The AngelSounds JPD-1005 Fetal Monitor. You wanna listen to your baby’s heartbeat, you go ahead. Me, I’m not that interested in adding any more paranoia to my life. I can find plenty of other ways to get that kind of thrill, really I can. £48.00. The safe and easy to use AngelSounds baby heart beat doppler…enables you to hear your baby’s heart beat from as early as 12 weeks, in the comfort of your own home – and at an…
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Spy Ear.
The M-7 Spy Ear. Super sensitive microphone for eavesdropping on friends, colleagues and family. Because you can never walk around with enough beige plastic stuck in your ear, know what we mean? And hey, they’ll never notice it. Honest. $29.95. Imagine having a bionic ear that would allow you to secretly hear from great distances. Well now you can with our M7 Secret Agent Spy Ear. Its mini size, light weight and skin tone color allows for the wearer to…
Read MoreUSB Socket Hub.
Elecom USB U2H-M4B Plug Hub. Not sure what advantage separate USB sockets have over a standard hub, but willing to be educated. Mmmm…maybe it gets rid of the hassles with inserting a few fat drives together etc….? Around $21.00.
Read MoreDIY GPS Controlled Nixie Clock.
GPS Controlled Nixie Clock Kit. Build your own geekalicious Nixie clock with this groovy kit. Just the job for those rainy nights in Georgia. $329.00. GPSII takes advantage of the NAVSTAR precision timekeeping system to deliver a clock with “beyond question” accuracy. There are no other satellite controlled clocks offering a comparable level of performance, and embedded features at a hobby kit price. GPSII uses a Direct Drive Nixie Tube display. No multiplexing was used. Although more complex; Direct Drive…
Read More32 in 1 card reader.
32 in 1 Card Reader. With built in 4 port USB 2.0 hub and lots of cool LED lights. Neat data swap solution eh, but 32 different types of memory cards? Ouch. $28.00. Review here.
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Shoo-wap, de-doo-wap… – Ameritz. Backing tracks. Over… Free Nokia unlocker. – Unlock your mobile phone handset… Dual SIM card adapter. – The Dual SIM Card Adapter. Yep we… Telescopic Stun Gun with Siren. – The Telescopic Stun Gun with… Wet Arm Wrestling. – The Wet Arm Wrestling Kit. Face it… Cat 5 A/V adapter. – The Intelix V3AD Cat 5 Audio/Video… DIY Wireless…
Read MoreLink-o-Matic – the Elecom PLC2 and more…
The Elecom PLC2 – record from CD to SD card direct. Useful. Music and Plants – absolutely fascinating report from the past. VMWare Player – free virtual machine software. DeviceLock – take control of your USB and Firewire ports. Film vs Digital – a nature photographer offers his view.
Read MoreTiVo goes kid/parent friendly
Tivo friendly. Thomas believes that TiVo is now doing right by parents and children. Great post.
Read MoreThe Fingerprint Safe Box.
The Fingerprint Safe Box. Well it looks as though biometrics are slowly but surely moving into the home environment. So no more losing your fingers down the back of the sofa, eh? $399.95. Keep spare cash, precious family heirlooms, expensive jewelry and anything else of value stashed away with the peace of mind that it’s safe and secure and all it will take to open it is the touch of your finger. Hide your valuables safely and securely without worry…
Read MoreWeather or not…?
The Color Weather Forecaster Atomic Alarm Clock. All you need to know about this puppy is that it wakes you up with a ‘colorful photograph’ depicting the day’s weather along with sound effects. Sound effects! Oy yoy yoy! $159.95. …the 3.8-inch color LCD forecasts look and sound like this: “Sunny”: palms and cabanas, a clear-sky and sounds of seabirds and surf; “Partly Cloudy”: an ocean cove under partly cloudy skies with sounds of a brook and songbirds; “Cloudy”: grassland under…
Read MoreHands free Skype.
The USR USB Internet Speakerphone. Grand title, simple product. Speak without hands, without money, Skype wise. And lawks alive, it looks like a UFO. Or ashtray. $49.99. The USB Internet Speakerphone (USR9610) makes free Skype calls hands free. With powerful echo cancellation technology, convenient volume and mute buttons, and full-duplex operation, the USR9610 works just like a traditional speakerphone, only without the costs of a long distance call. The speakerphone is light, and easy to install and use with the…
Read MoreUSB to SATA/IDE cable adapter.
The USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Cable Adapter is one of those really boring products until you need it. Then it becomes rather valuable rather quickly we suspect. Basically it lets you connect up SATA or IDE drives to your PC via the USB port. Supports CD/DVD drives too. The clever thing? Now it’s a cinch to move your data from older IDE to that new SATA drives. $35.00. The Hi-Speed USB interface provides an easy plug-and-play installation. It supports all SATA…
Read MorePrint your own calendars.
Print your own calendars for free. Nothing fancy; just plain, ink saving monthly, yearly, landscape, portrait and picture ones. Very useful indeed. As is this free Word format calendar site.
Read MoreToilet guitar.
The Toilet Seat Guitar. Complete with toilet paper strap. Apparently it has a very good bottom end. Boom, boom. Thank yew, we’ll be here all week, folks. [via neatorama]
Read MoreSuper SIP Phone.
The LAN Cordless DualPhone. Those clever Danish peeps at RTX have come out with a cordless DECT phone which supports SIP and also has enough data smarts to beam emails, weather, news and other stuff to you via the colour screen. Oh and it also connects to a standard landline, so you’re covered with all your calling needs. Of course you’ll still have to source your SIP provider to make the most of it, but that shouldn’t be a problem should it?…
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