The Weemote 3 Sr remote control for adults. $24.95. Ever wish that you could return to the days of yore when life was simple, bread was crusty and the remote control didn’t look like an accessory from the Space Shuttle? Maybe this puppy is for you then. Simple, Goof-Proof User Interface – No menu, PIP, device, numeric keypad or multi-function controls to cause interruption of normal TV viewing! Ideal for users with memory problems or vision impairments. Overall shape makes it easy to identify…
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Belt up.
The LED Belt Buckle. $49.99. Available in four different colours and stores up to 6 messages, all of which must include the word – geek! This custom name belt buckle has a LED Screen in the front. Easily personalize the LED screen belt buckle to say what you want. Put your name or your favorite word or anything you want and watch it scroll acrossed the screen! Be Creative!
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The Smokey Amp. £24.95 ($46.90) A guitar amplifier in a cigarette box? What next, a computer in a beer can? One square battery will give you about ten hours of playing time, and there’s a 0.5w output into the built-in speaker. Of course, you’re not going to play Wembley with one, but a whopping great Marshall doesn’t fit in your pocket, does it?
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Touchscreen Calculator before, have you? Oh and it’s a calendar too? With a stylus? Golly. Wonder what the advantage is…? 8 Digits calculator. World time clock(16 cities). Currency converter. Day-light saving function. date display. 2 groups of alarm setting
Read MoreArmour armor.
Thorn Armor Gloves. High tech gloves, useful for gardening and perhaps for handling a prickly boss? $45.50. A revolutionary new glove for pain and injury free gardening for roses, cacti, berry vines and all thorny trees, shrubs, vines and plants….Thorn ArMOr gloves are constructed out of space age Superfabric, a light, flexible, long lasting material three times more puncture resistant than leather. Superfabric extends around each finger tip to allow easy grasp of plants and pots without knuckle damage.
Read MoreGrow your own Ferrari.
Grow Your Own Ferrari. Well it made this Ferret laugh, anyway. This is the cheapest “Ferrari” you will ever buy! A simple packet of fantasy seeds to plant….and you just never know what will appear! Lots of witty comments on the packets relating to the specimen you have chosen. NB The contents are actually Sunflower Seeds (sorry to spoil the fun!).
Read MoreApplication mover.
Application Mover. Ever wanted to move a program from one hard disk or location on your machine to another? Then you may need this little $15.00 utility. Application Mover is a tool that relocates installed programs from one path to another on your hard disk. Application Mover takes files found in the path specified in the ‘Current Path’ field…and moves them to the ‘New Path’ path. Application Mover scans the windows registry for references to files located in the ‘Current’…
Read MoreKuku.
The Kuku Alarm Clock. Uh…yes it crows an alarm in the morning while laying lots of little eggs. And yes, you do have to replace all the little blighters to shut off the alarm. Er…no, I don’t think it comes with a full no quibble replacement guarantee in case of…ah…accident. A$49.95. How about collecting eggs then? That is after all what they do on the farm. This funky, but highly practical Kuku Alarm Clock forces you to do just that. Set its…
Read MoreCall it a draw, then?
There’s probably no better way of saying ‘I trust you’, than wearing a full Gothic Suit of Armour to your wedding ceremony. Clanking clumsily up the aisle before swearing fealty has such an Arthurian feel to it, don’t you think? $2,750.00. Offering a rounded surface to both lance and sword, the Italian Gothic armor was in high demand throughout Europe. During this period of time, the average suit of armor would cost about the same as a top of the…
Read MoreShake, rattle and poll.
The Forever Calculator. A$12.95. Well we’ve had the flashlight, so why not a calculator? And why not a Forever TV for that matter? Apart from the fact that the tube would fall out. Quite quickly. No more flat batteries with this little gem. Shaking the calculator causes a high strength magnet to pass back and forth between a wire coil, Creating a magnetic induction current which charges up the calculator giving approximately 10 miniutes of usage time from about 10…
Read MoreTime flies.
For sale. One Real Working Time Machine. Current bid $212.50. Bargain. Check out the most excellent video of the machine in action too. I have built in a device that protects the timeline from all forms of corruption, paradoxes, and loops. Go back, do what ever you like, no need to worry about harmful side effects. No loops or paradoxes ever, guaranteed, or your money back!
Read MoreFrosty fingers.
The CompuSooth Wrist Rest. $15.95. Cool your wrists when the typing gets hot, and don’t tell Mavis Beacon. CompuSooth always feels cool, but on days when the stress of work begins to be felt in the wrists, this neat little pad can be refrigerated for 30 minutes or so for even more cool relief. For those already beginning to suffer from RSI, CompuSooth can provide the therapeutic cooling that doctors recommend to help prevent further damage to delicate nerves. No…
Read MoreTricky tips.
Tricks of the Trade. Professional secrets from those in the know. Clever. Use a small tooth comb to hold small nails in place when hammering. This will keep your thumb and other fingers out of harm’s way.
Read MoreTwo to tango?
Tango Drop Box. FTP client in a box. Well OK, an icon on your desktop onto which you drop the files you want to send to pre-configured FTP addresses. You get the picture. Or icon. Quite a neat idea and it’s free. Needs .NET though. Introducing the new Tango DropBox. The Tango DropBox allows you to upload files and folders without launching your FTP application. Simply drag and drop files on to the Tango DropBoxes you create on the desktop….
Read MoreCell Sensor EMF finder.
The Cell Sensor EMF Detector is not, contrary to rumour, designed to indicate when the European Monetary Fund is running low on convertible currencies. It is instead, dear readers, for identifying just how much of a nasty old electro-magnetic field is bathing your ear lobe and other bodily parts at any moment of the day or night. Sleep well. $39.99. Recently, many studies have delivered warnings about long-term exposure to cell phone radiation and certain electromagnetic fields. But since these…
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