The Gold Piggy USB T-Flash Card Reader. One day we’ll look back at these times and realize that we were in the golden age of technology. Not right now, one day. So until then, we’ll have to make do with a decidedly dodgy fake gold pig card reader. Or whatever. $8.00.  USB Golden Piggy T-Flash / Micro SD Card Reader is an ideal way to bridge the gap between your desktop computer and new multi-function cell phones and other portable…

These 14K Gold Smiley Necklaces are the height of gawky geeky fashion ferment, especially if you’re into making hip personal statements from your neckline. $275.00 buys you any one of a series of mood symbols that will endear you to all and sundry. Perhaps.  Purely textual communication–like email, txting, posting and IMing–could lead to even simple statements being easily misinterpreted. Thanks to emoticons, we can easily convey emotion or intent with common ASCII punctuation. While the smiley :-) is a fairly…

The Outdoor Entertainment Set is a hardwood framed stage and screen set which gives you all the fun of the cinema without the popcorn throwing nerds in the back seats. It’s all weatherproofed and sealed and movable, so you don’t have to keep it cluttering up your yard when not in use. Deep breath now, $1,899.00.  Movie night moves outdoors. An oversized, retractable projection screen is framed in hardwood and paired with a hardwood stage, creating the ultimate outdoor entertainment…

Disc Pod Dispenser. Shove in 100 CDs or DVDs and press a button to dispense one as needed. Cleverly it uses the standard disc cake box, so no problem with keeping it loaded. £6.99.  Disc Pod Dispenser • Ideal for high volume media users • Fill in the CD / DVD (Up to 100 pieces) into the DiscPod from the top • Press a button to dispense your media • Essential desktop accessory • Use your existing cake box Tags:…

The Golf Swing Analyser Watch measures your tempo, rhythm, swing and club speed. It does all this with the help of three – count ‘em – accelerometers and presumably lots of smarts. To be honest if you wanna pay us a paltry sum we’ll save you a lot of grief and tell you exactly what we think of your swing. Of course this may not be quite as helpful, but what the heck…. $399.95.  This device is as unobtrusive as a wristwatch and…

The Dr Who Phone Flasher…er…flashes and in twirls when a call arrives on your mobile phone. Actually we’d much rather have the phone let us know that a call has arrived – don’t they have something called a ringtone? –  but you can’t have everything can you? £4.95.  You don’t need a sonic screwdriver or the brain of a Time Lord to set these handy companions up; simply attach one to your bag, belt or multicoloured scarf and you’ll never…

The Aculife Magnetic Wave Therapist is an acupoint finder and stimulator all rolled into one handy, pocket sized gizmo. So much easier than carrying around a Chinese herbalist, don’t you think? And cheaper of course. $299.95.  Use the Aculife daily to help locate qi pathways that need stimulation. Then, simply flip a switch and stimulate the qi in your body’s systems where you need it most. The Aculife Deluxe has several settings and features that will allow you to quickly…

The DV1210 DV Camcorder is unremarkable in every way except one. It comes with a built-in FM Radio. Say what? So it’s a 5.1 megapixel, MPEG-4 recording camcorder with the ability to record off TV, play music, act as a voice recorder, USB storage device or webcam and play FM radio. Now that’s what we call convergence with a capital K. £99.99.  True 5.1megapixel resolution with 4x digital zoom and 2.4-inch colour TFT LCD screen • Powerful MPEG-4 video format for larger…

The iLoad lets you transfer material from your CDs to you iPod at 5 times faster than ‘real time’. And without a computer in the way. So a full audio CD should take around 8 minutes to transfer across. Not a bad idea, eh? Speeds are affected by scratches on the disc though, so very old collections could take 40 years or so to copy across. Or something like that. $299.00.  iLoad offers convenience and portability. No waiting for a computer…

Ugly as sin but twice as cheap, the MadTux MT-100 Low Cost Linux PC is proof that computers are so totally commodity products right now. $139.00 – think about it – buys you a 1.5GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, a 13.5 GB hard drive and the usual stuff like Ethernet networking (but no wireless). You’ll have to supply your own keyboard, mouse and CD/DVD drive, but hey, you’ve got three of each lying around in a cupboard, right? Astonishing how far (low?)…

The Black & Decker Stormstation is a veritable treasure trove of usefulness. Not just a rechargeable emergency light in case your juice dies suddenly as aliens land in  your backyard. But also a radio, detachable flashlight and power socket to keep your small appliances going too. What indescribable value at just $54.60.  This portable unit is equipped with a weather radio, power inverter, and detachable flashlight. When the power goes out, the StormStation’s “Find Me” light automatically turns on. Use its 25-watt inverter…