After all the Holiday binging you’ve inevitably accumulated, there’s a good chance you’ll have some trouble getting up in the morning. Simple alarm clocks are dealt with with a simple backhanded blow, so they’re no good. What you need is The Clocky. First conceived almost a year ago, the unusual alarm clock comes with wheels. So, when it’s time to get up, it rolls off your night table and runs around your bedroom, belting its wake-up whistle. You have to physically chase it down to turn it off, by which time you’ll hopefully have shed your sleep.

Of course, Clocky is not indestructible, and it’s suggested you not place him on anything higher than two feet. It’s $50, and you can be sure that there are duller and less innovative ways of getting yourself out of bed.

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When the first LEGO Mindstorms building set came out, I enthused, online and in print, that I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to grow up with this as your LEGO building set. It seemed so revolutionary at the time. And it was. But that was going-on nine years ago! Its 8-bit technology looks positively Jurassic compared to the tech of today.
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This is my last installment of the Holiday Gadget Guide but there have been a number of items they I have not yet been able to cover. These include Logitech’s upcoming Alto laptop stand, Lenovo’s Thinkpad X60 Tablet, Nintendo’s DS Lite, and a bunch more, but for this post I settled on the Mimobot. This product has been around for some time, in fact I reviewed it back in February, but they really started to get some major press this holiday season.

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Speaking of subscriptions… It’s not too late to give a last minute gift that keeps on giving, give a year of MAKE for only $34! MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. Here’s a printable PDF gift card, subscription info and ALL subscribers get the digital edition (it’s not a DRM’ed PDF either!).

TiVos are great devices and I covered my experiences with the Series 3 HD TiVo in my first installment here. Of course, once you get a TiVo and you start enjoying it, eventually you’ll find the recording capacity can be limited. At that point, it’s time to upgrade.

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Sure, it’s probably the most expensive magazine subscription you’ll ever buy, but T3 magazine ($144) really is the world’s best gadget magazine, just as they claim. Imported to your doorstep from the UK, every issue of T3 has the absolute hottest gear (and girls), combining news, reviews and feature articles on everything from digital cameras to cell phones to high-tech cars. Any gizmo-lover would be thrilled to get this mag every month.

If you’ve never worked out with a heart rate monitor, you’re really missing out. They’re a fantastic way to completely monitor how you work out, and even turn otherwise mundane activities into workouts. [More]

Unless you’ve been living in some sort of bubble, I’m going to assume you’ve seen the TV spots for the Samsung Blackjack. I’m here to tell you that it lives up to the hype—this phone isn’t just a pretty face. The Blackjack does it all, and it does it all well.
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Still stuck for a good holiday gift? If you are trying to find something for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life it might just be time to consider the Melitta ME1MSB Coffeemaker.

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It’s not the first time companies have ridden a wave of fame on the backs of vaporware. And while the Optimus keyboard is not officially vapor yet, all signs point to it. And very few contenders to the Vapor Awards have ever evoked such passionate reaction in technophiles worldwide. First announced nearly a year and a half ago, the Optimus, from the Russian Art Lebedev Studio, promised something unique: a 103-key, fully configurable keyboard. But not just configurable; each key was going to have a tiny OLED screen on it, thereby enabling the user to reprogram each one to his own use.

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