OK peeps, that’s it for this year from the Ferret. Packing tiny fluffy bags and heading off to the Northern lights to visit Santa. Back in the first week of…

The USB Alarm clock. [Babel] Oooh look. Yet another device hooked up to a PC port. How bizarre but magnificent, Maude!

And here was I thinking that mono wheels were a modern invention. Apparently not, dear readers. Nor are they all as monster as this V8 engined behemoth.

Good grief, everyone’s going anti-carb. There’s even a community forum for it now called My Low Carb Life . That Doc Atkins has a lot to answer for, and pass…

NEC Corp’s HD DVD [Babel] AOD (Advanced Optical Disk) drive features not one, but two lasers – a bluey, and a reddy. Result? A drive that can not only read…

Stellarium is a pretty cool – and free – ‘photo-realistic sky generator’ program. ‘Stellarium is a [sic] free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies…

Is the Mini PC EX-1 really the smallest PC in the world? Maybe for the moment. Review here.

The Computer Cops forums – a pretty good place to find out how to release your computer if it’s been hijacked by spyware or trojans. Contains lots of links to…

And so the fight continues. Mute is a new file sharing program which ‘protects your privacy by avoiding direct connections with your sharing partners in the network.’ And this on…

MP3 Gym. 100,000 different routines, 60 exercises. I need a sit down already. ‘Introducing…the very first and only audio personal trainer recorded on MP3s for your MP3 player. It’s the…

A nice little piece from Textually.org looking at how people are starting to invent cool ways to use cameraphones. ‘A contractor in the business of sealing driveways, has been taking…

I think that this story on Sky’s digital television newsletter is kind of sad. More for what it says about us, than what it says about the poor animals. ‘Gorilla…

OK, admit it. You’re having trouble finding that last minute something special for the someone special in your life. Well seek no longer friend, for now you have found. Tortilla…

It may not look like much, but Logitec’s snappily named LDR-HA443U2 [Babel] DVD recorder must rate as just about the most complete device of its type on the market. Not…

Four electronics manufacturers have come up with a spec for controlling home appliances with mobile phone handsets. The iReady interoperability standard has been agreed by Toshiba, Sharp, Mitsubishi Corp and…