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Bizarre July 31, 2009 posted by Dan

Coca Cola Freestyle – every variety of Coke, everywhere

A small beverage company called Coca Cola has a problem. Worldwide they currently make over 100 different varieties of drink flavours but they want to make them all available to…

Gadgets July 31, 2009 posted by Nigel

LED Magnetic Mine – make like a light Ninja and impress bats

This LED Magnetic Mine sticks to any metallic surface and beams light onto your choice of place. That alone should make you gasp with wonder and joy, but that’s not…

Gadgets July 31, 2009 posted by Nigel

USB Tube Delight – the tiny sound card that thinks it’s a valve

The USB Tube Delight is my kind of useless. Not only is it a portable PC soundcard which sports microphone and headphone sockets, but also…also…it looks like an old fashioned…

Gadgets July 31, 2009 posted by Dan

Clearaudio Emotion SE – transparent turntable

Look I’m no audiophile, and I’m sure the Clearaudio people and their Emotion SE turntable with it’s high-mass motor damping base, aluminum arm base and near silent silicon belt are…

Gadgets July 31, 2009 posted by Nigel

SIM Card Spy Elite – the deep forensic SIM card data recovery tool

The SIM Card Spy Elite is a ‘deep forensic’ data recovery tool for mobile phone SIM cards. I think that means it can retrieve stuff that’s been deleted for ages,…

Gadgets July 31, 2009 posted by Nigel

Fluorescent Spray Chalk – grafitti this, tag that dayglo boy…

Fluorescent Spray Chalk. The vandal in me says yeah! The preacher says no! Which to believe? It sticks to anything, comes out like spray chalk, is super bright coloured and…

Freeware July 31, 2009 posted by Nigel

Vista Clock – free analog clock with chimes, yeh chimes man

The Vista Clock freeware is pretty cool looking. And it comes with some nifty extras, like chimes, a countdown alarm, stopwatch, world time and atomic level accuracy. All of it…

Bookmark This! July 31, 2009 posted by Nigel

Wikipedia List of Common Misconceptions – what you know is wrong

The Wikipedia List of Common Misconceptions is a good source of Friday fun. Napoleon wasn’t short? Who’d a thunk it? This list of common or popular misconceptions corrects various fallacious, misleading,…

Gadgets July 31, 2009 posted by Dan

The Walk on Water Ball – one brave soul running in a fishbowl

The Walk on Water Ball is what you get when you cross a fishbowl and a hamster wheel. Dive through the orifice, line up the ball so water won’t get…

Gadgets July 30, 2009 posted by Nigel

Underwater Camcorder – capture the sights and sounds of fishy bachelor parties close up

This Underwater Camcorder is painted in that distinctive yellow shade all underwater equipment seems to demand. Is that because people keep losing their grey coloured stuff down below? Or carelessly…

Gadgets July 30, 2009 posted by Nigel

Bleep Labs Thingamagoop Audio Synth – make like Robbie the robot bleep noises

The Bleep Labs Thingamagoop is a retro styled return to a time when men were men and The First Law was still an important part of our moral code. What…

Gadgets July 30, 2009 posted by Dan

Hide My Ass – Web proxy with no downloads

Hide My Ass isn’t witness relocation for your donkey, it’s a collection of web anonymiser tools and proxies. There’s a link anonymiser, anonymous search and they’ll even host files and…

Gadgets July 30, 2009 posted by Nigel

Zii Egg – new Android handheld computer could beat out the Apple iPod Touch

The Zii Egg is a rather swish new handheld computer which comes with lots of very smart technology built in. There’s 1080 HD video output for a start, a fast…

Gadgets July 30, 2009 posted by Nigel

USB TurboCharger 3400 – cool portable re-charger for your mobile devices

The USB TurboCharger 3400 is a portable recharger which charges your devices when they run out of power. You charge it up from a USB port on your laptop computer…

Bookmark This! July 30, 2009 posted by Nigel

Keyscrambler Personal – freeware protects your passwords and private data against keylogging sniffers

Keyscrambler Personal is a free browser addon (Firefox or Internet Explorer) which protects your typing against keyloggers. This means you should be protected against someone installing a hardware or software…