Quasar Electronics sell a range of teeny tiny voice/audio message recorders which should provide oodles of fun if deployed with an imaginative attitude. Sizes range from greeting card models at �5.95 up to a 120 second one at �29.95. Hey, and they might even have a serious use too. ‘They have heaps of uses and are great for experimenters, hobbyist and real industrial applications. Here are a few ideas: * Talking novelty gadgets * Talking toys for the kids *…

Tend not to go overboard on phones here at the Ferret any more, but this AnexTek SP230 caught our eye. Don’t know why, just did, maybe because of the neat form factor, 64MB RAM (remember when that was the total amount in your PC?), SD slot and the very respectable 5 hour battery life for a PocketPC powered doohickey. Anyway, here it is.

The Raytek MiniTemp is a non-contact temperature reader. Point it at something and it will tell you how hot or cold it is. I’m sure this could be a really useful tool, but darned if I can work out how. $99.00. ‘Simply squeeze the trigger and an instant reading, based on infra-red emissions, appears on the backlit display. With a temperature range of 0 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, you can check the temperature of that overclocked chip you have running…

OK, so you’ve got everything you need in your home theater set up, right? Wrong. What you really need to finish it off is a D-BOX Odyssee motion simulator system. Take one decoder box, plug it into your DVD theater system, put your seating on top of a platform with motion actuators underneath, and wham….jiggly jollys at your command. It uses special codes for each movie though, so don’t expect Julie Andrews in full motion glory anytime soon, will ya?…

Yet Another Free 1GB Email Service. WallaMail is ‘is a free, 1 gigabyte of storage, [sic] which empowers users with extraordinary capacity, flexibility and security today and into the future…PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SERVICE MAY INCLUDE advertisements and commercial content and materials.’

Parking Directory. – ‘The first and only website providing real time reservations of residential driveways and more!’ That’s right children, you can now go online and book up someone’s home driveway to park in as and when you need. No more hunting around for parking spots for hours when you get to your destination. I suppose if you’ve got a smartphone you could even do it as you were driving there. Is this the ultimate 21st century online service? ‘The…

RSS Feeds.com. ‘RSSfeeds.com is a [sic] RSS directory containing links to RSS feeds. We do not collect the data in the feeds, like some other sites, but we specialize in categorizing the feeds in a directory that is based on Netscape’s DMOZ Open directory.’

This Yahoo! listing shurley must contain just about every web browser that exists? Worth remembering.

The Dashboarder. ‘The Dashboarder is the original and most complete archive of Apple Dashboard Gadgets (widgets) on the internet. Consisting of user-created gadgets for Apple’s forthcoming “Tiger” operating system, The Dashboarder is your one-stop shop for all Dashboard needs.’

Aurius. $50.00 (Mac and Windows). ‘Think of it as your very own radio station on your desktop. Using Aurius you can listen to any audio your computer can generate … from movies to music … through any FM stereo in your house. It combines the best of USB Audio with a high quality FM transmitter … all in one package! The Aurius also has a separate stereo line out so that you can use it with any powered speakers or…

If you really really love her, you’ll treat her right. You’ll caress her, take her out in all the right places, keep her in the pocket to which she’s accustomed. And you’ll furnish her with a ‘light weight aircraft grade scratch-resistant Titanium case’ from Piel Frama. Around $100.00 for Palm and iPaq.

Neosol’s TN-A1002 Cliod (?) looks really cute. Not sure what it does…oh yeah…it’s one of those video/audio/photo player type media thingies with a 2.5GB disk and integrated TV. You know the sort… [Via DPA Review]

You know that fab idea you had to record Brittany Spears concerts and sell the bootleg CDs at the end of the show outside the venue? Well now you can, at least until you get arrested. MF Digital’s 5906 Live is ‘the World’s most advanced Live Audio Event CD Recorder / CD Duplicator.’ ‘Simply record the event or performance to the 5906EC Live hard drive, set the desired Start IDs, or track points, choose where to span discs if the…

The DC300 CD Library [Babel], is a cute little box which hooks up to your computer via USB and can hold up to 150 CD/DVD discs. It’s not a jukebox because it has no drive mechanism, it’s more like a rotating Roladex for discs. The smarts, however, lies in the database software which lets you index and locate a disc at will. And you can daisy chain units together to increase the archive size. It’s quite primitive compared to a…

Mr Kevin Li, of China’s TLC Mobile, wants to announce that he intends to offer you all a 3 megapixel mobile phone handset by the end of this year. That’s it. Oh and I think he’d really appreciate it if you’d all buy one. Or maybe two.