Want to play an annoying reminder to someone in your household every time they flip the switch? Check out the Parrot Digital Messaging Switch Plate which does just that. You’ll be able to record a message that’s 20 seconds long, which will playback every time the switch is flipped. It does require 4 AAA batteries to keep it powered, which makes us wonder if anybody is willing to unscrew the device off the wall every time the batteries need to be changed. You can pick one up for $9.99.

We’re not sure how often you like to switch channels, but if you’re greedy and want to watch all the channels at once, check out the picture above, which shows 64 channels in each display. Unfortunately this isn’t so high-tech TV, it’s basically 64 instances of VLC media windows tiled to run at once, and it’s really a company’s attempt to show off the fact that it can optimize its servers to work with multiple streams. It still looks awesome though.

Are you sick and tired of having to walk down the street to your local Starbucks to get a cup of coffee? Well, if you’re willing to shell out $350 for the Nespresso CitiZ, you’ll be able to own this single serve, one-touch espresso machine. Features of the machine include a 19 bar pressure pump, automatic volume control and cappuccino preparation, integrated milk frothing device, folding cup support and some more.

A group at MIT led by Professor Donald Sadoway is busy developing grid-scale storage solutions for times when electricity is scarce. They’ve come up with a rather novel way to keep things running, which is by using high temperature liquid medals. The team has even had time to award a grant from ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency and Energy. We’re not too sure how getting high temperature liquid metals will be feasible, but we’ll leave that to the experts for the moment.

Ever needed a place to write or doodle some stuff while you were waiting in your car? Well, with the steering desk wheel, you’ll certainly be reclaiming a little bit of space that was initially yours. Would you attach this innovative table to your expensive car?

Thinking of buying a set of speakers for your soccer-crazy friend, but can’t think of something? Well, it seems that the iPom is out; it was designed to look like a soccer ball. The speaker also has an AUX input jack, which is really useful because not everybody can own an iPhone/iPod. Would this design be something that David Beckham would like to promote?

There’s no denying the importance of clothes in our daily lives, but would you want your shirt to be able to get more information about you, specifically your stress levels? Well, this shirt has bio sensors that will be able to determine the level of your stress, after which signals will be sent to the corresponding LEDs connected to the shirt. The higher your stress levels are, the faster the LEDs will blink, and therapy will certainly be much easier since your partner knows where to stimulate based on the blinking LEDs.

Looking for some simple DIY stuff to fiddle with over the weekend? Well, if you’re feeling particularsly rich, you could always go for DJTechTools’ upcoming solder-free MIDI controller kit, which gives users 16 arcade style button triggers and LEDs that will apparently be released as open source when it’s launched. $165 seems a little steep for a simple ready to assemble DIY kit, but if you’re up for it, you’re welcome to pick one up when it’s launched.

Mobile versions of websites have never been all that hot, but we’re fairly sure that many folks were still disappointed that Google News’ simplified version wasn’t all that nice. Fortunately Google isn’t going to sit back and take flak that its sites aren’t good, and it has revamped the site for iPhone, Android and Palm Pre users. One of the nicer features is the “Jump to” link which will bring up a window that allows you to skip to the news section of your choice, saving you a couple of clicks. Check out the Google News site on your (supported) phone to see the new layout.

If you thought that getting hitched underwater of hooked up while playing World of Warcraft etc is weird, what till you hear about the Love Plus dating sim. Apparently one guy loves his virtual girlfriend, Nene Anegasaki, so much that he’s going to marry it (her?). The magical date is set for November 22nd, and he’s invited the media to attend, so it looks like there will be some coverage of it. What do you think of this?

You see an awesome looking Alien figurine, and even better, it has a USB cable attached to it, which can only mean that it’s a USB storage drive, or a USB hub, right? Apparently not. While an Alien figurine is certainly awesome, all this little Alien does is stick its illuminated tongue out at you. It might scare your 5 year old younger brother, but that’ll probably be about it.

It looks like Twitter has taken another small step towards world domination. Now Vodafone has extended its Twitter options in the UK by introducing a new service that will allow Twitter users to retweet messages via SMS. Customers will be able to send “RT twitter username” to 86444. The texts will be charged at the standard network rate, so make sure you don’t get overboard with your Twitter addiction, or you might be facing a rather hefty bill.

While the PS3 is a very good gaming machine, the built-in web browser is certainly nothing to shout about. Granted the PS3 wasn’t designed to replace your computer as a web browsing machine, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a better browser. Would going around the Internet is that Sony is in talks with Mozilla to port Firefox over to the PS3. Of course, this is still firming in the rumor bin at the moment, but we’ll have to sit back and see how this works out. Stay tuned!

While it’s not all that hard to swap out your current 2.5-inch internal hard disk and replace it with a spanking new SSD, some folks will probably shudder at the idea of swapping out the very item that holds their data. Imation looks like it’s trying to ease that fear with the introduction of its SSD Upgrade Kit, which will enable users to copy out exiting files from the existing drive to the new SSD, swap in the new SSD and after that, convert the older drive with the SATA-USB bonus case so you can access your previous hard drive like you would any USB drive. Drive options are 64GB and 128GB. The M-class drive is $110.99, while the M-Class Upgrade Kit will set you back $194.99.