Monthly Archives: July 2004

general July 22, 2004 posted by

Arcade a go-go?

The Ultimate Arcade II Cabinet. Clever idea. Start with blank cabinet box, add your own controllers, PC hardware, software, cool peripherals and bits and bingo, yer very own custom arcade games console. Or you can short circuit the process and buy a ready built UltraQuad, complete with powerful PC, 4000 games on-board and a huge choice of controller add-ons for around $3900.00. Check out the cheaper Dell powered models on eBay too. Obviously big business!

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general July 22, 2004 posted by

Suit tracker.

The Personal Locator Beacon Phone VIP & Hostage Tracing System. A cellphone and GPS receiver in one. $1150.00. Pretty ain’t it? ‘PLBP is the ultimate in Exectutive [sic] Protection & Hostage Location hardware: a combination analog cellphone and GPS receiver. With a push of the RED ‘9’ button gives your VIP the peace of mind of having an on-body security system with the convenience of a simultaneous transmission of the caller’s voice and location to your Command Center

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general July 22, 2004 posted by

IM Watching U.

Er..isn’t IM Watching a little like digital stalking? ‘This website lets you continuously collect presence information for all of your buddies. Then, as those data accumulate [sic], you can examine them in many different ways…’

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general July 22, 2004 posted by

SMS2Email.

The free SMS2Email service looks like an easy and useful tool to add to the box. ‘sms2email relays SMS text messages as emails. Send an SMS to our memorable gateway number 07766 40 41 42 with the first word of the SMS the recipients email address. The SMS will then be relayed to the recipient via email almost instantaneously with only the standard charges from your network operator for sending out the SMS!’

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general July 22, 2004 posted by

Google art.

Typo is a great art generator which uses the power of Google random. Reminds me a little of the awesome N-Gen Design Machine. ‘the user types some text; typoGenerator searches images.google for the text and creates a background from the found images, using randomly chosen effects. then it places the text, using random effects too.’

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general July 22, 2004 posted by

Nudge.

Wink. Very cool Flash based freeware. ‘Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software [sic], primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users.’

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

P2P box.

The Person to Person Telephone Manager uses CallerID tech to route calls through to the right phone extension while blocking those numbers which are not in the database (like telemarketers and rich old Uncle Corky who you’d forgotten about in Borneo). It even has a family destroying parental control which lets you block after hours calls from routing to the teenager’s bedroom. Oh yes. $99.99. ‘Once you program the Person-to-Person System, the phone manager will automatically determine which calls you…

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

Keep a cool head.

Oh it may look like an ordinary cap, but in reality it is a top secret, nuclear fusion warp transmogrifier with…(enough..Ed) OK, so it’s a patented evaporative cooling hat that uses a Hydroweave system to suck the heat away from your brain, doctor. All you need to remember as you plunk down yer $24.95 is that it’s a cool product. Literally. ‘You charge the hat by running it under cool water; after its excess water is wrung out, the hat…

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

Mark it well.

The MarkPet – LT. [Babel]. Japanese toy maker Sheriff appears to have moved into the security business with what looks to be an indelible paint ball gun, which you use to tag criminals on sight. Babel willing, it’s apparently designed for small store owners, security guards and the like (hence the photo of a pretty young lady eh?). Fire paint ball at thief as he leaves scene, then catch him at will (’cause he can’t scrub the paint off skin…

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

SnuggleKitties.

SnuggleKitties, complete with ‘real feel’ heartbeat, two types of heat and a spot for a feeding bottle. These furry critters make purrrfect virtual moms!’ $24.99. You can see where this is heading, can’t you? And it’s not pretty.

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

Leacher’s heaven.

Speed Hit. Eh…? A free file search and download tool with no sharing facilities? Either a hugely short sighted product or the latest weapon in the RIAA’s war on the P2P community in general? Discuss. ‘With SpeedHit KazaA Download Tool you can search in a collection of millions of files from doezens [sic] of millions of p2p users all around the world. Note! SpeedHit KazaA Download Tool is a powerful search and download tool. It is not a file sharing…

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

Beg, Borrow or Steal.

Consider my flabber to be officially gasted. Beg, Borrow or Steal. Netflix for handbags. It’s either the most outlandishly brilliant service ever created or a dotcoma in waiting. I’m not going to call it. ‘Sign up and choose your favourite handbag, Receive your handbag in the mail, Return your handbag and pick a new one.’

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

Photo free.

Image After. Yet more images and textures (over 7000) free for non commercial and private use. Oh how the professionals must love digital camera amateurs, eh?

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general July 21, 2004 posted by

Skate moms.

Look, what is it with you Californians? And what are they putting in the water down there, for goodness sake? Skateboard Moms. Eighty years old? We’re out to pasture, drinking our fortified milk and reading Readers Digest over here. Turn down the music a little, dear! Picture Caption: Skateboard Mom (Barb Odanaka, 41) welcomes Skateboard Mama (Liz Bevington, 80) to the 1st annual Mighty Mama Skate-O-Rama.’

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