Pets do get bored too, you know. Since you have your Sony PSP and Xbox 360 to keep you entertained, how about Garfield who yearns for some mental activity? The Bolt Interactive Pet Laser Toy might come in handy, dancing a laser beam dot all over for your cat to catch. No idea on how long will it take before your pet catches on, but this is much more cruel than slathering peanut butter inside a Kong toy for your pooch.

NEC has a heart for the future with their new power strip that boasts an integrated processor and sensor, working in tandem with a remote control that is said to reduce power consumption by up to 15% and above. Dubbed the Green Tap, it comes with a quartet of outlets and can be used in both offices and at home. Targeting all kinds of electrical appliances, the Green Tap will monitor a range of data including luminosity, temperature, humidity or human heat around it. For example, if you move out from the room where your TV is placed, the sensor will send an infrared signal from the power strip to the remote control which sends the TV into standby mode. Talk about a truly sentient home!

No idea on just how hot the water is coming through your tap? Instead of suffering unwanted scalds, why not install the LED Susan in your home? This unique faucet comes with a color temperature indicator that conveys the current water temperature visually, being red whenever it is above 38 degrees while turning blue when it goes below 26 degrees. This temperature detection occurs within 3 seconds of turning the tap on, so you won't have Greenpeace activists knocking down your door while you're at it.

The Telescoping Ladder introduces a new way to store your stuff in the attic, as it is able to stretch from an extremely compact 2.5 feet during storage to a whopping 12.5 feet in height. Makes us wonder why other ladder manufacturers never bothered with such a design to date. Made from aircraft aluminum with steel connectors, there is no word on pricing details just yet.

Hear ye! Hear ye! The Boxee Box in currently being developed and prepared for commercial release after the launch of the public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES earlier this year. Here's what the blog post has to say about the upcoming Boxee Box.

I am very happy to announce we have signed our first partnership with a CE company. At this point we can not say more about the partner or the specs of the device, but we can tell you we are working closely with them to make sure we deliver a great Boxee experience on it. We will show mockups of the box and share more details at our upcoming Boxee Beta Unveiling event in Brooklyn, NY on Dec 7th.

Could the Boxee Box be a game changer in the manner entertainment is consumed on the TV? Only time will tell, so stay tuned.

Sharp's latest Blu-ray and hard drive combo comes in the form of the BD-HDS43 which also comes with a single digital and analog TV tuners, coupled with a 320GB hard drive to store all your recorded video. It will be released at the end of this month in Japan, and remains to be seen whether it will arrive elsewhere outside of Japan.

Forget about all the other doorbells once you've laid your eyes on these 5 doorbell designs from Seattle-based Spore. All 5 designs offer a range of color and finish options, where most of them boast integrated LED lighting for that modern touch. These won't come cheap though, as they will retail for $125 a pop.

Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 7 has now hit the magical 55" mark, where its previous effort managed just 40" for folks in North America. This flagship LCD video system's enlarged viewing area will offer customers more options and enhanced picture quality, where the BeoVision 7-55 integrates the sophisticated Bang & Olufsen BeoSystem 3 video engine, double frame rate technology at 120Hz, motion compensation and progressive scanning backlight. Meant to be placed on the floor, the 7-55 will come with a couple of motorized floor stand options, where one of them is high while the other is low, alongside a stationary wall mount placement. Expect to fork out a heart-stopping $18,700 for the BeoVision 7-55 though when it is released later this month. [Press Release]

Carmenta's compact shower cubicle is also known as the Revolution shower cubicle, where it will offer you a plethora of options when it comes to winding down and relaxing after a long, hard day at the office. You will find the Revolution incorporating a dry sauna, steam bath and shower in a single room, helping you save space at the same time. Then again, if you can afford something like this, surely you would be in possession of an abode with enough grounds to hold all those functions in separate rooms.

Just when you thought your home is your castle, along comes another device like the Oral B spy toothbrush to turn you into a paranoid android. The recorded video even comes with a date stamp for records purposes, giving you a real look at what people normally do in the bathroom while bringing the voyeurism level up by another notch. You will need to fork out $243 for this though, where all your video will be stored in AVI format at 640 x 480 resolution. At least you can tell who is the culprit behind toilet seats that are never closed after being used.

Chillchaser of the UK has just released a trio of patio heaters, namely the Neptune, Zeus and Poseidon. The Poseidon isn't waterproof despite bearing the name of the ocean deity, but it does come with a built-in media player to keep you entertained while you feed the mosquitoes during a cool autumn evening. Carbon fibre heating is used, resulting in soft instant heat alongside replaceable elements that were designed to last at least 5,000 hours. With far infrared electric heaters, you will benefit from focused heat, helping keep you warm instead of the air while making sure the environment remains untouched as it emits nary an ion of CO2 exhaust gas.

When you take a glance at the Expose LED bed, chances are you will be wondering just why would anyone want something so tacky and consume even more power from the grid? All those thoughts can be thrown out of the window when you discover that the Expose LED bed is actually a sustainable green bedroom furniture that boasts handcrafted material mixed with white LED light, accompanied by a blue light effect for that added touch of relaxation. The wood used here is actually rotten teak planks, where the cavities are filled with an LED light within while glued with clear epoxy. Prices start from $3,400 upwards, making sure you will get a truly unique bedroom piece.

The Asus O! Play Media Player is finally here, where it is also known more formally as the O!Play Air HDP-R3. It will come with a minor upgrade as Asus has thrown in 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity alongside a multiple memory card reader for greater file playback options. With an HDMI 1.3 port, you ought to be able to use the O! Play HDP-R3 to handle just about any file format available currently, regardless of how obscure some of them are. Expect to fork out approximately €90 for this bad boy.

If gaming plays an extremely large role in your life, then you might want to check out this piece of furniture - the PS3 Coffee Table. Designed by Stephane Perruchon, this video game inspired coffee table will boast handmade PS3 controllers (in a much larger scale, of course) that function as a base, alongside two handles made of ABS followed by buttons as decorations. Available in black and white colors, we have no idea on how much they cost but we're sure gamers won't mind forking out some moolah for this to grace their living rooms, eh?