The space program has cost billions of dollars over the last 40 or so years and there is very little that has filtered into people’s everyday lives that are used daily. I’m sure there must be some out there and I would be impressed if you could list 10. If you can list any, you can add another one to that list in the TVClean device.

This NASA designed gadget is something that can be used at home and at work and with a price of around £30 you will want to get as much use out of it as possible. So what does it do? As the name suggests it cleans flatscreen TV’s and also monitors. It does this without the risk of scratching or use of harmful chemicals.

It has a rubber pick-up roller that will remove dust from the screen down to one micron in size. This is then cleaned by the internal adhesive roller and then is immediately available to clean again. Once you have gone over the whole screen with the roller you can remove the fingerprints with water and a microfiber cloth.

Whether your TV or monitor will ever be that dirty or you will want them that clean that you are willing to spend that sort of money on a cleaning product is going to be down to personal choice. I think I will stick with wet wipes and a cloth.

If you spend a lot of time on your laptop then I guess you will use it for a host of different things. One of them, I’m sure, would be as a communications device; not only for emails and instant messaging, but also for Skype calls. To make this form of communication look more professional when you are out and about on business trips you need the use of an external gadget for communication such as the SkyBlaster USB Skype Adapter.

This device had its design based on the Skype API and is 87mm in diameter and 27mm thick. With a weight of just 97 grams it won’t weigh your laptop bag down. The built-in microphone has noise cancellation making calls clearer for the receiver.

When plugged in to your USB port the LED light will be green to indicate data transfer and red when the microphone is on mute. To control the VoIP phone there are 3 digital audio control keys for the microphone mute and up/down of the 3W speaker volume. There are also six dedicated keys for the functions of Skype. These are the up/down arrow, dial, hang-up, minimise and tab.

This device is plug & play and as it is powered by USB, no external power supply is needed. You can listen to your music through it and for that personal experience there is a 3.5mm audio connector for your headphones.

Poor sleeping patterns can cause certain parts of society to suffer from tiredness during the following day that can affect their social and working life. For some it can have serious effects and the only way to help overcome these problems is to analyse their sleep to see what part of the sleep they have problems with.

The gadgets that allow them to do this require something running from the analyser to a strap on the head or wrist so it can monitor what happens in their sleep. The ZZZ Checker dispenses with the older technology and can monitor sleep patterns remotely.

The device from Spec Computer has in-built audio and visual sensors that can detect when you are snoring, grinding your teeth, tossing and turning or anything else that might interfere with a good nights sleep. It can pick out if your sleep is heavy, medium or light and display how long you have spent asleep.

As well as being able to display the data of each sleep stage on the monitors LCD it can transfer the data, via USB, to a computer and with the bundled software, be able to chart day to day details of the sleep patterns.

At the moment it is only available in Japan and it’s not cheap, but if you are a sufferer it could be money well spent.

Within the gadget world, ways of telling the time are not restricted to watches and clocks. Laptops, PC’s, mobile phones, PDA’s, PMP’s, the list seems never ending, so for clock manufacturers to be able to catch the eye of the gadgets owner they have to do something special and out of the ordinary that will appeal to them. One such clock dispenses with the traditional way of showing the time for an unorthodox method. The Time Machine Clock has no hands and no digital display.

The more complex method of telling the time makes this clock as much an art form as a clock. It uses dozens of chrome ball bearings that travel along intricate paths to indicate what the time is. A spindle in the centre counts the seconds and after each minute a chrome ball is released. After five minutes a five minute ball is released and once 12 have collected in their final resting place an hour ball is released. This sequence happens every hour.

Complete time accuracy is ensured by a precision movement mechanism so you know the time will always be right. Indicator marks are found on the channels where the balls sit so to tell the time all you need to do is count the balls. The whole thing is encased in an acrylic display case.

For a while now Intel has ruled the roost with regards to processors in the popular netbook market. The Intel Atom processor seems to be the one to base manufacturer’s gadgets around. Samsung, however, have made a departure from this with there new NC20. They have opted to use Via’s Nano U2250 which is claimed to have better performance and power saving.

Via’s new processor runs at 1.3+GHz and uses what Via calls “adaptive overclocking” technology. This allows the processor to increase its clock speed when it is within certain temperature limits. This will allow the clock speed to increase to 1.6GHz, but because of the NC20’s cooling system this is capped at 1.5GHz.

The NC20 comes with a 12.1 inch screen that gives a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. This makes it a little larger than the average netbook and further blurs the line between netbooks and full blown laptops. It also has 1GB DDR memory which can be upgraded to 2GB. Storage options are between 80, 120 or 160GB SATA hard drives or a choice of solid state drives. It has 3 x USB ports and a 3-in-1 memory card reader. Just above the screen sits the 1.3 mega pixel camera and the 6 cell battery should give around 6 hours of up time.

As Samsung are the first manufacturer to use the new processor it is too soon to say if Via can make a dent in Intel’s domination in this area.

We can all appreciate a well cooked barbeque meal, especially on a warm evening. The juicy sausages and tender skewered chicken have a special taste from the coals below. If we want a different smoked flavour we can cook our food over flavoured wood chips which infuse into the food. However, there can be a problem if we want to cook vegetables on the barbeque. Not so much if the vegetables are cooked as a whole or in halves, but more so when you want to cook smaller pieces or sliced vegetables.

Ok, you can cook them in a small pan or wrapped in tin foil, but what if you want to get the flavour of the wood chips into them? After all you lose the barbequed feeling if you cook it any other way. The best way around this problem is to use the Mesh Fry Pan.

This gadget will allow those flavours to penetrate the vegetables while they cook. It is made from heavy gauge stainless steel wire and fashioned into a pan. The tight mesh prevents any loss of food onto the coals and has a high resistance to sticking. The long handle allows for good leverage to toss and turn the veggies during grilling.

The next time you barbeque for friends, impress them with this addition to your barbequing arsenal.

For those of you who do a lot of travelling and have a need for a Bluetooth headset, you will be well aware how cumbersome some models can be. Not only this, but you need either a docking station or a power cable to be able to charge it up when it eventually runs out of juice. That means even more cables to try to stuff into your laptop bag. Why do our gadgets plague us with endless charging cables? Well this problem is set to end with the MoGo Talk Bluetooth Headset.

This tiny device is roughly a third of the size of a credit card and weighs in at a paltry 9 grams with a thickness of just 5mm. With it being so small it can sit in its own cradle and plug directly into the PCI Card or Express Card slot in your laptop to charge while you are typing away on a document. The earpiece is made up of a flexible thin rubber ear tip that not only secures in your ear blocking out noise, but will flatten enough to fit into the card slot in your laptop.

You get four hours of talk time from the battery and one week of standby time and for those of you who like to walk and talk, this gadget has a range of 33 feet.