The Head Spa Massager. Looking like some small town theatre company stage prop from Star Wars The Musical, this puppy promises to relieve your tension by making you laugh hysterically…what? Ah. Sorry. By stimulating your blood circulation and stuff. $49.95. This patented Italian design incorporates Japanese engineering and utilizes acupressure to relax and soothe your problems away. It’s like thousands of tiny fingers simultaneously massaging your scalp. Simply place our Brain Spa Head Massager on your head and feel the tension miraculously leave your…
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Dial B for brass.
La Valetta Brass Sundial. Now this is what I call a real timepiece. A man’s timepiece. No metrosexual ambiguity here with it’s integrated compass, wooden case and solid shiny heft. Oh no! £26.99. Measure time like the seafarers and discoverers of yesteryear.Using this sundial made from solid brass – with the integrated compass, you can determine the latitude and the shadow of the hand falls on the dial. Delivered in a real wood case with brass fittings.
Read MoreThe Anti-Snoring Ring.
The Anti-Snoring Ring. Or to give it the more formal title, the StopSnor Anti Snoring Sterling Silver Ring. Wear it on the little finger of the left hand and let acupressure accomplish what science and medicine apparently cannot. Of course it works, silly. Of course. No question. Nope. $129.95, but reduced for special offer to $49.95. Oh please someone buy it and give us a report… The StopSnor antisnoring ring gently massages a universally recognised pressure point in the little finger of…
Read MoreDIY book scanner.
How to build your very own automatic book scanner using an eraser, a few bits of LEGO, a laptop and an upside down Epson flatbed scanner. It’s slow yes, but think of the long term implications…[Via GizmoWatch]
Read MoreVanilla forums.
Vanilla Forums. Free Open Source PHP/MySQL application which offers a twist on the usual boring forums concept. Definitely worth a look. With Vanilla we wanted to break the mold created and followed by just about every other forum on the web. We sat down and thought about what we liked, and more importantly, what we didn’t like about web forums. We wanted emphasis on the discussions rather than the statistics.
Read MoreAstonishing CGI.
The Flowlines CG software from German company Scanlines really does show just how incredible – with a capital I – modern computer generated graphics can be. We’re talking photo-realistic and mind-boggling. Flowline is Scanline’s Inhouse Software designed to handle all types of effects. It is a new approach to Hydro Fluid Simulation and Rendering for Fire, Water, Oceans, Smoke, Clouds and other effects…
Read MoreRadio Duck.
The Radio Duck. OK, is someone taking the mick here? Eh? USB ducks, designer ducks, disco ducks, LED ducks, ambient ducks…and now this. AM/FM with a tuning knob tail. Somewhere, someone is laughing very loudly indeed. £9.99. Now you can jazz up your bath time with this cool radio duck. Lie back and soak up the tunes in AM or FM. Twiddle his tail to tune into your favourite stations and push his wing to select AM or FM. You will…
Read MoreWater, water, everywhere…
Water Quality Checker. Happy face = nice water. Sad face = nasty water. Doesn’t get much easier than that, does it? Your stomach may thank you for being uber paranoid one day. Not to mention your bowels. $29.95. Keep your family safe and healthy by checking the purity of their drinking water. With our Water Checker, you’ll be able to actually monitor the quality of the water in one easy step. Simply place a drop of the water to be…
Read MoreBeach boys.
The Floating Radio. Can’t say we’re much into pool parties here in sunny London, but this floating radio sounds like just the thing if you’re LA. Or you’ve got a. Very. Large. Bathtub. $19.95
Read MoreBiometric advance.
Biometric fingerprint scanning technology appears to be evolving in quite interesting ways. Take this Ibidentifi system which does all the usual scanning stuff to protect your computa, but also includes an ‘alarm finger for duress’ feature. If you’re being forced to scan your finger to gain access, you just use a specially pre-chosen finger and lots of very silent alarms will be set off. I think it’s called duress finger mode. Interesting.
Read MoreThe Power Plate.
The Power Plate is apparently the hottest thing to hit the ‘get fit, get skinny’ brigade since the invention of low fat celery. You stand or squat on the thing and it jiggles your important little bits to strengthen, tone and build up muscles. Cost yer £2,599.00 for the privilege, but it must be tax deductible somehow, shirley? The special vibrating platform stretches the muscles, which activate Tonic Vibration Reflexes. Because the Power-Plate vibrates at 30 to 50 times per second,…
Read MoreLAN Finder.
The Elecom LAN Finder. Yes it’s a Wi-Fi finder, and yes it’s a USB plug. But no it’s not a flash drive, the USB is used to charge the unit up. Wasted opportunity or failure of miniature design? Your call. Around $106.00/12600 Yen.
Read MoreMy Photo Booth.
My Photo Booth Camera. What’s really weird about Polaroid is that you write them off, cast them aside as a bankrupt technology and generally treat them like dirt, and back they come, ready for more. Time and time again. So here we are with a delightful little plaything dear reader, an instant buddy sharing camera. Kind of Peer to Peer really. £44.95. The My Photo Booth camera has a mirror below the camera lens, just like a real photo…
Read MoreCooking tunes, man.
The Sanyo Music Oven. Nah, they’re kidding right? They don’t mean a combi audio-sizzler unit do they? Nah. That remote control is for something else entirely. Tell me it’s for something else. Please. Around $2500.00.
Read MoreVelocipede.
The Carbon Chassis Velocipede. Apparently this is the world’s first carbon fibre velomobile. Me, I just like the colour. That splash of yellow, mind you, will cost ya an eye watering $13,999.95, so don’t wait up dear. The interior has a recumbent seat with variable longitudinal pedal geometry for a customized fit that maximizes comfort and pedal power efficiency. A Shimano derailleur and SRAM Gripshift Rocket shifter on the hand control allows smooth, shudder-free shifting. The velomobile has a headlight,…
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