The Table Clock Book proves that not all fancy gadgets have to be obvious. This one masquerades as a set of books on a shelf. Fascinating design decision, don’t you think? €26.00. Put this table clock with your books and create the illusion! Glossy cardboard. Included 1 battery LR6. 2 finishes: black or colours.
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Breitling Emergency Watch – rescue signal on your wrist
The Breitling Emergency Watch. Forget about those fancy designer timepieces, this watch says more about your lifestyle than a dozen shaken Martinis ever will. Created for pilots and aircrew use, this snazzy device has a built-in microtransmitter which broadcasts on the 121.5 MHz aircraft emergency frequency. Following a mishap, the owner simply unscrews the protective cap and pulls out the antenna to set it off. Providing that they are still conscious of course.It offers a 48 hour broadcast time and range of 100 miles over flat…
Read MoreiGrip – sticky your iPod to the dash
The iGrip. Sticky your iPod to your vehicle dashboard without having to install stuff. Yeah, yeah, you can use it for other devices too, if they’re white and nicely styled. If it gets dusty just wash and the sticky comes back. $8.99 in its iSticky incarnation.
Read MoreMold and Germ Destroyer – die, die, die
The AirFree Mold and Germ Destroying Air Purifier uses heated air to kill off all nasty airborne bacteria, viruses and mold stuffs. Interestingly it reduces indoor ozone levels, rather than pump the stuff out, which should please asthmatics. Comes with an in-built night light. $239.95. With no filters to replace or clean, the compact cleaner pulls air into the internal chamber which is heated to 392F to silently destroy mold, airborne bacteria, viruses, pet dander, and common household dust mites in…
Read MoreLearn Chinese Online – welcome to our commercial overlords
Learn Chinese Online. The way things are going this free online Mandarin Chinese course may become an indispensable business tool one day, so get going while it’s still gratis. Comes complete with nicely done native speaking conversational audio clips on-site. Mandarin Chinese is the language spoken by the most number of people on this earth – more than 874 million native speakers at last count. Compare that to English which is spoken by a mere 309 million. Chinese is also…
Read MoreCreate Your Own Browser Toolbar – customized convenience
Create your own free Customized Browser Toolbar. Pretty cool tool. We’ve made a fantabulous Red Ferret Journal Toolbar for you to download too. If you like it, let us know and we’ll tweak it better.
Read MorePssst….Hobo rocks!!
Hmm…don’t want to get boring or over-blown or anything, but Hobo rocks. No, really. We’re starting to get a bit excited.
Read More160 + online file storage services – file fetish
Listable now has a list of some 160 + online file storage services. That’s a lot of files and a lot of competition in one small market. The trouble is that few people will trust their precious data to a small company which could go belly up next week, so these tiny services are probably doomed as soon as Google offers its own version for real.
Read MoreUnited Airlines takes advantage of helpless elderly couple, extorting nearly $3000: Big Bad united Air Lines
Nasty United Airlines. How not to treat your customers. [via BoingBoing]
Read MoreARC Freedom Wireless Antenna – boost your cell indoors
The ARC Freedom Wireless Cell Phone Antenna is designed to boost the signal of your cell phone indoors when all those nasty walls and doors threaten to cut you off from your lifeline to the world. Best of all, you can carry it around with you, so there’s no excuse for a bad signal when you’re staying in that flea-pit basement of a hotel on business. Wonder which marketing guy thought that making it look like a tombstone would sell more units, though? $39.99. Do…
Read MoreMelitta Coffee Maker Weather Station – low pressure lattes
The Melitta Smart Mill & Brew Coffee Maker with Weather Station. This wonderful example of lateral thinking combines a conventional coffee brewing machine with a small LCD screen on which is displayed information about the weather in your area. The weather data arrives via an MSN FM signal every 10 minutes, the coffee probably comes from sunny South America. And so the world turns. $199.95. With a small screen on the front, it shows updated information about weather via FM…
Read MoreRollies – skate light, skate free…
Rollies. Strap on heel skates with lights. They fit any sized trainer and contain a built-in generator to power the multi-coloured lights. Twinkle, twinkle baby. £36.99 a pair. Rollies simply strap on to the back of your shoes and away you roll! The wheels have a built in power generator and work when the wheel starts to turn, so no batteries are needed and when the sun goes down the brilliant multi-coloured lights stand out and can’t be missed by…
Read MoreThe Fishloft – a fish pond with a view
The Fishloft is a rather spiffy idea all round. The fish get a pretty un-fish like view of their universe, the humans get to watch fish hanging out in a social environment on the 10th floor. The cat stays hungry.
Read MoreDIY Voice Recognition Security System – who goes there?
If you’ve got a spare few minutes this weekend why not sit down and replicate the DIY Voice Recognition System project from Xiaowen Lu and Shihjia Lee. Of course you’ll need to know about the Nyquist Rate Theorem, Chebychev filters and the Fourier Transform, but apart from that it should be a piece of cake, eh? The project has not met our expectations fully, as we initially specified that the system would be able to recognize a sentence as a password….
Read MoreOpenArena – Open Source Quake Arena game
OpenArena is an Open Source re-packaging of the Quake Arena III FPS game. Proof once again that free software can be fun too, y’know. OpenArena is an open-source content package for Quake III Arena licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game. You do not need Quake III Arena to play this game. Bots were added starting in 0.6.0. They will spout taunts and everything! Concepts would be loose, so don’t expect a remake of Klesk in his original…
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