Need some help meeting your maker? Check out this handy device, with both North American and European attachments!

Some answering machines contain a pretty cool feature that enables you to call your home, key in a special code, and eavesdrop on whatever is happening within the house without anyone else being the wiser for it. The TeleSpy Intrusion Detection phone goes one up on this concept by offering a built-in audio and motion sensor, taking the proactive step of calling you whenever it detects any sound or motion to keep you updated on whatever is going on in your pad. Here we are crossing our figures for a webcam-enabled version which could not come any sooner. The TeleSpy Intrusion Detection phone retails for $64.99.

Atomic Sports, the wacky masterminds behind the “extreme” pogo stick and the Street Surfer, have cobbled together this interesting scoot… err bikeboard out of what appears to be the left over remains from the dumpsters of Dave Mirra and Tony Hawk. Should be interesting to see if this makes it to any televised halfpipes soon.

This cool device can let the cars around you know how you feel. Thank someone for letting you merge in with a “thanks” or happy face, or flash a quick “back off” to someone tailgaiting you.

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Art Lebedev may be best known these days for its various display-ridden peripherals, and the delays and uncertainty surrounding each, but the prolific design firm’s got plenty more on its plate, to which it’s now added the Verbarius electronic clock. As you can see above, the clock does away with the usual time-telling tools in favor of spelling things out, in five different languages no less. What’s more, it changes up its verbiage each time you ask it the time, displaying variations like “forty-five minutes past four,” “fifteen minutes to five,” “four forty-five”, and “a quarter to five.” This being Lebedev, of course, they’re also taking their time to build up anticipation in the device, with the clock supposedly set to only begin shipping in November. You can get your pre-orders in now, however, with a discount price of $158.25 available to those who order before September 1st, after which it’ll set you back about $180.

On 1/11 at the MacWorld the NewSoft Presto! BizCard Reader 5 for Mac OS X was released. It is a product dedicated to those that need data all over the world, that can access the contacts database at any time and to be able to add anything to it easy and fast, with language barriers set off.

You may be disoriented not knowing what this product is about and what can it really do. Well, think of a scanning device that would read your business cards using the Smart Field Identification Technology (SFIT) and would allow you to send each text to the needed column to create your complete contacts database. Using the OCR engine, the NewSoft Presto! BizCard Reader 5 features a smart Search Manager tool that would help you find your information in a matter of seconds.

System requirements are 128MB ram, 80GB hard-disk space, Mac OS X 10.2 or later and the USB port. For the $130 you will get a software CD-Rom, the USB cable, the scanning device and a calibration card.

If you want your lowrider’s horn to blast something different than “La Cucaracha” then look no further than Horntones, which will be making its debut come this April. For a mere $149.99, this tiny device will attach directly to your horn speaker, and spurt out up to 8 song clips of your choice. Next time someone cuts you off, or is driving too slow in the fast lane, let your road rage roar in style!