If you got a nice $100 000 to spend on a weird product that you can use as your own private get away, you might want to check out the Ovei pod. They have been working on the device for 6 years so it ought to be good. At least you get the air condition system as they use in formula 1 cars. The units are made in UK but can be shipped all over the world.

Ovei home cinema pod unveiled [techradar.com]

Alice Wang is a cool designer from Taipei, Taiwan. She is a graduate from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and here is one of her latest prototypes. It is a sadistic alarm clock called ‘Tyrant’. The alarm clock is supposed to take over your mobile phone if you don’t turn the alarm off and dial a new random number every 3 minutes…

Tyrant [alice-wang.com]

This watch called Superior Watch from Kyle Cherry looks just like a bracelet, right? But the small LED displays actually tells the time. No word on pricing as far as I know, but I’m guessing that this one will cost you some serious bucks.

Superior watch should probably be renamed [technabob.com]

Appstore is the new market place for getting applications for your iPhone 3G. The majority of the applications are supposed to be free but there will also be commercial products like games. A typical game will probably be around $9.99.

First Ever Footage of App Store [ismashphone.com]

Ok, it is not glowing spaghetti it is in fact made out of optical fiber (surprise! ). One really cool with the Laluna fiber optic lamp is that you can change the color of the lighting by using a turning color wheel:

The lamp is available in two sizes and the price is between $1000 to $1200.

Laluna fiber optic lamp [technabob.com]

The guys at USC Lab have invented a cheap and innovative solution for presenting 3D holographic displays like the Star Wars Tie Fighter above. The basics of the design is a rotating mirror and a heavily modified DLP projector. Check out the video after the jump, pretty impressive!

USC Lab Creates 3-D Holographic Displays, Brings TIE Fighters to Life [blog.wired.com]

Do you remember the product placement Nike did in Back to the future II? Marty McFly put on some weird sneakers featuring some cool auto-lacing mechanism. Nike is about to launch a new shoe inspired by the movie sneaker and it will be available by the end of July. You will not get the auto lacing mechanism though…

Great Scott! The 2015 McFly Sneakers Are Now (Somewhat) Real [blog.wired.com]

The UK based event firm Eventshouse have pretty nice Scalextric set for hire. It is a full classic 8 track and includes a computer that keeps track of all lap times, points and winners.

8 Lane Scalextric [Eventshouse.co.uk]

A few months ago I wrote a short story about the talking Elvis robot from WowWee. Even though the price seem to have gone up from $99 to $249 it is still a quite cool product. Here is a guide to turn it into an even cooler product - a mix between Elvis and the Terminator. It’s quite an advanced project but still…

WowWee’s Elvis Alive to The Elivinator Project [instructables.com]

I guess that some of my youngest readers never even seen a compact cassette - and that just makes this nice lamp even cooler. Each lamp is hand made out of old cassette tapes and they come in various sizes and shapes. Here is another example:

Cassette tape lamps look great, sound awful [technabob.com]