Slow news day much? This Banana Shaped Bluetooth Handset will get you talking. With 6 hours of talk time and 160 hours of standby you’ll never miss a call again. Bluetooth 2.0 and comes with volume controls on the banana. Try saying that with a straight face. US$17.70
- Unique banana handset shaped
- Bluetooth V2.0 Class2
- Automatic matches Bluetooth signal with power on (10-meter range max)
- 100V~240V US plug AC charger included
- Fully charge time: 2 hours
- Talk time: 6 hours (manufacturer rated)
Computer server rooms are the ecological equivalent of storing a bunch of blower heaters in a giant coolroom. But people need their MySecondFaceLifeBook pages and so servers will get hot. Iceotope on the other hand, have a great idea for keeping all those hot and busy machines cool, especially as server densities keep increasing.
The Iceotope system uses a triple circuit, liquid cooling system that completely eliminates air as a heat transfer medium. The system immerses each server motherboard in a bath of inert coolant which is circulated via a pump at the back of the server rack. The hot coolant is in turn cooled by water from the building supply. Because of the increased efficiency of the thermal transfer the cooling water doesn’t need to be as chilled as with air-based systems. Ordinary tap water temperatures should do and the system fits very nicely into the standard 19″ server rack.
Iceotope claim that server cooling costs can be decreased by 93%, or if you were cooling 1,000 servers, you’d save around $788,400 in three years. The increased thermal efficiency means you can also cram more servers into a smaller space. That’s got to be a good idea, can someone tell Google?
Iceotope has developed a patented approach that tackles the problems of cooling servers in data centres from the source of the heat – at the component level – to its final destination. The heat produced by the components inside each server is captured effectively by immersing the server motherboards in individually sealed baths of an inert synthetic liquid coolant. With the heat now locked in to a liquid, subsequent stages of liquid (water) cooling can be implemented to efficiently transport the heat from source to final destination in the air outside the data centre.
Oh Brando, you’re pushing the friendship here. You’ve gone and stocked a USB powered drink mixer and warmer and I was all ready to give it the boot … but you’ve gone and made it stylish, and I don’t think I’d mind too much if I had one on my desk.
The USB Whirl Wind Warmer Cup just does that. It heats your drink and makes it dizzy. It keeps it around 40°C using just the power of USB. Bung in your chemical experiments, hit the wizz button and consume. As the blurb says, it’s a Lifestyle Gadget . US$37 and you’ll need to pre order just in time for December.
The USB Whirl Wind Warmer Cup is a lifestyle gadget. It is a drink warmer that can keep the drink in around 40°C. It also be a Whirl Wind cup; built-in lid and rechargeable battery. Just press the button, the lid will swing and stir your coffee or tea. No stirrer any more!
The Olive 4HD is a Hi Fi media server for the CD-collecting generation and music connoisseur. The 4HD plugs straight into a stereo amplifier for playback but also rips CDs and 24bit CDs to its 2TB hard drive via the state-of-the-art DAC and CD drive. It can store 6,000 CDs or 20,000 24bit tracks which should keep the party going for a while.
It’s not just highbrow music though, it’ll connect to your 802.11b/g/n or Gigabit network, talk to your Mac or PC and stream music from anything on the network. It even has album art. All this fun will cost you US$1,999 but hey, it looks great! [Via]
As part of your home entertainment system the Olive 4HD connects directly to a stereo receiver. Music libraries are easy to navigate through the integrated touchscreen, or, using the unit’s built-in HDMI interface, on a TV. Olive also offers a free iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows users to control the HD Hi-Fi Music Server from anywhere within the home network
How much boxing blurb can I squeeze into one article? Well, you’ll definitely wake up swinging with this Boxing Alarm Clock, ready to hook into the day, dance like a butterfly and knock naysayers to the ropes. When it’s time to wake up the announcer will sound, challenging you to get off the canvas and hit the clock 10 times before the bell. If not, all bell will break loose, right next to your ear.
If boxing’s not your thing, there’s also a Pro Wrestling Version which you only have to hit three times. Both are US$50 from GeekStuff4U
At the set time, the alarm plays the voice of a broadcaster and the gong will ring unless the user can hit the clock within three counts (wrestling version) or 10 counts (boxing version). The product tests the user’s reflex ability to rise in time before the round is over.
This USB VOIP Phone and Card Reader kills two USB gadgets with one plug. It’s a full-duplex plug-and-play VOIP phone, compatible with all the usual suspects and it has a built-in USB card reader for SD/MMC cards (doesn’t say anything about SDHC). If that’s not enough it will also act as an external speaker. Works with Windows ME to XP and has a 1m cable. US$12.69 from Uxsight.
Brand New VoIP USB Handset Full Duplex Internet Phone for Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo, … / Double as SD/MMC card reader / Also can act as your PC stand alone speaker / Full-duplex communication with crystal clear speech / Streamline and fashionable design
The cutely named Cinemin Swivel is one of these new pico projectors. It’s a small DLP projector that can produce a 1.5m image from about 2m away or a floor-to-ceiling image across a typical room, whatever that is. This isn’t a big game projector, it’s more about showing pics to Grandma or plugging in your iPhone to share a movie with the bloke next to you on the plane. Its LED lightsource has a 1000:1 contrast ratio, pumps out 8 ANSI lumens at 480 x 320 and is rated to 20,000 hours.
It’s powered by an internal, replaceable rechargeable battery that will last a bit over 2 hours and fully recharges in 3, and it can run on AC. It’s designed for iPods but you can also plug in RCA video and audio via 3.5mm AV jack for playback via it’s internal mono speaker. It’s not available yet, but they’re taking preorders now. US$299 from WowWee.
