TextPA ‘allows you to queue an SMS messages to be sent at a specified time and date up to 2 years in advance. It’s ideal for sending reminders for appointments or renewals and events. Text messages are ideal reminders because your messages can follow you around. It’s a fab idea, and great for anyone like doctors, dentists etc who might want to send appointment reminders to their patients. 19p per message.

Control Freak is a free and groovy little Bluetooth powered Winamp remote control program for Series 60 smartphones. ‘ControlFreak enables you to play, pause, skip tracks and adjust the volume. However, unlike most remote controls you’ve used, ControlFreak’s key feature is its usability. We have carefully designed every aspect of ControlFreak to support instant and intuitive control of your music.’…And since Bluetooth is a radio technology, you don’t even need to be in the same room to control your music.’

Anxious as ever to bring you the most exotic, exciting and quite frankly bizarre forms of transport from around the world, we offer today the Pow-R-Tube. As far as our crack team of transpormotive experts can tell, this is a tire inner tube with a dinky electric engine. Yikes! ‘Four rubber bladders for stability, safety and performance. We selected standard inner tubes for their good value and ease of replacement any where in the world.’

The VitalSigns Meta Portal. ‘…allows you to quickly collect information about your health, exercise, diet, work and your thoughts, all in one place. The information is integrated for easy discovery of trends in your life. VitaSign can also add information about the weather, news and financial markets to your diary automatically.’ So not only can you find out whether you’re dying, but what the weather is gonna be like too. Oh yes.

The LightBulbFactor. ‘Every month we provide subscribers with a new or innovative business idea designed to get you thinking and, perhaps on the road to getting that new business up and running.’ �60.00 a month. [Thanks David!]

The Datastation USB External Floppy. Um…I’m trying to work out just how useful an external USB floppy disk drive with integral 7 in 1 memory card reader could be. $69.99. Werll….I suppose ultralight laptop users still wedded to their itsy 1.44MB floppy diskettes might…..but then again…why wouldn’t they…and what about….?

Kairen’s USB2VGA [Babel] box is clever. Plug one end into your USB 2.0 socket and the other end into a standard VGA monitor and bingo, two monitors driven off the one computer. Hard to tell whether it comes with software to help you make use of all this goodness, or whether it just uses the multi monitor feature of Windows XP.

The Scorpion Electro is ‘part scooter, part skateboard, part tricycle…a fast, quiet and efficient means of personal urban transport delivering zero emissions plus low production and set-up costs. Powered by a 36 volt, 200-watt electric hub motor positioned in the main wheel at the back of the board, the Scorpion can reach a top speed of 25 kph on flat terrain and has a range of 15 – 20 kilometres

The SPI 10 from GPSports. I always worry when there are no product shots, just 3D images. Ah well. ‘The SPI 10 (Pronounced “SPY”) is a world’s first in miniaturised tracking technology for athletes and fitness enthusiasts alike. GPSports has developed the SPI 10, a miniature device worn by the athlete, which stores important training and performance data such as: Time, Speed, Distance, Position, Altitude Direction, and Heart Rate. SPI 10 technology is based around GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology…

Mmmm…so apparently video on demand services are about to spring into glorious technicolour reality here in the UK Real Soon Now via the NTL cable service. Should be fascinating, unless you’re a video rental shop. ‘Movies on Demand is ntl’s pay-per-view service and is like having Blockbuster in your living room. You’ll be able to view films whenever you like and have access to them for a 24 hour period. You’ll also have complete control over the film in the…

Buddy Test. A good way to lose friends and influence people. ‘Buddy Test is a fun way of finding out how much your friends know about you. You simply answer 10 questions about yourself (the reference answers), and supply the email addresses of up to 10 friends you want to test. An email is then sent to each friend individually inviting them to take part in the quiz. When they have completed the quiz you will be emailed their results…

They’re grainy, badly composed, sometimes miles distant. But GigPics could be fun if enough people contribute. ‘GigPics is the place where the fans send their own pictures of the concerts they’ve been to… browse around, then why not sign up as a contributor yourself?’

Er..I’ve got a feeling that quite a few of youse were looking for one of these recently, so I thought I’d post it as a public service. The Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment Mk9. Bidding stands at �56.02. Grab it while it’s..er…dry. ‘Submarine Escape immersion Equipment Mk9 was developed to enable submariners to escape from a stricken sub from depths of up to 182mtrs/600feet…The suit consists of a double layer all enveloping dry suit with a built In life jacket, inflating…

DoubleType is really rather cool. [Via Bi-Rivets] ‘DoubleType is an open source graphical typeface designer that builds TrueType font file. [sic] Written in Java, DoubleType runs on platforms supported by Java, including Windows, Linux, and Macintosh.’

Julie Lambert really loves Dansette record players. A lot. She has a rather large collection of them and a nostalgia-fest website dedicated to cataloguing and eulogizing them. You need to be a little bit Rock n’ Roll, baby, to get this I think!