What can you say about a Noose shaped hanging lamp. It’s mood lighting for sure. And that mood is depression. I suppose the noose lamp is a creative way to kill oneself, while making some comment about light and darkness in society. Or maybe the light and darkness of your soul. Designer Marie Thurnauer must be a super cheerful person with a sunny disposition. Somehow I don’t think so. I think the idea is that if you buy this 135-centimeter tall fixture for $6,395, you’ll definitely want to use it on yourself. It’s a great gift to send to your banker friends too.

It’s been a long wait. A long and winding road if you will. At last, the Beatles iPod is out, with only 2,500 units available. You know you want it. And in these tough economic times, Paul, Ringo, and Yoko need your help. So why not fork out $795. The Limited Edition Ultimate Collector’s Beatles iPod Set comes complete with a wooden box designed by Psycho Bunny, where you can store your 120GB Beatles iPod, 13 original Beatles albums on CD, two masters, the Love CD, and an engraved guitar pick that is surely the pick of destiny.

Uh, hang on a minute here. Anyone wanting a Beatles iPod surely owns all of these CDs anyway, so what gives? I don’t need all of that extra junk for 800 clams. Just give me a decent Beatles iPod. Preferably something with a classic album cover on it.

New notebooks are being introduced by the dozen this time of year. This year we are seeing some new types of systems hit the market with netbooks being very popular. Gateway is also introducing a notebook with a different size LCD than we are used to seeing.

The new Gateway MC-Series has a 16-inch edge-to-edge seamless glass display. The aspect ratio for the screen is 16:9 and it has a screen resolution of 1366×768. Other features of the notebook include Illuminated Multimedia Touch Controls.

Anyone who plays with their Wii a lot knows that the batteries go dead way faster than you want them too. Plus, it’s not all that nice looking to have four Wii remotes lying in a pile on your entertainment center or coffee table. MeWe has a new device that not only keeps the remotes powered up, but also gives a neat place to store them.

The device is called the MeWe World Quad Charger and as you can guess from its name, the gadget charges four Wii Remotes at one time. The system includes the charger base and four fast charging Ni-MH battery packs that are good for up to 13 hours of play per remote.

The streets can be unsafe anywhere these days and you can’t take your safety for granted, especially if you are a woman. You can always have some mace or a taser handy, but as some added protection you may want to pack a loud alarm on your person to scare the bad guy off and alert those nearby that you are in trouble.

That’s where this device comes in handy. The Ila Personal Alarm is named after the Hindu goddess of voice and the device will omit a 130 decibel shriek that sounds like a female scream. At £19.50 it’s not a huge purchase and it’s a small price to pay for safety. It could save your life.

If you’ve ever wanted to run your very own one man repo service, but with a motorcycle instead of a standard tow-truck, then the Retriever is for you. It’s from Swedish company Coming Through. It’s basically a heavily modified Honda Goldwing 1800cc motorcycle that sports a hideaway car-towing rig on the back.

It’s designed specifically to get into those hard to reach breakdowns in traffic and will also let you swoon in on a deadbeats car real quick and get out before there’s any trouble. The car trailer features a 3 wheel design that somehow isolates the bike from the weight of the car, thus allowing the bike to corner naturally. The trailer even has its own brakes and is hydraulic powered. Just fit it around the car and then raise to secure it. That should open up some healthy competition in the field of towing.

Hey. You. 14 year old girls. Pay attention. Your lord and master Hello Kitty has a new offering for you and she demands more of your parent’s money. It’s only available in Japan, so throw a big fit and get them to import it. Courrèges, a French fashion designer, has teamed up with NEC to create the NEC LaVie G Hello Kitty Courrèges, the latest cute girl notebook.

It sports a 1.90GHz AMD Athlon QL-60 processor, 2GB memory, 160GB hard drive and a 13.3-inch WXGA screen, so it’s a decent performer despite being ungodly pink. This notebook will be available October 25 for $1,100 and comes with Vista. And if you order by October 28th, you’ll get a free Hello Kitty mouse and mouse pad.

Images of an upcoming Sirius Boombox, the SUB-X2, were leaked on Monday. It obviously resembles the SUB-X1 boombox, with a front-panel headphone jack, auxiliary input that will allow users to plug in their personal MP3 players and non universal docking Sirius radios. We can also expect some other refinements with the X2. There isn’t any info on features, but it should retail for about $100.

