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Ah, over-sized timepieces, what would the world be without ‘em? Nixon strikes back with The Murf; another fine retro watch sporting a stainless steel case and band, Japanese direct drive quartz (two discs with hours and minutes), LED back-light and it’s waterproof down to 30 meters.

The Murf is available in all black, white (metal), metal with a dark wood panel and blue / yellow.

NixonNow.com: The Murf ($300.00 - $350.00)

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This is Zyrus Bandi, a brand new flip-up USB flash drive designed to be worn as a pendant. It’s all metallic and sports a glowing LED ring, a cord for easy wearing, password protection, 18MB/sec reading speed and 4.5MB/sec writing speed.

It looks like it’s only available on the Korean market at the moment though.

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Here’s Mustek PF-i700, a digital photo frame with a 7" display. Besides supporting regular storage solutions like SD/xD/MMC and Memory Stick this one comes with an iPod dock, so just plug it in and let it play back your favorite videos and picture slideshows.

The PF-i700 is scheduled for launch in March 2008 to an estimated price of $129.99.

www.mustek.com

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Anyone who’s ever lived with someone in a compact apartment knows how easy it is to annoy your partner with mouse clicks while he/she desperately tries to sleep. The Buffalo Silent Mouse is designed to eliminate those click sounds, helping to make your computer session a whole lot less noisy (granted that you don’t have a keyboard with tactile keys).

Besides the ultra-silent click feature it’s a pretty basic and straight-forward optical mouse with 800dpi and USB 2.0 connectivity, available in black and silver.

AudioCubes: Buffalo USB Silent Mouse ($39.99)

Here’s the Vulcania, a steampunk concept watch designed by Fabrice Gonet and made into reality by HD3 Complication. Don’t get your hopes up on getting one of these titanium and platinum Jules Verne and submarine influenced masterpieces though, there’s only eleven made (which in turn indicates a pretty impressive price tag, sigh).

HD3Complication.com

Read on for a close-up image, there’s some incredible details on this watch:

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I’m just getting ready to head off to my folk’s place to celebrate Christmas and I couldn’t find a more suiting product to write about than another Art. Lebedev Studio creation; SHAR-404. A set of six hand-painted glass camouflage balls for the X-mas tree. That’s subtle tree decoration if any.

Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone!

ArtLebedev.com: SHAR-404 Camo Balls ($24.86)

Here’s the Dosugus Cushion by Art. Lebedev Studio (the company behind the Optimus Maximus OLED key keyboard and the speakers shaped as speaker icons).

This black, soft cushion sports a white and highly nostalgic embroidery (the output from a “dir /w” on the “MY_DREAMS” hard drive to be exact).

ArtLebedev.com: Dosugus Cushion ($28.40, about €22.83)

The Wi-Fi Detecting Watch is able to tell you the wi-fi signal strength by the push of a button, eliminating the need to unpack the laptop to check if you can connect or not. The signal strength is shown as a number between 0 to 8 so you know if you need to move closer to the access point or not.

Besides the signal feature it sports a stainless steel case, rubber band, daily/single alarm, countdown timer and EL backlight.

ThinkGeek: The Wi-Fi Detecting Watch ($29.99)

Here’s Globus Plantarium Single Vial Garden Lab - an easy way to add an organic touch to your cubicle. Stylish glass test tubes containing a non-toxic, transparent gel created in collaboration with NASA scientists. This nutritive, magic, space-age gel allows you to plant seeds and watch the plant grow both above and below the surface.

The glass tubes are 7 inches tall and as for seeds you get to pick between basil, melon, marigold, pepper, sunflower and tomato.

Brooklyn5and10: Plantarium Single Vial Garden Lab ($10.00)

I’ve covered alot of clocks and watches lately, but this is the Phosphor Ana-Digi, one of the first (affordable) watches to feature an E Ink display. This means that you get regular, analog hands and the possibility to change the background and dials by a simple press of a button. Go from a standard, minimalistic digital display on black background to a white background with numbers, etc. Pretty neat.

“The watch dial itself utilizes a revolutionary E Ink electronic paper display that possesses a paper-like, high contrast appearance in any mode.”

The Phosphor Ana-Digi is available on pre-order now, both the leather and polyurethane band models costs $250.

PhosphorWatches.com ($250.00)