Frisker Pro. $194.95. The ultimate party pooping, pat down, metal detecting micro machine. Get the bail money ready now, Junior. Frees hand and fingers to perform searches using academy approved techniques. It will detect a staple secreted in a cheek lining of the mouth. Replaceable 9 volt battery provides 3 months of normal use. Rugged, splash and salt water resistant all weather use. Adjusts to fit all hands, worn on either hand, or both hands simultaneously.
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iPod Wristband Remote.
The Scosche Wristband iPod Remote Control. What do you need to know? It’s an iPod remote control. You wear it on your wrist – any side, dufus – and it’s RF. What? Yes it costs $59.99. Now, you finished with the questions already?
Read MoreThe Ultimate Alarm Clock?
The Talking Headline News Alarm Clock. $10.00. This has got to be the most fully featured alarm clock program in the known universe. Check it out – Wakes you by reading the news from an Internet source using headlines or RSS. Automatically wakes you early if there’s bad weather in your area. Can activate X10 appliances like lights, curtains, radio etc. Knows about holidays automatically. Take a look also at the $10.00 Cellular Alarm Clock which you can set up…
Read MorePublic Domain Torrents.
Public Domain Torrents. A selection of free and legal public domain movies coded in DivX available for download via BitTorrent. Classic Movies and B-Movies Movies For FREE! PDA/SMARTPHONE/PPC versions! AND SOON IPOD VERSIONS!
Read MoreHysteria in the media.
This poster is dotted round London at the moment (click on thumbnail for larger size). What bugs me is not the drive against dvd piracy per se, but the fact that they’re peddling an hysterically exaggerated set of facts, cloaked in a sinister pseudo-official veneer (note the violent staged police arrest), in order to drive their economic agenda. Do these people care a jot about crime on our streets, or is it all about profit? What do you think?
Read MoreLink-o-Matic – Street Surfer and more…
StreetSurfer – safe or suicidal transport? Your call. FlightAware – flight tracking done properly. Superb. Del.icio.us Filtered – Select, add to Netvibes, profit. The Cheapflights weblog – keep track of Euro-flight bargains. Disposable VISA credit cards – about time too! The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page – Yum! HungerSiteFox – a charitable Firefox extension. Currency Tissue – toilet rolls and cash, a perfect match. Slide – photo slideshow and share tool on your desktop. Ratbikes – Got motorbike? Say no…
Read MoreEye Catcher VideoPhone.
The Eye Catcher VideoPhone. So it’s a ‘broadband personal videophone’. What’s different? Well for one thing you don’t look at a screen, you look at a mirror, so it’s eye to eye, not eye to camera. The other difference? Well how about £6,255.99? Picture quality and sound are fantastic – the shortcomings of videoconferencing or video mobiles are completely overcome. The Eye Catcher is the first of its kind and combines real-time eye contact with an almost lifesize broadcast-quality picture. Pleasure, surprise,…
Read MoreKeyboard begone.
KITTY TECH – Keyboard Independent Touch Typing Technology. Er…in other words a replacement for the keyboard using ‘spiralling, printed-electric-circuit wires’. What does that mean? Hmm…well it looks as though you ‘type’ letters by holding various fingers and thumbs together in different permutations. Ah well, it’s from the University of California, Irvine, so that’s all right isn’t it? Mission Objective: To provide an ultra-portable ‘silent’ data-input device for wearable computing systems promising wide consumer acceptance due to zero learning curve for those…
Read MoreEscape to LA.
Dream Scene Wallpaper Murals. Wow real life exotic wallpapers, just like the digital on-screen kind. Dude, this is so like geek heaven. Hook up a home network, install pizza oven, order crate of suitable beverage, paste up a wall mural of Barbados and you’re done. No need to leave the house for at least a year. 100 murals to choose from, priced from £39.95. I’m there. Wallpaper Murals we supply are printed on high quality paper and are hung just as you would normal…
Read MoreLoud Hailer?
The Farrevo Horn. There are so many questions we want to ask about this product. Why would you want a personal loud hailer strapped quite so close to your ear? Do you have to look like a Bavarian landowner to use one (i.e. is it designed for yodelling only)? Can it double up as a hearing aid? Will it really replace walkie talkies? But I’m afraid that these questions will have to wait until we learn Japanese.
Read MoreSitehound malware fighter.
The Firetrust SiteHound Toolbar. Freeware browser plug-in that warns about potentially dodgy phishing, spyware or other malware attacks. Internet Explorer only (Firefox coming?) and you have to pay $19.95 to get all the bells and whistles, but maybe still worth a look? With SiteHound, when you browse the Internet, you’re shown a warning page every time you go to a site which is a known scam, potentially loads viruses or spyware on to your computer, has questionable content or anything you…
Read MoreRoll yer own camera.
The Plamodel DIY Camera Kit [Babel]. OK, so it’s a 35mm and not digital, but cool or what? I think that we should be offered all sorts of consumer electronics in kit form at a cheaper price, kind of like an IKEA for gadgets. Snap, assemble, play. Right on! About $9.00. As for the adhesive being unnecessary, using the clock driver which belongs lastly combining the part of the plastic which consists of 33 points, just sets the screw, the camera…
Read MorePhoto restorer.
Exif Untrasher. You don’t hear of many photo undelete programs for the Apple Mac, so it’s nice to see a piece of freeware surface offering just that. Enjoy! Have you ever deleted images from your digital camera’s memory card and needed them afterwards?…I found out how to restore the images using a hex-editor, but it turned out to be pretty tedious. This was the moment when the idea for “Exif Untrasher” was born.
Read MoreLord Lichfield, RIP.
The Earl of Lichfield, photographer and a cousin of the Queen, died of a stroke early this morning. I was fortunate enough to spend a day with Patrick earlier this summer on a consultancy project, and I found him to be a genuinely nice fellow, in that quintessentially English way that is hard to describe. He had a fabulous sense of humour, a treasure trove of hilarious anecdotes and through it all no hint of any airs or graces which you might…
Read MoreThe Mouse Phone.
The AP-100 Mouse Phone. Heh, those krazy Koreans, eh? Combines a mouse and telephone in one unit provides an amicable and efficient environment in your office. Hands free capability with earphone…Mouse and telephone together cost the same as a middle-priced mouse
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