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Wooden cabinet designed for recharging cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, etc. Includes built in surge protector.

This looks like an ordinary mouse until you flip it over and see that a smaller travel mouse is housed inside it.

Here’s a new guitar player gadget. It is a small pick with a bunch of very small metal tines that you drag across the strings on your guitar.

A $100 version of the Rainbow Maker that I reviewed some time ago.

LED book light that illuminates only the page you are reading, with no stray light escaping to bother anyone else.

Handheld microscope that can magnify up to 160x.

Watch that displays the constellations visible in the Northern Hemisphere. Simply align the date and time (displayed on the edge of the bezel) and you can view the major constellations visible that evening.

Leather belt with built in bottle opener, flat and Phillips screw drivers, and 3 wrenches.

Handheld windmeter in a small pocket-knife sized module.

Pocket computer that includes weather/environment info, altimeter, compass and audible storm alarm.

Folding solar panel briefcase that can generate 13 watts of power.

Cute way to hide your USB webcam inside a stuffed monkey or a puppy.

Brando just sent me news of this wacky retractable travel mouse. It has a built in thermometer and a laser pointer.

Luggage with a built in digital scale.

9″ Baseball and 11″ & 12″ Softballs that can record your pitching speed up to 120mph on a built in LCD.

Drop in pool speaker. Listen to tunes while you swim under water.

Small recorder that can record audio from any audio device (including the iPod) and write it directly to MP3 or WAV format – in real time.