The Cobalt is a response to the discerning public need for the next convergence device to blend elegance with simplicity and portability. The Cobalt’s round OLED touch screen allows easy access to all its features with a simple flick of the thumb left, right, up or down. The default screen shows time, date, temperature, and updates on voicemail, email and text. Completely customizable on every level, the default screen’s settings can be changed to suit your needs - from minimal analog hands to a full on digital display.

The stainless steel Astrodea Celestial Watch is the perfect gift for anyone with an interest in astronomy or for the captain of a starship. Designed by Hideo Uehara for watchmakers (among other things) Citizen Japan, the Celestial Watch’s blue star map rotates in real-time, accurately displaying 1,109 stars and 169 galaxies: 90% of what’s visible from the Northern Hemisphere. It comes packaged with a 10x magnifying eyepiece and, thanks to its intense detail, you’ll be able to explore the universe by simply lifting your wrist.

The Celestial line of watches tend to come out in an updated version each year — this year’s being a little slimmer and lighter — and only a few hundred are made annually. They go for $600.

Check out the gallery below for more views of the Astrodea Celestial Watch.

We’re not shy about our love of all things Nixie Clock related here at Dvice, which is why we couldn’t help but share with you this lovely example of the tech. The Wooden Nixie Clock combines the old-school gadgetry of the tube-based clock with the earthy vibe of smooth wood. It’s totally classy! And hey! If you’re handy, you can buy this clock as a kit and put it together yourself. It’s a fun project that ends with you owning a classy, unique clock. If you aren’t handy, well, I guess you’ll have to find a handy person to build this kit for you, as that’s the only way it’s sold.

We have discovered the Holy Grail for programmers and desktop gamers with a snacking fetish and it’s called the USB Mouse Vacuum. Now, after spending 72 hours cemented to your chair parsing through code, instead of straightening up your desk, all you’ll have to do is flip a switch on the side of your mouse and in minutes no one will ever know about your dark Doritos habit. But no gadget is perfect, you’ll need to occasionally empty the tiny dirt-well located near the back of the mouse or risk contaminating your workspace every time you sit down and start mousing around. You can pick yours up for 1,980 yen ($19) here.

I swear that some people spend more time typing on cell phones than they do on their computers. That would certainly explain why I-O Data has created this tiny Bluetooth 2.0 keyboard designed specifically for mobile phones.

I honestly can’t see how something this small would be very benificial to someone. It will cost a whopping $153 when it hits stores (in Japan) next month, so why not put that money towards a phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. With such small keys, you’d probably be better off.

By Evan Ackerman

If you can’t afford a Panasonic Toughbook or a General Dynamics GoBook but you find yourself trying to be productive in wet and dirty environments, you might want to consider dropping 20 bucks on this glorified Ziploc bag from Thanko. The bag, which looks to be generally laptop-shaped (thereby differentiating from the far cheaper and most likely heavily patented Ziploc), slips over your entire computer and seals at the bottom, protecting most of your computer from inclement weather, rogue sandstorms, wayward bird droppings, or angry children throwing ice cream cake.

The cover isn’t completely waterproof, as there are vent holes at the back to keep your computer from baking itself, so it will most likely not respond well to submergence. But for you klutzy or adventurous laptop users, it could be $20 well spent.

Thinking of a new Eee PC or maybe Wind laptop? Hold up, Dell’s about to loose this baby on the sub-$500 mini-laptop world. All we’ve got are these pictures for now but the specs can’t be far behind. Even the name “mini-Inspiron” comes from the file name of the Dell-supplied pics. However, if what we’ve already heard holds up, then we’re looking at 8.9-inches dolled up in a sub-$500 price tag with a choice of both Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam, direct media playback buttons, and a “host of wireless access options.” Expect more next week as the Computex show kicks off.

Rickshaws are a standard fixture in big cities. We have carts pulled by bikes here in New York City, London has similar vehicles, and places such as Bangkok, Thailand have zippy little carts powered by noisy motors. For the bike-powered vehicles, speed and strain on the driver are both big issues, while the motor-driven carts are significant polluters. London-based SolarLab is looking to address all of that with its solar-powered rickshaw called the SolarCab.

The SolarCab is designed to draw 80% of the power it needs from solar panels covering the shell of the cab. The rest of the 20% comes from the driver’s pedaling, which will be significantly easier even with a heavy load thanks to the electric assistance. SolarLab hopes that each rickshaw will reduce CO² emissions in its native London by two tons per rickshaw. It’ll be interesting to see just how much good it does when the SolarCab hits the streets next year.

There was so much coolness at the Museum of Modern Art’s Elastic Mind exhibit, it was hard to absorb it all in one shot, but look what else was there: It’s a Pong table, updated to incorporate the physical world. If you’re old enough to remember Pong, that pioneer video game from 1974 that started in bars and helped pay some of our ways through college thanks to crafty wagering/hustling, you’ll find this modern version vaguely familiar.

The difference is the 2400 LEDs inside that show the puck’s position, and the two track pads embedded in front of each player, giving them complete control over the proceedings. Flip off the power, and the table shows no evidence of the electronic trickery just under the surface, appearing to be a plain white plastic table with oddly splayed legs. Designer Moritz Waldemeyer gave no indication of whether or when this neat game might be available.