The sounds of the 23^rd Century have imparted themselves on the likes of our own contemporary doors with the Swoosh of an Enterprise door, or a Red Alert siren sounding once someone crosses the doorway of the officially licensed Star Trek Electronic Door Chime!

Picture the cubicle all but secured via your troll army except at the inevitable opening. Since you cubicle-fortress has no door, there is nothing to stand in the way of your boss simply slipping past the guard and eavesdropping on your Facebook chat. That is unless a Star Trek RED ALERT siren sounds off as soon as the pink tie crosses the cubicle gate’s threshold!

How does this science fiction become reality, you ask?

Well the communicator clone has a motion sensor that detects whenever someone walks through the doorway (genius).

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Figuring out the time has come a long way since the days of waiting for the clouds to part to read a sundial. It seems that a new Kickstarter project might have taken inspiration from that age-old device as a gorgeous new way to tell the time.

Meet the Manifold Clock. Created by a team in Tel Aviv, Israel, this gadget aims to encapsulate the ever-changing concept of time.

The silent hands, powered by a single AA battery, are connected to a clock by a piece of Tyvek fabric. As they tick, they cause the fabric to twist and bend in space, changing the clock’s appearance every 60 seconds and turning the concept of time into a three-dimensional reality.

Based on a combination of modern design, simple mechanics and the principle of the Riemann surface, the clock is a fascinating spin on the traditional timepiece. It’s all about perspective, and how we visualize time and space as it changes.

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What is sexier than a rechargeable portable speaker that produces vastly gorgeous bass and treble tones for twenty bones? How about one that comes in the form of a classic rubber ducky!

I am not quacking you, folks. The Disco Duck Speaker is here to float to the top of the audio-pond echelon.

Meander into the corporate headquarters, find the corner office, sit down to take a draught of a Colombian brewed java, and prepare to start working vociferously; but wait!

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The Bot is coming toward you; it stopped. You poke and prod the Bot with a dully-ended pencil; twist the tip in the heart of its gearbox gut.

The Pencil Sharpener Robot comes alive and walks!

Kikkerland Design has outdone themselves with the ultimate office gadget for the geek in need of sharp pencils at the school or workplace.

The fully functional (if by the Bot functioning you are only talking about walking and sharpening and looking bad-ass, folks) Pencil Sharpener Robot is 4.5 inches tall and invokes all of the lost art of the early twentieth century robot age in its square, technical, and mechanical looking design.

Robbie the Robot would be proud of this Bot!

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The do-it-yourself guitar pick punch lets users be creative and turn almost anything up to .9mm thick into a 351 style guitar pick. Just insert the potential pick material into the pick punch and squeeze, it’s that simple.

Credit cards, packaging material, or just any old stiff piece of scrap you have laying around means that no longer will you be left searching your college dorm room when it comes time to serenade the ladies. I have to assume that is the only reason people learn to play the guitar.

What more can I say? The design is simple and elegant.

For just under $25 bucks you can churn out picks to your heart’s content or grab the perfect little gift for any guitar player. I don’t even play the guitar (I tried, I am all thumbs) and I think this little gadget is sweet.

Imagine my surprise when I sifted through an “all green” shop and found The Seven Year Pen.  The pen’s name speaks for itself:  it lasts for seven years!

Now it is true that the sleek and fun designs caught my eye, and my writer’s heart leaped at the sight of one pen in particular, the shiny black and silver surface donning three white skull and cross-bones and there in bold print the words:  NEED COFFEE.

The sexy look, the innovative presentation sets The Seven Year Pen apart in and of it’s own right.  But then I read about the pen’s purpose.

The Seven Year Pen is made by the Swiss and offered by a Brooklyn based company called Seltzer Goods who sell recycled and environmentally friendly products.

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Every morning I get up, make some breakfast and hot coffee, and then sit in front of my laptop checking emails and Facebook. Admittedly, the plethora of online activities often distracts me and after I gulf down my cereal I realize I’ve completely neglected my coffee and it’s become cold. I know, I know, shame on me, but Brookstone apparently has an answer to my problem: the coffee cup warmer.

This little device looks like a simple, metallic, high-tech coaster, but it can be any coffee lover’s best friend. If you’re worried that you’ll have to buy any special accessories for this product like a specific mug to fit the cup warmer, let me put your mind at ease. Any standard sized cup or mug that has a diameter of 3.5” is acceptable! Just stick it into the holder, which has a heating pad at its base, hit the power button, sit back and enjoy a nice warm cup of joe.

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If you’re like me and your workout routine consists of sitting on your ass for six hours while double-clicking hundreds of times per day and now your body has the firmness of a cooked noodle, the GymyGym might just be for you.

The GymyGym is touted as “the world’s first ergonomic exercise chair” which may or may not be true since I am sitting on an exercise ball as I type this but, these guys are definitely on to something. I have spent the last 10 years of my life sitting down to make a living and it has taken such a toll on me that I am afraid of what I might feel like 10 years down the road. With the help of GymyGym’s ergonomic design and it’s 15+ targeted exercises we all might just stand a chance.

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Think about it 21^st century computer users and perusers:  what does every desk need to function properly?  In one word…robots!

Funko, the makers of all things fun (pun intended), have been releasing alarmingly detailed bobble-heads for obscenely low prices.  They specialize in popular culture characters from movie, TV, comic books and more.  Whose desk would not be instantaneously more enjoyable with a 99-cent Iron Man bobble-head?

Most of the Funko bobbles are about ten bucks on Amazon.com, but the prices vary from “very” cheap to “the shipping costs more than dirtily unbelievable funko” cheap.  Take the office space or cubicle hell and turn it into a robot battleground as the detailed Terminator T-600 battles with the pointy eared Spock (from Star Trek) and our very own grinning President Obama!

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Before USB-powered missile launchers, cubicle-to-cubicle warfare was fought the old-fashioned way – with honor and tiny, wooden trebuchets. Bring back the glory from days of yore and one of warfare’s greatest designs with this Working Wood Trebuchet DIY kit from X-TremeGeek.com.

Measuring an impressive 18″ x 11″ x 13″, this isn’t a seige weapon for the meek-hearted. Once properly assembled, it can shoot a small clay ball (or doughnut hole, whatever) an impressive 25-feet. No longer confined to doing battle with your “team members,” you can now set your sights on the defenseless desks over in Marketing.

The trebuchet kit includes all the necessary parts to assemble (including some soft clay for target practice) and takes about 2 hours to build (finish it at your next status meeting!). It retails on the site for $39.95. There’s also a catapult available for $29.99, you know, if you’re a wussy.