The Firefly eMail Bar. You love convergence don’t you? Go on admit it. Well here’s a doozy. A combo email enabled (send/receive) flash memory drive in capacities from 16MB to 1GB. With…wait for it…an inbuilt LED flashlight (separate battery power). Yep, straight up, now you can download your email, print it off, and read it in your tent in the dark. Now how clever’s that? E-mail send/receive function “Watchdog” security system Protect cap to let user never worry lost the…
Read MoreMonthly Archives: February 2005
Bone shaker.
Forget your $4000 mountain racer, you need a Genuine WWII-era Swiss courier bicycle. Yep, now you too can Julie Andrews your way around town screeching out Edelweiss tunes at the top of your voice. And who’s going to bother stealing it, eh? Retro chic comes at a price, however, and in this case it’s $650.00. Complete with hand and foot brakes, leather tool case, rear wheel lock, sealed bearings and tire pump. In outstanding condition, considering they saw service more…
Read MoreTxt my voip.
SMS to Skype. Well it’s really cutting edge, that’s fer sure, and pretty darn cool too actually. [Thanks Emily] SMS to Skype is a free service from Connectotel allowing GSM mobile phone users to send Skype instant messages to any Skype user. SMS to Skype is based on M-Mail, Connectotel’s free SMS to e-mail service, established in 1999.
Read MorePlay it, like, now.
The PlayitNow personal digital music recorder. Well here’s an interesting one. A $29.99 kid’s digital audio recorder with on-board games. So, a mainstream toy company is now encouraging our children to copy streaming audio for their personal listening pleasure? Does the RIAA know? Sure it’s only 30 mins worth, but a precedent is a precedent, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Yo, so what ya gonna say when these little angels grow up and want to BitTorrent your backside, eh? Sorry, we were only kidding…
Read MoreSwitch and wait.
The Military Switch. $13.99. There is a school of thought which says that you’re not a real man until you pop open the red cover and flick that world saving switch with tense gruff macho. Well it worked for Sean Connery. And the Ferret is gullible enough to believe anything, as y’all know by now. The military-look of this mod switch tells your LAN party opponents what you already know. You mean business. These switches offer an updated look to your PC, while offering…
Read MoreTube Guru.
The Tube Guru service is actually cool. Who would have thunk that the legendarily inefficient London Underground system could ever come up with an online tool that’s useful? And works? Live travel news, station info, what’s interesting around each station, local street map? It’s awesome. Use it dear people, use it! FlabberG.
Read MoreUltimate Troubleshooter.
The Ultimate Troubleshooter program lets you view your PC’s running processes and get an idea of whether they’re benign or not, using a clever traffic light colour theme. You know, red for danger, yellow for caution etc. It’s $25.00 for what is basically a swished up Task Manager, but could be useful for the computer newbie…? A staggering 65% of problems which a PC encounters, whether in business or at home, are not caused by hardware problems, they are not…
Read MoreHand on heart.
The Heart Rate Monitor Glove. In one of those peculiarly recursive facts of life, this little gizmo also includes an alarm which lets you know when your heart rate is above or below your target rate. No prizes for setting the target to zero and testing whether you still hear it go off, OK? $129.95. Uncomfortable chest belt heart rate monitors are now a thing of the past! Providing continuous heart rate measurements, the Exercise Monitor slips onto your hand and…
Read MoreBrain alert.
The Puzzle Alarm Clock. Hmm…as if it wasn’t enough to be woken at dawn by the clamour of a bedside alarm, we now have the fiendish puzzle clock. Wanna switch off the alarm? Gotta do the puzzle first! So, how long before this particular birthday present ends up sailing through the nearest window then? A$49.95. This “eye opener” of a gadget is an alarm clock come 4-piece jigsaw puzzle in one. When it’s time to leave your incredibly cosy bed each…
Read MorePlayer piano.
The new $199.99 Casio LK-90TV appears to be the state of the art in home keyboard funskiness, although we’re not sure if it’ll teach you how to lipsynch badly on a late night chat show. Features include 100 in-built songs which you can playalongawith using light-up keys, 65 karaoke ‘classics’ and USB, TV, MIDI and Smartmedia ports. A key Lighting System, an Advanced 3- Step Lesson System and a scoring system make practise more enjoyable and useful. With the capabilities of connecting to…
Read MoreVeypor trail.
The boffins at Veypor have teamed up with the toffins at Motion Research and produced a motorbike Heads Up Display (HUD) which not only tells you the basic things in life, like how fast you’re going and what your revs are, but also meaningful soul challenging stuff like gear shift points, lap times and torque vs rpm. Hmm…the moped needs an update. It takes a long time (3-5 seconds) for a rider to take their eyes off the road, focus on their instruments, then…
Read MoreYou are getting sleepy…
The Hypnodisk. $350.00. Ferrety reader Kaden makes ‘unconventional contrivances and machina arcana.’ They’re fun and rather nicely done, methinks. The new benchmark in desk accessories, the ideal gift for the hard-to-buy-for, and significantly more appropriate recognition for the Boardroom Brigadier than another damned soapstone carving of a hooded ptarmigan.
Read MorePlay it again, Man!
KPlaylist. A rather cool and free way of setting up your own global music jukebox, using just some string, glue and a PHP/MySQL host server. Upload your fave tunes, mix well and serve up your music wherever you and a web browser be. Neatness!
Read MoreOpen and shut case?
The GM200 Biometric Briefcase. With optional handle. Not Handel dufus, handle. For carrying your precious drugs, handguns and spare passports apparently. Or truncheon if’n you’re here in the UK? $399.95. BioSâf GM200 eliminates the need for keeping track of keys or remembering a combination, password, or PIN. It can only be opened when an authorized user is present, since there are no keys or combinations to be copied or stolen, or locks that can be picked. State of the…
Read MoreMoney keyper.
The Computer Key Money Box. Somewhere to store the stock option dosh, eh?
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