Need something cool and innovative? Check here!

Feel free to post something if you feel it should be added to the list. But keep in mind these are real, tangible products to be bought and sold to consumers. They, at the very least, must be available for pre-order to be included on this list. And I am talking practical devices, not something like Samsung's Galaxy Gear. These are things that you will actually use, and they must be unique. An iPhone 24s v3 Gen 2 will not be added on the list just because it has a better screen and more battery life. Something that allows you to move objects telepathically will, though.

CODE - Because we have so many coders on this site.
Hydrogen Reactor - Hand cranks are for pussies.
Kevo - A wireless e-lock. You'd think someone would have come up with something like this sooner.
Leap - Minority Report without the gloves.
Nest - Thermostat with a brain.
Nymi - Universal identification linked to your heart rate.
Sleek - Smart house on command.
Soylent - Total food replacement.

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@ CODE
ABS plastic? no thanks. Also, only cherry switches is pretty poor, but I can see why they decided to go with them. I'll stick with my glorious rubber domes with springs in them.

@ Leap


painfully old technology. Not new, nor is it innovative. That being said, here's some stuff that probably won't affect anyone on SEN, but is still cool as hell IMO:

the vOICe - Seeing with sound. Translate video into audio; lets blind people "see". It's not all that new, as I remember this from 10 years ago, but it's pretty impressive to tell that you can discern faces (smile/frown) with the technology.

Brain Mice - in case you've been out of it for the past 5 years. pretty awesome stuff if you can't use your hands or talk

all the cool technology is perpetually 10 years away for me. 1 atom thick graphene transistors are super exciting for me.

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You should plug WASD Keyboards, as they're the ones building this keyboard. The level of customization they'll let you do on their custom keyboards is pretty impressive, and (just like the CODE) there are dipswitches to change the keyboard's layout between Qwerty, Dvorak and Colemak, as well as tweak Caps Lock and the Windows key functionality. Unfortunately (unlike the CODE) they don't offer backlighting on custom keyboards, but you can still pick out switches and whatnot. They'll be getting green switches (which are firmer blue switches) on that site around the same time the next batch of CODE keyboards come in (2-4 months from now).

I have a blank keyboard with clear switches from WASD, and I love it; it's the best keyboard I've ever owned (and I've gone through a few, including Das). I'm impressed with the build quality, which makes my Unicomp buckling-spring keyboard look like crap by comparison.

We are talking about products here. If I were to start throwing out cool prototypes that need a desk full of computers and junk to work then naturally all of this stuff would be out of date. Microsoft's Surface PixelSense, for instance, is a cool product that was done forever ago, but if someone could make it affordable it'd probably get on this list.



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