The pocketsize multimedia pico projector that makes it amazingly simple to show and share your movies, videos, photos, games, and slides with friends anytime, anywhere. Perfect for small groups and small rooms – out and about – and where TVs can’t go.
Brando call this Auto Domino Building Truck a toy. I reckon, in the ancient art of domino stacking it will soon be a controlled substance. Just load up the truck with some of the 200 multicoloured dominoes and away you go. Needs 2 AA batteries and US$24.90.
The Wonderful Auto DOMINO Building Truck!! When the Truck is start moving, you can adjust the Angle of the Truck path for Building up your Own patterns Dominos. It may be the Fastest and Easiest Way to Build Up Your Own Style Dominos!!
This laptop steering desk is great! Cons: When I turn the corner, things fall off. Interferes with texting. Pro: I can fill out paperwork, watch YouTube on my Iphone, check the map to see where the next client is or read a book while stuck in Los Angeles traffic. I cut a hole in mine so it’ll hold my coffee close.
LIFE has a great little pictorial expose on the Spy Tools of the Cold War. These aren’t your laser beam firing Omega watches, these are the real deal, including the infamous great seal bug and a very cute radio bug that fits into a martini olive. Now that would be a good one for good ol’ you-know-who.
Spying is a dangerous business. Whether “the operative” is an international man of mystery, a private dick, or a crack-shot G-man, the job often demands the most advanced data-gathering tools available.
USB SuperCharger is a brilliant little bit of software that will transform the way you use your USB flash drive by improving its performance by some 300% and more. If you move lots of small files around or you’re a heavy user of Portable Apps, then you’ll definitely want to read what it can do. For once the hype is actually matched by reality!
PeerBlock is a little piece of software that you run in parallel with your torrent software that stops it connecting to peers in suspect IP addresses. It’s not just for safer peer-to-peer downloading, you can also use it to prevent your PC from accessing ad-servers, or a range of addresses belonging to entire countries. The software doesn’t guarantee anonymity or protection or anything like that but as some band once said, it’s just another brick in the wall. [ViaFreeware Genius]
PeerBlock blocks “known bad” computers from accessing yours, and vice versa. Depending on the lists you have it set up to use, you can block governments, corporations, machines flagged for anti-p2p activites, even entire countries! Whether you’re sharing files with Bittorrent or just surfing the web, PeerBlock can help protect you from the bad guys.
If you’ve been lamenting the lack of hi-fi speakers designed for PCs then these Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 speakers should do nicely. They’re fully active, with a digital amplifier, 2-way speakers with 3″ woofers and 1″ tweeters and a headphone output. They accept a 3.5mm input or USB 2.0 digital streaming with a frequency response [...]
The Wall of Sound is a ginormous iPod dock and speaker system for people who like their sound big and loud, that’s an iPod Nano at the bottom right by the way. Weighing in at 102kg you won’t be moving this puppy around much so where it lives is where the party’s at. It has [...]
If you can do one thing well, then you’re all set and this Sakasa Master Backwards Voice Recorder has got specialisation in spades. It records your voice and then plays it back to you backwards. Great for those heavy rock albums from the 70s and their crazy lyrics. It’s not even USB powered, as that [...]
Instead of adding anti-freeze to pooch’s water bowl, try the healthier option of a Thermal Pet Bowl. This heated bowl keeps the water from freezing even in subzero Fahrenheit temperatures (that’s very cold). It holds 5.5 litres (1.5 gallons), draws 25 Watts and has a 1.5 metre cord. US$28.51 from Amazon.
Now you can make sure [...]
The Cideko Air Keyboard is a multimedia, wireless keyboard for driving your home theatre PC. It’s a small 80 key keyboard with multimedia controls. The best bit however is the whole keyboard is a mouse. Grip it with two hands and move the keyboard around to control the cursor, the left and right buttons are [...]
These Tempo Tags, are clip-on, time-telling tags that you can attach to anything including your best friend who’s always late. There’s two in a pack, a right and left-handed version. Why? I have no idea. There’s also a temperature version. US$18 for the Tempo, US$15 for the Temperature.
It’s about time. When you’re no longer tied [...]
This USB TV Card Viewer is about as simple as it gets. It plugs into your telly via RCA leads and you can feed it videos, photos and music via SD/MMC or MemoryStick. You can also plug in a USB flash drive or a USB memory card adapter to play videos from any type of [...]
Masterpiece Art lets you draw pictures using masses of LEDS and plug-in glowing wires. You can choose from a range of backgrounds and decorate them to your heart’s content. It doesn’t need any special tools either, just a blank canvas and some creativity. You’ve got that haven’t you? US$79.99
They also have an LED chess set [...]
This Solar Power Bluetooth Headset should keep you out of trouble. The stylish outward side is 100% solar cell and Brando reckons it has infinite standby time while it’s sunbathing. You can also charge it the old fashioned way using USB or AC adapter via the charging cradle. It’s Bluetooth 2.1 so it sounds clear, [...]
Twitcritics is an aggregator that scours the Twitterverse™ looking for tweets referring to current movies. It then determines whether the tweet is positive or negative and adds them all up giving the movie a rating. All the tweets are linked and visible so it’s easy to click through and check to see if it’s a [...]
Macessity make a range of Mac-styled accessories including this Slimkey V2 monitor stand. It’s made from powder-coated aluminium, has four USB 2.0 ports and neatly hides the large or small Apple keyboards while supporting your monitor. Looks alright too.
Macessity make a few other nifty Mac bits, including this Mac Mini hider, the Stand By [...]
Having trouble deciding on the iPhone or Droid? Pop on over to xkcd and you’ll find the answers. Just don’t forget to mouse over for the kicker. A a 265dpi screen. Wow, that’s nearly as good as print …
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