The palm powered Stirling Engine. Yes it’s a handheld, but it’s not a PDA, so it’s not *that* Palm. Sigh. No wait, let’s try again. What we mean is, it’s an engine. That’s powered by small heat differentials, like the heat from your palm. You have hot palms, don’t you? Tsk. Around $18.00.
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The smallest GPS chip evar?
New Zealand company Rakon has just announced the world’s smallest GPS receiver chip (size = baby’s fingernail). Look out for GPS functionality in watches Real Soon Now! “Our R&D team has come up with a high sensitivity unit that can enable quite weak signals to be received, which is a real breakthrough in an industry that needs to have products that will function in urban environments with very high interference.” He says the company is now further developing the unit to…
Read MoreLego Knitting Machine.
The Lego Knitting Machine by Thomas Johnson. Um…? But man, the video is just wowsville. Alien, spooky. Hey Thomas, if you mass produced these I reckon you’d make a bundle. I’d get one to knit a scarf and chill me out at the same time, especially if it played that cool classical music. Some photos of a LEGO knitting machine I designed and built. It works remarkablely well and is quite mesmerizing.
Read MoreFavorville.
Favorville. Need help with something? Then try this online community. You never know… Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to get in touch and build lasting connections with helpful neighbors, both in your locale or across the global village.
Read MoreThe Bling Bluetooth Headset.
The Pink Diamante Bluetooth Headset. Designed with taste and discretion for that perfect woman in your life. Five hours talk time, Li-ion battery and up to 200 hours standby. And baby, with this on her ear she will *definitely* be standing by. £47.95.
Read MoreTEAC Premium Radio.
The TEAC Premium Edition FM/AM Radio. Delicious design. Silver or black. $152.00 for mono sounds a bit dolby to us though!
Read MoreDIY Vase.
The DIY Wonder Vase. Fill with warm water, hand form to your preferred shape, empty and re-fill with cold water to set. Rinse and repeat as needed. Best of all you can smooth them flat for storage. Neato thermal sensitive polymer see? Set of two – $12.95 each.
Read MoreThe Power Tank.
The Power Tank 17 portable rechargeable power supply is designed to let you juice up your funky Celestron telescope wherever you happen to be nebula-gazing, but we’re wondering why you can’t use it for other…well…less starry eyed purposes. It’s got oodles of on-board toys, like FM radio, siren, integral removable flashlight, emergency Halogen spotlight, and even some jump start leads to fire up yer jalopy in an emergency. $105.00.
Read MoreGoogle plays DJ!
Gook Box. So this is a clever app that lets you save and play your music using your Google email/Gmail account. Lovely idea isn’t it? Free download. Hmm…wonder how long this trend for pastel colour design and cutesy product names is gonna last? The first musicail application. Plays and stores music in your google mail account. You now dont need to duplicate or recreate your music collection when you relocate or travel. When you are almost online most of your time…
Read MoreTop 10 lies.
Funny stuff… Top 10 Lies of Venture Capitalists. Top 10 Lies of Entrepreneurs. Top 10 Blogger Lies.
Read MoreCritter Phones.
The KC Bearifone II Speakerphone. Scary phone more like. $150.00. K.C. is irresistible. his mouth and eye movements are synchronized to a callers voice. his body is soft, plush and cuddly. The built-in speakerphone has a full-sized keypad. He also has a 3 position ringer, is fully modular and completely house trained!
Read MoreMP3 Pebble.
Apparently the EZAV MP3 Pebble is a new piece of audio jewellery. 24g, USB 2.0, FM radio, OLED display, voice recorder and 3D stereo sound. Cute as a pebble too, eh? From around $130.00 for 512 MB.
Read MoreI-Measure. You laugh.
The interesting thing about the I-Measure is that it not only measure distances using clever ultrasonics, but also calculates room areas like cubic feet and stuff. Tres useful. Oh and it also detects studs and electrical cables to stop you electrocuting yourself as you bang a nail into the wrong part of the kitchen wall. Around $46.00.
Read MoreHook and slice meter.
The Hook and Slice Talking Swing Meter. For golf. As in, ‘you’ve sliced it into the thorn bushes yet again dufus. Give it up already.’ Or something. £9.50/$18.01. Buy two, just in case one gets…ahem…broken. The Hook / Slice Talking Swing Meter is an electronic golf coach offering instant audible feedback to let you master a winning swing. It’s precision engineered to sense your swing direction and speaker equipped to make an immediate announcement inc. “Hook!”, “Slice” or hopefully…
Read MoreSmart Cycles.
The Smart Cycle from the Sakai Industry Club incorporates self-correcting steering to make it harder to fall off. Perfect for the elderly or those tired and emotional riders who have trouble navigating their local hi-ways and by-ways. In test and prototype form only at the moment, more’s the pity. A sensor to detect the lean of the bicycle is placed under the seat. A device attached to the frame picks up signals from this sensor and automatically turns the handlebars…
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