iChime

Doorbells typically sing the same sad song, which is why the iChime is for you. It includes 60 recordings, from holiday carols to a barking dog, but the real genius comes from the six customizable spaces for tracks from your PC, iPod or your own musical creations that are recorded using the built-in microphone. It’s only a two-wire hook-up on your door bell and comes in lit or unlit versions.

Grab the attachable front door speaker for $25 and truly scare kids at Halloween with your shower ballad version of “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.”

iChime sells for $85 at iChime.com.

BlackBerry Bold

The latest and greatest “Crackberry” is finally here for coworkers to faun over. BlackBerry Bold makes a statement with features like GPS and Wi-Fi, a half-VGA (480 x 320 resolution) color LCD, standard BlackBerry e-mail/web functions, and a QWERTY keyboard. The Bold is livin’ large with a 624 MHz mobile processor and 1GB of on-board storage (as well as a microSD/SDHC memory card slot), Bluetooth 2.0, and a 2-megapixel camera with video recording capability, built-in flash, and 5x digital zoom.

The Bold is about to give the iPhone a Smackberry.

Become an addict this summer for a yet undisclosed price, but get all the updates you need to stay hooked at BlackBerry.com/bold.

Xerox Self-Erasing Paper

Some documents are so secret you’ve got to keep them safe from even yourself, and that’s why Xerox invented self-erasing paper. The info fades away after 24 hours, so only your photographic memory can keep the info locked in. This is all due to a molecule that creates the print under ultraviolet light and then readjusts after 24 hours or under heat to make it disappear.
This may put the recycling industry out of business.
This paper has yet to disappear from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.