Unusual Tech Products for Students

Every student is going to buy pencils, notebooks, laptops and cell phones before the official start of the semester. The fun thing about technology is the variety, and while you may have the same iPhone all your friends have, you can vary your tech to show your personality in several other areas. Here are some unusual tech products for students, all of which make great gifts that will definitely become a conversation starter.

Flying Digital Alarm Clock

Some students have a hard time getting up in the mornings, but some students are as hard to wake as the inhabitants of a cemetery. Since getting high enough marks to pass depends partly on attendance, you can take the snooze button out of the equation with a flying digital alarm clock. When morning rolls around, the alarm sends a toy helicopter flying across the room, and the alarm sounds until it is re-united with its base. Amazon.com has them in stock for $11.88, a miniscule investment to secure good results out of your $20,000 tuition.

Feather or Comb USB Flash Drive

So you put off buying a flying digital alarm clock and you're late for class now because your "normal" alarm has a snooze button. As you speed down the highway you notice that you left the house with a remedy for your horrendous case of bed hair. Have no fear, you can walk into class stylin' and profilin' because your 2.0GB jump drive is also a comb. Uncommon Goods make flash storage media in the shape of combs, or feathers depending on how useful you would like your storage to be. You can get your comb shaped jump drive from Amazon.com for 32$.

Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

Most colleges and universities offer overlapping Wi-Fi connections on their campuses so students no longer have to travel to the library for work. Sometimes zoning in on the best place to connect is a challenge, but Think Geek knows all about it. That's why they developed the Wi-Fi detector shirt, with a Wi-Fi signal detector and display built right in. The strength and availability of area Wi-Fi connections will be constantly broadcast as you strut around campus knowing you have the secret to the good connections. The animated decal is removable for easy washing, and the shirt will broadcast for hours on 3 AAA batteries. Get your Wi-Fi detector shirt today for just $14.99 at ThinkGeek.com.

ValueRays Warm Mouse

Whether the furnace is broken in your dorm room, or you decided to stop outside the library one morning in late December to steal Wi-Fi, college students will be the one group who will appreciate ValueRays' Warm Mouse. The developers claim "The New & Improved, ValueRays Heated Computer Mouse helps heal, soothe, relax and relieve chronic cold mouse hand pain". The Warm Mouse uses only 5V, and it reaches temperatures from 99-104 degrees. You can purchase a Warm Mouse at heatedmouse.com for $29.95.

USB Computer Light

When sharing sleeping quarters with a roommate that has an early class, you will be required to turn the lights off before you want to go to sleep so they can get some rest. Another unique tech product offered on heatedmouse.com is a USB computer light. This nifty little light plugs into one of your laptop USB ports, and generated just enough light to use your device in a dark room or on an airplane. Students can plug away silently into the night while their roommate sleeps soundly, undisturbed, in the same room. The USB Computer Light is only $6.99, and would make a great gift for a recent high school graduate taking to the dorms for the first time this fall.

Sound Asleep Pillow

Your first day of college is finished, and tomorrow you are the one with an early class. Your flying digital alarm clock will wake you up, but your roommate is making too much noise with his new girlfriend for you to get the rest you desperately need. All you have to do is plug your mp3 player into the hollow fiber memory foam Sound Asleep Pillow that you got from iwantoneofthose.com, and doze off listening to light jazz or Phish. The Sound Asleep Pillow will drown out ambient noise and an overzealous roommate while relaxing you with the music of your choice. Iwantoneofthose.com has their prices listed in British Pounds, but the dollar price of the Sound Asleep Pillow is approximately $29.28.