The Pokia Ealing Bluetooth cell phone add-on. Delicious decadence. [Thanks Jeff!]
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Amazon Light.
Amazon Light. Amazon search without the flim-flam. ‘Amazon Light v2.0 is speedy. It also means context – and loads of it. If you are searching for a good book for instance, you can quickly find yourself looking at the details of a specific book in the center area – while it is surrounded by related / similar / contextual links and information.’
Read MoreYep it’s 3 mbps at 120 kph. Broadband in the fast lane and movies a-go-go!
Arriving at Amsterdam airport can be quite confusing. A Welcome to Heathrow sign right outside the arrivals terminal? Only in Holland eh? So it’s 3.40pm on a brilliantly sunny day in The Hague, Holland and I’m watching the new Bourne Supremacy movie trailer on apple.com. What’s unusual though, is that I’m doing this while travelling at 120 kilometres an hour in the outside lane of a Dutch highway, with nothing more than an IBM Thinkpad, a connection to the Flarion…
Read MorePedalectritious.
Panasonic’s new Pedalec folding electric bike looks rather delicious. In a sort of electric folding bike way. Super lightweight at 16.9 kg, 7 gears and the 30 km range on a 2 hour charge ain’t shabby either. �1095.00.
Read MoreBling ring.
The Chrome Phone. All the bling, all the ring. $49.95. And your Friday bonus (eh, Robin?)…The Black Leather Millennium Elvis Phone. $89.95. ‘Telephone features Elvis in black leather. He sings various songs when the phone rings and the doll moves in time with the music, redial, tone/pulse.’
Read MoreSwing the LED.
Solsuno Watch. Now watch my finger as it moves slowly in front of your eyes. You need a watch with 138 blinking LEDs, you need a watch with 138 blinking LEDs, you need a watch…. Convinced yet? $149.99. ‘the Solsuno Watch…incorporates LEDs to display hours, minutes and seconds as well as the day of the week, day, month, year and more. The hours and minutes are displayed with red LEDs and the seconds in green, yellow and red LEDs…The display…
Read MoreDrink up.
Life boring? Well you need a Rolling Coaster. It’s wacky, crazy, hilarious, harmless, parentally approved fun for all the family. Maybe. ‘When your guest places their drink on the innocent looking coaster it starts to scurry away!! Imagine their face as their drink is just about to motor right off the table!! Then all of a sudden the animated coaster stops to their relief at the very edge!!’
Read MoreSitebar.
Sitebar. Create your own online bookmark manager. Needs a PHP host. Free. ‘Access and manage your private, shared or public bookmarks from any computer and browser connected to the Internet! Create personal, family, team, company or enterprise-wide bookmarks with flexible access rules, permissions and customizable design!’
Read MoreTo be, or….
Wow, the British Library has posted 93 copies of 21 of Shakespeare’s plays in their original quarto format online for our fun and delectation. A fabulous resource. ‘None of Shakespeare�s manuscripts survive, so the printed texts of his plays are our only source for what he originally wrote. The quarto editions are the texts closest to Shakespeare�s time. Some are thought to preserve either his working drafts (his foul papers) or his fair copies.’
Read MoreM-Cody.
The M-Cody MX-100 [Babel] looks interesting if only because it appears to cram in more functionality per square centimetre than anything else ever made in the history of gadgets. I mean, an MP3 player which also doubles as a universal television remote control? Sheesh!
Read MoreJet Man.
Jet Man. If you’ve got to be insane, better you show it off by jumping out of a plane with a jet rocket pack attached to your back, eh? It’s not quite the Jetsons, but we’re getting there. ‘He manages a horizontal flight at 1600m from the ground for more than 4 minutes at 100 kts ( 115 mph ), and for a bit of fun, manages to also ignite the smoke producers which leave a nice trail behind him…’
Read MoreNeuros II.
The Neuros II MP3 Combo. A portable flash drive MP3 player with a hard disk base station. From $329.99. Handles Ogg, has an FM Tuner too, and even an FM transmitter. Cool runnings! ‘Get the flexibility of two players for the price of one. The Neuros II Bundle allows you to use a 256MB flash player with the small included backpack when portability or the ultimate shock resistance is needed. Or you can swap with the included hard drive backpack…
Read MoreNokia Handsfree.
The new Nokia Plug-in Car Handsfree unit looks simple and useful. ‘The Nokia Plug-in Car Handsfree is an easy-to-use handsfree device for the car with built-in speaker and integrated microphone. Just plug it in to your car’s compatible cigarette lighter socket and you’re ready for handsfree calls through your compatible mobile phone. It connects to your phone via the Pop-Port� connector, and charges your compatible mobile phone’s battery as well.’
Read MoreWeather watcher.
The Weather Watch Pro. The weather, in the palm of your hand. $125.99. ‘Everything you could want all in a wristwatch make this instrument a valuable environmental monitor. Windspeed, wind chill, altimeter, thermometer, chronograph, barometer, compass, timer, and more.’
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