USB bell-ringing minature steeple

Simple really - a small model steeple with bells and bell ropes. The ropes are pulled by small electromagnets at the bottom, driven by a USB connection. Each bell rope is then mapped onto one of those numeric keypad keys you never use and to various system events like "new mail".

You can practice peals of bells by trying out patterns on your keypad or just use it for dramatic cascades of bells when you get new mail.

If you don't like the rather tinny sound of the little bells in the steeple, the bells will have MIDI outputs so you can drive something capable of making real bell noises.