The Freedom Keepsafe security system. Attach signal transmitter to valuable PDA. Place Receiver unit in pocket. If the two are separated more than 10 to 20 feet, alarm sounds. Simple idea and sensible? Keep your valuables near to you with this slim, small & light security proximeter.
Read MoreMonthly Archives: July 2005
Swim trainer.
StretchCordz Swim Trainer. Attach one end to bath taps, other end to infant. Throw into water. Set timer. Return when Olympic champion emerges. A bit wrinkled. $49.98. When you want to swim laps but your pool just isn’t long enough, the StretchCordz Swim Trainer belt gets you back in the water. Designed to help you improve your stroke, endurance and strength, this is the same equipment used by Olympic athletes and nationally-ranked college and high school swim teams. Simply attach…
Read MoreWater powered engine.
Running a gasoline engine on hydrogen using water. Long title eh? Yep, that’s what we thought too. Very long title. Longer than your average title actually. By quite a way. Yes sirree. Lots of words there all right.
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12–volt Pizza Maker. The Ferret can think of several trivial or important reasons why every geek-driven automobile in the civilised world should contain one of these majestic examples of high technology equipment. World peace is just one. $39.99. Plugs Directly into Your Cigarette Lighter Socket Unique Heating Elements Cooks from Oven Top and Bottom Use with Any Oven Safe Cookware
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The iBreeze USB Apple Laptop Cooler. Got hot Apples? Don’t get custard, get blowin’. After all it’s acrylic, so how can you go wrong? Designed for yer trendy iBook or Powerbook, so don’t go putting any other boring beige or black stuff on it, y’hear? $24.95. Our iBreeze is a dual fan-cooled, USB-powered, clear acrylic desk stand for your Apple Powerbook or iBook. It is powered by the computer’s USB port, and provides a passthrough port, so you don’t lose the…
Read MorePhilips ShoqBox review.
The Philips PSS110 ShoqBox. The marketing blurb says that this product is a ‘uniquely portable, miniature solid-state audio player delivers superb sound and powerful bass performance from its built-in speakers, meeting the need of today’s consumers who want to listen to music at home and on the road’. And who are we to argue? Well we’re the Ferret for one thing, so we’ll have a go in this short review.
Read MoreHammer’s head.
The SOS Hammer LED Flashlight. $9.95 buys you the kind of ‘trapped but peaceful’ attitude that can only come from hefting a shatterproof, polycarbonate, ‘smart-chipped’, SOS message flashing 12 red LED’d, waterproof Titan of a flashlight. Ask for it in your Xmas stocking, alongside the nuclear fall out shelter. On the tip points is the same patented “Diamond Head StrongTM” special alloy used to fabricate the nuts and bolts on commercial aircraft. The tough, sharp points can crack any glass windshield or…
Read MoreCowbell cohorts.
The Rad Monkey VLC800 Digital Cowbell. OK, so things are definitely getting a bit weird now. Vintage cowbells? Dedicated R&D? What are these guys drinking? I mean it’s got an LCD on it for Pete’s sake! [Thanks Andy] The Rad Monkey VLC800 may be the last cowbell you’ll ever buy. In addition to Rad Monkey’s well known cowbell amplification, onboard DSP also faithfully reproduces the sound of a dozen of the world’s most sought after vintage and modern cowbells. Thousands of…
Read MoreSolar light kit.
The Solar LED Lighting Kit. Solar is good. Lights are useful. LEDs are trendy. Mix and serve to save the earth, you feckless heathen. £20.50. Get creative with the SolarMAX Solar Powered 6 LED Lighting Kits, these kits come with 1 Ni-MH AA 1300mah 1.2v rechargable batteries and are ideal for providing low level lighting. The LED lights automatically illuminate as light fades. 8 hrs of full sunshine gives 8-9 hrs of lighting…Sheds, Outbuildings, Playhouses, Garden Lighting, Sign illumination and…
Read MoreNap Zapper.
The Nap Zapper. $7.95. At these prices forget about naughty motorists and buy them for all those lazy good fer nothin’ students sleeping in class. A room full of alarms going off would cheer up any long suffering teacher I bet. Everyone has experienced drowsiness while driving. Some of us have actually fallen asleep only to be awakened by the blaring horn of an oncoming car. Avoid this potential tragedy by wearing the Nap Zapper on your ear. If your…
Read MoreStick it to me!
Velcro Inkjet Paper. A most excellent ‘print and poster’ product. Sticky backed genius at work, but no chuffin’ price. What’s with that? VELCRO brand Picture Paper sticks to many fabric surfaces such as: cubicle walls, bulletin boards, carpets, and trade show booths. Great for: personal photos, trade show exhibits, seasonal decorations, and paper crafts.
Read MoreSamsung does DMB.
The Samsung SPH-B2000 3G handset. Oh how I wish that Auntie Maude had not frittered away my Korean language course fees on her illegal download knitting pattern habit. Then I would know exactly what this latest ‘swing n’slide’ satellite DMB phone was about. It apparently offers multi-tasking DMB broadcasts along with SMS and runs for 3 hours per charge even when beaming lovely re-runs of popular Korean soap operas for our amusement and profit. Oh yes!
Read MorePower Puff.
The Tekkeon MyPower ALL portable battery pack. $119.95 gives enough Lithium Polymer juice for an extra 4000 photos, 100 hours HD MP3 player, 10 hours camcorder, 12 hours PDA, 80 hours CD player time and 3 hours laptop. Apparently works with lotsa products. With myPower ALL, you can enjoy hours of extended play time on notebook computers, portable DVD players, digital cameras, camcorders, MP3 players, portable CD players, mobile phones, and other portable consumer electronic products. Selecting the right voltage for a personal…
Read MoreSolar kitchen.
The Parabolic Solar Kitchen. Around €98.00. Excluding pot. Oh and here’s a Solar Recipe Book. We could use that a lot here in Sub-Tropical Londres. The solar kitchen avoids the deforestation in the Third World Countries and it does not damage the health of the people, almost always women who must cook supporting the smoke of the firewood. The use of solar kitchen parabolic KSOL allows the reduction of million tons of CO2 per year.
Read MoreA little vehicular insight?
The OBS Insight Vehicle Security System. A mobile CCTV system for your car. A bunch of cameras, microphones and a box with an SD card slot, all hooked up to motion sensors, the car alarm, impact sensors, panic button or whatever. But the cool thing is that it runs a constant buffer system which, when triggered, will automatically store 2 minutes of the action prior to and after the event. Neat. [Thanks Erica]. More here. $1499.95. The Insight System is designed…
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