SparkPlug Flash is a very small (not much bigger than a quarter!) LED flash that you can plug into your older iPhone model. One of the biggest missing features of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS models is the lack of a flash with the camera. It makes picture and video taking in low light pretty awful. The SparkPlug is entirely powered by your iPhone’s battery which makes it very light and compact and able to work on the spot without any charging up. It plugs right into your dock connector so it will work with most cases.

To turn the flash on or off, just press the built in touch sensor on the SparkPlug. The light puts out 96 lumens and it can also be used as a flashlight. It claims to light up to 18 feet away. The SparkPlug is available for $19.95 shipped. Check out the video:

The cap of the SparkPlug has a loop which allows you to string it up on your keychain or bag when not in use. Looks like a pretty cool little iPhone gadget that will make picture taking better.

I really really like the design of this bird alarm clock. Did I mention I like the design? Yeah. It doesn’t even look like an alarm clock, it just looks like a little modern design bird sculpture for your bedside table. Most other alarm clocks make a big deal about putting the clock portion up front and making the number readable. But really when you’re sleeping there should be only two times that matter, time to go to bed and time to wake up. Besides, isn’t telling time what your cell phone does on the nightstand? Fear not, this bird does in fact tell time and sound a chirping alarm, check out the hindquarters on this fowl:

You can get the bird alarm for about $37, imported from Japan by the Rinkya folks.

Tina Sparkles, which is either a really cool made up name or the best name ever, made this dress out of recycled computer wires. There’s also a thrift store curtain and electrical tape in this dress which she calls “Systems Supernova”. Looks like something out of that crazy Project Runway challenge they have every year. Nice work.

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Get those magic fingers going with a pair of Vibrating Massage Gloves. The fingertips of these relaxing gloves generate 16-18,000 vibration pulses per minute which is over 4 times the frequency of conventional hand massage devices. Great for relieving tension, stimulating circulation and hitting deeper muscle sections. Each glove can be individually controlled with the detachable controller.

You can set it to do a full five finger massage for your arms, back, legs, stomach, chest or neck, or set it for the less intense two finger massage for sensitive areas like your eyes. The imitation suede gloves run on either battery or AC power. Comes in two sizes. Just a heads up, it’s from the UK, so you might need a plug adapter if you don’t run it off batteries and you’re not in the UK.

These Star Wars Cookie Cutters from Williams Sonoma are anything but cookie cutter. Thank you folks I’ll be here at the comedy hut all week. Good night! But horrible puns aside, this cool cookie cutter set is missing super crucial Star Wars element- the Death Star. So here’s what one master baker did- make their own Death Star. Here’s a picture with the other cookies so you can see how these geek cookies turn out:

The homemade Death Star is on the far left. Obviously it’s inferior to the cookies made with the cookie cutters. I call upon the mighty gods of Star Wars product licensing to make a series two cookie cutters and include a Death Star. I’d also like a Chewy cookie (see what I did there?), a Princess Leia bikini cookie, a Jabba cookie cause I’m super hungry and an R2D2 cookie. Thank you Mr. Lucas. Make it happen.

Deskpets released the Skitterbot robotic toy today. It’s almost like a beetle or a fat bodied spider. They are calling this the “fastest legged robot commercially available” due to it’s travel rate of one foot per second. One of the cool features for the Skitterbot is the fact that it’s USB rechargeable, so no batteries needed (something any parent can appreciate). The other cool aspect is that in comes in 4 colors and each color is on it’s own frequency. So you can race them against each other or get multiple ones of the same color and control them all with a single remote. Create an army of Skitterbots. Here’s a video of these bots in action:

Amazon has them for about $27 each.

The Laxman “Innertainment” system is a set of headphones and googles that provides you with a next generation ultrasensory experience for an “unparalleled experience in focus and relaxation”. Light and sound combine to put you in a “dream-like state where your mind is unleashed to create a psychedelic kaleidoscopic of geometric structures in response to what you see, hear, and feel.” Woah trippy man.

It reproduces something called the Ganzfeld Effect. It comes with software to edit your own sessions:

“The Laxman’s patented All-Color Ganzfeld Open-Eye Goggles transmit every color of the light spectrum indirectly onto your eyes whether open or closed (try it both ways – the experience is different). And, your visibility to other stimuli outside the goggles is eliminated, causing you to witness visions of colors and shapes that correspond to your perception of the sound you’re also experiencing. These auditory impulse frequencies define rhythms the brain will happily follow into a relaxed, meditative state of mind.”

In other words, you will basically hallucinate. Includes four hours of professionally produced ambient and nature sound arrangements, including classical impulse frequencies, binaural-beats and hemicircle sounds. How will your brain respond? What will you see? How will you define your innertainment experience? There’s only one way to find out.

Anyone out there ever experience the Ganzfeld Effect? What was it like?

The Star Wars Classic Full Size Wall Mural is the pièce de résistance you need to complete your mancave. This 9 foot tall by 15 foot wide wall mural will definitely make a statement in your room- a statement that you’re da bomb. The mural features the original Star Wars artwork and uses a special material called Surestrip. It is not a peel and stick mural that’s going to get all bunched up and amateur looking. Surestrip is a pre-pasted water activated material- you just dip each of the sequentially numbered strips into water and then apply to the wall with a soft brush. To remove or reposition it, just pick two corners and gently pull off the wall. You can buy the Star Wars wall mural for $254.99 at Entertainment Earth.