It might be quite a while before science and medicine are able to make you better, stronger and faster with bionics, but there is an easy and inexpensive way to blend man and machine that’s available today — Connect-a-Desk.

Thanks to space-age harness technology and alien plastics gleaned from UFO crashes, you can now seamlessly integrate a laptop into your body. It goes where you go — like an extension of your flesh and bone. Amazingly, this upgrade only costs $US40 — but if you act now our trained team of scientists and surgeons will implant a mobile phone directly on your skull for no extra charge. [Connect A Desk]

Check out the two-seater version in the upper right-hand corner of the image above. That’s gonna run you $US1000. Single seat versions are priced at $US500. [Opulent Items via 7Gadgets via OhGizmo]

According to the designer Robin Grasby, Homework “allows the user to customise every aspect of their workplace. By selecting everything, from surface size and materials to storage and accessories, the user can create an environment as rich and specifically personalised, or as simple and generic as they require.”

Oh, and it has a measure ruler built in. Total win. [Robin Grasby via Mocoloco]

These things feature a hole near the back for the iMac to sit, lowering the screen so it’s at desk level. The benefit of this is, well, I’m not sure. I thought it was better to have your screen at eye height so you don’t strain your neck looking down? Doesn’t this make the problem worse? I mean, if Apple wanted its iMac screens to be at desk level, I’m sure they would have designed them that way.

But hell, what do I know. Go ahead and get your credit cards out, you lemmings. [SmartDesks via BornRich]

Besides, it’s cool future-y look, it seems like it would be as light as a feather without the glass surface. Given that my desk probably weighs a ton, I could probably use something like this. Unfortunately, it’s probably well outside of most price ranges. [Nurus via LimitedHype via DVICE]

Most cable-tamers we’ve seen manage to untangle wires and keep them somewhat organized, but these gizmos lying around on our desks also tend to add to the clutter. With the $US600 StudioDesk, there’s no need for external cable organizers because it completely conceals all of the wires—except for one—connected to your laptop. Now if only they can figure out how to hide cables snaking down your wall. [BlueLounge via Uncrate]

Anyone who speaks un-English is welcome to pillage Ikea’s Swedish forum for more details than we could excavate with the assistance of Google Translate, but from what we can tell, this bar desk is a quasi-custom job that could turn your shameful WoW addiction into a mature, metropolitan hobby that’s fully capable of wooing the most reserved of Banana Republic lady’s section employees. Just stash any snacks that end in a Z when company comes around. [IKEA via Unplggd]

PopMech’s quad-core beast is loaded with just the kind of pricey hardware you’d expect from such a flamboyant mod—4 GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 RAM, a GeForce GTX 280 graphics card, two 300GB, 10,000RPM VelociRaptor HDDs, and an Antex kilowatt power supply—all centered around an 3.0-GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor. It’s the case, though, that’s the star of the show.

The main structure of the desk is made up of two massive panels of acrylic, bolted to a custom-built aluminium frame. A glycol liquid cooling system snakes through the whole of the machine, stopping off to suck heat away from both the main processor and the graphics card. Built into the top is a custom-built Synaptics touchpad—a mostly useless but nonetheless cool design flourish.

PopMech has included a short how-to with their story, but it’s less of an instructional guide than a point-by-point summary of why you can’t build one of these yourself. [PopMech]