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huh..? February 11, 2005

Legal lines.

WAPLaw.com. Quick access to legal help from your mobile phone? Riight! So what’s this, the impulse litigation business? Wow, some lawyers are so…persistent aren’t they?  WAPlaw.com offers quick access to legal help from WAP enabled cell phones, Palm Pilots and Blackberries. By filling in a short form, you can instantly send your legal request, right from the scene of an injury, to a series of interested attorneys.


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Gadgets February 10, 2005

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

The Cellular Phone Amplifier. On the basis that people using mobile phones tend to shout louder in noisy places if they can’t hear the other party properly, we suggest that this product is probably a very. good. thing. $39.95.  If you’ve been having problems hearing conversations on your cell phone, you know how frustrating it can be. The Cellular Amplifier boosts the volume on your cell phone up to 24 dB, so you can hear every word clearly. It easily…


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Gadgets February 10, 2005

Skype Phone.

The Firebox VoIP Phone. Neat because it accesses Skype. Neat because Skype Out is super duper cheap calls. Neat because anything that gets us away from monolithic telco control is most excellent. £29.95.  All you do is bung in the CD, plug the phone into the nearest USB socket and dial away. Nifty technology then digitally converts your voice through your broadband internet connection and on to its final destination – be it a fellow Skype user, a normal land…


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cool tech February 10, 2005

Pulse power.

The VNS Therapy System. For long term treatment of chronic epileptic seizures. [Via the rather scary Medgadget].  VNS Therapy delivers stimulation via a device implanted just under the skin in the left chest area. The pacemaker-like device sends mild, intermittent electrical impulses through a lead to the left vagus nerve, which then sends signals to the brain. Each device is programmed for the individual patient, and the patient or a caregiver has the ability to initiate or abort stimulation with…


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Gadgets February 10, 2005

Touch n’show!

The Internet Touchpad. Show the geek in your life just how much they really touch you this Valentines, and with gestures. Ahem. $21.95.  Latest generation design requires no pressure to point and select – just move your finger and tap. Patented Glidepoint Gesture technology allows users to program their own personal gestures to open documents, start applications or accomplish just about any other task on a PC that typically requires multiple keystrokes 3 programmable “Hot” buttons allow for programming shortcuts- access…


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Gadgets February 10, 2005

ET, chrome phone.

The Crosley Dreyfuss 500 chrome phone. Retro rad. $59.95.   First introduced in 1949, this ever-popular desk style set was initially featured in basic “Bell Black.” Reintroduced in 1954, in a variety of shades, this classic gained widespread popularity as it became a decorative household item. Rugged and functional, the Desk Phone was, and remains, the most commonly used phone in the United States. And while Crosley’s Desk Phone has the nostalgic rotary dial, it actually functions with push button…


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future tech February 10, 2005

Cyber tube.

Cybertelly, CyberSky and Byte-Tornado. Watch this one folks, it could be fascinating. At the moment distribution of the beta software has been stopped due to a temporary injunction issued by a German court on 7th Jan this year. [Thanks James!] Cybertelly. P2P television using a small (220kb) downloaded client. CyberTelly is a new technology of broadcasting TV, an Alternative to Cable-TV or Satellite-TV. Instead sending satellites into space or laying a cable into household, we use the internet for signal transmission. Cybersky….


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future tech February 10, 2005

Third eye.

The folks at ThirdEye Interfaces reckon they’ve come up with an innovative game controller tech which uses the seeing capabilities of cameras like the EyeToy to control on-screen action. Hard to explain, take a look at the video for more meat. The Ferret is not totally convinced, if only because it’s unclear from the rather sparse web site just how flexible the tech will be in the real world. A mere two degrees of motion is not good enough for…


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