Things that go ‘boo’ in the night!
USB Powered Air Darts. Aim and fire with your mouse. C’mon, wage your very own war with weapons of mass compression. You know you want to. £19.50. [Update] Powered by your mac or pc, you’ll have hours of flying fun with these USB air darts. Let the mission begin! * Control the aim and the firing mechanism of the darts via your computer mouse * Cylindrical base * 3 darts * USB powered * Software included
Matthew from Xitel, the upmarket audio company, assures me that the new Hi-Fi Link for iPod is a top quality way of feeding your iPod audio to your home stereo system or home theatre. Something to do with the gold connectors, shielded cables, TruBass and ‘advanced psychoacoustics’. Paff, whaddoiknow? Anyway it’s $99.95 and it will also cope with video and photos too. Xitel’s HiFi-Link for iPod lets you combine the versatility of your iPod with the power of your home stereo….
The Blast R-1000 Phone Recorder. Record phone and voicemail messages directly to your PC hard disk via the USB port. It’s even got an inbuilt microphone for some real live recording fun. The software comes with search, sort and archive functionality, which would probably have been useful for Thomas Hawk in his recent tussle with that nasty PriceRitePhoto store in New York. Search, sort, email recordings — add comments and bookmarks, too! You can instantly replay any conversation, or search…
According to my new marketing friend Trisha at PriceGrabber.com, the current top selling toy online is this Hasbro Dream Life TV Plug-in Game. It appears to be a $44.99 hybrid of Second Life and The Sims without all the messy stuff like interacting with other people. Just plug it into a television and you’re good to go, you can even save games to play round your friend’s house. Yikes. Xbox 360, what’s that? Answers on an over heated remote control to… It’s…
Ladies, spoil the man in your life this year with the LBC (Laid Back Computing) 2000 computer rig. Your cuddly couch potato will thank you with tears in his eyes as he unpacks his slob prop and accessories, just watch his cute little love handles jiggle with joy. $1600.00 says ‘I adore you’ better than any cardiac arrest machine ever will. Now use any size monitor, up to and including 21 inch monitors, next to any bed, low-armed chair, or couch. Machined…
Ooh here’s a jolly jape, pranksters. The Mini TV Remote Control Prank let’s you surreptitiously take control of any nearby television and not just switch it off, but change channel, volume or on/off. Just hold down the mute button and the device hunts for the code to lock onto. When the telly goes silent you know you’ve got control. Muhaahahahaahahaha! Thrill as you drive your father-in-law nuts during that crucial mid-season football game, chuckle as you ruin your sister’s soap, choke with laughter as…
The PetC@m USB Web Camera. Aww, so adorable. 300K pixels, VGA, adjustable focus, 30 fps frame rate and a woverly cold nose, haven’t you den, liddle cutie pies? Hang one from your monitor today. Available in four wovable breeds for just $49.95.
The Amazing Alive Chimpanzee. Pah, forget about Furby, what you really need this holiday is an animatronic life size chimpanzee head that follows you round the room with its ‘radar’ vision eyes, sound sensor ears and touch sensitive skin. Yep, that’s what you really need, no question. $149.95. “Alive” Chimpanzee can see, hear and feel in ways that allow him to interact intelligently with you, your family, your guests…and with baffled strangers. # Four distinctive emotional moods include “Curious,” “Happy,”…
The Punching Watch. More than just an alarm watch, this one vibrates you awake with a swift uppercut to the solar plexus. Oh all right, so we’re exaggerating a little. Around $88.00.
The Armed Chair Motion Simulator. Take one Sybaris twin motor electronic reclining leather chair, throw in a handful of motion controllers and actuators, hook up the audio output of your DVD player. And rock. Or roll. Depending on the movie in question. Like most of these things, it only works with a specific set of films, but hey, if you’ve got $12,798.00 to burn, why not? It is possible to adjust the settings to suit most people. If the sensation is too much…
The Zap ATZ is an electric quad bike (or ATV as some call them). What more do you need to know? It’s got to be more fun than roller skating in custard, and all done no doubt in silky smooth silence. Speed max, 20 mph. Range, 25 miles, charge time 5 – 8 hours. And dude, it comes in cool red with a horn. Yours for a trifling $1,995.00. ZAP presents the ATZ – the All-Terrain vehicle. A powerful off-road vehicle…
The Skullcandy MacGyver MP3 Watch. With 1 GB of memory on your wrist plus a 5 mode equalizer, 3D stereo, voice recorder and integrated USB cable, we’re talking about a timepiece with attitude here. Just the mere thought of whispering super secret messages into our shirt sleeve sends shivers up the spine, know what we mean? $299.95. Up to 1 Gig of pure music riding on your wrist in a package so tight you don’t even know it is there. The MacGyver…
The JDS Stargate. Described as an ‘intelligent controller’, this thing looks like it could control a full blown moon lander, let alone your home automation rig. The neat thing is that once it’s installed you can control any X10 appliance using a Web enabled computer anywhere in the world. Man, we would so like to turn on the toaster from Shanghai and freak out the cat. $999.99. Using a powerful Ethernet interface, the JDS StarGate IP lets you control anything…
The X-SES Keypad. Designed by In10did (geddit?), this little gidget apparently hangs from a neckstrap and gives you full keyboard access to any Bluetooth enabled device. Oh why can I not be more enthused, my dear? Why? [Thanks Wayne] Our goal is to make keyboard input more logical, simple and practical on small computers. We do this by reducing the mechanical keyboard from over one hundred keys, down to only ten keys, one for each finger. This ten key format provides…
The Electric Wang Show. Is, we believe, a kind of tragically named, armband based, electronic bulletin board, which seems to be worn by official type people who tell others what to do. It is just one of a collection of bizarre devices developed by the PeriBorg company of Japan. Perhaps some kind soul would send them a letter of explanation and condolence?
