We spend a lot of time around here talking about all the cool gadgets that come out, but it's hard to highlight every single one. Sometimes, an innovation will get by without anyone noticing, but if it's innovative enough, you can bet it'll get the recognition it deserves. Or if it's bad enough.

Conventional wisdom holds that we need to build more highways in order to curb congestion. But what ends up happening is, more highways encourage more driving, creating a Möbius strip of never-ending highway building and even more entangled traffic jams. But there's only so much room to build new highways, which means eventually we'll be living in eternal gridlock. The same Mobius strip of more capacity=more traffic is happening in cellphone land.

Aliph's Jawbone grabbed the attention of gadget blogs a few years back as one of the first Bluetooth earpieces to use bone-conduction technology to filter out noise. Since then they've come out with incremental upgrades to the original design, but...

Big buttons. A simple display. Rounded corners. Yep, with a design like that, it's definitely for grandma. It's even named as such: 6380 Senior Mobile Phone. Don't let its bland screen and simple design fool you, though, as it does...