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Funky stuff, man!

cool tech September 8, 2005 posted by

Intellifit.

Intellifit. The computerised clothes fitting kiosk. Step in, get scanned, find clothes that fit. Fast. Apparently. Currently in roll out phase in the USA and soon Europe. Funky.   You walk into a see-though Intellifit booth that’s 8′ high and 8′ wide. In 10 seconds, Intellifit uses a totally safe radio wave to collect numerous, accurate measurements of your body – while you remain fully clothed. Next, you receive a confidential computer printout listing those brands and sizes that fit…


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cool tech August 31, 2005 posted by

Micro processor.

OK, so let me get this straight. Texas Instruments has just launched it’s new ultra low power micro-controller, the MSP430F20xx. So it’s a 16 bit, 16 MIPS unit with 128kB of RAM in a 4×4 mm – yes millimetre – footprint. 16 MIPS? Good grief, my desktop had a lower spec than that a few years ago.


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Bookmark This! August 30, 2005 posted by

SmugMug Maps.

SmugMug Maps. A nice hack of a commercial service which combines Google Maps with 32 million photos to provide a geo-oriented images map. Cool indeed.   smugMaps is easily one of the most fun features we’ve added to smugmug. Through the power of Google’s publicly available Maps API and smugmug’s huge photo database, we’ve enabled location-based searching for photos all over the world…In fact, we built smugMaps as a proof-of-concept and hope that other people take the idea and built even…


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cool tech August 29, 2005 posted by

iKarma networks.

CEO Paul Williams from iKarma sends news of a new Network Viewer feature at his site. You can now get a rather neat overview of the ‘degrees of separation’, if you like, between people who are featured on the recommendation service. Nice one, Paul. Bit worried that everyone seems to have five stars though! :-)  Just wanted to give Red Ferret readers an advance peek at our new iKarma Network Viewer. While iKarma.com isn’t a social network, we thought it…


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cool tech August 26, 2005 posted by

Brilliant wristband.

Designed by Brunel University student Claire Dunne, the Brilliant Intelligent Wristband is designed to make sure that patients are given the right medicine, rather than the wrong stuff, by matching a memory chip on the drug container to it’s internal memory records of the patient. The info is then displayed on the wristband screen. This is definitely a cool thing, peeps, although it doesn’t, or course, stop someone putting the wrong medicine into the container to begin with. [Thanks Victoria]  The innovative…


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cool tech August 26, 2005 posted by

Ultrasound water.

The folks at WavePure plan to use ultrasound technology called wVpR to purify and desalinate water to provide more safe drinking water for the world. More’s the point, they also intend to supply domestic products too, which is even gooder, especially if it stops us spending zillions on bottled rubbish. Excellent stuff.  With only a fraction of the cost of current methods, Ultrasound can quickly turn the oceans’ salt water and contaminated fresh water into 98% pure glacier water. Ultrasound instantly kills…


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cool tech August 24, 2005 posted by

Bags of security.

The 2005 range of Tech Air laptop bags like this 5504 Messsenger Bag are now apparently being shipped with 12 months of free i-Trak security attached, which is kind of interesting. The lurid green tag should make it easier for people to identify and return your precious should it ever get lost in transit, and the service can even SMS you when your bag is located. The Ferret has a Tech Air Azura bag which is actually quite cool, although it has to be said…


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cool tech August 22, 2005 posted by

Movie motion.

The View Factor Mirus, the smallest remote camera motion control head in the world. Attach your camera to it, hand over $25,700 and make like Spielberg. At a fraction of his prices. Watch the videos.  Mirus is changing the way filmmakers and studios perceive motion control. Mirus is taking motion control to new heights….14 inches to be exact. Don’t let the size of Mirus fool you, this machine is a full featured motion control system that can move even the largest…


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cool tech August 19, 2005 posted by

Clean living light.

The Ovell Bion Lamp is a clever bit of convergent tech – a long life, low power consumption bulb with an Anion air cleaner built in. Not sure how it works, but watch the smoke video to see a graphic demonstration. Apparently it sterilizes the air too, so you’re golden, know what I mean?  Anion cleans polluted inner air and removes various odors in house. In addition, it sterilizes germs and bacteria in the air, and removes moulds. Overall, inhaling anion…


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cool tech August 18, 2005 posted by

Powerski.

The Powerski Jetboard. We’re talking a surf board with a jetski engine here. Just a bit scary for us. We’ll stick to our celery powered pedalos if you don’t mind, dude. But boy does it look fun. Around $6000.00.  The PowerSki Jetboard runs at 35+ m.p.h. on flat water, which is extremely fast when you are walking on water…This first year the Igniter 330SS has a suggested retail between $5,995.00 and $6,995.00. Due to the high demand the consumer needs to…


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cool tech July 26, 2005 posted by

Solar light kit.

The Solar LED Lighting Kit. Solar is good. Lights are useful. LEDs are trendy. Mix and serve to save the earth, you feckless heathen. £20.50.  Get creative with the SolarMAX Solar Powered 6 LED Lighting Kits, these kits come with 1 Ni-MH AA 1300mah 1.2v rechargable batteries and are ideal for providing low level lighting. The LED lights automatically illuminate as light fades. 8 hrs of full sunshine gives 8-9 hrs of lighting…Sheds, Outbuildings, Playhouses, Garden Lighting, Sign illumination and…


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cool tech July 25, 2005 posted by

Solar kitchen.

The Parabolic Solar Kitchen. Around €98.00. Excluding pot. Oh and here’s a Solar Recipe Book. We could use that a lot here in Sub-Tropical Londres.  The solar kitchen avoids the deforestation in the Third World Countries and it does not damage the health of the people, almost always women who must cook supporting the smoke of the firewood. The use of solar kitchen parabolic KSOL allows the reduction of million tons of CO2 per year.


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Bookmark This! July 15, 2005 posted by

Mobile web mastery.

IYHY. Pretty cool tech for feeding web content to your mobile phone or device a la Skweezer. Strips away CSS, images, in fact everything that you don’t want on a teeny teeny screen. A 41k ESPN homepage, anyone? And it’s free. Snazzy.  IYHY is my attempt to force the web mobile. And if you signup for a free account on IYHY, then every time you type in a URL on the homepage it will save it for you for next…


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cool tech July 12, 2005 posted by

Plug and play babe.

The Billion HomePlug 2060G Powerline wireless access point. Wireless with a twist. Plug it into an electric wall socket and voila, instant wireless networking around the home and no pesky range problems with thick walls. OK, ya got me, I’m yours Dolores. £72.70.  To access to Internet, all you need to do is just have a wireless-equipped devices or a PC with Wireless-enabling card ready and plug BIPAC 2060G into a nearby power outlet. Data transmission via powerline backbone, a broadband network is already anywhere, in…


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cool tech July 5, 2005 posted by

Dolphin ear.

The Dolphin Ear DE500 underwater listening device. Eavesdrop on your marine neighbours from the comfort of your sofa with this GSM phone remote monitoring device. Just right for checking your lobster pots, eh? $695.00.  DolphinEar ‘500’…is a combination of hydrophone, pre-amplifier and mobile telephone interface. It plugs into the accessory connector of any handheld mobile telephone and allows the user to dial up and listen to the hydrophone from any telephone in the world…Any standard low cost digital phone (such…


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