Ikan is a new home barcode scanning system which lets you shop as you consume. Just swipe your empty containers under the scanner on their way to the trash can and the system will add the products to a list which you can either print out and use yourself, or send to your preferred online supplier for them to deliver. Hey, soon we won’t have to leave the house at all, won’t that be great? And guys, that video is the scariest…
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Belkin Concealed Surge Protector – cable tidy and power protection in one
The Belkin Concealed Surge Protector combines a cable tidy and surge protector in one unit. Which appeals to your innate sense of neatness and security, does it not? We’re talking eight very well behaved and safe outlets here, which is almost enough for three devices on a good day. Ho hum! £34.99. The Belkin Concealed Surge Protector organises your cables and keeps them out of view with a unique closing cover. Designed to safeguard your electronics, computers, and appliances, the…
Read MoreEnvirolet MS10 Composting Toilet – because your roses will thank you
The Envirolet MS10 Composting Toilet is a completely self-contained waterless electric composting toilet. No chemicals and twin fans means no smell either apparently. Which is A Good Thing. It can cope with 8 people a day for vacation use and should need emptying only once a year. Shame there’s not a solar option. Anyhoo, it’s $1,750.00. Clean, Sanitary and Odor-Free! There are no bathroom odors. Our toilet systems feature an easy to clean, sanitary bowl design and trap that easily…
Read MoreGeessee – online chat done pretty
Geesee is a new free web chat service from Slovakia which is pretty neat. The chat service is fairly conventional, but the developers have been pretty clever about adding a lot of viral features like widget plug-ins for blogs and advert revenue sharing for website owners. They’re also trying some aggressive web marketing (they approached the Ferret to offer us some free advertising if we blogged it. Needless to say we’re People Ready, so we instantly agreed to pump it to the…
Read MoreOnline Games Toolbar – your life wasted…forever
The Online Games Toolbar is a browser add-on for Firefox and IE which gives you a full menu listing of just about every major games service on the Web. Quick games, classic games, Flash, Java, you name it, you’ll find it from here in a couple of clicks. The one thing it desperately needs, however, is some sort of Top 20 chart to help you choose out of the thousands of games out there. Most of the stuff is free,…
Read MoreMizPee – Web 2.0 jumps the shark…?
MizPee is a mobile phone application that helps you find a suitable toilet close to your location. It’s user generated content all right, but not as we’ve known it Jim. Mr Flabber, meet Mrs Gasted. Do you ever find yourself desperately looking for a clean toilet in the city? MizPee finds the closest, cleanest toilet and gives you entertaining reading material once you get there. Since the service is cell phone-based, it’s always with you, when you really need…
Read MoreUSB Mouse on Bike – type faster or the rodent gets it
The USB Mouse on Bike is…uh…a small creature which pedals faster if you type faster. It also keeps a tally of your daily word count as you type. Strictly one for those lonely, despairing wannabe authors who are trudging through the grind of producing a first novel, methinks. Around $35.00 in Danish stuff. Connect cyclist USB mouse to the USB port on your computer, and the faster you type, the faster he pedals! He also keeps record of your daily…
Read MoreAleratec CD/DVD Repair Plus – fix the disc Dan
The Aleratec DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus is a motorized disc repair kit that promises to restore your damaged optical discs, even if they are suffering from deep scratches. We’re believers, honest. From $36.97. Aleratec DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus is a patented, motorized system that can repair and clean up to 99% of all scratched DVDs, CDs, Game Discs, VCDs, DVD+Rs, DVD-Rs, DVD+RWs, DVD-RWs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and Masters that are used in an Alera Technologies Duplicator, without the hassle that comes…
Read MoreWhisperRoom – soundproof booth gives you screaming space
WhisperRoom provide sound isolation enclosures that offer studio level sound reduction on demand. Drop one of these into your bedroom and you’ll never have to worry about the neighbours banging on the walls during your air guitar sessions again. Prices start at $2760.00, so start saving now Mozart. WhisperRoom wall components are attached to one another with components referred to as Seam Seals. Seam Seals are constructed of the same 1 inch thick, 3.25 lbs/sqft barrier. They overlap 3 inches onto…
Read MoreMopay, the cell phone graveyard – how fast the mighty fall
Mopay is a mobile phone recycling service which buys unwanted handsets and sells them on to developing nations while donating a sum to charity. Nothing particularly new there, but what is interesting is just how fast your precious handset can plummet in price. A quick search on the site, for instance, shows that the Nokia E61 handset, barely 16 months old, is worth just £55.10 in working condition and £27.55 non-working. Blackberry Pearl? £37.50. I’ll be watching this site carefully post 29 June….
Read MoreDIY Stud Finder – low tech construction tool
DIY Stud Finder. Why go to all the expense of buying one of those fancy stud finder gidgets to find hidden pipework when you can use this simple technique? Does it work? Well that’s the claim. Tags: stud+finder, video
Read MoreAceMoney Lite – free software tracks where the money’s at
AceMoney Lite is a free ‘personal finance manager’. Of course that doesn’t mean that a nice looking chap with sensible shoes will turn up on your doorstep once you download the program, but it does suggest that you will be able to organise, budget and track your household expenses in any of 14 languages. And good luck with that, eh? AceMoney Lite is a freeware personal finance manager. It has all the features of its big brother except multiple accounts management….
Read MoreThe iPhone Roadmap – forecast through rosy tinted lenses
Just for fun I’ve been toying with a tongue in cheek iPhone roadmap for a few days. But it is this excellent and extremely well thought out iPhone market evaluation from Tomi Ahonen that has inspired me to publish it. [Thanks to Information Architects for the above image.] iPhone Roadmap June 29 2007. iPhone launch. 750,000 sold in first week. Steve Jobs dubs it “the most successful Apple launch of all time”. Price $600.00 for 8 GB model with 2 megapixel camera, 2.5 G,…
Read MoreHydra Games Console Kit – build your own games console
The Hydra Games Console Kit is perfect for all you do it yerselfers out there who can’t stand paying extra coin for flash packaging and TV adverts. OK, so you’ll need to be a programmer, it’s 8 bit only and costs about the same as a full-on supercomputer-cool black bodied major name console. But hey, think of the kudos as you invite your chums around to play 3 colour break-out with a beeps and chirps soundtrack. Wow! £199.99. Now you can relive those…
Read MoreBikeboard – year round extreme transport fun
The Bikeboard is a versatile little puppy, which converts from a standard 3 wheeler buggy to a snow board and water ski device as the weather or your needs change. The video shows it off nicely, although the water ski conversion looks a little like hard work. Priced at €2200.00, and watch out for an electric version which is apparently on the way from the Swiss manufacturers. Now if only it converted automatically in mid flight like a Transformer….whoooo! Incredible Fun any time of the year!…
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