Monthly Archives: January 2006

Bookmark This! January 11, 2006 posted by

Google plays DJ!

Gook Box. So this is a clever app that lets you save and play your music using your Google email/Gmail account. Lovely idea isn’t it? Free download. Hmm…wonder how long this trend for pastel colour design and cutesy product names is gonna last?  The first musicail application. Plays and stores music in your google mail account. You now dont need to duplicate or recreate your music collection when you relocate or travel. When you are almost online most of your time…

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Gadgets January 10, 2006 posted by

Critter Phones.

The KC Bearifone II Speakerphone. Scary phone more like. $150.00.  K.C. is irresistible. his mouth and eye movements are synchronized to a callers voice. his body is soft, plush and cuddly. The built-in speakerphone has a full-sized keypad. He also has a 3 position ringer, is fully modular and completely house trained!

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Gadgets January 10, 2006 posted by

MP3 Pebble.

Apparently the EZAV MP3 Pebble is a new piece of audio jewellery. 24g, USB 2.0, FM radio, OLED display, voice recorder and 3D stereo sound. Cute as a pebble too, eh? From around $130.00 for 512 MB.

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Gadgets January 10, 2006 posted by

I-Measure. You laugh.

The interesting thing about the I-Measure is that it not only measure distances using clever ultrasonics, but also calculates room areas like cubic feet and stuff. Tres useful. Oh and it also detects studs and electrical cables to stop you electrocuting yourself as you bang a nail into the wrong part of the kitchen wall. Around $46.00.

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Gadgets January 10, 2006 posted by

Hook and slice meter.

The Hook and Slice Talking Swing Meter. For golf. As in, ‘you’ve sliced it into the thorn bushes yet again dufus. Give it up already.’ Or something. £9.50/$18.01. Buy two, just in case one gets…ahem…broken.   The Hook / Slice Talking Swing Meter is an electronic golf coach offering instant audible feedback to let you master a winning swing. It’s precision engineered to sense your swing direction and speaker equipped to make an immediate announcement inc. “Hook!”, “Slice” or hopefully…

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future tech January 10, 2006 posted by

Smart Cycles.

The Smart Cycle from the Sakai Industry Club incorporates self-correcting steering to make it harder to fall off. Perfect for the elderly or those tired and emotional riders who have trouble navigating their local hi-ways and by-ways. In test and prototype form only at the moment, more’s the pity.  A sensor to detect the lean of the bicycle is placed under the seat. A device attached to the frame picks up signals from this sensor and automatically turns the handlebars…

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future tech January 10, 2006 posted by

Wasp Hounds.

If the boffins have their way, the sniffer dogs of the future could be wasps. Yep, instead of looking for bombs or fugitive terrorists with doe-eyed bloodhound critters, the Man could use parasitic wasps which have super sensitive odour receptors. Makes a bit of a mockery of all them old black and white Louisiana chain gang swamp escape movies , don’t it? Scary too. Bzzzzzz……..  He found he could train the wasps to seek out almost any odor of concern…

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cool tech January 9, 2006 posted by

Flickr enabled LCD photo frame.

The eStarling Flickr Enabled Emailable Digital Photo Frame. Winner of the Ferret’s ‘cool but inevitable’ tech award for 2006. Flickr moves offline. It’s Wi-Fi enabled, it’s expandable via SD and Compact Flash cards, you can email photos to it (from your mobile phone too) and it displays the tagged Flickr RSS feed of your choice. Oh and it’s also Gmail friendly. How geek is that, dude? $249.99.  Simply do a search on Flickr for your favorite photos. Cut and paste the URL from the…

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Gadgets January 9, 2006 posted by

The NiteMax.

The Carson NM-1 NiteMax. How serious is your need to see in the dark, hombre? $289.99 worth serious? Then, dear friend, you probably should seek expert advice as soon as possible. Or invest in one of these Digital Nightvision thingies. It’s got an LCD screen and bucket loads of super tech, and will really go well with that Dracula outfit you’ve got hanging in the hall cupboard.  Advanced solid state circuitry provides 24 hour operation in any lighting condition…Carson’s NiteMax…

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Gadgets January 9, 2006 posted by

Pure water. On tap.

The Aran-Jecter Water Purifier. Pump oxygen into water to purify it. Not filter, pufiry. Or purify. Whatever. Why do we write this stuff? Because it is a civic duty. To entertain, obfuscate and confuse. To find products that cost $939.95 when a $5.00 filter will probably do. To trivialise. To banalify. To shut up now and go lie down.  The Aran-Jecter energizes the oxygen in the air and pumps it into water through the Aran Infuser. The resulting energized oxygen…

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Gadgets January 9, 2006 posted by

Cell phone money checker.

The Mobile Torch – Bank Note Detector. Strap one of these purple LED lamp units onto your mobile handset and you’ll never be hit with a fakeroony bank note again. Sure you’ll get some weird – maybe even pitying -looks from friends and family as you scan their currency en route to your wallet, but what the heck, it’s a free world ain’t it? $8.00.  Widely used for checking the articles with fluorescence anti-fake symbol such as bank note, valuable papers, ID…

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Mobile Tech January 9, 2006 posted by

P2P traffic jam buster.

Israeli company Cellint has come up with a product called TrafficSense which collates info from driver’s mobile phones, and combines it with speed data, travel time and stuff to provide real time traffic jam updates. The technology will effectively track multiple handsets in a given area to warn drivers of traffic jams up ahead, without the need to install expensive sensors en route. Yay, we say.  “Many traffic jams develop from nothing to a major jam in a few minutes – so a real…

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Free Software January 9, 2006 posted by

Skype united?

WebDialogs Unyte. Skype add-on adds on add-on add-ons. Oh OK, so it’s a cool plug-in which provides collaborative working via desktop, document and application sharing. Remember this is Skype we’re talking about, not some obtuse geek VNC hack. Pretty neat tech if it works as advertised. Free for beta.

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leisure links January 7, 2006 posted by

Link-o-Matic – The StikAx and more…

The StikAx – hey Mr DJ, play it one more time… The Gmaps Pedometer – distances on Google tap  The Background Image Maker – er..make backgrounds you can love?  GotVoice – home and cellular voicemail organised via web or email for free  AllExperts – the largest free Q & A service on the Net

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