The RIAA (Australia?) is now threatening to sue the Red Cross? Who next, the Pope? But Speck says it will simply ask the Red Cross to freeze the fund until a legal outcome in the Australian court case is reached, and hopes the charity will cooperate. “It would be incredibly disappointing if we had to sue them,” he says.
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Caching chexx.
Super Chexx Dome Hockey game. $2909.99. Solved, what to do with Aunt Flo’s recent bingo winnings. [Insert topical hockey violence joke here!] The Super Chexx has a one piece welded cabinet with a heavy-duty dome enclosure, unbreakable shafts and reinforced players. Features flourescent lighting, electronic scoring with a running time clock and full sound effects. Can also be set for free play…This game is ready for home or commercial use including a coin mechanism that can be converted to free…
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The All Hazards Alert Monitor. $59.95 with cradle. And dummy? And security blanket? Sheesh! And it comes with an 8 minute snooze alarm? Like who’s got time to sleep with all this scary stuff going on? Monitors U.S. Emergency All Hazards and Emergency Alert System (EAS) weather bulletins, warnings, and forecasts, Receives all Public Alert warnings, and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association (NOAA) reports, Emergency alert standby mode with 3 levels of alert: advisory, watch, warning, 100-decibel alarm with visual alert..
Read MorePark n’smile.
The Parking Sensor/Camera System. £199.00. You really know you’ve got a bit of a problem when you need 4 ultrasonic sensors and a low light camera system to help you park up the Nissan of a night, eh? Shame! The parking distance detection system will switch on automatically when the car is operating or the 4 sensor system can be wired through reversing lights and thus only operates when reverse is selected…When the car is parking the ultra-low light compensation camera can automatically turn…
Read MoreVoice over PO.
Voice Pad. £3.99. The Ferret is truly intrigued by the possibilities of this little gidgit. Sending voice messages around from place to place at the drop of a stamp. It’s very post-modern retro-surreal Jetsons tech, isn’t it? The voice pad is a neat little gadget that will record up to 10 seconds of high quality sound and play back at the push of a button. It is ultra thin, small and light, enabling it to be sent safely inside a…
Read MoreBlaster master.
The Mini Marshmallow Blaster. With optional laser sight. Huh? From $9.98. It is a simple to use rubber band powered Mini Marshmallow shooter. Safe, Edible and Biodegradable Ammunition! The “Mini Marshmallow Blaster ShootGun” shoots up to 5 mini marshmallows at a time, to make a shotgun pattern. A lot of fun and great way for children and adults to pass some time and stir up a little excitement around the home or office.
Read MoreSinging fish.
Singing Fish. Search engine for music and general multimedia. Love the name, love the service. ‘Nuff said. [From our very own Wiki. Thanks Blue!] Singingfish provides instant access to the universe of free, legal streaming media, including music, news, movies, sports, TV, and radio. However, the content in our index is not our own. Instead, the audio and video is hosted by the people who created and hold the copyright for it.
Read MoreGo’zilla R/C…
From the ‘you call that a knife?’ school of toy makers, comes the HK-S0516 – The biggest R/C F1 toys at present! Mommy, can I have a model car to match the size of your new SUV? Please? Check the video. And why is her face blanked out? Is it a crime in China to run R/C toys over 20 foot in length? 1:4 scale, Semi-proportional right and left steering plus forward and reverse, Two speeds selectable, Sealed gearbox, F1 formula sports car…
Read MoreTouch dis.
The Touch Panel Phone. $29.99. Q. How much tech is too much tech, when embedded into something as simple as a home telephone? Answers on a backlit postcard, please, to…. According to Nikai-Osaka, this multi-function phone’s exceedingly thin design gives you an absolutely fresh feeling when you touch the blue LCD screen. Plus, it’s stylish design incorporates a caller ID function, speaker phone, music-on-hold, calculator, press-button sound and a perpetual calendar! With all these features, you’ll be blue in the face…
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The iTop digital spinning top. $10.99. This is no ordinary spinning top and it will twirl the old ones right out of the water! The iTop has a very cool display that “magically” shows scores, bits of words and instructions…Through the electronic display, you can see how fast the iTop is spinning, and how long you can get it to turn (the top actually keeps count of the number of rotations and displays your score on its surface!) There is…
Read MoreCough!
The Coughing Ashtray $9.98. Well hey, c’mon, it’s almost New Year’s Resolution time after all. Also in silver. Hilarious gag that will have them laughing (and hopefully quitting smoking) instead of coughing! What looks like an ordinary ashtray starts hacking and coughing uncontrollably when you rest a cig in the slots, or flick ashes in the middle!
Read MoreHotspotter.
The Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter. $49.95. Apparently, according to Ferrety reader Doobie-Won, this is the bees kneecaps for locating wireless signals when out and about. And who, pray, are we to argue? The Digital Hotspotter is the first full-featured, second-generation Wi-Fi detection and analysis device. Like “first generation” analog Wi-Fi detectors, the Digital Hotspotter detects signal availability and strength. However, it is the only device of its kind that provides essential information about wireless networks, including:
Read MoreKick back.
The Kick Bike. A$699.00. Apparently these strange hybrid scooter bicycle devices are all the rage down under. And good for the abs too, no doubt. The Ferret thinks they look like hard work. Far.Too.Much hard work.
Read MorenBot.
nBot. So everyone’s making Segway type bots nowadays? Who’d a thunk it? Just check out the list of links at the bottom of the page if you don’t believe.
Read MoreThe Bat.
The MLB Bat UAV. Now THIS is a seriously funky robot plane. I mean it comes complete with its own catapult launcher for goodness sake! From only $42,000.00, so maybe I’ll add it to the Xmas stocking list. The Bat is a complete man-portable UAV system that operates autonomously and delivers high quality video imagery. A ready-to-fly aircraft with standard sensor payload and complete ground station is available starting at US$42000…The Bat has a wingspan of 5 feet, weighs only…
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