Your home theater just got a whole lot sexier, thanks to a new speaker concept by Yamaha.  The Yamaha YST001 home theater speakers have built-in 25W lights on their back sides.  These lights are dimmable down to 20% brightness, allowing for some lovely mood lighting for you and your special guest.  While these are not yet slated for a release, crafty GearCravers can build their own with a little help from your local hardware store.  Should you take the hands-on approach to building your own, be careful not to penetrate your speaker’s tower– a single hole will ruin your audio reproduction.  If you’d rather wait, we hope these speakers will be on the market later this year.

Buy: $1,250

USB gadgets have become popular by being just plain crazy. This latest one makes a small exception to the rule though in that it could provide much needed stress relief for the office worker. The USB waterfall is exactly what it says it is, a waterfall that is powered by USB. The waterfall is also illuminated with various LEDs that flash while the water gets slowly pumped around. At the bottom of the waterfall there are a number of glass pebbles to finish the effect off.

Although still a little crazy, I kind of think it could be quite soothing hearing running water at your desk every day.

This mammoth LCD television is nine feet in diameter. That’s bigger than the width of your GearCrave editor’s bedroom from back in college. Funny enough, the cost of this TV is nearly double my tuition, so I suppose that it rounds out a bit. The Sharp 108-inch LCD TV will be coming to the US for a price just over $100,000. If you’ve got that kind of money to splurge on a TV, shoot us an email on the GearCrave contact form. We’d be happy to help you spend your folding money– for a slight fee, of course.

Buy: $101,832.99

Check out this cool stylish USB flash drive, the iRiver Domino.

The Domino comes in a choice of 2GB or 4GB and a variety of colours, including silver, pink, white, black and chocolate.

The 2GB version will retail for $21 and the 4GB version will retail for $34.

Check out the Big Time Digital wall Clock, this has to be the coolest clock I have seen so far.

This gigantic digital clock measures 100 cm x 50 cm, about the size of a 37 inch LCD or Plasma TV.

This cool clock is made from lightweight materials, which means it can be hung on the wall without the need for support.

I comes in a variety of colours, red, grey, blue and green and is available to buy online for £69.99 about $140 from LazyBone.

Funnily enough I have just moved house and was looking for a picture for my new office on the weekend, unfortunately I couldn’t find one, so I guess I will have to order one of these to hang on the wall, I wonder if my girlfriend will like it

Check out this cool DIY LED chess set, it was made by Instructables member Tetranitrate.

Sixteen blue LEDs and sixteen green LEDs are glued inside the hollow recesses in the base of each chess piece. The positive contacts for the LEDs are wired to copper washers attached to the base of each chess piece. The negative contacts for the LEDs are clipped to be made flush with the rest of the base.

A conductive chessboard is made from a sheet of copper. The sheet is wired to the positive lead from a power transformer. Insulated holes through the center of each square on the board allow magnets to pass through. The magnets connect and hold a negatively wired steel plate underneath to the negative leads from the LEDs.

Here is a video of this cool DIY LED chess set in action.

If you figure PCs should look like a bizarre abstract UFO, or maybe resemble a Sit and Spin type toy with a CD tray sticking out, you are not alone. Designer Won-Seok Lee apparently agrees.

The B-membrane computer concept does away with monitors entirely, instead opting for a built-in projector that will beam the display onto any surface. The membrane keyboard shows up whenever it’s needed as well as a built-in optical drive. It will probably be some time before we see something like this become a reality. It’s just not that easy to make a PC of the future look like the inside of a washing machine.

Along side the 3 other million USB powered gadgets that we see kicking around the internet, you now have the option of a Tube Clock.

The Tube Clock is powered by USB and can connect to any standard USB port on the side of a laptop or PC to draw power from. Time is displayed in the regular hours, minutes, seconds. A USB booster is needed and supplied with this clock although it isn’t too clear what it is needed for. It just seems like the power needed by this clock might be greater then that available and hence, a boost is needed.

The clock measures 10.5 x 28 x 7.5cm and costs $70.

The BluePointer is the first ever Bluetooth headset which features a built in Laser Pointer, an LED flash light and can connect to your PC to control powerpoint presentations.

This rather bizarre mix could come in handy for those on the move who also need access to a laser pen for presentations.

Specifications:

# Bluetooth specification v2.0+EDR class 2
# Supports Bluetooth Headset, Handsfree, and HID profiles
# Rechargeable 130 mAh li-polymer battery
# Range of Frequency: 2.4GHz Spectrum
# Operating Distance: 10 meters
# Laser Class: Class II
# Talk Time: Up to 6 hours^
# Standby Time: Up to 120 hours^
# Nominal Charging Time: Within 3 hours
# Laser Pointer Operating Time: Up to 3 hours
# LED Flashlight Operating Time: Up to 1 hour
# Compatible with i.Tech 110 ~ 240Vac switching mini USB charger
# Dimensions: 61 (L) x 17.5 (W) x 14 (H) mm
# Weight: 13 grams
^ May vary dependent on usage and device.
Specifications subject to change.

Package Content:

# BluePointer
# User Manual
# AC adaptor/charger
# Plastic Ear-Clip
# USB Charging Cable

The BluePointer costs $90 from Brando.

We have very little information on Googolopoly and do not know who created it. It’s a great and fun idea though which takes the popular Monopoly board game and changes it to use Google and other popular web properties as the playing squares. In the middle instead of having the “Chance” cards you see “I’m Feeling Lucky” cards.

On to the actual game, the idea is to buy popular internet properties which appear to be ranked with the highest value ones on Mayfair while the cheaper ones are on Old Kent Road. Your task is to buy them and instead of building hotels, you need to build servers, get developers and make your money that way.

Nice idea! Not sure if it will ever exist though.