Zooppa is some crazy stuff. Think Hot or Not meets YouTube meets Jackass for advertising. The site posts a contest for an advert, ordinary Joes shoot their version on video and upload. Users vote for the best. And the winners get cash, or at least Zooppa cash which can be converted into real green stuff. There’s something odly compelling about this, and if it takes off – and the early stuff is pretty awful in general it has to be…
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Ferret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Gtalk2VoIP – IM gets SIP and PSTN power – Gtalk2VoIP is a totally… GSM Table Lamp – eavesdrop on illuminating conversations – The GSM Table Lamp is a GSM room… Teac RX-1DAB Radio – think thin, think trendy – The Teac RX-1DAB Radio features a… Stadico Stadium Kits – why buy when you can build? – The Stadico Stadium Construction… Desktop Fork-Lift Truck…
Read Morei-Cy Penguin Speakers – music lovers rejoice
The i-Cy Penguin Musical Pet is actually a sort of roast vegetable dish served to celebrate the summer solstice in certain parts of Spain. But we digress. Plug this puppy Penguin into your Linux powered music box and watch with glee as it recites Eric Raymond’s books in a chirpy and yet curiously engaging baritone. Or something. $29.95. Place i-Cy where he can hear, or use his built-in speaker, or plug him into the headphone jack of an iPod or…
Read More5 in 1 Webcam Memory Stick – jack of all trades…?
The 5 in 1 Webcam Memory Stick really works for its living. It holds up to 2000 VGA images, captures video and even does voice recording. And at the end of the day you can use it as just a webcam or a flash memory drive. Amazing this technology stuff ain’t it? A$249.00 ($196.00). Still Digital Camera taking up to 2000 photos at 640 x 480 resolution. – Video Capture at a resolution of 320×240 for up to 10min @…
Read MoreLaserball Roaming Robot – stop the spinning lights, Ma
The Laserball Roaming Robot apparently gyrates violently and flashes lights in time to your music. Isn’t that nice? £8.99. Fast, fabulous and fun, the Robotic Laser Ball steals the scene at every party! Once activated by sound or touch, the fascinating gizmo will spin around and create an amazing light show in sync to his very own music while it goes off in every direction. After 50 seconds the Laser Ball automatically stops and you can start it all over again….
Read More1930s English Phone Booth – retro ringer
This rather splendid looking reproduction 1930s English Phone Booth comes with plastic door windows, interior lights and a dark wood, ivory or gold finish. I say dear fellow, do you have change for a bally shilling? $150.00 indulges your colonialist tendencies. This telephone has ben made to look like an English phone booth of the 1930s, with clear plastic to simulate glass. The door opens revealing the dial and handset. It has lights that illuminate parts of the top and light up the…
Read MoreMig33 – IM, VoIP calls, cheap SMS and chat rooms on your mobile phone
Mig33 is a new Australian beta service which offers IM (AIM, MSN, Yahoo!), cheap callback VoIP and SMS, and chat rooms on your mobile phone. It’s a Java based program, which means it’s compatible with just about every handset, which is nice, and it uses GPRS which again makes it a pretty universal service. Worth a look? [Thanks Megaman] mig33 is a combination mobile instant messenger and international calling card service. You can chat to your buddies and meet new friends using…
Read MoreDoes it suck or rock? – answers on a website
Sucks/Rocks is a clever little site that searches for positive and negative comments about a subject and collates them in a searchable form. Will it win any awards? Maybe not, but it’s a pretty fun way to waste a few Friday moments. When you enter a search term, sucks/rocks searches the web for several positive and negative phrases using that term. The score is the fraction of positive results to the sum of positive and negative results, normalized to 10….
Read MorePhoton LED Sauna Belt – waist high therapy
The Photon Sauna Cauterizer seems to be some sort of therapeutic device which you strap to your waist. The details on how it works or what it actually does are somewhat absent from the website, but enough to say that there are two modes – laser light and heat – both of which are controlled from a small remote panel. And some kind of oxygen rejuvenation is involved. Look, don’t blame us OK, we just report the stuff. The thermo-therapeutic…
Read MoreJumbo Single Digit Clock Kit – here’s time in yer eye
The Single Digit Clock Kit. We love this idea, a single digit clock that displays the time as a sequence of numbers. One at a time. OK, so you’ve got to have the patience to stare at the face for a few seconds to get the whole time info, but it’s a small price to pay for such family fun and confusion isn’t it? $21.95. Now THIS is the ultimate gadget digital clock for the electronic enthusiast! It’s just one single digit… but…
Read MoreSmiley Face Phone – should be compulsory
The Telemania Smiley Face Phone should be compulsory equipment for all heads of state around the world. Then there’d be no excuse for dropping bombs on each other or declaring states of emergency. Are we being overly simplistic here? This friendly telephone will add a goofy charm to any kid-friendly décor while supplying a handful of convenient features. The ringer volume is easily adjustable, and last-number redial is available at the touch of a button. The smiley face has a diameter…
Read MoreTalking Atomic Watch – rise and shine
The Reizen Talking Atomic Watch. Now here’s a timepiece you really don’t want to argue with. It keeps itself atomically correct (via all sorts of clever radio signal tech) and will announce the time and time ‘and more’ in a reasurringly male voice. Well we assume it’s reassuring. Whatever. Anyhoo, it also comes with an hourly chime which could get annoying, and it’s yours for a mere $49.95. All talking watches with an analog dial are really two watches; the…
Read MoreStar Trek Phaser Universal Remote Control – set to stunning
The Star Trek Phaser Universal Remote Control. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Now at last we can Trekkie our family into submission with the press of a button. Zap, there goes Desperate Housewives. Zap, bye-bye American Idol. And with sound effects too? Oh the power and the glory, Jim. What a shame it’s sold out – bring it back, bring it back. $69.95. The Star Trek Original Series Phaser Universal Remote Control features: Total remote control for all of your electronic entertainment…
Read MoreBreath Capture – creepy memento time
Breath Capture. Hmm…not sure what to make of this one. The company sells a range of glass tubes – as pendants, bracelets, earrings etc – which can hold the breath of a loved one as a keepsake. We’re kind of creeped out by this for some reason which we can’t explain. Anyway we’re probably being silly, so you go ahead and breath or wear as you see fit, peeps. Priced at around $9.00 for a pendant. Breath Capture is a…
Read MoreMove Tracks – create your road trip playlist using iTunes and Google Maps
Move Tracks is so clearly a ‘wow, what a cool idea’ project. Basically it’s a mashup between iTunes and Google Maps which lets you create a playlist for your journey based on the time the trip will take and the tracks you choose. Set the route, select the audio tracks and press Send, and the playlist will be created and installed in iTunes ready for synching. Still a bit rough and ready, but definitely a ‘cool app’ in every sense of the word. You’ll…
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