Aha, so you can get wireless 56K modems for a reasonable sum. The BT DECT Wireless Modem lets you surf from the garden at a blistering 56 kbps via your dial up connection. Hey don’t knock it, most people still use dial up, remember? Just plug one box into the phone line and the other box into your USB port. Voil�, wireless just like the big boys. �39.99.

The iPod Battery is an imaginatively named high capacity external rechargeable bolt on battery which provides a whopping 40 hours of play time from one charge. Yes it’s big and yes it’s clunky – but it could be a useful tool, no, for those non-trouser pocket moments when you’re using it as a party hi-fi jukebox or on looonngg journeys?

Apparently a wave of smart talking, voice recognition enabled toys like the Shrek 2 Wise Crackin’ Donkey are heading our way, courtesy of some fancy chip technology from Sensory Inc. Personally I can’t wait for the day when I pick up a gadget or toy to tidy it away, and get lacerated with derisive abuse and snarky back chat. ‘The Shrek and Donkey characters can be spoken to, and they respond in an intelligent way to a range of predefined…

Tanks-a-Lot offer executive team building days out where you can drive tanks around fields and crush cars and things. One for the Microsoft product manager’s diaries perhaps? ‘We operate over 65 tanks on our challenging off road course and we are firmly established as the UK’s major specialists in corporate entertainment and fun days. Our very experienced staff ensure that everyone has an unforgettable experience at TANKS-A-LOT. Imagine the thrill of driving a 56 ton tank over a car…’

I kind of missed this the first time around, but it’s too valuable to let slip. Ken Rockwell gives a brilliant, clear and concise exposition on why we should beware of buying 8 megapixel point and shoot cameras like the Canon Pro-1 and Sony 8700, and instead do ourselves a big favour and go for a Digital SLR (DSLR) with reflex mirror, proper interchangeable lenses and larger image sensors (examples are the Canon EOS300D and Nikon D70). This is despite…

WinUpdatesList is a pretty neat freebie utility that will list all of the Windows updates, service packs, hotfixes etc installed on your machine. It also lets you see what files have been updated by the fix, can open the Microsoft web page listing more info about the update, and even lets you uninstall if necessary. I reckon it’s gotta be one of those ‘must have in the toolkit’ utilities.

The Chevrolet 2 Headed Truck. I don’t know about you, but if I saw this puppy heading for me, I’d be kind of..er…phased. Classic!

Chargehand. Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas, eh? �9.99. ‘You know the problem: The mains charger is in the wall socket and there�s cable trailing all over the floor or around the worktops. The chargehand solves this problem in a matter of seconds. Simply join the 2 halves, put the mains adaptor through the backplate, coil the cable and plug in � problem solved.’

The Digi-Frame DF-1710 is designed to look exactly like a proper framed picture on your wall. Only it isn’t. It’s a 17″ LCD screen with integrated CD ROM drive, Wifi support, internal hard drive (capacity 10,000 images) and memory card support. It’s even got internal speakers, for goodness sake, so you can listen to MP3 tracks while you’re gazing at your Bill Gates type art collection slideshowing its way past your peepers. Priced at $1999.00

Got too many devices? iPods, PDAs, MP3 players, digicams, flash memory drives? Then perhaps you should consider getting a AA battery powered, handheld Delkin USB Bridge? I mean, you never know when you’re going to need to copy your photos directly from digicam to iPod, do you? $70.00 ‘The Delkin USB-Bridge provides an easy, affordable solution for anyone who wants to copy image, music or data files from one USB compliant device to another without the aid of a computer…Use…

Shock Doctor Footbeds. When you absolutely, positively have to coddle those tootsies. Sounds comfy tho’, don’t it? I’ve got a feeling that our old friend Aerogel is in there somewhere too. ‘…fuse multiple shock absorbing, support and comfort components to create a foot hugging performance platform.’

Now here’s cool. DVD+Audio Creator. A software tool for creating high quality audio from your ordinary CD tracks which you can then play on your DVD player. ‘You can create a disc containing multiple albums, compiled from your own normal CD-Audio disc, but then in either high quality (up to PCM 96kHz/24bits) or high quantity (up to 45 hours MP2 at 192kbps) audio to any DVD player. Please note : DVD+Audio should not be confused with DVD-Audio, for which you…

Aaargh, those Pak-Lite people actually have a range of multicoloured LED clip-ons for 9V PP3 batteries. Including…gasp…ultraviolet and infrared versions. Everyone else seems to like them, but I still think they’re too expensive. So there! [Via GadgetMadness]

I’ve always wanted to know why you get a ‘brain freeze’ headache after eating ice-cream quickly, and now I know. More importantly, I know how to stop it. ‘When cold stuff (like popsicles, ice cream or slushies) touches the roof of your mouth it can set off a nerve reaction (in the spheno-palantine ganglion, to be precise), that causes the blood vessels in your brain to swell.’

Really love Shaun Ivory’s nifty transparent clock freeware. He calls it silly, I call it super useful.