The Ferret must a’wanderin’ go. Cross sea and sand. To a far off land. And return with a ho ho ho! Normal service should restart around the 9th May.

The Philips DesXcape is the Dutch manufacturer’s entry into the world of WiFi enabled ‘smart displays’. And I’ve got to say that this one looks lovely. However again the price,…

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots. And not a moment too soon eh?

Actually this is only here ’cause I like the name (just joking guys!). The SliMP3 device is an Ethernet MP3 player. That is, it streams music from your PC to…

Hmmm, interesting concept. The Astro.com site offers detailed and free horoscopes and stuff based around your personal birth details. Not sure how they make money out of it however. Also…

The Payphone Project documents the payphones of the world. Surely a dying breed? The photo above is apparently a solar powered GSM payphone on Lake Victoria, Uganda. Gives a whole…

The Vulcan Mini-PC is a teeny but fully functional Windows PC with 20 GB hard disk. But the keyboard looks really naff unfortunately. Still, it’s an interesting idea. [via slashdot]

AARON is a computer artist program. It draws art. Itself. No two paintings are exactly alike (although they’re all darn similar!). And you can download a screensaver trial. Clever stuff….

The US Census Pop Clocks. For those with a morbid fascination as to the ever burgeoning world population. Kind of spooky really.

Good grief they’re all at it. Now it’s the turn of ex PayPal co-founder Elon Musk. He’s not so much taking the money that he got from selling his business…

Top 10 Ways to Tell if you have a sucky Home Page. Perhaps these examples could do with some exposure on the Web Pages That Suck site? [via madville]

Mmm…Microsoft is apparently prepping the 3rd party manufacture of a whole raft of smart watches and other devices which will be able to accept FM radio data transmissions. The idea…

There is a reason why you’d like to own one of these, but I’m darned if I can come up with it right at this moment. The Shuttle Bike is…

The Panasonic solid state camcorder uses PCMCIA (aka PC Cards) instead of tape for recording. It holds five 4GB cards to give a total of 72 minutes recording, and the…

There’s something almost surreally 21st century about the Car Living Web site, devoted as it is to the art of…er…living in your car. As someone who resides in one of…