LED pitcher is the classy beverage container of the future

If there's one element that makes any everyday object classy, it's LED lighting. Put it anywhere to provide a soft, white glow, and suddenly it's like you're a rich guy in the future. So why not put them on the bottom of a pitcher to make your beer look like it's from outer space?

This LED pitcher will make you the coolest guy at the party, maybe! And if you're planning to open a gimmicky theme restaurant, these are the perfect things to give it that certain something the Olive Garden doesn't have.

Vaio P pre-orders: Sony unofficially rolls into the netbook market in a Cadillac

2009 looks like it's going to be a hot year for functional and affordable netbooks. Sony, as the company is wont to do, is at least aiming for functional with its Vaio Pocket. Though it's coming out in February, Sony is already offering several tiers of the 1.5 pound, 8" Vaio P at different price points. The cheapest model, at $900, will get you a 60 GB hard drive while the beefier $1,500 option comes with a roomy 128 GB solid state drive (along with Vista instead of XP).

Sony isn't billing the Vaio P as a netbook, but it certainly feels like one — if it doesn't really look like it. The laptop sports an alluringly long and thin form factor that's geared toward portability with an insanely high resolution for it's tiny screen. It also has an instant-boot OS that gives you access to the Internet and your pictures, music and other media, featuring the kind of glossy front-end Sony is known for.

To our minds, the best part is that the length of the keyboard is closer to what you'd experience on your computer at home — or your full-sized laptop — which could more than make up for the squat screen.

Breaking NEWS: Aliens hate wind power

Last Sunday the people of Lincolnshire, England, awoke to discover that one of the many wind turbines on their countryside had been severely damaged. Never ones to subscribe to silly concepts like Occam's Razor, the townspeople looked at the scant evidence found at the scene and soon pointed to the obvious culprit: space aliens.

The facts: The turbine suffered a catastrophic failure at night around the same time many locals reported "glowing spheres" in the sky. The manufacturer says the turbine was built to withstand extreme conditions. And the blade that snapped off still hasn't been found.

The only possible explanation: Aliens hate us, and want to stop our development of renewable power. It's the only thing that makes sense. It couldn't have been ball lightning, ice, extreme weather, or pranksters. It was THEM. Watch the skies.

See-through iron is a brilliant idea

Now here's a design that I'm surprised we haven't seen before: the b-Iron 715, a clothes island that's totally transparent, allowing you to see your clothes while you're ironing. How much sense does this make? This way, you're able to see if everything is going alright and that you aren't burning anything.

Of course, it all relies on it working properly. If the clear material doesn't distribute heat evenly or clouds up with steam, well, then it's pretty worthless. And such issues might be the reason we haven't seen such a problem before. But hey, maybe this is just one of those ideas that took way too long to come up with. Here's hoping.