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I have read about how you can enhance the quality of your sleep – especially your short daytime naps by playing special white noise that is designed to help you reach a certain level of brain activity.

I’m not enough of a brain wave geek to really understand it, but this gadget caught my attention today.  My sister has slept with a fan in the room for 25 years and this can emulate the sound on an oscilating fan.  It also has nature sounds. 

Tranquil Moments Sound Therapy System 

I am seriously loving my little nano   I am staying caught up on all of my favorite podcasts since I can take it with me in the car – but, I’m not using it at home at all because I don’t care for ear buds on my ears.

I’ve got the inMotion on my Christmas list so that I can pop the nano into it and just be able to listen to my audio through the air. The picture here is of the Altec Lansing inMotion Portable Audio System for iPod.  My friend Angel has one that she got for Christmas last year.

I was listening to Gadgettes today and they were talking about cell phones. 

Now, I’m not a fancy phone gal.  I carry a very simple cell phone – and I am home most of the time so I don’t even use it very much right now.

I was caught by their discussion about whether people want an mp3 player in their phones.  I have to say that I would like it if my phone had an easy USB connection and let me upload mp3 files easy.  I’m all about simple so I’d like not having to have two gadgets if I could just have one.

What are your thoughts?

I got my own little coupon cutter gadget from Pampered Chef. It has a little magnet that holds it on your fridge or in my case on my filing cabinet. It is a funny little mouse shaped plastic dohicky that had a tiny sharp edge sticking out.

When you slide it across paper, it cuts the paper smoothly. It’s perfect for cutting coupons, trimming pictures, opening CDs or removing labels off of soup cans.

You can buy one here for $2.95.

Ok, you’re thinking that a Scrunchie doesn’t qualify as a ‘gadget’ but I beg to differ!

When it’s nearly 90 degrees and the humidity is rising – and you don’t have the ultimate hot air gadget (an air conditioner), you will find that you’re willing to part with just about anything to get your hair up off of your neck. Or in my case, my forehead!

I have a short hair style, but my hair is thick and I can’t bear having it all just laying there insulating my brain in the heat.

Sadly for fashion’s sake, it’s too short to pull all of it up into one pony tail.  To really do the job I have to do piggy tales.. and even then I usually lose a lot of whispies as it dries. 

This means that I certainly do not wear my hair gadgets out in public.  Unless you count this evening when I forgot and went to pick my son up from helping with Vacation Bible School.  I waited in the car, blissfully unthinking of my piggies when a ten year old walked by, looked at me and said. ‘Hi Miss Kelly! You’re hair sure is cute!’

Oh… thanks! (Crap, crap, crap!)

One of the irritating things about cars nowadays is the lack of a decent dash board. 

My Ford Focus is positively useless as far as keeping my personal gadgets within arms reach.  The dashboard is too slanted to be of use.  The tiny little indentation that someone had to create just to aggravate me is – well – aggravating!  Nothing fits in it except a bit of change – and everyone knows that is what the ashtray is for anyways.

I want to keep my phone in easy reach.  Is that too much to ask? 

I guess not - I found this nifty gadget helper.  You stick the pad on your cell phone, iPod or whatever and it grips your dashboard and holds it it in its spot.

I wouldn’t trust it through a major sudden stop, but for the most part, it’s pretty cool.

Might as well start right out with the gadget that is never very far from me and has never been given a chance to gather dust.

My Plantronics USB Microphone Headset.

When I first started to do my internet radio show I had a $10 headset from Wal-Mart.  That didn’t last long so I went back to Wally World to pick up it’s $20 big brother.

That lasted a little longer but on average, I killed these headsets in about three months. 

So I asked around for recommendations and this one topped everyone’s list for an affordable and long lasting microphone.

I paid $50 and they’re going for about that same price almost a year later.  I’m really pleased with it. I bought a second headset this spring when my sixteen year old discovered how much better mine was than his.

If you Skype or participate in Voice Conferencing, you’re going to love the Plantronics.  It’s comfortable for long sessions – though I discovered this summer that nothing is comfortable on your head in 90+ heat.