Monthly Archives: October 2005

Gadgets October 12, 2005 posted by

Liar, liar…

The AW-851 Lie Detector Kit (Babel). Build it and they will run. Hold it in your hands and if you perspire (glow, ladies) while you answer the questions, you’ll set it off. Couldn’t you just do this by mopping their face with a tissue? Around $26.00 for the kit. [via Odd Things From Japan]  When lie it is attached, where the sensor perceives the sweat of the palm and like the candy the light-emitting diode shining lovely, perceives lie!

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diy October 12, 2005 posted by

Recharger.

The Afroman very geek guide to recharging alkaline batteries. The very usual caveats about blowing yourself up apply of course.  You can fully recharge a depleted alkaline AA battery all day without problems. I recharged both types of batteries twice, and I would expect them to easily take many more charges. If you care about safety more than I do, attach a multimeter to the batteries and monitor them so they never reach more than 110% of their rated voltage.

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Free Software October 12, 2005 posted by

Search Fox.

SearchFox. A free beta bookmark/favourites management toolbar. With sharing and swish search and there’s also an RSS feed in there somewhere, although I don’t think it’s integrated. I’m a Powermarks fan, so not sure if this adds any value to my life (apart from the free bit of course).  Our BETA product lets you tag web favorites with your own words so you can get back to them. It also lets you find what people you trust find useful, valuable, and…

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Gadgets October 11, 2005 posted by

Art clock.

The Yoshitomo Nara Clock. Rather funky battery powered clock which features 84 unique drawings from the artist, one for each hour and minute. Art meets utility in a totally wake up way. $219.00 buys you different.  This unique Yoshitomo Nara Clock has 84 unique drawings by the artist, one for each hour and one for every minute! Each passing minute “flips” over to reveal a new drawing! Watch as the minutes pass by and each image is revealed. This is…

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Gadgets October 11, 2005 posted by

Emergency phone.

The Police Patrol Box Phone. What finer way to impress the neighbours than to install this emergency patrol box phone? They’ll realise immediately just how important you must be, as you flick open the cover with a flourish and answer that crucial summons from Commissioner Gordon. $175.00.  This table or wall mountable goes anywhere!! Light flashes when phone rings. 13 memories with 3 emergency buttons. Handy memory card. Automatic redial. Store button. “Old fashioned” ringer sound. Complete with short cord for wall mount.

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Gadgets October 11, 2005 posted by

Morse inspector.

The Pocket Morse Code Reader. Convert that dish, dat, dot Morse code stuff into intelligible letters. Hey and it’s portable so you can carry it with you. Just in case, you know, you need to do a quick bit of translation in Starbucks. Roger dat, dude. $79.95.  Is your CW rusty? Relax and place this tiny pocket size portable MFJ Morse Code / CW Reader near your receiver’s speaker. Then watch Morse code signals turn into solid text messages as they scroll across an…

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Gadgets October 11, 2005 posted by

ScatMat.

The ScatMat. Fed up with your pet clambering where it shouldn’t? Then electrocute the little blighter. That’ll learn it. $69.95.  Just place this flexible clear plastic mat with embedded electrical grid on any surface you’d like to protect. A safe low-voltage battery pack zaps paws with a low-level electrical pulse on contact. Completely harmless, but definitely gets their attention, and discourages bad habits! 3 selectable intensity levels for any size cat or dog. One 9-volt battery lasts for 6 months,…

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Gadgets October 11, 2005 posted by

Exhausted.

The Exhaust Spinner. Oooh look. It sits in your tail-pipe and spins. No really, and not just that, look – ‘step on the gas and the spring loaded Spinner aggressively POPS OUT of your exhaust.’ Aggressively? POPS? Yikes! Choice of turbine or flare styled models for $39.00 each. Go on, admit it, you know you want one. Secretly.  For a variety of cars with electronic fuel injection engine control, the SPINNER EXHAUST TIP has the beneficial effect to eliminate the initial hesitation…

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Gadgets October 11, 2005 posted by

Kitchen sterilizer.

The Nawooel Kitchen Sterilizer. I’ve often wondered just how hygenic a chopping board is after a few months of heavy cooking work, so the idea of a high temperature/UV kitchen utensil sterilizer makes a lot of sense in this cranium. Does dish towels too. No madam, dish, not fish.  NAWOOEL(www.nawooel.com) has introduced its new sterilizer for cutting board and other kitchen utensils such as a dish towel, a knife, or a spoon and so on…By sterilizing with high temperature (60~65 degree), it…

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Bookmark This! October 11, 2005 posted by

Video vim.

Vimeo. A Flikr for video? Upload video shorts from camphones,or whatever, and share with others. One neat aspect is that you are automatically assigned a private email address for posting clips to your page. Kinda neat and free.  Vimeo is a site for organizing and sharing video clips. The beta version of this site launched in mid February, 2005…Some of the technology behind Vimeo includes Apache (server software), PHP (programming), MySQL (database), and FFMPEG-PHP (thumbnails). The inspiration for this site, most prominently,…

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Gadgets October 10, 2005 posted by

Beetle baileys.

The Beetle Zip Connect Audio Player Radio Alarm Clock Module with Working Headlamps and Tail-lights and Speakers in the Wheels. Hey, so tell me – trendy icon to trendy icon – how’s it going out there? $129.95.   Slide your iPod or MP3 into the stand and it looks like your Beetle’s hauling a surfboard to the beach!…Now here’s the added plus that makes ZipConnect speaker systems and CD stereos so incredibly convenient — the retractable cable — which is…

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Gadgets October 10, 2005 posted by

Stealth Surfer.

The StealthSurfer II Privacy Stick. The ultimate USB flash drive product for the terminally paranoid? Loaded with lots of sneeky, snooky software all wrapped up in a generous dash of marketing fluff. From $99.29.  StealthSurfer is a Windows PC compatible key-sized USB device that is preloaded with Firefox, Anonymizer, RoboForm, and Thunderbird software configured and integrated for optimum privacy. When using StealthSurfer, all your sensitive Internet files such as cookies, history, and cache are stored on the StealthSurfer device instead of your computer….

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Gadgets October 10, 2005 posted by

Video phone redux.

The Multi-Function Video Phone. Not just a video phone, children, but a multi faceted piece of technological iconistry. Detachable camera, remote picture snapshot, digital zoom and video conversation record feature via external VCR. All over a plain old telephone line. $99.95.  How many times have you gotten off a conference call and wondered if you forgot to make note of something? Just plug the videophone into any VCR and record the entire conversation….connect the videophone to a television so everyone in…

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Gadgets October 10, 2005 posted by

Prankster.

The Remote Control Office Prankster. Ho ho ho, bedazzle your co-workers with this jolly office jape, you little funster you. But do make sure your medical insurance is up to date first, eh? £12.99.  Hide the sound box under someones desk. Then use one of the preprogrammed sounds to cause havoc by pressing the remote control. Or record your own sounds like their phone ring and watch them go mad with frustration. You can get people running around frantically or skunking off in…

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yeah, right! October 10, 2005 posted by

French Fries for freedom.

Q. When is a French Fries Vending Machine not a vending machine? A. Er..when it’s an investment fraud perhaps? Pediatricians the world over rejoice. Sigh – or maybe not.  After more than a decade of development, 128 million shares of stock sold and $40 million invested, Tasty Fries Inc. never installed one working french fry vending machine, Vice Chancellor Stephen Lamb said in a Delaware Chancery Court opinion…he refused to order the selling off of Tasty Fries because there was nothing to sell…

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