And now a series of personal self-help sites for your further delectation. No please, don’t mention it. I. Not sure who you are, or what you believe? Check out the strangely designed Select Smart site, where you can find out what religion suits your attitudes, locate your perfect type of pet, find out which kind of Internet access is right for you and a host of other useful thangs. You do this by going through a selection of multiple choice…

Hey, remember that �5.00 you owe me? No? Well maybe you should take a quick trip over to this Harbrace Psychology Student Center site and read up on this Practical Guide for Improving your Memory from Dr Ruth Propper. No really, you never know it might help.

Brace yourselves. Japanese giants Hitachi and Matsushita are planning on launching a range of network enabled home appliances this autumn, which will go beyond simple concepts of remote switch on and query. According to this report in AsiaBizTech, the new products, including air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines and microwave ovens will have more ‘added value’. Not quite sure what that means exactly, but the executive did mention words like ‘home security’, ‘elder care’ and ‘health control’. So what, like a…

Two very interesting products from US company X-trafun. The first is a Bluetooth cartridge for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. This little doozy will let GBA owners connect to up to seven other GBA devices in a local wireless peer to peer network. This should make for some rockin’ multi-player gaming and cool playground conferencing. The cartridge, which should be around the same price as normal ones, will also let l33t h4x0rs connect their GBAs to Web servers and access email…

Fuji Film has announced a neat little product designed to help people photograph items for things like online auctions. The ‘shooting kit ‘ includes a stand which holds the digicam and a special box which uses clear plastics and fluorescent lighting to obtain optimum quality digital shots. The price is 30,000 yen (around �125.00) and it’s available from May. I think that this sort of box could end up being used for a lot more than just auctions, I know…

One of the amazing things about the Internet is how you can stumble across fascinating stuff by accident. I was checking up on a new game recently and came across this report by a small group of Russian game developers who visited Chernobyl as part of their research for a new title they are producing. The story and pictures speak for themselves. This really is a sobering view of what a post-apocalyptic mess could look like – deserted cities, abandoned…

Go on admit it. You were a sucker for Michael Knight’s Knight Rider car, KITT. The ultimate dream machine, a car that could think and talk to you. Awesome. For some people, though, dreaming is not enough. They need to recreate, to cherish. Hence the Knight Replicas site. [via Mike’s List]

I think that the Snakestick Nokia add-on joystick must be for seriously addicted mobile gamers. The sort of folks who need to get that last ounce out of their game of Snake or die. How else to justify clipping a clunky old piece of coloured plastic onto your mobile friend?

He’s called the Naked Cowboy and he lives in America, OK? [via MajorGeeks]

Q. When is a tablet PC not a tablet PC? A. When it’s a wireless monitor. The Viewsonic Wireless Monitor aka the airpanel 100, runs Windows CE, operates on Lithium-Ion batteries and has a 10″ LCD screen which will accept pen stylus input. Sounds suspiciously like the Microsoft tablet format to me. Out in May, but no word on price.

If you’re one of the lucky ones to own a spiffy new Apple iPod player, you may be interested in this site which lists a selection of hacks which can make the little device do oh so much more than just play your Elvis collection. Calendars, news headlines, even a screensaver. What will the geek boys think of next? [via Wired]

Councils in Liverpool and Sheffield in the North of England are drawing up plans to allow people to vote in their next local elections using SMS messages from their phones as well as the Internet. According to the report, security will be ensured through the use of PIN numbers and passwords, and it is hoped that the move will improve previously poor voter turnouts. A fiver says that the first vote in will be an order for a Pepperoni pizza…

The dear old Beeb (BBC to you!) is reporting on a new software robot developed at Columbia University which can collate, edit and summarise online news reports and automatically deliver a coherent synopsis. The Newsblaster service – developed by a team which includes the improbably named Professor Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou – looks very much like the standard Newshub or Newsnow type portal, but apparently operates completely without human intervention. The software trawls news sources, extracts phrases and creates five sentence summaries…

Could Wonder Water be a simple and safe method of treating many of today’s debilitating illnesses? This article clearly comes down in favour of the Australian elixir, which has been created by 51 year old Australian ex vet and scientist Russell Beckett. The water apparently inserts anti-acidic magnesium bicarbonate into the body’s cells, where it acts as a protective buffer against the corrosive and damaging effects of excess carbon dioxide and naturally occurring acids. According to the article …’carbon dioxide…

Which muppet was it that said the Internet was boring? Mmm. Well here’s proof, if any is needed, of the silliness of that statement. Emergent Music is a new site dedicated to finding new music. What makes it different is that the users vote on the tracks they like and the back end software translates that into a sort of chart. I suppose it’s a sort of epinions for music, but with lots more involved including sponsoring bands, earning redeemable…