Monthly Archives: September 2005

huh..? September 19, 2005 posted by

Scan first, ask later…

ClubScan. Welcome to the brave new world peeps. Hope we enjoy it. £999.00.  IDscan is set to revolutionise the licensed trade – by allowing pubs, clubs, hotels, restaurants, bars and licensed premises to take a record of everyone entering their premises and check the validity of their ID in a matter of seconds. …an easy-to-use data collection scanner, which can scan and recognise most forms of ID including passports, driving licenses and national identity cards from Europe, the US, Australia, the…

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Gadgets September 19, 2005 posted by

Navigate by touch.

The WorldNav 3000X GPS Car Navigation System. Wait, it’s not boring honest. It’s got a touchscreen, SD card slot, pre-installed maps, gives detailed voice instructions and incorporates an MP3 player for listening to soothing music while you try desperately not to get lost. $399.00. This portable in-car navigation system offers door-to-door GPS guidance with spoken instructions. Simply start up your car, the GPS is ready to navigate! Includes street level maps for the entire USA including Puerto Rico. Visual and voice…

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Gadgets September 19, 2005 posted by

LED Skate lights.

Bladelite LED Skate Lights. You know, because you can never have enough people gazing in puzzled bemusement at your feet as you clatter into them at 15 miles an hour. Oh oh, sorry, they appear to be headlights too. Yowsers! £28.95.  The Bladelite battery and the red LED light are simply fixed to the back of your bootleg; the two blue LEDs face forwards on the boot, one inside and one outside. Amazingly bright, the LED system illuminates every move you…

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but is it art? September 19, 2005 posted by

Bling king?

There’s bling and then there’s the Aire Traveller watch. $95,000.00. Ground shipping $12.00.   5 Time Zone Watch in Bouclier Shape, Fully Loaded with Round Brilliant Diamond Pave Case and Bracelet, White Mother of Pearl Dial, Limited Edition.

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Gadgets September 19, 2005 posted by

Duck and dive DVD.

The FlyaDISC. Funky advertising idea, pop your promotional CD/DVD into this frisbee thingy and your message should really fly!  Designed to be safely thrown into crowds at sporting events, concerts, tradeshows and the like, FlyaDISC is a soft and safe protective rim designed to fit around a CD or DVD, creating unique packaging that also serves as a superb airfoil. The result is an unmatched ability to penetrate any target audience and incredible retention rates.

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Free Software September 19, 2005 posted by

Orb.

Orb. Freeware lets you stream your music, movies, video and live or recorded TV from your home computer to any laptop, PDA, mobile phone or remote PC. You can even set it up to stream navigation maps and info. Sounds uber cool, don’t it?  When you connect from a mobile device or remote PC, Orb detects your connection speed and the upstream bandwidth available from your home PC. Orb streams content at the highest quality available to you, providing the…

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leisure links September 17, 2005 posted by

Link-o-Matic – Hummer laptops and more…

Hummer laptops – oh good grief!  Winguides Password Generator – useful tool  WordPress.com – Typepad has real competition.  Adsense Troubleshooting Tool – Isn’t Google nice?  Library Thing – catalog your books online.  Wreck n Roll – instruments made out of scrap parts?  The Gift Expert – Men, learn how to buy presents properly.  The Tao Te Ching Online – Go on, get your spiritual on!  Button & Icon Maker – neat tool.  Internet Bargain Center – Find your local eBay…

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Gadgets September 16, 2005 posted by

Saitek heads up.

The Saitek A-350 Wireless Headphones. They’re black, they’re stylishly different and they’re totally, absolutely without any form of wired, cabled or tethered encumbrance. They even have neody…neodyl…neolody…cool in-ear speakers. £79.99 (which probably equates to about $99.00 in the US, pah!).   * Soft-molded over-ear style for comfort and stability * Reliable wireless solution provides up to10m range * Lightweight Neodymium speaker drivers * Ultra-lightweight rechargeable LiPol battery gives 6 hours play (for both headphones and transmitter) * Compatible with any 3.5mm…

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Gadgets September 16, 2005 posted by

The Skype Hulger Handset.

The Skype Hulger P*Phone Handset. £50.00 gets you a funky Skype compatible VoIP handset with Y cable for mic and audibles, in any colour you like as long as it’s red, black, pink or white. Also usable with cell phones, of course. Back chat retro.  When one combines the HULGER Y*CABLE with the HULGER P*PHONE, it becomes a voice over IP-Phone. Just plug it into the ‘mic’ & ‘headphone’ ports & you are ready to take calls the good, old-fashioned way….

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Gadgets September 16, 2005 posted by

Shoeshine robot.

The Shoeshine Robot. Drop your 1,000 Won ($0.10) into the slot, insert your shoes into receptacle, say a little prayer and two minutes later your black or brown fancies should emerge sparklingly clean and fresh. And hopefully not bright red with cute white laces.  

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Gadgets September 16, 2005 posted by

The camera never lies?

Watch out for a flood of no-label Chinese digital cameras to hit the shelves over the coming months. They’ll look the part, sound fancy, come with the right ticks in the specification boxes, but probably will not be that…ahem…great. Just a little warning. The CVS-599D digital camera pictured above, for example, promises 10 megapixel (read closer and it’s 5 mp interpolated), 8 x optical zoom (equivalent to 40 – 350mm but what price the optics, eh?), SD slot, 30 fps video, audio recording…

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Free Software September 16, 2005 posted by

Phone sharing.

Intercom Pages. Er…I’m kinda confused about this one. They’re billing it as ‘Free Call Telephone Sharing’, which sounds kind of similar to the phone call timeshare concept from the original Free World Dialup (which I see has now gone all commercial). Download the free software on 30th September and tell us all about it, eh?  XP user can now call anywhere to anywhere planet wide for the cost of a local call or make free calls forever. Intercom Pages is offering…

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Reviews September 16, 2005 posted by

Yahoo!

Been browsing the new Yahoo! Mail beta and it’s very nice indeed. Think cleaner Oddpost (and yes I know that Yahoo! bought Oddpost, I was one of the first people in Europe to sign up for Oddpost when it first came out. Just loved Ethan’s sense of humour). The new service works with Firefox too and not just IE. Highlights – Very fast address book import from Outlook Express et al Uncluttered OE type interface, clean no adverts on the main page!…

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Gadgets September 15, 2005 posted by

The Karputer.

The Karputer. Dude. It’s a komputer. That fits in a kar. Complete with a motorised 7” USB touchscreen, 2 second PlayNOW boot BIOS (which lets you play DVDs etc without having to load Windows), 1GHz processor, 256MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, DVD/CDRW and Windows XP professional. Let’s hope you don’t get the blue screen of death at 90 mph eh? £2,030.00 gets you the Ultimedia model, which comes complete with GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, multimedia and office functions and the swank screen.  If all you want…

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Recommended September 15, 2005 posted by

The Trio Bike.

The Trio Bike. Take one distinctly Scandinavian looking buggy/pram, add in a convertible bicycle which can be attached at will, and presto, travel comfort for all the family. Well except daddy, who presumably runs alongside like the good and faithful servant that he is. Around $2500.00.

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