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Small inventions like the Hook Box can make a big difference in your quality of life. Mount these ceramic hooks to the wall, and immediately have a place to hang your coat with a small storage bin just above, a suitable waystation for things you'll need to grab or get rid of when you depart or arrive such as keys, sunglasses and your wallet.

Now if they could just put a small power outlet for charging up your cellphone inside that mini-bin, it would be the ultimate in convenience. Unfortunately, this looks like just a concept—we're not seeing any place to buy these yet. Someone, manufacture these for sale already. – Charlie White

Designer's Page [Luca Nichetto, via Spluch]

Top Gear James May presenter decides to push the world's fastest production the 'Bugatti Veyron' to its limits as he attempts to hit the top speed a mind boggling 253 mph (407 km/h). Under the hood is a 16 cylinder engine with four turbochargers delivering 1001 horsepower and generating a lot of heat which is taken care of by 10 radiators (our cars have a single cylinder). The Veyron is put to test at Volkswagen's top secret test facility…

Here’s German comedian Barbara Schöneberger "singing" the Star Trek theme music. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]

Sooooo… how does that bathroom for the handicapped work again? Found at Factum

Along with Niveus, Okoro's also releasing a high-end media center capable of taking advantage of Vista's graphical abilities. Like the $3,499 Rainier Edition Niveus, this one only has over-the-air (OTA) HDTV tuning and not cable support.

Nevertheless, your $4,595 will get you an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor, 2GB of RAM, nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX video card, 1TB of hard drive space, an NTSC tuner, an ATSC (OTA) tuner, and a 7-inch LCD on the front. Also, since Vista natively handles Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Windows controllers, you can use this for your Games for Windows games as well. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Okoromedia via Crunchgear]