Ever find the coolest gadget ever, only to have your girlfriend/fiancee/best friend/whoever say to you, “Do you really need that?” In this case, the answer is a definite hell yeah. When Bruce Willis comes crashing through the plate-glass window with a pair of wire cutters in one hand, and the address of a gigantic bomb in the other, and he’s got to get to that address before 6:15, you know he’s gonna want to know what time it is. When that finally happens to you, you can whip out this handy keychain-sized laser clock, aim it at the wall, and show Bruce how much time he’s got left before everything goes kerblooie.

Buy for $29.99.
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Now this is some serious retro timekeeping. This Fred-O-Vision alarm clock looks like one of those old 70s style portable TVs, and the display looks resembles one of the old-time test patterns from back in the day when TV stations actually signed off for the night and let you go to bed. That’s right, gang, once upon a time there was no 24 hour cable, back in the day when TVs were made out of wood. This alarm clock constantly shifts color just like one of those unreliable old console televisions, and it plays goofy old game-show theme music as your wake-up call. Imagine waking up to the theme from The Dating Game! Or maybe you’re a Hollywood Squares guy. If retro makes you gag, you can give the retro Fred-O-Vision alarm clock as a gift to one of your office chummies. Call this another Gearcrave no-brainer quick pick gift idea.

Buy for $24.99

Oregon Scientific’s ExactSet Fixed Projection Alarm Clock

You know how bad your eyes are when you wake up hung over from the night before? You desperately want to know if you’re late for work/the wedding/brunch/whatever, but you just can’t see those damn tiny numbers. Those days are over forever with Oregon Scientific’s ExactSet Projection clock. This synchs to the United States Atomic Clock automatically and has an eight-minute snooze. Peter Griffin would call this “freakin’ sweet.”

Buy for $19.98.