Those two updates were coded in response to user requests for actually using RunPee's break moments during, you know, the actual movie. Pick a movie, set an alert and time buffer (1-5 minutes before the break), and RunPee will buzz you with a notification that, say, the scientist is explaining, so now's your chance for relief. With the offline storage, RunPee also becomes a much more useful iPod touch app. Of course, there's a joke in there somewhere about an app that vibrates when you really need a bathroom break, but we're far too mature to make it.

The RunPee.com web site has also added support for more languages, and a non-Flash mobile site for scoping out key non-action points right before a flick. Finally, there's a $1 Android app in the market, and other mobile apps are expected to come along soon. RunPee's iPhone app costs 99 cents, requires an iPhone or iPod touch.

Kill-A-Watt's latest version lets you see three stats at once: the current voltage, elapsed time, and cumulative use (which has an unfortunate abbreviation). You also get the programmable functionality, letting you set up unique times for each day of the week and 96 on/off settings per day. It's also a surge protector, which I'm not sure the old one had.

You'll have to pay $70 for this updated version, which still only supports one outlet at once, as opposed to the $10-$20 that you can get the original for. [ThinkGeek]

The app, which goes along with the new Evangelion movies, looks like the power countdown whenever one of the Eva robots goes on battery mode. Normally it displays the current time (military time, naturally), but you can also set it to count down anywhere from 30 to 1 minute.

Once the counter hits the minute mark it goes into "racing" mode, which then turns into super crazy red light mode when you get under 10 seconds. After that, you get killed by angels. The only downside is that the time is always displayed at a weird angle so you can only effectively read the time when your phone is in landscape mode. It also costs $3!

There's also a stamp app that's not quite as cool. All it does is give you a bunch of EVA things you can place over your own photos. Here's me with a Rei haircut generating an AT-field and telekinetically holding a knife. Oh and check out that huge necklace.

[Clock App and Stamp App]

I bought the Lego Egg Timer while visiting Legoland in Denmark, at the end of my visit to the Lego factory. Since then I've used it many times and its design doesn't cease to entertain me. The top half of the mini-fig head rotates as it counts time, changing the expression as the minutes pass. Nothing else can be said about it, really, except that it's cute and it works great.

By the way, I will resume the chronicles of the Lego trip next week, after giving you a week of respite. Coming soon: an inside look at how the Lego bricks and sets are made, how they are designed from concept to final product, and what it's like to work there, among many other things. Stay tuned. [Lego]

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It also includes a red LED to give the impression that you are actually cooking the noodles on a small burner, you know, like hobos! Meh, kind of lame, kind of cool. $8

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Sure, water is cheap, but it can start getting expensive to heat that water. Shower Monitor's makers say that the average family can save $24 a month by limiting their showers to eight minutes each. But then, taking a nice long hot shower, one of the simple pleasures of life, is eliminated.

On one hand, this could be an excellent device in an apartment with a very small water heater and lots of shower hogs. On the dark side, it's yet another tool for fascist parents to have one more element of control over everyone's lives in the house. Plus, who won't go right up against that time limit? Then there will be an annoying beeping noise happening in your house every single day. If it's worth it to you, it's $110. – Charlie White

Product Page [Waitek, Ltd.] Thanks, Richard!

Normally we wouldn't have much patience with someone's inability to remember to take one pill a day, but since some of us have passed 30 and beyond, we're starting to realize that even some of the simplest things are not that easy to remember. We're hoping this concept for a birth control pill case by designer Ashley Spangler will actually be manufactured and sold, leaving fewer excuses for unwanted pregnancies.

Birth Control Redesign [Yanko Design]

Sure, similar timers have come before, but none were as programmable as this. The whole thing is personalized for each user, and is locked up tight, further widening the rift between the generations. Ship date and price info was not available yet.

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