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it seems like watch makers should make ever more amazing mechanical gadgets that are totally distinct from the Apple Watch.

How about a digital mechanical watch:
http://www.luxurybazaar.com/it...

Or a watch using air turbines for regulation, a retrograde scale and telescopic hands to keep a fixed distance from it (and no, I don't know what I just talked about):
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com...

Engineering excellence:
http://www.harrywinston.com/st...

Or a simple looking mechanical watch that manages to be a perpetual calendar, including daylight savings, covering every timezone out there - including India, at a half-hour offset, and obscure 1/4 hour offset ones I hadn't even heard of:
http://www.glashuette-original...

Just designing how something like that might work is insanely fun (erm, difficult), let alone translating that theoretical design into an actual one, taking into account the behaviours of the materials from which it's built. Building it's almost the easy bit, and you're handcrafting that thing from start to finish.

You are describing -your- alarm clock.

There are any number of alarm clocks that do in fact just let you "whack" them anywhere.

Hell, there's even ones designed to be thrown...

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080429/throw-alarm-clock/

Boxes are available. They're even multi-story now.

I've seen something like this before... Oh yeah, during the vietnam war....

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090129/hi-8-camera-gun/

Already being done. These devices have been used quite often on the TV show Flashpoint which follows a fictional Canadian SRU.

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080905/best-buy-to-remove-bloatware-for-a-price/ Don't worry Best Buy will charge you for that too!

insane, they TALK about an image in this so called story instead of displaying it!

Ok, here are some pictures to make the story worth the 5 minutes /. is going to waste on it.

Just wait until they find out there are actually watches with built in cameras that can even shoot videos: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/b550/ or even as a ball point pen : http://www.camerapen.org/ or as a keychain that looks like your car keys : http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090524/keychain-car-key-security-spy-camera/

Polaroid is trying to bring back the instant photo, in the form of a small digital camera/printer that can instantly print your digital photo. Sounds pretty cool actually! Polaroid Pogo

I was so excited about the Pogo, but that was before I learned about the neo-polariods being flimsy stickers.

Polaroid is trying to bring back the instant photo, in the form of a small digital camera/printer that can instantly print your digital photo. Sounds pretty cool actually! Polaroid Pogo

I am not sure whether tracking your child is a good idea or not.
I don't tell other people how to raise their children.

If you wish to buy a tracker in a phone, here is some information.
Good Housekeeping expressed opinions
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-testing/reviews-tests/appliances-electronics/kid-cell-phones-0306
loc8u ofers a GPS Watch
http://www.switched.com/2009/01/07/lok8u-launches-gps-child-locator-watch-at-ces/
Wherify has one
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/wherify-wherifone-cell-phone-with-gps-locator-lets-you-gps-track-your-kids/
AT&T has one
http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/AT-T-launches-child-locator-service_a1470.html
Here is a discussion of short and long range child locators
http://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/
Amber Alert has one
http://www.gpschildtracker.net/child-gps-devices-systems-tracking-phone-chip-child-location

However, if you don't want to use a phone
and build more of it yourself,
here are some websites that may be useful:
http://www.tradekey.com/selloffer_view/id/2924121.htm
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/gps-tracking-server.html
http://forums.coolest-gadgets.com/showthread.php?t=4079
http://www.ecplaza.net/search/0s1nf20sell/gps_tracker_%20gps_tracking_gps.html
http://5thirtyone.com/archives/876/comment-page-1

There used to be a device you could plug into your phone, and it would light up LEDs according to vocal stress levels. Presuming the device yields info that you can't yourself already hear, I think that would be pretty interesting.

Any social information you could remotely gather about people you were interacting with could significantly alter your day-to-day life.

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20050820/voice-stress-analyzer-used-as-a-truth-detector-2/

A woman's laptop should use one of those IBM Thinkpad TrackPoint things for the pointer device.

It is not that they should, but that they COULD actualy use it. I can't even find the thing in the dark.
Men are apparently much better using something like this here.

Reminds me of Stephen King's The Dark Tower... maybe they could dress it up like a bear...

Too late for that: DWA!

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20070118/paypal-security-key-fob/

covers paypal and ebay. It's been in place over a year now. You will need to go searching online in ebay and Paypal to find the real links. I had to be logged in to find them and they are internal links.

My bank is a michigan only bank, so it'll probably not be available to you, but the whole system is verisign based so if the company uses verisigns system the same keyfob works for all of them.

Indeed, too bad that Polaroid no longer makes that instant-developing film any more

It took me all of 30 seconds to realize the full potential for this technology

There's quite a few such articles:

The 256-processor laptop with roll up screen and keyboard

Flatter laptops

Fold-up screens

Clip-together screens

Gas-turbine batteries

Dual touchscreen laptop

Mac Tablets

The parent is very correct. I remember reading an article about this technology a few years ago. Back then it was referred to as using 'soft x-rays' and not 'T-rays'. The image in the above link posted I would say has almost certainly been deliberately blurred. The images I saw a few years back were a hell of a lot clearer and more defined. The whole body was visible including the genitalia clearly shown. When the article states that the product can see weapons underneath clothing but will not reveal body details what the hell do they think will happen? Some sort of blurry patch to be automatically generated around a woman's breasts? The resolution of any such image is limited only by the wavelength of the radiation used. And anything in the terahertz region is able to show minute details on the scale of millimetres if desired. Perhaps the ThruVision contains software to automatically blur the image so as to preserve privacy. But I wouldn't trust it. Take a look here for a better example of what I'm talking about. http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080309/camera-sees-through-clothes/ That to me, is not 'preserving ones privacy'. Like the parent states. What if that was your teenage daughter, your wife or your child. This stuff makes me sick.

There is an obvious application for this technology.

Why not give an AlphaSmart a try for your writing? Runs PalmOS (though the wide-screen aspect ratio will royally confuse apps that make poor assumptions about resolution) and lasts darn near forever on 3x AAA alkalines. I don't work for the makers, but I do know several professional writers who love the little machines.

Sadly, this won't help you with your photo conundrum, but you might consider one of those hard-drive based photo wallets (perhaps something like this) and visit an internet cafe periodically to replicate to a server.

something like this?

I raise the BS flag on this image. The right-most animal clearly shows a shadow on its snout from its right ear. This is only possible if the subject it is being illuminated from above, not if the subject itself is the source of illumination. The whole scene appears to be either illuminated with a green light source, or a normal photo doctored with a green tint. AM I wrong?

The Windows BSOD is the equivalent of a kernel panic, i.e. it's an unrecoverable error detected by the kernel. In XP and 2003 the default setting is to automatically reboot (possibly after dumping a contents of kernel memory) so one doesn't normally see it for any length of time. It looks like this (or if you'd prefer, like this).

The "blank blue screen" while the system is starting up or logging in isn't normally referred to as a "Blue Screen of Death", it's just a crappy buggy OS hanging in a way which makes it dang difficult to identify what the actual problem is.

There is an umbrella that allows you to "watch slide-shows". It has a built-in camera, and allows you to transfer pictures to flickr. It's also got a GPS and a compass. I don't quite think it is as practical as a hands-free umbrella, but maybe if you combined the two, you'd have something.

Would the iTheater count as Prior Art?

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060820/itheater-p ortable-video-glasses/

Web usage by only HitsLink subscribers is just a small random sampling and has nothing to do with overall market share.

All these comments, and not a single mention of the USB Ghost Detector/Radar.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/02/usb-ghost-detec tor/

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060712/the-usb-gh ost-radar/