Couple of cool Digg tools I stumbled across the other day – Stack and Swarm. Both offer innovative ways of looking at the flow of information through the mega news portal. My fave is Stack, which could develop into something genuinely useful. Nice to see a young company working on new stuff like this. Check them out.
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Winner.
WINNER! Yes we have a winner in our ‘Beat the Winter Blues’ competition. A huge thanks to everyone who took the time to enter, some great entries which made it genuinely difficult to decide. In the end we went for Abhijit with his clever topical Pluto reference and the nod to one of our fave movies, High Fidelity. Runner up prize to Storm for his faintly mysoginist rant, and shout outs to all the non-winners – including H-C (get a bigger cupboard dude), freak (good luck with that) and Jonathan (for…
Read MorePadlock Box.
The Padlock Box. Combination lock contains small compartment where you can store money, key or whatever takes your fancy. Even chocolate squares maybe? Just don’t rely on it being secure enough to keep out really determined villains, OK? $29.50. [via Smartstuff] This combination padlock has a built-in key-storage compartment– it’s the perfect place to store your spare housekey. Also great for occasionally-used campers, boats, motorcycles, ATV’s. Or kids can use it for a bicycle lock, and secure their house key…
Read MoreBurnAway.
The DVD BurnAway. Record directly from multiple flash memory cards to DVD+/-, and acts as an emergency media player too. Golly. Interestingly the product also includes a disk spanning feature so you can copy to multiple disks if your memory card exceeds the capacity of a single DVD. Weird to think we can now have postage stamp sized SD cards which will blow away a DVD storage capacity, eh? $369.99. The DVD BurnAway is a multi-function, portable device which integrates a slim…
Read MoreiPod MicroMemo.
iPod MicroMemo Recorder. One touch recording in stereo or mono, with in-built mic and speaker for playback. Records 16-bit audio at 22 kHz and 44 kHz, which makes it perfect for sticking on your desk and bunking off during those tedious politics classes. But just remember children, professor knows best. £31.99. The MicroMemo from XtremeMac plugs right into your dock connector to capture memos, meetings, lectures or any audio content directly to your iPod. A flexible, detachable mic captures audio. Or…
Read MoreLet Betty Drive.
The Betty Lou USB Flash Drive. Capacities from 256 MB to 2 GB. Mac and Windows. Prices from $49.95. Don’t ask. “A temptress in prescription lenses”…Sure, I get around. But you know can trust me with all your information. Come on, tell me a secret…pleeeeeease!
Read MoreMakeitone.
Makeitone. Freeware which lets you combine a set of MP3 tracks into a single file to make it easy to transport and play. Nice way to make albums out of a collection of tracks. …we are designing applications to help you pack/join your music files in a single file – whilst still allowing full playability, tag editing and unpacking. You can keep all the songs, from one album, in a single file. Easier to handle, transport and hassle free playing.
Read MoreMagic Golf Ball.
Magic Golf Ball. UV sensitive ball which changes colour in sunlight. But, and here’s clever, in the shade it reverts to white, making it easy to spot in the woods, trees, deep rough and underwater. $39.85 a dozen. Bargin’. The secret of the ball changing colors is the photochromic compound painted on the surface of the ball which changes colors when exposed to ultraviolet rays. Photochromic Compound is an organic compound product that changes its color under ultraviolet light and…
Read MorePower Station Traveller.
Power Station Traveller. Got too many gadgets? Unwilling to throw a couple away or let your little sister stomp on them until they’re dead and done fer? OK then, get yourself a portable multi-socket bagerooni like this and you can have them all merrily charging away in your car while you surf the all night drive thru Bacon Double Burger Patty cafette. Don’t blame us if your SUV won’t start in the morning though. $32.99. The Power Station Traveller can charge up to 3 portable small electronic devices…
Read MoreSnappy Face Recogniser.
The Snappy Face Recogniser. Face detection system for securing your computer. Yep, instead of using your finger print, eyeball or halitosis, you can now stick your ugly mush in front of this 1.3 megapixel camera and software combo and get rejected in style. Biofeedback? Biohumiliation more like. £49.98, ‘morning after’ hangover restoration kit is optional. Gain access to your computer system using your FACE! Snappy Face Recogniser is a face detection and recognition system that protects your computer and important information from unwanted access….
Read MoreMulti-card TV player.
The WinStar WS-CRE203TV Media Play. An all-in-one USB 2.0 card reader with TV out, so you can go directly from digicam to television without passing Go. Slideshow, rotate and zooming supported, but unfortunately only JPEG images, no video. Ah well…
Read MoreHuman Foosball.
The Human Foosball game. Smarten up your next birthday party by inflating a table football game that lets you play with real people. But who’s pulling the rods, then? And is spinning allowed? $2849.90. Ever play a real human foosball? Now you can put yourself in and play the real human foosball…
Read MoreJuice.
Juice Receiver is a free multi-language, multi-platform podcast receiver and organiser. Nothing really new, but still worth a look. And I like the logo. [via Digg] Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your…
Read MoreBiofeedback games.
The Science Museum in London is about to open a new fairground ride exhibit called Thrill Laboratory which will monitor biofeedback from users to see how they are reacting to the experience. The idea seems to be that one day video games and arcade rides will alter the experience they give us based on the physical and emotional feedback they receive from the players. Mmm….Check out the ‘Ere be Dragons game prototype for more on this stuff. Future video games could routinely monitor…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. MoPods. – MoPods. Extremely silly mobile… 4GB USB Drive for $69.95. – US Modular 4GB QuikDrive USB Flash… Democracy player. – The Democracy Player is a freeware… Apologies… – Apologies to anyone suffering from… The cheapest CD Duplicator system? – The Bravo SE Disc… Media Center FM. – The Mvix MV-5000U Media Center… Auto Tape. – Black & Decker ATM 100 Auto… Cropcam….
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