes" smacks suspiciously of Chindogu, the Japanese art of unuseless ideas. That said, this comes from Japan's online retailer Rakutan which claims this can be used not just in the office but also in your car, and can be adjusted to accommodate jackets and--hang on to your seat--even skirts. Hmmm... As with all things coming out of Akibaland, it's the itsy touches that matter, in this case an onboard deodorizer to keep your clothes smelling like a pine forest. Refills optional. You gotta hang, er, hand it to the Japanese.

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Price: 2,100 yen (US$17.60)
Availability: At Rakutan
Device: Coat hanger
Specs: 443 x 240 x 23mm, 300g

Crazy Clock

Weird things abound in the land of the cuckoo clock, indeed. It's become almost an obsession for sadistic makers to dream up alarms that buzz you awake, rather rudely, from the smell of grilled bacon to flying versions that won't let up till you locate that darn propeller switch. So have your revenge and return the favor (to whoever gave you that time piece) with the Crazy Clock. It looks like a sweet 1960s retro blender stuffed with styroform bits. But just wait till the action starts. If you thought your neighbor's kid's piano lessons amounted to aural torture, this blender is loud enough to wake even Elvis from his eternal slumber. Too bad this doesn't blend up a cuppa wake-me-up smoothie to soothe those frayed morning nerves.

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Price: US$41
Availability: At Bim Bam Banana
Device: Alarm clock
Specs: Four melodies for alarm, 2 x AAA batteries (not included)

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