Super Status Light: This Tiny USB Device Will Color-Code Anything

Nobody should have to stay glued to their computer screen. But what if you step away for a moment and miss that vital email? Is there a way to tell from across the room that it came in? How about checking on the weather, or the health of your laptop, or any other digital information you can imagine, without waking your computer?

Now you can do all of that with the help of blink(1), an LED creation (and Kickstarter project) launched Monday by San Francisco startup ThingM.

Blink(1), a tiny device you plug into your USB slot, is a red-green-blue LED that you can program to discreetly alert you to virtually anything.

Set the gizmo to watch for t…
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