Evesham Sound Stage X1. Tell you what Jack, let’s forget about convention and go for something completely different. We’ll embed a full blown audio system with a 50W sub-woofer and 7 ancillary speakers inside a television stand. There, that’ll show ‘em. £299.98.  The Evesham Sound Stage X1 accommodates a flat-panel or big-screen TV and comes with a built-in audio system that’s pre-wired and ready to use right out the box. Its special sound processor and amplifier team together with nine…

The ChronoArt II is a wall clock. That is, it’s a piece of LED powered, pattern shifting art that masquerades as a timepiece. The problem is that it’s almost impossible to read, at least to this reporter’s eyes. That above is supposed to be 12.59 for example. Really? $199.00 plus shipping.  The time is the quantity of lights lit in each group. The left grouping of 12 dots is the hour. The upper right is the 10’s of minutes. In…

Locca Access is a wireless door key which unlatches your door from up to 50 metres away when you’re staggering in with an armful of shopping. And real lazy bones can even let their friends and family in without getting up from the couch and American Idol. Bliss eh? Priced from around £149.00 for the full kit, including two ‘keys’.  What happens if there is a power cut? The Locca systems have a rechargeable battery in the Locca receiver, which ensures the…

SkyKap GPS Golfing Advisor. A GPS enabled, voice activated golfing aid in your cap or visor. Say ‘advisor distance’ and receive information on the distance to the pin and stuff like that. The more high tech golf becomes, the more you realise that this stuff will never make you a better golfer, just a poorer one.   ADVISOR, a hands free, voice activated microcomputer GPS system is completely contained in the brim of a normal golf hat! With fantastic technology the ground breaking ADVISOR, with personal…

The Lifetimer is a clever little interactive clock that you program with information about your life. Just put in the date of your next holiday, when you first started going out with your partner, things like that. The timers will then count down or up to give you a fun reading of where you are at any one time. Just press one of the buttons on the facia and get a readout. Hey, it’s better than yet another desktop weather…

The USB Micro Drive Reader is being marketed as the world’s smallest MicroSD reader, and from the images it sure looks like it qualifies. It’s obviously USB 2.0 and all that, but the big question is, can it fit unobtrusively up your nose and not look out of place? Why? Why not? $14.00.  USB Micro Drive for MicroSD (T-Flash) is a tiny card reader which direct read and write MicroSD/T-Flash memory card. It turns your flash card into a Pen…

Compass Digital 1000 GPS Sneakers. The first sneakers in the world to contain a ‘Covert Alarm Locator Apparatus’ in the form of a tiny GPS chip. This chip not only acts as a location beacon to help people find you (or your sneakers) but can also monitor heart rate, speed and body temperature. The sneakers also have a wireless Bluetooth mic and speaker embedded, so you can call for help or otherwise look rather strange talking to your shoes. Goodness…