You can seriously impress your friends with this fiber optic tablecloth, which looks just brilliant in more ways than one.

This tablecloth can be at home on any occasion from a wedding to a birthday, and when you have finished with it you can pin it up onto the ceiling where it will look like a vision of beauty.

They come in three sizes:

Dimensions:

Small: 150×400 cm (59×157 inches).
Medium: 150×400 cm (59×197 inches).
Large: 150×400 cm (59×236 inches).

Prices start at around $1,264.

Source [Luxury Launches]

You can never be sure that any of your emails are being read by the person that you send it to, which can be terribly annoying especially when you are running a business.

But now you can be sure that your emails are being read with a new service called “Didtheyreadit.com” a simple but effective service that offers the following:

Features of Didtheyreadit.com:

When you use didtheyreadit, every e-mail that you send is invisibly tracked without alerting the recipient.

But when they read your message, you will immediately receive the following information:

Track Your Email When, exactly, your email was opened.

Receive Email Message Read Receipts How long your email remained opened.

Check if, when, where, how long your email was read where, geographically, your email was viewed.

How much does this cost?

The basic version is Free, you only get ten messages, but it’s free!

The subscription is $39.99 for 6 months, $49.99 for 12 months or $69.99 for 18 months.

Product Page [Didtheyreadit.com]

When you are having an hard day at work, or the stress may be getting to you, what could be better than a nice tank of fish to relax your mind, that would be ok, but the maintenance is a nightmare, so what about the USB powered virtual fish tank.

Features:

USB-powered desktop aquarium
Swimming fish with hinged tails and life-like motion
Blue LED nightlight and water current
Able to feed and play with your fish by using the interactive menu
Plug and play
No batteries required
Compatible with Windows 2000/XP
4 feet USB cable
Size: 11.2×11.2×8.8cm
Weight: 343g

Minimum System Requirement:

Microsoft Windows 2000, XP
PC with Pentium 3 or compatible processor that operates at 1.5 GHz or faster
Display adapter capable of 800×600 in 16 bit color
CD-ROM Drive
One available USB port
256 MB of system RAM
200 MB available hard disk space

Package Contents:

USB Interactive Aquarium
User guide
Software CD

And the price is only $23, not bad for a tank of fish.

Source [Ubergizmo]

You can be a detective with this smart device that can analyze DNA.

All that you need to do is take a swab, similar to what you see on the TV, and then you can get the full run down of exactly what the person who donated the sample is made from, literally!

Features:

Real-time PCR in 30 minutes

4 samples at a time

Easy to use

1-channel wavelength detection

Uses standard PCR tubes

LCD display and keypad

Flash card drive

Small footprint

Works with enzymes and master mixes from leading manufacturers

Benefits:

8 runs or more in a day

For on-demand, non-batched applications

Learn to use it in 10 minutes

Use the reagents you choose

Save money on consumables

No external computer required

Easy data storage and transfer

Portable and saves bench space

Works with SYBR GreenTM, TaqManTM, fluorophores (FAM, TET, etc.)

If you really should not be spending $15,000 then maybe you should not get a demo of one of these, because once you have tried it, then there will be no going back.

Source [Red Ferret]

Tired of having just a plain old USB hub that sits behind the computer doing nothing? Well worry no more, your dignity will be safe with this available from USB Geek, you can hold your head up high and be proud that your hub is smart and multi tasking.

This one opens letters for you, is a clock and an alarm, all those features, what will you do with all that and the four USB ports, must not forget those.

Features:

4 Port Hub, USB 2.0 compatible.
Transfer speed up to 480 Mbps.
Self-powered USB Hub, no adapter required.
Plug & Play, no software required.
Red LED indicator.
Support Windows XP/2000/Me/98
Letter Opener, cut automatically when the envelope touches the spring slice.
12/24 hour mode switch.
“Bi Bi” alarm sounds around 30 seconds.
Display “hour, minute”, “second”, “month and day”.
USB powered or 3 AA batteries.
USB cable including.
Dimension: 96 mm x 82 mm x 65 mm
Weight: 151gm

Source [Engadget]

Granted there are quite a few sites that offer the ability to send free SMS messages, they normally have some text advertising products on them too, but you can never get a response, so sending a message is comparatively easy, but getting a reply to your message is not, that was until now, TEXTAWAY have a different way of doing it and it looks good.

What happens is you use the Textaway site to send a free SMS to one of your friends phone, who can reply to it, something that we have not been able to do before with the free SMS services. The reply will go into the email box, which you can pick up via your cell phone.

There is no obligation to register either, so you can just simply go the Textaway site send a free message and that is it, done.

Product Page [TextAway]

Now this one is hard to understand the watch face could be mistaken for a dice or even a dominoes piece that has somehow found its way into the middle of the watch under the face and is looking though at you.

What it is though the watch is made up with LEDs somehow you are supposed to be able to tell what the time is by just looking at it as normal, I suppose that it must come with practice.

The colors are nice though, gold, black and silver, and is water resistant to around fifty meters. And the cost of this watch is going to be $250.

Product Page [Black Dice Industries]

The clock that has space for your special dates, as the clock face is made up like a board that can wiped clean, like the white board type of thing. The background is segmented into seven sections, and marked up with the seven days of the week.

This is a good idea, as you can see immediately what your plans are for the day without having to look in a dairy or a calendar, especially if you are in a hurry or something. The board is magnetic and comes with its own magnetic marker pen for convenience.

The clock costs around $50.

Source [Red Ferret]

This watch that has a weapon installed just in case of an emergency on the train or in the office. You never know who is going to get hostile these days!

Makers Back Yard Artillery have created this watch that has a mini catapult that rests across the face of the watch, it can catapult a small projectile like a ball from a BB gun up to eight feet away, which puts quite a few people well in range when you are sitting on a train!

The watch is quite reasonable in price too, about $50.

Source [Oh Gizmo]