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TABLE THAT MOTION
>> Zero-Vibe Home Isolation Table

Today's home nanobots are so tiny that even the slightest vibration can damage them beyond repair. It's happened to everybody: you're doing some perfectly simple nano-assembly in your den, tweaking a set of air-purifying bots the size of grains of pollen, when somebody slams a door on the other side of the house. Suddenly, you're looking at a useless heap of dust. With the Zero-Vibe Isolation Table ($7,999), that will never happen again. Originally developed for electron microscopy, the Zero-Vibe is mounted on pneumatic damping pistons, so it's proof against everything from the pitter-patter of little feet to large-scale seismic disturbances.

TAKE CARE OF OUR AIR
>> PneumoAvenger Pollutant Tracker

Everyone loves hunting air polluters — it's fun and profitible! And nothing busts 'em faster than the PneumoAvenger ($41,500). Just extend its patented telescoping SniffWhips and, in minutes, molecular odor sensors can trace the source of any environmental toxin within a thousand-mile radius. Best of all, you can start your own PneumoAvenger Club, linking to a net-pack of fellow hunters and sharing data. Once you've pinpointed the source of those carcinogens, the push of a button instructs your favorite celebrity lawyer to file a suit.

BODY CLOCK
>> Swatch Circadian Timepiece

Ever feel like your watch is a part of you? The Swatch Circadian Timepiece ($2,499) practically is. Once a day it quietly, painlessly extracts a drop of blood from your wrist, does some basic bloodwork — checking hormone and glucose levels, that sort of thing — then sets itself based on where your body is in its daily metabolic cycle. The results are approximate at best — it's a little like strapping a sundial to your wrist. On the plus side, there's no fiddling with knobs and buttons, and given a few days it even adjusts to changes in time zone. On the minus side, you have to watch your stimulants: drink one extra cup of coffee in the morning, and the darn thing runs fast all day.

A PHOTON FINISH
>> EuroBoutique's Solar Varnish

They've been talking about it for years and beta-testing it for months; now it's finally on the shelves: EuroBoutique's Solar Varnish ($399). No more clunky, old-fashioned silicon panels: now you can literally paint a workable solar collector onto any flat, primed, suitably sun-drenched surface. Once the varnish is dry, just attach electric leads to the edges, hook up that AC converter and a meter, and you're ready to reap some serious voltage. Just one complaint: the weird selection of Euro-designer colors. Dewy Dawn? Jumpin' Jute? Solar Syrup? Who names these things?

FINE AND DANDER
>> The GrimeBuster Spectrometer Mop

Apparently the phrase " too much information" has no meaning to the brainiacs at Consolidated HouseWarez, inventors of the GrimeBuster electronic mop ($299). The GrimeBuster is the first wetware mop that paints a digital picture of household germs while it cleans. Its head features a water-activated protein spectrometer that performs an immediate genomic analysis of whatever it encounters. As you mop, the GrimeBuster provides a running report on the micro- and macroorganisms with whom you're sharing your home. Cat dander, ragweed pollen, dust mites, spores, amoebas and worse — nothing escapes the keen eye of the GrimeBuster. Trust us: your floor may look spic and span, but after one cleaning with this electronic mop, you'll never go barefoot again.