The Cabestan Watch provides yet more proof of the current decline of Western civilisation. Why else would you pay money to someone to create a timepiece that looks so ridiculously fragile? Anyway, it’s available in a small run of 135 units until 2008, so if you hurry and have an enormous pile of cash available, you may just grab one in time. Winding the watch and setting the hour and minutes are effected using a winding stem in the form of a…
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Digital stethoscope – analog to digital in a heartbeat
The Thinklabs Digital Stethoscope offers all the usual digital advantages. Adjustable volume, acoustic fidelity and pretty coloured LED lights. Ooooh…Priced from around $395.00. Audible Ausculation is finally here with the ultimate in stethoscope sound quality. Adjust volume for faint heart sounds, obese patients, noisy work environments. Whether you diagnose sublte murmurs, take blood pressures, you’re a student or you do academic research recordings, the ds32a sets new standards in electronic stethoscope audio quality and ease-of-use. Thinklabs – the intelligent choice…
Read MorePen light chandelier – the biro giro
The Volivik Chandelier. Created out of recycled Bic biro pens. Strangely enough, it’s available only in a limited edition. And then there’s the desk lamp. Tags: bic+biro, home+lighting, recycled+furnishings
Read MoreUnyte – free desktop sharing for Skype
Unyte is a pretty cool desktop sharing plug-in for Skype. Just download, install and you’ve got 1:1 sharing of your Windows desktop, applications and tea cups (we wish!). We wrote about this when it launched beta in January, but now it’s released properly, and it actually does work well. And with hardly any lag etc. Better still, they have priced it really aggressively. Free for 1:1 limited view sharing, and just $30 a year for 1:1 shared control access. Unfortunately there’s…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. t+ Diabetes Service – mobile phone medical care – t+ Diabetes is the latest in a… Ask The Log – answers me that – Ask The Log. I’m so late… iRemotePC – free remote desktop control and file sharing – iRemotePC. A freeware remote… Mahogany Charging Station – the gentlemen’s gentleman – Ask the butler to pick up… Wave Bubble – DIY RF…
Read MoreDas Park Hotels – green field hostelry
Das ParkHotel. Oh we can laugh at these drainage pipe hotel rooms in some far off field in Austria, but if property prices keep rising as they are, we may all end up dossing down in tiny rooms like these. You have been warned. It is a little comfortable small housing unit, just like a coin locker where friends or other people can sleep in and safely store private belongings, reload their personal and their tech- nical devices batteries. To work…
Read MoreEngel 35 Cooler – 12V fridge freezer for emergencies
The Engel 35 12V Fridge Freezer. Portable container holds enough provisions for a wild country weekend, with freezing, fridging and all points in-between. Oh and if you’ve got 54 cans of beverage with you, it’ll hold them. $619.00. This 100% CFC-Free refrigerator/freezer is world famous for durability. The efficient compressor, the Engel ‘Swing’ compressor, was first invented in Germany 39-years ago. The compressors are now better than ever – they are quieter and more efficient than their predecessors. This unit…
Read MorePocket Loox GPS System – pocket friendly maps
The Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox GPS System. 110 grams, SiRFStar III module, UK and Europe maps, Microsoft CE and MP3 player. OK so the spec is definitely nothing special, but it sure looks sleek white and desirable. Just remember how shallow we really are, OK? £239.99. Pocket LOOX N100 Series provides everyone on the move with easy to use navigation. It offers mobile navigation in the lightest, smallest and most flexible design with entertainment from a unique music playing feature….
Read MoreSoprano Music Trunk – music maestro please
The Soprano Music Trunk. Genuinely not sure how to describe this one. It’s a leather covered trunk in which you can store your music CDs or whatever else you fancy, and which contains a full blown B&O stereo system. So it’s portable. And large. But why? Trunk in wood covered with leather. 51 colours can be associated. Hard-ware in nickel-plated brass. 24 drawers that can contain 480 CD. It is delivered equipped by Beosound 3000 CD/Audio and 2 speakers Beolab 3 (250…
Read MoreHappy USB Fish Speaker – flash, hum, hmm…
Happy USB Fish Speaker. It flashes, it cycles through multiple colours, it makes a noise. Yep, it’s a complete sensory experience wrapped up in a $16.00 package. Happy Fish Speaker with cutie fish design and built-in LED that cycles through multi-colours. It is a perfect gift for your friends or a decoration on your desk. Tags: pc+speaker, usb+gadget, led+gadget
Read MoreAdvanced Windows Care – free fixer
Advanced WindowsCare Personal is billed as the ‘most essential and practical’ Windows fix utility. I haven’t had a chance to use it yet, so can’t vouch for its real world benefits, but the specs look pretty good for the price. Worth a look, I reckon. Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one and super convenient solution for PC maintenance and protection. This fantastic program is available free of…
Read MoreYell.com Mobile – where’s the nearest…?
One of the suckiest things about search on mobile phones is the fact that it doesn’t work. No it doesn’t. But it’s getting there, primarily because the big players have realised that there’s a huge latent demand for information on the go. Nice to see, therefore, a new update from a brand leader. Yell.com Mobile, part of the Yellow Pages empire, has just re-launched and it’s a nice effort all round in terms of the interface, data and ease of use….
Read MoreArcade Coffee Table – browse, play, listen
The Surface Tension Arcade Coffee Table buries an Intel Pentium Dual Core powered, 160 GB, WiFi, LCD computer into a glass topped coffee table. They then throw in a bunch of retro games for Windows XP, plus a Firefox browser and iTunes support and hope that you won’t notice the £3295.00 price list. Now where’s that laptop and sheet of smoked glass from the garage? The new ‘surface tension’ coffee table is the ultimate in modern style and functionality. Beneath…
Read MoreElectric Car Jack – no more heavy lifting, Ma
The Electric Car Jack. From the ‘what took you so long?’ dept. Plug it into your car lighter socket, press the switch and lift 1 ton without breaking a finger nail. Then all you have to do is get someone to undo the wheel lug nuts and you’re laughing. £39.99. With this electric scissor jack, you can effortlessly change a tire and be back on the road quickly Can raise a car at the touch of a button One ton…
Read MoreTrackstick Pro – GPS tracker updated
The Trackstick Pro. They’ve gone and updated the GPS tracker with multiple colours, 4Mb of RAM and a Live Track feature which tracks in real time. It also integrates with Google Earth and is compatible with Microsoft Streets. Gosh, surveillance has never been such fun. Priced at around $250.00. The Trackstick Pro is a tiny GPS recorder intended as a low cost alternative to real time tracking devices. Tracksticks are GPS data loggers capable of continuously recording their own location…
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