So last night I stumbled across this cool little gadget, its a usb device that can illuminate or flash in different colors all programmed by you either in code or via script’s etc.
So you could use it to flash when you got new mails or something similar or imagine if you put this device on the servers in your severroom and connected it up with your hardware monitoring – now the server would flash red if it had hardware problems – the options are endless.
Read more here;
http://thingm.com/products.html
Buy it here (note postage to Europe is a bit steap);
http://buy.thingm.com/blink1
See the YouTube video here;
http://youtu.be/ZLvloI4RleI