The Swipe Card Translator. Just pick out the handy ‘which way to the ladies lavatory, please’ card, swipe it dextorously through the slot in your translator, and voila. Instant translation from the inbuilt speaker. More than 70 cards available too. Around $85.00 and worth every *&£KEfs0, no doubt. [Via Seihin]
Read MoreMonthly Archives: February 2006
Putt putt.
Laser Putting Trainer. OK, so how long before the combined weight of all the golf paraphernalia being carried around a course, starts to seriously threaten the health of both players and greens? Not to mention bunkers. In the meantime, line ‘em up boys with this infrared laser guided smart bomb cousin. Or something. $68.00.
Read MoreFusion Watch.
The Fusion Watch. Ooh, look a watch. With green dots. And a push button light show. Such fun wracking your brain to make sense of the time, doncha think? Around $83.00 or so. With a display that is a hybrid LCD/LED and is very simple to read. The outer ring indicates hours, the inner ring for minutes. The 30 small dots in the centre are seconds, they fill up to 30 & then drain down to make 60. Fusion DT1…
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Dot-s. OK, so gotta be honest, not sure what this stuff is. Looks like a kit to let you create your own real life avatar, out of pins and a board. OK, so it’s not high art, but since when did you lot get so picky? Heh, those crazy Japanese. Around $12.00 a set.
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. The AJAX Translator. – The AJAX Translator. Genius, just… The Amazing Webpage Emailer. – The Amazing Webpage… Pageflakes. – Pageflakes. A new web desktop… Food pager. – The Oven Pager. Now… LCD Windows box. – Hmm…just wondering why… Bank on it. – Ho hum, another year, another… Fossil retro-modernist timepiece. – The Fossil Dish Digital. OK, so… Couch potato heaven. – Acoustic Magic –… The…
Read MoreLink-o-Matic – LifeLock and more…
LifeLock – room security, but how does it work? How? Clesh – video sharing for all Mobizines – magazines delivered to your mobile phone Temporary Tattoos – street cred from your inkjet Image Grabber – stills from your video footage
Read MoreBling your ting!
The Bling Ring Couture Kit. Why let the Hiltons have all the fun, when you can do it yourself with a genuine ‘celebrity’ Swarovski crystal kit? Goodness knows what 750 sharp pointy bits do to your silk lined pocket, let alone your street cred, but it’s your call. $125.00. Drop off VIP service also available. For our premiere customers, we offer an exclusive VIP phone service. We will bling your phone for you! Just specify the color and design and we’ll do the work….
Read MoreDriving Ms Daisy.
The new Omisys GP201 looks like a neat GPS car navigation box, and has a pretty good spec. Touch panel screen, SD and CF card expansion, supports MP3, movies and photo playback and comes complete with an integrated FM transmitter to send the MP3 audio to your car stereo. Nice touch, eh? £342.00 or so. Omisys GP 201 has the advantage of being a GPS media player. In addition to guiding you and helping you to find your way, it also…
Read MoreDalek delivered.
Oh boy, oh boy, full size Daleks for sale. Complete with voice and working lights chipset. Price at an earth shattering (geddit?) £1,995.00 ($3,463.92). You can also own a full size Tardis if you want. Yowsers, serious Dr Who geeks only please! So, we took moulds and a million measurements from a Dalek we borrowed for a week (thanks to Martin Wilkie at Experience Design and BBC Worldwide). (There are slight variations in the first NSD episode and the second…
Read MoreRight on, Liteon.
The Liteon LVW 1105HC+ DivX Mini DVD Recorder. Remarkable not for the fact that it plays DivX and +/– disks, as well as MP3, VOB and JPEG files, but because it’s the size of a sheet of A4 paper. The first ‘mini’ DVD recorder on the market they’re calling it. And progressive scan too? That’s progress for ya all right. £87.97/$152.74. It features the same playback compatibility and connectivity as any other standard sized DVD recorder. You can playback all popular…
Read MoreCosy cat perch.
The Heated Windowsill Cat Bed. What pampered? Moi? $39.95. Adjustable to any windowsill using provided Velcro fasteners. Screws are provided for more permanent attachment # Supports over 40 pounds # 6 Watt Advanced Heat Dispersion heater # Warms up only when pet is on the sill # Internal dual thermostats keep the temperature at a comfortable 102° when in use. When not in use the surface of the bed will remain 12° to 15° above ambient air (room) temperature…# Super…
Read MoreCress-fallen?
The Cress Covered Keyboard Prank. Crazy Swedes with too much time on their hands. After that it was time to pour the cress seeds into the gaps between the keys. The seeds required some blunt persuasion to take their places. An old creditcard came in handy. This took far longer than I had expected. The reason I did not place the seeds directly on the cotton before replacing the keys was that I wanted the cress to come up between…
Read MoreVideo Framer.
Video Framer. Interesting idea. Grab frames from your video footage to create standalone photos. $58.70 though, for a fairly specialised application. Video Framer provides for ‘one touch’ automatic extraction of distinct high quality photos, from a Video file – no manual picking of frames is required – Video Framer’s image matching technology automatically looks for unique pictures in the video stream, and creates a shortlist of photos which the user can pre-view, then selectively print or discard – ideal…
Read MoreGood vibrations?
The Nimzy Vibro Blaster. Looks nice doesn’t it? What? Oh it’s a transducer, vibrato, acoustic speaker thingy. What? Sigh. OK, so it turns any surface into a speaker. Yeah it’s one of those. Apparently only available in Korea at the moment for around $149.00. So compact and portable, this amazing small wonder, turns any flat surface into a speaker! With Nimzy Vibro Blaster, bulky speakers become a thing of the past. Utilizing a patented electro acoustic technology, Nimzy Vibro Blaster…
Read Morei-Cybot.
The i-Cybot. Part robot, part barman, part dancer, part dustpan and brush. You need more for your £49.99 perhaps? The i-Cybot has 2 dance/demo modes, waggling ears, flashing eyes and intelligent sensors that mean it can avoid objects in its path. The sci-fi style remote controller lets you steer I-Cybot wherever you like, the handy carrying platform and loop on its back are perfect for delivering important payloads like cans of fizzy pop (or fizzy cans for Pop), and his…
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