Bob is a machine which sits on your desk. If you are bored and need something to fill your time with then you switch him on and he just whizzes around your desk hitting anything in site while trying to entertain you. Bob runs on 4 button cell batteries or 1 4LR44 type batteries and can provide some entertainment through a boring day at work.

Bob machine costs 14.99 GBP and available from Need a present. Unfortunately this could well be one of those toys that ends up being used and abused for the first week and then left on the desk to gather dust??

Hover around your office on the hovering chair

Yep, I am sure you know this isnt actually real but it is still fun to mention. The hovercraft chair is an idea put forward by someone over at ideawicket and is basically a chair that hovers with a large fan under it. The crazy idea behind this is to allow for more fun at the office and give a faster way to travel around places. To control the chair you just lean forwards or in which ever direction you want to go. I guess in a similar way to how you control a segway but in this case you are sat down and floating.

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This fan is a step to the side from your regular fan that you buy to cool you down when its warm. This one features 42 LEDs which are mounted on the blades. When the fan is switched on, images can be made from the LEDs (POV). The fan has 5Mb of memory in which you can store 128 images for your little animations. It certainly does add a new look to your relatively boring desk fan. What makes this good is the ability to hook it up to your PC via a serial port and you can transmit via Infra Red to the fan and put your images on to its blades. To see how it looks when working check out the You tube video after the jump.

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This mouse which was seen over at Computex in Taipei is built by Global Link and it straps to your finger, hence the name Ring Mouse. It can work on most surfaces and even works with your thumb brushing past it. My first thoughts are that it is rather large and why couldnt it be made smaller, however, if it was smaller then people might think you are strange stroking the desk with your hand. At least with it being a decent size they can still understand that you are actually holding something.

It appears that the Ring Mouse is optical, but no details are provided about that yet. It seems like it is divided in to four sections with the top right being the sensor and the others possibly being controls that you can tap against a surface or touch with your thumb.

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These cool little magnetic robots are designed for your office desk. They have crystal clear round heads and magnets on their hands and feet. Each of the joints on the Acrobots are movable allowing you to throw them in to any pose you want. When purchasing the acrobots you have two choices. The first is a regular type which stands about 4 inches tall and has 1 Acrobat robot with 6 pivot joints. The other option is for 3 smaller acrobots which stack on to each other and contain 2 pivot points.

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