PhotoBlocker Spray. $29.99. Really? I remember back in the day when there was all this talk of hairspray being able to do this. Smoke and mirrors, or a real advancement for medical science? Only you, dear reader, can be the judge. Check out also the company’s range of ‘photoshields’. Reflects photo radar flash. Spray it and make your license plate invisible to cameras. Proven to beat photo radar and red light cameras. Photo radar cameras often utilize a strong flash to photograph…
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The Tennis Coach Watch. $59.95 buys you a timepiece that will revolutionise your forehand, promote killer baseline rallies and force your opponents into undergoing massive bouts of psychotherapy after every game with you. Or not. Tennis Scorer keeps track of your tennis game with “”Game”, “Set”, and “Match”. Tennis Coach keeps track of your tennis game with the record of “Unforced Error”, “Force Error”, “Double Fault”, and “Service Winner”. 30 segment memories capacity for tennis scorer and tennis coach.
Read MoreSAM.
SAM – Skype Answering Machine. SAM is a simple voice answering machine for PC Skype users. When you are away from your PC and there is no one to answer your incoming calls, SAM will pick up the call, play a greeting message and the “all-time clasic beep” so that the calling party will leave a voice recorded message.
Read MoreDebtor dilemma.
Credit Card Math. Interesting bit of freeware that opens up the whole credit card debt can of worms. You may want to be sitting down with a warm cup of slosh before starting it up though, eh? I wonder if Mr Plastic could do with this? 1497 credit cards? Good grief man, get a grip! Credit Card Math will give you the knowledge you need to get yourself out of debt fast, save money and beat credit card issuers at their own game….
Read MoreGoogle ranker.
The Google PageRank predictor. This tool attempts to determine a future Google PageRank value of a particular site. In other words, we try to determine the PageRank value of the URL you enter below, as it would be after the next Google PageRank update. The tools does several calculations to come to this figure.
Read MoreTick, tock…
The Wedding Countdown Clock. $19.95. Girls, this Xmas give him the pressie that’s guaranteed to remove all traces of stress from his brow. Honest! Countdown clock measures the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to your wedding! Great gift for the bride-to-be. Enter your wedding date into the special countdown clock, then watch as the days, hours, minutes and seconds tick down.
Read MoreRetro RCA.
The RCA Nostalgic Stereo. $200.00. Dudes, if we go any further back into retro time, we’re going to end up selling wooden tin cans and replica string with a CD player attached. And what’s with the hand crank, does it make ice cream too? • Three-speed turntable. • CD player with LED display. • AM/FM radio with lit dial. • Built-in stereo speakers. • Wooden case. • Ornamental metal horn and hand crank.
Read MoreGlow girl, glow.
Cactus Light. $35.00. “Oh, it’s lovely dear. Er..what is it?”“It’s a cactus, ma, glows in the dark.” “Ah I see. Er..thank you darling. Now here’s something from your Uncle Albert.” Two different cactus lights grow bright, brighter, brightest with a mere touch of their pot, perfect mood lighting, makes a wonderful reading light.
Read MorePursePal.
PursePal. Super cool, although the Ferret wonders whether some bags wouldn’t better be left unlit. You know who you are, don’t you? And we assume that purse means handbag too? Strange American language! $20.00. Intensely bright light clips inside your purse. Easy on/off button. Set of three.
Read MoreAir bud.
Wow, photos taken using standard digital cameras strapped to the side of small electric remote control planes. Fabulous stuff! [Via Metafilter]
Read MoreSeaLegs.
The SeaLegs. Whoa, bolt-on wheels that let you drive a boat into and out of the water without getting wet? Bonza! Oh hold on, that’s Aussie, not Kiwi. What’s the New Zealand for cool? What? Oh…onya! Sealegs are motorised, retractable and steerable boat wheels which are fitted to a customised 5.6m Rigid Inflatable boat.The Sealegs system works by having powerful motorised wheels which give a user variable speed of 0-10KPH (forward and reverse). Sealegs allows the boat to be…
Read MoreQuasiturbine.
The Quasiturbine. It’s cool to know that there’s work being done on reducing the negative environmental impact of our bad driving habits. But it would be nice to see some mainstream products come out of all this, eh? More here. Each Quasiturbine device is at the crossroad of the 3 modern engines :Inspired by the turbine, it perfects the piston, and improves on the Wankel…High torque, low RPM, zero vibration, potentially oil free, fast acceleration, 20 times less noise, less…
Read MoreThe flatulent pendulum.
The Fart Clock. Words fail. Senses reel. $19.98. Every hour you get a flagrant flatulation (several different farts) from one of a dozen shame-faced characters. Our entertaining 12″ timepiece will look great (and sound even better!) in your den, garage or workshop. Includes light sensor to turn off the sound when the room darkens.
Read MoreUnknown known.
Unknown Devices. Pretty useful Windows freeware tool if you ever come up against one of the dreaded, ‘Windows cannot install the driver for this device’ type messages. Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are. By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards…
Read MoreCamera amnesty.
Hmm…the Carphone Warehouse is offering a ‘camera amnesty’. Bring in your old 35mm film camera and get £25.00 off a new megapixel cameraphone. All the old cameras will be donated to charity. First, I didn’t realise that cameras were an offensive weapon, and second, so the poor old charities get stuck with a load of old Instamatics eh? Nice.
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