The Humanoid shaped Robo-Q from Tomy, measures just 3.4 cm high, no bigger than a thumb and has been released in Japan. This world’s smallest robot does more then just walk. It plays soccer and will dodge unexpected obstacles and even find its way out of a maze. All this in robots the size of a thumb. What makes it possible is that Robo-Q is fitted with artificial intelligence that lets it navigate and play games and use built in sensors.

The robot is available in four different colors and will be sold in Japan starting February for $35. After that it will hit other Asian countries soon afterwards as well as the United States and Europe. This little guys just plain look awesome. I can’t wait to get one.

Is it me or are we getting a little too lazy? Granted, there are times I wish I could speed things up as I tighten my wrench around a nut, I mean it takes a whole two seconds, but I think it’s important that we do at least that much without the aid of a battery to help. Otherwise what are we but monkeys whose brains atrophy a bit more with every quick-fix button we push. Ah, screw it. Now that I know this wrench is available, I ain’t never tightenin’ anything the hard way ever again.

This Black & Decker 8-inch Automatic Adjustable Wrench will quickly clamp down on any nut or bolt up to 1.25-inches when you touch the button. Downside? Don’t piss off your girlfriend, because this baby can pinch with 220 ft-lbs of torque. So…Not a good thing to have laying around, lest you find your own nuts in a vise. The price is $27 and you’ve been warned.

Leave it to the clever Japanese to invent a machine that turns Jolly Ranchers into cotton candy. It’s all sugar in the end and I can just hear the ca-ching of cash register bells going off in the heads of dentists everywhere. Extra cavities means an upgrade to their yacht or a new sports car, or a new coat for a trophy wife. This device certainly helps a dentist retire happily.

It’s called the Ame de Wataame, and it comes direct from Japan. So it isn’t cheap. Importing it will cost $159 plus another $60 for shipping. But come on, dental visits aside, how often do you get the chance to convert a hard suckable sugar into a melt in your mouth sugar? 9 out of 10 dentists are hoping it sells big here in the U.S.

This Battlestar Galactica case mod is a pretty impressive bit of geek creativity. Look at the detail. It sports a landing bay, running lights, engine pods and a nice paint job. Some of it’s features include three 2.5-inch LCD screens, a 10-inch LCD on the left side panel and an automatic right side panel door/airlock.

In front there’s a laser-cut acrylic Battlestar Galactica logo mounted to a DVD drive. You can see the disc spinning inside. What, no Viper or Cylon base-star mouse to kill your hand? Check out some videos below.

Ahhh. The floppy disk. It once housed all of our data, but now they reside in landfills and in the closets of pack-rats everywhere. Or on the desks of those who are stuck in the past. They held just over 1 MB each. I bet you feel nostalgic for them, just like when you see an 8-track tape.

They could become relevant once again. This one is a USB floppy disk that can be plugged into your USB drive and can store not just MBs but GBs worth of data. Check out that built-in stand that flips out. And it remains the size that you remember. Old tech is never dead, it just needs an upgrade.

Wrath of the Lich King is coming and SteelSeries wants to make sure you drop out of the human race for a good long time. The mouse features 15 programmable buttons and a new in-game configuration utility that lets you graphically assign the buttons where you need them and save different profiles. You can also choose what color you want those LEDs down the back to be.The laser mouse will be available on November 13th to coincide with the Lich King launch, for “under $100.”

We recently told you about the SAFA Bandi. Here’s the SAFA Xing MP3 player that looks like pastel colored candy. Oversized PEZ to be precise. The other thing you’ll notice right off are five large tactile buttons on the surface. Inside you can store 1GB worth of songs. The built-in battery will last you 5 hours before you need a recharge.

It measures just 50mm × 22mm × 13mm and weighs only 12.2 grams, so it’s small enough to be stashed away anywhere. But I have to ask. Why no separate PEZ dispenser with a variety of heads? I’m thinking I want to insert the PEZ module into the dispenser and have a head mimic the singing of my music. Come on, that would be gold. No word on pricing yet. Back to the PEZ thing. Somebody make that happen.