One of the thingsa that excites me is those people and designers who think differently about devices and technology and introduce alternative designs that break out of the typical mold.

The Swatch Concept: Air Tube Design Has Us Pumped is a good example. It's a watch, and you still put it round your wrist, but it doesn't look like a watch, and doesn't have the typical watch shape either.

Another good example is the new EFIKA mainboard. The fundamentals are a low power, powerful, and easy to deploy motherboard (along the lines of the VIA technology motherboards) that is small enough for it to be inserted into a variety of cases. In fact, it's so small that you can fit the entire machine into the typical 5.25" external drive case used for USB/Firewire CD/DVD drives. That opens up a number of possibilities, not least of which is the ability to build stackable units, as shown in the picture on this blog post.