The QDOS Genesis. A ‘revolutionary’ 4 way, 360 degree surround sound dock for your iPod. Four x 3W, 4 x AA batteries give 8 hours of play or mains supply. White or black. Compatible with…oooh…lotsa iPods. €129.00. The contemporary design of the unit is further enhanced by customisable skins. Measuring only 115mm in diameter and 85mm in height when closed and 125mm in height when open, Genesis is compact yet sturdy, weighing no more than 0.8kg. Using four AA batteries,…
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Competition update.
So there’s just a couple more days to go in the Ferret competition to end all competitions. Well OK, you know what we mean. Anyway don’t be shy, get in there and have a go, the more the merrier. Don’t forget, if you want to win the super cool Collectorz.com barcode cataloguing system you’ve got to enter. Sitting there with a smug grin on your face won’t do it, trust us on that one. And just to entice y’all, we’re going…
Read MoreGSMGuard 300. Call me, OK?
The Marmitek GSMGuard 300 is a wireless home security system which uses a standard GSM SIM card to contact you via SMS text if it senses anything wrong in your premises. Which makes it a cool way of checking on temporary locations, or places like vacation homes. Kit includes door and window sensors and a siren. Battery or mains operated. £325.00. Place the GSMguard300 Unit in a convenient location in your home (or storage area, vacation home, garage, etc.). The…
Read MoreMoPods.
MoPods. Extremely silly mobile phone accessory. Attach these tiny characters to your handset and watch them spin and light up when a call or text arrives. Who thinks of these things? We want one. No we don’t. Yes we do. £4.95. The idea is to wear your MoPod as a kind of charm-cum-collectable on bags, belts, clothing, keyrings, or even mobiles. With several characters to choose from including a penguin, kitten, monster and devil, MoPods are destined to become must-have mobile…
Read More4GB USB Drive for $69.95.
US Modular 4GB QuikDrive USB Flash Drive for just $69.95? Wow. QuikDrive by US Modular is a portable flash storage drive which allows you to easily store and transfer files via the USB port on any computer. QuikDrive is proudly assembled and packaged in the USA, and is Windows and Mac compatible.Imagine having your Hard Drive from your personal computer with you on the go, and it could fit in the palm of your hand.
Read MoreDemocracy player.
The Democracy Player is a freeware media player which has the potential to really blow the whole online television concept wide open. It’s open source, built totally on standard technology, has a great feature set (including 600 preset channels) and can download BitTorrent files as well as standard video podcasts, mpegs of all flavours and the rest. It even comes in Mac, Linux and Windows flavours. Could this do for video what Netscape did for browsing? [via Boingboing] Stop squinting at tiny web…
Read MoreApologies…
Apologies to anyone suffering from Ferret access problems. We’re engaged in a tussle with IP addresses at the moment. We’d say more, but it’s not pretty.
Read MoreThe cheapest CD Duplicator system?
The Bravo SE Disc Publisher is being billed as the ‘world’s most affordable CD/DVD duplicator’ which sounds interesting. Basically we’re talking an all-in-one, robotic DVD recorder and 4800dpi full colour disc printer crammed into a single small desktop unit. Pretty clever stuff. You can run off jobs of up to 20 at a time, which is ideal for the small budding pirate record label, and it’s Mac and Windows compatible. At $1495.00 it sounds like a deal (mmm…wonder what they’re charging for the…
Read MoreMedia Center FM.
The Mvix MV-5000U Media Center with FM. It’s another day and so another media center peeps. This puppy has one novel feature, however, because it incorporates an FM transmitter to beam sounds to the nearest radio tuner. They’re saying that this makes it ideal as a media player for your car. OK, we’ll run with that. Just as soon as we can rustle up the extra $29.99 for the car kit. $219.00 gets you a bare bones, no hard disk version. You can…
Read MoreAuto Tape.
Black & Decker ATM 100 Auto Tape. The powered tape measure. Isn’t this power thing becoming a little bit ridiculous nowadays? We can’t pull a tape measure out of it’s holder? We have to press a switch? At what point is this going to stop? The mind boggles. $24.95. [Thanks Daniel] Extend and retract with the push of a button for one handed operation and ease of use. Use as a powered or manual tape measure for versatility and continuous…
Read MoreCropcam.
Cropcam. High tech comes to farming with this clever piece of engineering. Take one automatic model airplane, throw in a digital camera and a GPS location module, and you’ve got a system which is perfect for gaining a literal overview of your farm land and its condition at any time. Inexpensive and effective. Well inexpensive compared to losing your crop. $10,000.00. The CropCam is a revolutionary mini agriculture plane that takes high resolution GPS based digital images for precision agriculture. Simply…
Read MorePro Session Golf.
Pro Session Golf. Smartphone application which looks to be genuinely useful if you’re a golfer. Currently only available with the Nokia N93 Golf Edition handset, but soon for all Series 60 phones. Clever program uses the on-board camera to let you capture, analyse and compare your golf swing to get better. Of course the main thing is that you can do this self-improvement while you’re actually playing out on the course, which is v clever. £615.00 including handset. Pro Session Golf…
Read MoreLister.
Lister. Cool bit of freeware that auto-scans your computer and creates an HTML or XML list of your media. Sorted by album and artist if you want. Very Useful. Lister is a Windows program that will scan your cluttered collection of media files and create an orderly list of your media, sorted by artist & album, in XML format. What’s so great about that, you ask? With the generated XML file and an XSL processor you can create almost any…
Read MoreiDea Wireless Home Dock.
The iDea Wireless Home Dock. All in one dock for your portable bits, kiddies. iPod, PSP…er…MP3 player. You got it, you can dock it. Including video playback through yer TeeVee. Coolio. $149.00. It also has iPod video and photo playback for televisions through composite or S-Video so you can watch your downloaded shows or movies at home, in the office, or on the go. The wireless version has a universal design that no other product can promise. The iDea Wireless…
Read MoreMini Bluetooth Keyboard.
The Mini Bluetooth PDA Keyboard. Designed for smartphones, PDAs and other portable handheld lovelies. Lovely and small, although no word on how good the keys are in use. From here they look a bit dodgy, but it’s gotta be better than hunting and pecking on a Nokia N70, eh? $56.00. # OSs suitable for : # Pocket PC (Pocket PC 2003 / Windows Mobile 5.0). # Plam OS. # Symbian 6.0/UIQ. # Windows 2000/XP.
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