Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. USB Bluetooth Hub. – The USB Bluetooth Hub. Neat little… Remote Control Cat Toy. – Ooh look, a Remote Control Cat Toy… Aromatherapy Travel Pillow. – The Aromatherapy Travel Pillow…. Media playing fun. – The QCOX PMP. A media player…. Bubbles. – Bubbles. No, not Michael… Hellooo Kitty… – Convert yourself into an instant… Paris Hilton s-s-s-sings? – WHAT? Paris Hilton has made…
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The Serious Subwoofer.
Mmm…the Eminent Model TRW-17 Subwoofer is…ah…for serious music nutz only. Why? Well for one, you’ve got to plumb into your basement or attic. For two it requires a minimum amp output of 200W per channel. And three? Well open your wallet and check to see if you’ve got around $25,000.00 nestling in there. A new woofer technology unlike any other and a new product category for home audio. This is the first home audio woofer delivering true response to DC. The Thigpen Rotary…
Read MoreSIN full.
The Maxfield MAX-SIN TOUCH MP3 Music Player. Gotta be one of the prettiest music players on the market, and the specs ain’t too shabby either. That’s a red illuminated OLED touch pad you see there, hiding 1GB of storage and support for Ogg and WMA as well as yer MP3 staple. Plus a rechargeable battery and voice recording. No word on price as yet. The temptingly flawless exterior of the MAX-SIN TOUCH is achieved by its sensor touchpad control blending seamlessly with…
Read MoreCompressed air car.
The MDI MiniCat Compressed Air Car runs on…ah…air. Well strictly speaking there will be two versions, one which runs on air alone and a hybrid which will use air for urban about town stuff, and an eco fuel for longer distance, more high speed journeys. Priced at around €6,860 and at €1.5 for a three minute refill, a pretty cool option as long as you don’t mind driving atop a compressed tank. 150 km range, 110 km top speed. The Koreans are…
Read MoreLoud Blue Flashing Alarm Clock.
The Loud Alarm Clock. Now look, we may be a bit over sensitive here, but does anyone else think it’s a pretty bad idea to be woken up every morning by a blue light flashing in your face and an extremely loud siren? What does it do for your stress level as you emerge blearily from that gentle Fijian island dream to face a crisis scene from E.R.? Every morning? £11.95 ($23.42). The 24hr fully functioning digital clock displays the…
Read MoreBig Dog Robot.
This Big Dog Robot Mule has got to be one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a long time. It’s spooky in too many ways to mention, especially when someone gives it a kick and it recovers its balance. Check it out. You must. A nimble, four-legged robot is so surefooted it can recover its balance even … all » after being given a hefty kick. The machine, which moves like a cross between a goat and a pantomime…
Read MoreWeb 2.0 bubble blown?
So the Kiko Web Calendar service is up for sale on eBay, eh? Is this the start of a downward spiral in the Web 2.0 mini-boom? Or just a good example of Google trashing competition in its backyard? Answers on a snarky blog, please to… [Q: What’s the first sign of a Web 2.0 site in trouble? A: A blog which hasn’t been updated for more than a month. Check it out and then tell me it ain’t true!]
Read MoreHair today…
The Om3ga folk have done a quick run down on repairing scratched CDs and come up with a wizard wheeze. When all else fails try hair gel. Yep you heard right, hair gel. So put away all your bomb making equipment and start fixing those disks for the good of democracy, liberty and fraternity. So I took it upon myself to perform an experiment, to determine the very best way of dealing with a scratched disc. The limit I set myself,…
Read MoreVG Pocket Max.
The VG Pocket Max, a no-name handheld game console with a secret power feature. You can connect it up to your television and continue playing in large screen glory when you get home. Sure you can do this with other handhelds, but for $29.97? And no, I’m not going to ask what the 75 on-board games are like. Just don’t wanna know. [via Robot Wisdom] The VG Pocket Max puts a complete arcade in the palm of your hand. With…
Read MoreIlluminated USB Oil Burner.
The Illuminated USB Oil Burner. Well Doctor, we know a number of important things about this product. What, Holmes? Well, for one thing, it’s illuminated. You don’t say Holmes. Oh yes, and it’s an oil burner that connects to your computer via the USB port. Good grief, astounding deductive powers. Thank you, dear fellow. A$39.95. The Illuminated USB Oil Burner features a USB powered oil burner with phasing coloured lights. The oil burner itself is shaped like a funky cactus….
Read MoreHat’s a nice laptop.
The Melissa Beth Velour Laptop Briefcase. Well it’s not a pizza box, but still there’s something cosy about this faux 1950’s ladies laptop case that appeals. Is it the totally naff retro pastel blue, the gruesome interior design or just the fact that it looks as though it should contain Martha Stewart’s pristine collection of prison smocks and chapeaux? Whatever. £107.00. Fashion meets function in this totally fab laptop briefcase. The Get Off My Case briefcase has a soft, telfon-coated…
Read MoreDVD Car Headunit with LCD.
This Maplin Car DVD Player with 2.5 inch Screen is a bit weird. Is that screen there for you to watch your movies on? If so we would sure hate to be the passenger squinting at the deck in a bouncing vehicle at speed. Hey, maybe it’s just for pretty visualisations instead. Or menu functions. Yeah that’s it. Isn’t it? £149.99. DVD/VCD/MP3/CD/CD-R/CR-RW Compatible AM/FM 2 band radio Dolby Digital coaxial outputs 4 X 10watt speaker output Anti-shock mechanism ESP Slide-down front panel…
Read MoreSpeedtest.
Speedtest. Oooh look ma, a cool broadband speed test site with pretty graphics. We like pretty graphics don’t we? And it actually seems to work too. Bonus! [Via GearLive] Speedtest.net is a general use broadband connection testing site with many geographically dispersed servers to test against. Here we plan to demonstrate and beta test our latest Ookla Speed Test creations such as latency, jitter, client location and distance to server calculations. Test your connection anytime and even store your results…
Read MoreVirtual Girlfriend and Boyfriend.
Aaargh, it had to happen didn’t it? Someone put Tamogotchi, Barbie/Ken and The Sims into a blender and came up with the Virtual Girlfriend and Boyfriend. You keep your cyber partner happy by taking them out, complimenting them and buying them gifts. The more satisfied your pretend date is, the more points you get and the longer the relationship lasts. Kinda like real life then, eh? £19.95 each, and best of luck compadre. Using the three control buttons you can select…
Read MoreLinux Greenphone.
The Qtopia Greenphone. The redoubtable Trolltech Linux geeks have just announced the Greenphone development handset to let Linux mobile phone developers test out their cool applications on a real live product instead of relying on simulators. It’s a full blown GSM/GPRS handset with 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, touch screen and SD Card slot and it ships with the full Linux Qtopia application development SDK. This has got to be A.Good.Thing. Actually according to this ‘ere press release Linux powered mobile devices have now overtaken Microsoft, RIM and…
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