Asus is a name that kick started the netbook craze with their inaugural Eee PC 700 series, and they don’t look as though the Eee PC train is about to lose steam and stop anytime soon.

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Asus rolls out Eee PC 1002HA

Screw netbooks. I want a gold-painted Vaio TT with a Swarovski crystal portrait of Kim Jong Il and an integrated snuff dispenser. Source (Chinese) [Sina.com via Sony Insider and PCPOP.com ]

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Gold Vaio TT blasts recession away with own blazing light

The New York Times ‘ eighth annual Year in Ideas sketches out 2008’s intellectual map, from A to Z. Here’s just one example—The Biomechanical Enery Harvester—of something wonderful that you might have missed: Max Donelan, a professor of kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and director of the S.F.U. Locomotion Lab, described “biomechanical energy harvesting” in a story published in February in the journal Science. He sees plenty of uses for the compact device, which stores the energy it harvests in a small lithium-ion battery. Aid workers in disaster zones or soldiers trying to reduce theweight of their battery packs will benefit

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New York Times’ Year in Ideas

Sir Clive Sinclair’s C5 was a tiny electric vehicle, released in the mid-1980s to a skeptical British public that did not buy many of them. It looks surprisingly attractive now, two decades later, but that sleek pearly-white design conceals serious design flaws: pedals to make up for the dreadful battery and a highway safety profile analogous to riding a motorcycle, in the nude, down a ski ramp. From Wikipedia: Powered operation was possible making it unnecessary for the driver to pedal. It had a top speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), chosen because vehicles unable to travel faster could be driven without a driving licence in the UK

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Old Gadget Ad: Sinclair C5

The spirit compels: The BennyHillifier adds Yakety Sax to any YouTube video. Allow me to claw at contextual relevance by offering the Sony Bravia “Balls” ad so enhanced . Unfortunately it does not speed video up, or add groups of naughty nurses fleeing hither and yon.

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Add the Benny Hill theme tune to any YouTube video

Natural media peripherals have an obvious appeal: the latest technology married to the real world’s own bounty, as beautiful and simple as it often is. A walnut PC enclosure, perhaps, or a mouse made of stone

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Leather Keyboard

Teenagers – most of them get the euphoric feeling of being independent from their parents the moment they pass their driving exams, and receive the keys to dad’s car. Regardless of whether you’re from a well-to-do family or will inherit a vehicle that’s as old as you, there is nothing quite like being in a jalopy with you at the wheel. No longer will you have to endure dad’s over-careful driving style, and neither do you have to subject yourself to elder sister’s maniacal forays down the highway. You are in charge of your destiny, be it a shiny new Ferrari or an old Ford pickup truck that requires 10 minutes of warm-up before it can get going. Unfortunately for parents, instead of worrying about their kid’s newfound freedom on the road, they also have to think about cell phone usage habits.

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New automobile key could help save lives

That a vibrating alarm clock pillow should emerge from Japan comes as no surprise. Forgive the cultural stereotyping, but where else do such ingeniously banal ideas flower into real products? Except for Brookstones , I mean. Vibrating pillows get us up, shut us up [Trends in Japan via Impress ]

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"Vibe Motor," the vibrating alarm-pillow

Should your petty crimes come to bore you, try executing them with Glow Graffiti, a paint that glows in the dark. The can even has a bright LED next to the nozzle, acting as a kind of primitive meatspace “preview” function, Glow in the Dark Graffiti Spray [via Random Good Stuff ]

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Glow-in-the-Dark spray paint

Wall Street Journal : Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web   —  The celebrated openness of the Internet — network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic — is quietly losing powerful defenders.  —  Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic …

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Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web (Wall Street Journal)