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Read MoreMonthly Archives: April 2006
Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2.
The Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2. $256.40 buys you a touch typists dream and a fumble thumbs’ nightmare. Complete with two USB ports. What is this sudden designer urge to make things more difficult? Sheesh! More here.
Read MoreHula Chair.
The Hula Chair. No prizes for guessing what this puppy does. Yep, it hulas. [Er is that a verb? – Ed]. The idea seems to be that an auto-gyratory motion can be healthy. Mmm… $199.95. This modern miracle combines the best of ancient traditional Chinese medicine with 21st century space-age technology. Improve your balance and coordination as it gently aligns your spine and improves blood circulation. You’ll love how it feels as it works out your abs and mid-section. And…
Read MoreWavBoard CM3 Cellular Router.
The WavBoard CM3 Cellular Router. Rather uninspiring design masks a rather interesting product. A cellular broadband router to let you surf on the move. I have absolutely no idea whether this works as advertised, but the concept definitely seems useful. The WavBoard CM3 is $379.00 on Sprint’s broadband network. An unlimited data plan is only $59.99 monthly with a qualifying Sprint or Nextel voice plan. Internet speeds average 500-800 Kbps with bursts over 2 Mbps. High-speed service is currently available…
Read MoreDIY Solar panelling.
The DIY Solar Panel Project. Crude but effective way to heat water for your various purposes using nothing more than a simple design and some grass. Sorry plastic. Yes plastic. Not grass. Prepare for Peak Oil now! The water in the panel heats up and moves up the little path you have made for it, in the process it gets very warm, so be careful…If you leave it in the sun it will start to thermo siphon pretty fast as…
Read MoreTo Read.
To Read. Nifty idea, an email based bookmark service. Find a site you like? Just click on the bookmarklet and have it delivered to your inbox. I like services which move stuff through email. Much more efficient. If you find it hard to manage your “toread” web pages, just try “toread”, an email-based bookmark service. “toread” gives you a simple way to go through your “toread” web pages. It’s simple, free and handy after all, all-in-emails! As you receive your…
Read MoreWebCam Morpher.
WebCam Morpher. Part of a range of free and commercial software for altering – yea even morphing – multimedia to your whim. Check out the audio and video player products too. Strange-ness? From around $29.95. One-stop webcam software. help you be a multi-character person in video chat rooms. Change voices & faces in real-time with “nickvoices” & “nickfaces”.
Read MoreMouse magix.
USB Mouse with Laser Pointer and Thermometer. These gizmos make a mockery of the whole of civilisation. If Nature had meant for us to have temperature monitors embedded in our meece, we would have been given Duracell toes. Pfaff! $18.00. This USB Optical Mouse comes with Laser Pointer and Thermometer which can measure the temperature.
Read MoreCaller ID shower capped.
The Caller ID Shower Radio Clock. Hands up all those who’ve had to clamber out of the shower to grab a ringing phone, only to discover it was a wrong number, or worse the mother-in-law? Well then, you might want to invest in one of these puppies. Singin’ in the rain, plus a caller ID for knowin’ what’s a glowin’. $49.95. With the help of our Caller ID in Shower Clock Radio, you’ll be able to check traffic for your…
Read MoreFUSE.
The Scion FUSE vehicle. Concept only still, but interesting nevertheless. Incorporates a media station, colour highlighting headlights (?), integrated Wi-Fi and LCDs behind the front badge kind of stuff. Will it see the light of day? Sure, about the same time as that 150 mpg sports car hits the asphalt. Tchaw! [Thanks Nuno] The FUSE was designed to explore what happens when you expand the design, performance and functionality of the sports coupe concept. From the side, its low, aggressive…
Read MoreQuick Top.
Quick Top. Convert that can into a screw top and keep your hands offa my stash. Neat idea, but you can tell it’s been invented deep in the bowels of some fanatic’s basement, can’t you? £2.99. A clever little device that simply snaps onto the top of a can and allows you to re-seal it with a screw-top rather than having to drink it all in one go. It’s leak-proof, re-useable and the cap can be inverted and used as…
Read MoreTape Failure.
Tape Failure browser session recorder. Apart from having the single most minimalist name and interface of all time, this is quite an interesting application. Record your online stuff for later replay. TAPEFAILURE is a “history recording tool.” What this means is that anyone can record a browsing session using TAPEFAILURE’s recorder, then save it, and share it with others. Each recorded session can be played back virtually perfectly through our playback tool; as long as you know the tape ID or…
Read MoreXplorer.
Xplorer. Multi-tabbed file manager for Windows. Lots of tabs, zero price. Nice equation. XPlorer is a substitute for the Windows Explorer, adding multi tabbed features. So it is possible to have lots of locations opened at the same time, while we can manage them in an easy and eficient way.
Read MoreThe All in One Peripheral.
The new Hanaro Plus is a digital camera, camcorder, speaker, wireless microphone, USB hub, card reader, DVR and tea maker. Last bit’s a lie. Now even though it appears to be pretty impressive for a pipsqueak £79.00 product, we’re wondering whether you could get better value out of buying the separates and crunching them all together on your desk. Or lap. Ah well, another of life’s mysteries to add to the list. World’s first integrated ubiquitous device Technical innovation multi media…
Read MoreSelf Weighing Luggage.
The Solutions Travel Luggage Collection with inbuilt digital scales. A great way to avoid over weight surcharges. Clever stuff, although rather a strange product to come out of Beverly Hills really, thinking about it. Around $200.00. [Via Seihin] The Solutions Luggage Collection features a built-in digital scale that instantly weighs baggage and its contents…The built-in scale uses state of the art technology and is designed, built and tested to withstand the rigors of everyday travel.
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