Make-A-Game. Ever wished you could make your own board game rather than rely on the efforts coming out of the toy market? Well here’s your chance to put your dice where your mouth is. Blank cards, die, game tokens and money all in a box for you to tweak as desired. All you need to do is create your own board and you’re laughing…and who knows you may even get to commercialise it and get rich. Hmm…now that’s a great…
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Thinkature – real time web collaboration
Thinkature is a pretty cool web collaboration service which gives you built in voice chat (hmm…interesting), plus all the other stuff like a real time whiteboard with annotation, images etc etc. It’s nicely responsive and has a very simple interface. What we need now is for some enterprising company to develop a well priced, good quality pen and tablet combo, so we can start using this stuff properly. With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and…
Read MoreTransDock Deluxe – make your car iPod happy
The TransDock Deluxe actually looks like it could be a useful iPod peripheral, rather than the usual cobbled together ‘white craze’ rubbish. It’s basically a car dock with a separate clip-on remote control for your steering wheel to get that safer ‘factory fitted’ feel. There’s also a video out socket to let you send your iPod content to a headrest LCD screen and an FM transmitter in there somewhere. Neat. $129.99. Experience the ultimate in iPod enjoyment on the road with the new…
Read MoreUSB Flash Disk with LED and Laser – the tiny geek toolbox
The USB Flash Disc With Laser Pointer and LED Light. Designed to ensure that you’ll have three important geek tools close to hand at all times. Point the laser somewhere, shine the light on your hand, or just kick back and download some data. Frankly we’re waiting until they incorporate an alarm clock, MP3 player and Skype phone into one of these puppies. Then we’ll be talking convergence, right? Tags: usb+flash+disk, LED, laser
Read MorePlasma Window – turn your television into a work of art
Plasma Window. Turn your boring old thousand dollar flat screen television into a useful piece of wall art or furniture with these wide-screen DVDs. You can choose from a library of classic and modern art, fireplaces with nice crackling sounds, aquariums or soothing landscapes. There’s even a DVD with a party lightshow. Rock and roll, baby, and hang the electricity costs. From $14.95 per disc. Did you ever notice how your flat screen Plasma or LCD TV looks like a…
Read MoreMy Cool Button – free web 2.0 button maker
My Cool Button is a pretty neat button maker for all that delovely Web 2.0 stuff you’re playing with. It’s free, super easy and definitely one to add to your toolbox bookmarks. You can download the resulting .png with custom background color, and use it in your web 2.0 site. Tags: my+cool+button, web+2.0, web+design
Read MoreCalifornia Roadster – the fun lovin’ green machine
The California Roadster neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) may be a glorified golf cart at heart, but at least it’s got some character. aluminium chassis, shiny chrome fittings, four passengers, 35 mile range, 25 mph maximum speed (whoa!) and recharge in 4 to 6 hours. $8,995.00 gives you an eco runabout which will have heads turning down at the local mall car park. ACG has also been certified by the Federal Government to offer the California Roadster as a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Scratch – a kind of lego assembly kit for code – Scratch is an interactive… TalentSpring – job hunting gets peer voting – TalentSpring is a new type of job… HipPop Frog – motion sensing Kermit klone attack – The HipPop Frog. So what are these… Aculife Magnetic Wave Therapist – stimulate those acupoints fella – The Aculife Magnetic Wave… GATR Inflatable Satellite…
Read MoreKrick R/C Submarine – action stations…
The Krick U-Boat Style R/C Submarine. We’re talking 44 inches long here, so 1:60 scale, with a four channel radio controller, a ‘Drive and Dive’ set so you can sink and swim the thing, and a little hook and line to drag it up when it all goes pear shaped at -10,000 feet. Or something. Around $789.00 all in. Molded ABS structure with some polystyrene parts is highly detailed and you can assemble it into an accurate scale display model….
Read MoreSharp Shootin’ Remote Control – zap your TV Western style
The Sharp Shootin’ Remote Control. At last form follows function with this TV remote control which is literally point and shoot. It’s the perfect way to get rid of all that stomach churning reality programming. Just give ‘em a dose of the OFF trigger. Yee-har! £9.95 complete with a ‘gold-effect’ sheriff’s badge and comedy bang sound. Fashioned to resemble a cowboy’s six-shooter this rootin’ tootin’ remote is ideal for all you sofa sheriffs who have a love/hate relationship with the magic rectangle….
Read MorePatio Barbecue – big and tasty, just like Texas
The Patio Grill Smoker Barbecue is a beast of a cooking utensil, no doubt. We’re talking a man sized, multi-shelved charcoal grill which can simultaneously cook several small animals while managing to display temperatures and answer the door too. OK, the last bit is a lie. Caught. $499.95. The six porcelain grill grates are removable, allowing you to hang large primal cuts vertically from the meat hook on the grill smoker’s ceiling. An exterior temperature gauge gives precise grill temperature…
Read MoreYoggie Gatekeeper Pro – the laptop protector
The Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro is not a new fruit flavoured macrobiotic drink, but is instead a plug-in USB dongle which is set up to protect your laptop from all those nasty people out there trying to do you in. It basically provides a Linux front-end which buffers you from any attacks via unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots, so you can surf safely secure in the knowledge that…blah. £138.95. A robust security appliance, with a hardened Linux-based OS, Yoggie Gatekeeper physically isolates the…
Read MoreMultimeter Metal Detector – DIY combo heaven
The Multimeter Combo Tool is not yer average DIY throwaway. It contains a cable finder and metal detector, a laser and spirit level, an LED torch, bulb and electrical tester and a polarity checker. It won’t, unfortunately, drink large amounts of tea every 2 hours while moaning about the weather. Which makes it a bit of a dead loss around these parts. £19.95. Primarily it has been designed as a metal detector, able to locate concealed metal objects within walls…this little baby…
Read MoreThe ROKSO spammers list -here they are (some with photos)
The ROKSO Spammers List provides details on around 200 of the top spammers in the world. Apparently 80% of the world’s junk email comes from or via these people. Lovely. It makes you wonder though, why they can’t be stopped? 200 Known Spam Operations responsible for 80% of your spam. 80% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe can be traced via aliases and addresses, redirects, hosting locations of sites and domains, to a hard-core group…
Read MoreThe Live CD List – Linux in all its different instant flavours
Nick Brand’s LiveCD List is an absolutely humungous online list of all the different flavours of Live Linux (i.e. Linux which you can boot directly from a CD). There’s a wealth of information here as well. Reviews, downloads, Wikipedia entries on each type and a voting system. It’s a fabulous resource and a must visit if you’ve ever thought about dabbling with Linux on that old machine lying in the corner. Bookmark it. Tags: livecd, linux
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