Royal College of Art graduate Ki Hyun Kim must really like coffee. He designed the Alternative Alarm Clock, which allows you to wake up to the smell of coffee instead of beeping sounds that make you want to throw your clock.

The Alternative Alarm Clock is also a combination alarm/power strip, allowing you to plug in any electrical device you want like a lamp or a radio. When the alarm is activated, the electric outlet supplies power to the electrical devices.

Power cables suck. It’s a simple fact. But they are necessary. So how do you keep them from getting all tangled up and looking like a mess? Well, one way is by using the Power Hub. It’s an under-the-desk plug point housing which ensures that all cables remain together, while letting you roll up the excess cable.

It has three openings on top where you can direct your cords neatly to your power strip. Also three integrated chord anchors will wrap and hide all the excess cabling. It is compact so it can be placed anywhere you want. If interest is high enough, the Power Hub will be manufactured and cost just $23.95.

No gadget is safe from a teardown from iFixit. Now they have dismantled the new Boxee. So what did the teardown reveal? Well, a lot of the internal component space is taken up by the huge heatsink needed to cool the Boxee Intel CE4110 processor, the 1GB of RAM, 1GB of flash memory, and a digital-to-analog audio converter.

So in the end, iFixit gave the Boxee a repair score of 7 /10, since the separate power board can be replaced independently from the motherboard, should it ever fail and need to be replaced.

Many of us like to leave our computers running all of the time, but that uses a ton of power. And even if you want the computer on 24/7, there’s no need to have the printer, speakers and other stuff powered on.

A new power strip called the HiSaver makes it easy to save power when you leave the room. The HiSaver Powerbar features a remote motion-detecting sensor that sits on your desk. So when you leave the room for at least ten minutes, four of the outlets turn off automatically to save power.

Give a geek some hardware, a bit of extra time, and a need for speed and they can come up with anything. A dude named Barry Lee has constructed his own mini dragster using six circular saws for power. The saws are 16-inch Makita units.

The dragster was created for a cool competition in the UK called the Power Tool Drag Racing Championships held in conjunction with the Royal Navy and Five’s Gadget Show. The dragsters will compete against other DIY types and power tool companies for the win.

Here’s an ingenious idea that we should have thought of a lot sooner. This power strip ditches the usual hole approach in favor of slots. It allows more plugs to fit onto the same amount of space.

This design comes from Chen Yinfeng and is called the Slot-Type Power Outlet. It uses a swipe-in slot design so that plugs can comfortably rest next to one another, thus allowing more plugs to fit than on a regular strip. The design is much cleaner than your typical power strip as well and nicer to look at.

There are plenty of power saving power strips for your electrical outlets. But what about for your USB ports? This new PowerUSB Bar is the perfect accessory to start cutting down on power waste. It features a 6 foot USB cord that connects to your computer and allows you to put those devices on an energy diet by programming when to shut off power to them.

It looks like a standard 4 port power strip, but 2 of the outlets are programmable. Let the PowerUSB Bar govern the power of all your energy wasters.

The boffins over at Wet Circuits have come up with a waterproof power strip using a patented design, with a special protective material that minimizes the flow of electricity when it comes into contact with water. The result is that it protects you from electrical shocks when water is accidentally spilled.

We wouldn’t try this at home with your power strip, but they claim it can be submerged underwater for up to two-hours. It also features overheating protection, spark prevention, and up to 4 times the lifespan of ordinary power strips.

Power strips are great but they have their problems. Like one outlet blocking the other for instance. The Pivot Power from Quirky eliminates that problem with a unique flexible outlet system. Each outlet can be rotated in order to maximize the space for other adapters.

Pretty great solution. It’s not for sale yet, but they’re accepting pre-sale commitments of $23, so if they hit their 960 order goal, they’ll manufacture it. Let’s all order one and reward good design.

This Takoyaki concept power strip is nice to look at and also useful. The sockets are pretty useful since they can be rotated. And each socket allows you to coil your cable inside it, minimizing the amount of cable clutter on your floor.

All good features and aside from all of them this thing also glows blue when in use. You can also replace those round sockets in order to fit in a wireless charging accessory that will charge your device wirelessly.

So you are out and about with your laptop, but you look around and there’s no power outlet. Common problem. But if somebody there had had this gadget, they could just stick it into the end of their laptop power supply, and share with you.

Well, assuming they are the nice sort, anyway. The extension costs ¥1,400 ($15) for a two-prong version or ¥2,000 ($21) for three prongs. It’s a great idea, just as long as you have an outlet to begin with.

Fujitsu has an interesting power strip for those who give a hoot about their electricity usage. It measures the electrical energy used in each outlet in real time, to help figure out how much electricity is being used in an office.

This data is combined with a scheduler to let you know how much energy is consumed even in the absence of the user. Each outlet has a contactless power sensor that can measure up to 2,000W. The data is transmitted over the network via a transmitter in a USB port on the side of the power strip.

iBUYPOWER’s CZ-11 gaming notebook has some decent specs that will get your game on, with a powerful Intel Core i7 processor and a full 1080p resolution touchscreen display. Windows 7 Home Premium is running the show with an ATI Radeon HD 5850 GPU graphics card.

Some other specs include 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, Wi-Fi, an 8x DVD burner, a memory card reader and a 6-cell battery. Expect prices to start at $1,299 and go up from there, depending on the options you choose.

With airlines charging you for everything, traveling can be a real hassle. You don’t want to take any additional luggage that you don’t have to. You’ll want to pack the ezGear Surge2Go portable power strip though, as it gives you three outlets with enough space between each for larger plugs.

It also has a built-in surge protector that shields your devices from power surges. An LED indicator lets you know that everything is working as it should.

The future is filled with giant walls that react to your touch, but HP’s “Wall of Touch” does more than that, sensing your intent even before you touch it, thanks to cameras and a magnetic strip that detect where your hands are, activating the items on the screen accordingly. Watching and waiting for you to make your move.

The company is starting to roll out this gigantic grid of screens powered by its Z800 workstation. It will first land in the Continental Airlines terminal at the Houston airport. If it proves popular enough, HP might decide to make it a mainstream product by next year. If that happens the pricing would be between $2,000 and $100,000 depending on the capabilities. Video below.