Addicted to Facebook ? With this homemade lamp you can keep track of your friends and social events without having to go to your computer. I personally am not THAT connected with Facebook, but it could definitely be used for other things, such as letting me know I have new e-mail and from whom etc. This post was found from the MAKE blog .
Speaking of email, here is a tutorial on how to make a physical gmail notifier out of an LED cube. No. 12 on the Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web, hosted by Hack N Mod.