Station Ripper ‘will allow you to “record” various internet radio stations. It will allow you to get a list of available Shoutcast stations and start recording them, creating a single MP3 file for each song the station plays.’ What the site doesn’t say is that it is a simply brilliant piece of software. This genre opens up a whole new chapter folks!

Nice selection of some of the heads mounted displays on offer at the moment.

Great quotes from great skeptics. Should be subtitled ‘things, in hindsight, you should not have said in public.’ ‘Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. – Editorial in the Boston Post (1865)’

Hmm, UK grid coordinates from postal area codes. Could be useful for GPS’ers.

The Beyond iCEBOX is ‘an elegant all-in-one entertainment center for the kitchen…’ Windows CE powered and features a TV, Email/Internet access, DVD/CD, FM radio, and home video monitoring. Ships with a touch screen and wireless remote control and keyboard. Flaming food processors, Batman!

The Twincome USB [Babel] cable is quite clever. It overcomes those annoying ‘USB port power shortage’ errors if you try to draw too much power with a device, by combining the power from two ports into one. Hey presto, enough juice for your gizmo.

Tomy’s Evio looks like it’s a sort of electronic quasi-violin doobry that hooks up to a TV, can work in duet mode, and takes music cartridges or something. Sound vague enough? $79.00.

Fujitsu Labs has come up with a form of electronic paper [Babel] which has the same sort of contrast and print quality as normal paper. This stuff is starting to look as though it may genuinely be useful and useable one day.

TalkingRX is a talking pill box attachment. Clever tech! ‘The device attaches to common-sized prescription bottles and contains a memo recorder that allows a physician, pharmacist, caregiver, family member or patient to record necessary information about the medication.’

Orange has apparently just launched the first mobile phone ‘push to talk‘ service here in the UK. Gonna be expensive for a while folks, until more competition arrives.

The National MS-X100 is a portable oxygen generator for people who…uh….need more than they can get using conventional methods of extraction. Let’s just hope that we don’t all need one of these puppies one day, eh?

Dan’s 20th Century Abandonware site. No software, just a huge list and screenshots of old old software. Useful for research or if you’re just feeling pathetically nostalgic about your first ever word processor package.

Looks like the poor kid at MikeRoweSoft.com (OK maybe not so much poor as shrewd) has been blasted off the net by all the media attention he’s getting. It’s a 404 error now, here’s the Google cache. A more genuine victim of this kind of thing is probably the Israeli called Uzi Nissan. This Mike Rowe is just being clever I reckon.

Casio’s released a red Exilim digicam for Valentine’s Day. Sigh. OK they haven’t really, but a clever marketing peep has realised that it will make for a good press release. The red Exilim has been around in Japan for a while I believe.

Small Wired article talking about the scanning barcode stuff we have been talking about here at The Ferret for a couple of years or so now. Oh, the responsibility of being prescient, eh? :-)