It's just about time to spring forward and leave those winter blues behind. In the olden days (1994), that meant setting that little dial on your analog watch ahead one full rotation. So retro, right? These days, nobody wears a watch merely to tell time, and cell phones spring forward on their own without any help from us.

This year, instead of moaning about your lost hour of sleep, take the leap with these latest gadgets, guaranteed to put you on the cutting edge of the digital curve. Because, let's face it-- there's too much coming at you, from the moment you open your eyes in the morning (or afternoon) until your overjittered orbs flicker their nightly last. To ease your way through the daily data glut, psychoPEDIA offers a guide for the techno-hip, with a variety of ways to tune in to your own personal vibe, without subjecting yourself to the pulses of others. The only thing they won't do is your laundry:

Chumby ($179.95)
These days, it goes without saying that the Internet is everywhere. Walk a block in any major city, and you'll spend more time telling your cell phone to accept or ignore wireless networks than you will window-shopping. If it's all getting too hard-edged and high-tech for you, how about trying Chumby? It's kind of like one of those wireless weather forecasters that never quite worked-- only it does. Its wireless connectivity and hackable web clipping software lets you keep up with the photos, news, and miscellaneous bits of information that you care about. Kind of like a clock radio, only not annoying, and without the clock (unless you want one). No waiting for traffic on the tens or weather on the twenties. And best of all? It's cuddly. Chumby's designers want you to love it so much that they made it squeezable, maybe even lovable. Snuggle up to one. You won't be able to put it down.

Panasonic Old School Headphones ($50.00)
Joe Grado started the retro headphone revolution with the SR-60, those unmistakable black cans with the unimpeachable hi-fi credentials worn by music-loving iPod-connected hipsters everywhere. But with their open backs, uncomfortable headbands, and Model T color scheme, old-school, but not in a good way. The solution? Go old-school-er. Panasonic's new RP-HTX7 headphones feature the electronics giant's latest and greatest drivers in a sealed-back enclosure that may look familiar from high school language lab -- if that language lab was available in powder blue or avocado green piano lacquer finishes. The sealed back means your subway-mates won't learn your musical guilty pleasures, and you won’t have to hear about their weekend peccadilloes. All for $50-- buya pair, plug in, and tune out.

Oakley O-ROKR sunglasses ($199.00)
Spring time. Sun is out. Sunglasses on. Headphones won't fit over sunglasses. Sunglasses off. Phone call. Cell phone won't fit over headphones. Grrr. Almost makes you want to strip it all off and start, you know, making eye contact and talking to people. Relax: your mobile isolation zone has arrived. Oakley teamed up with the cell phone gods at Motorola to produce the O-ROKRs. They've got everything you'd expect from a pair of Oakley's famous sunglasses: style, a bridge that won't slip off your sweaty, extreme-sports (or extreme people-watching) nose, even prescription lenses... and oh, yeah, "thermonuclear protection." They also have everything you'd want from a set of athletic headphones, including drivers that stay put in your ears even at full sprint, cuz, duh, they're attached to the sunglasses. And they've got everything you'd expect from a Bluetooth device, including full wireless compatibility with your Motorola cell phone. They even charge over USB, so you won't get that AA-headache. Goodbye, device-juggling; hello, O-ROKR.

Tokyoflash Watch ($100.00)
We're not really sure how to tell time on it, but we've got clocks on our cell phones, our music players, our laptops, our neighbors' digital accessories, even -- and won't this bake your noodle, cyberchild -- on the public clocks that face out from more than a few moderately-high buildings. So what's it come down to? The wristwatch need no longer be an object of pure function. Meet the wristwatch as pure form, and not in some MOMA-enabled, just "one dot poised snootily in the air," Movado fashion either. Instead, bring Ginza to your wrist with the Tokyoflash watch. Its many available models digitally writhe, pulse and gibber in a way that makes the signage at Times Square look like the traffic light in a one-horse town. And who could argue with a round-LED style that's part Cyberpunk, part Sting's big Casio on that old Police poster. And maybe, just maybe, if he wore one of these, he wouldn't brag about his six hours of prowess, because, well, he'd have kind of a hard time telling just when six hours had gone by. The Tokyoflash watch. Digital temporal confusion for your wrist.

Numetrex Sports Bra with Integrated Heart Rate Monitor ($49.95)
They look religiously committed, those guys with the bulky piece of medical paraphernalia strapped to their chests, with an under-layer of electrolytic goo. Who wants that kind of discomfort -- and that kind of ugly -- to measure your peak performance in the park with? Stylish athletic ladies need go dataless no more, thanks to the Numetrex Sports Bra, the first of its kind to have a top-line heart rate monitor actually integrated into its fabric. It won't pinch, chafe, or bite at your skin. The sports bra sends its signals wirelessly to a matching wristwatch, where you can monitor your performance (and, presumably, tell time). It's supportive, breathable, washable, and all that other good stuff. Uniboob, meet total performance monitoring.

-Adam Pollock

First photo by Jess Marie via Flickr