If you are a bit absent-minded when it comes to closing your garage door, then the Garage Door Butler might be the perfect solution, to keep all of your valuables inside the garage safe. You can set a timer for a delay of 3, 10, 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and a light sensor automatically closes the door when it gets dark. $60.

If you still haven’t ditched that ancient landline phone because everyone in your family has their own cell phone, then you may consider upgrading to a stylish new handset. This Alessi Cordless Dect Phone was designed by Stefano Giovannoni, and features an OLED screen and comes preloaded with polyphonic ringtones by musician Gak Soto. $175.

Engineering and prototyping are made easy with the new BUGlabs Modular Gadget Factory that comes with a set of snap-ready tools. The BUG is an open-source that let’s you create your own device with the help of some Java codes. For experimentation, BUG will help you customize and bring in together any gadget idea you have in mind. With BUG, you can develop GPS, monitors and security devices in a modular form. $580.

Our brains are amazing except when storing memories. We want to immortalize our first-born’s firsts and we usually grab our video cameras to record those milestones. But the cameras of before are totally antiquated, not up-to-date with the YouTube savvy world. Your old VHS or Hi-8 videos are probably gathering mold right now, waiting for their expiration date, losing your memories forever. Digital is the way to go for storing those precious videos so you’ll need the Elgato Video Capture. Connect the Elgato to your Mac and start ripping those old family movies into digital MPEG-4 files. No more hassles of rewinding, storing, and archiving those dinosaurs of media format. Just digitize them and you’ll have a format that could last for as long as you like. $100.

Some of us have jobs that depend on the weather, and some of us just plain don’t trust anything the weatherman on TV says. If you fall into either of those categories, then you might be in the market for the Jacob Jensen Weather Station 2. This thing will give you all the weather related information you could ever need. $330.

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We have seen a lot of different types of digital picture frames in the past, but the Kaleido R7 boasts both a great price tag and an expansive feature set. First off, this thing is controlled via a touch screen, and can use pictures from your Mac or PC through wi-fi, or it’s 512 MB of internal memory or from one of your memory cards using it’s all in one card reader. $200.

What with the threat of a global swine flu pandemic looming, you may just have the cure for that dreaded disease and you didn’t even know about it because you were lacking a microscope. Every self-respecting scientist’s must-have tool of course is the microscope and this one from Celestron is just a digital version. The 2 inch LCD screen lets you view the miniature baddies from 24x to 240x and onward to 1920x with the digital zoom. It has a built-in 2 megapixel camera letting you document your findings onto an SD card or to your PC via the USB cable. The kit comes with slides and slide holder. Don’t just sit there, time to go exploring for the cure to swine flu. Or you could just swab your keyboard and view the less-than-friendly residents on there. $180.