There may come a time in your remarkable life when you need to monitor the state of your blood oxygen saturation levels. If so, may we gently suggest that Sir or Madam use an Oxywatch? Just plonk it on your finger, press a button and pulse rate and SPO2 levels will be displayed for your edification and entertainment. Enjoy long life and happiness. $139.95. Just place the Oxycheck on your finger and press the “on” button and within seconds, the…
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iPod Video Converter – squeeze that video material onto your iPod
iPod Video Converter. Convert all popular video formats including AVI, MPEG and WMV into iPod friendly video so you can watch it on that tiny tiny screen with your earphones in, alone, unsociable and totally absorbed on the morning commute. There, feel better now? Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your…
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Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy.
Read MoreOriginal Star Wars Arcade Machine – relive the green wireframe years
The Star Wars Cockpit Arcade Game will let you relive those glorious green wireframe battles of yesteryear. The terror, the thrills, the weird space physics, yes now you can return to those happy carefree hours trying to show the Empire who’s boss. But first, stump up the £3500.00 (coinmech £150.00 extra) to get your original 1983 cabinet restored. There are three chapters in the story of the game. In the first, your X-Wing Fighter dogfights with Imperial TIE Fighters and Darth…
Read MoreHello Kitty Hand Warmer – plug in and toast
The Hello Kitty Hand Warmer. Plug it into a wall socket for around 5 to 10 minutes, take it out and slip it into your coat pocket and voila, toasty hands for an hour or two in the coldest conditions. Temperature controlled element and a pretty pink colour. What more could you ask for? Tags: hello+kitty, hand+warmer
Read MoreElectruc MEGA Multitruck – clean green carrying machine
The Electruc MEGA is an electric multitruck. What meaneth? Well it can convert from pickup to van to drop-side to tipper to…you get the picture. Of course an operating range of 60 miles and top speed of 30 mph means that this is strictly a city baby, no long distance haulfest from here. Still, it’s an innovative approach to inner city business transport. £10,120.00 plus VAT. These versatile light utility vehicles are creating quite a stir on the streets of our…
Read MoreMP3 DirectCut – lossless MP3 file editing
MP3DirectCut. A lossless MP3 audio file editor which lets you do the editing without having to decompress to .wav or whatever. It also includes an MP3 recorder which grabs audio from your audio input socket, which is kinda useful. A nice alternative to Audacity to keep around. mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files (e.g. to wav format) for audio editing. This saves encoding…
Read MoreCelestron VistaPix IS70 Spotting Scope – watch the birdy
The Celestron VistaPix IS70 Spotting Scope comes with a 3.1 megapixel digital camera on-board, so now you can capture those super 14x 70mm close up scenes for your personal and very private archives. As the blurb says, ‘Get closer to nature’s treasures…’ 32 MB memory and an SD slot are also part of the spec, so there’s no excuse for not grabbing that perfect set of safari images from Boondockville. $499.95. The VistaPix IS70 features a 70mm spotting scope with…
Read MoreUSB MP3 Player with FM Transmitter – combo device beams out love and sounds
1 GB USB MP3 Player with FM Transmitter. One day all tiny MP3 players will ship with integrated FM transmitters. Until then, you’ll have to either use two devices plugged together or sing very loudly to broadcast your tunes to your mates in the car. Which will probably be a short term solution anyway. £29.99. Save over 700+ songs on to the MP3 • Allows you to transmit the audio on the MP3 player to your car via FM •…
Read MoreHello Kitty Static Remover – don’t be shocked, be safe. And cute…
Hello Kitty Static Remover. Don’t be shocked by the static on your door handles, just show them this Hello Kitty ornament and the static stuff will be so embarrassed for you that it will disperse immediately to cooler and more mature environments. $14.00. Innovative desgin! Powerful static absorption. Greatly reduces your chance of getting shocked. Safe to open the door when Goblin disappeared. Tags: hello+kitty, static+remover
Read MoreNameSake – freeware customer records application
NameSake. Freeware customer relationship management software. Customer records, invoicing, To-Do lists, diary, email and communications functionality. Worth a look if you’re in the market for some small business technology to smarten up your act. A professional CRM designed for simplicity and ease-of-use yet powerful enough to meet many business needs. Unlimited records. Invoices, quotes etc. Can be used for any purpose. Tags: namesake, customer+records, crm, freeware
Read MoreTubeStick – television for the Mac
Tubestick. USB Television dongle for Apple Macs. Comes in white, natch. It’s digital and comes with an antenna and the Media Central software application for handling all your recording and programming needs. There are rumours that it will eventually include a lifetime subscription to the Steve Jobs fan club channel – Steve Adore – but there’s no official confirmation of that as yet. $39.95. TubeStick lets you watch, record and enjoy live television on your Mac. Simply insert TubeStick DVB-T Tuner into your USB…
Read MoreBackpack Cleaning Laser – world’s first light based hand scourer
The BackPack Laser Cleaner. German designed laser system is the world’s first portable cleaning laser which can destroy whole villages and towns with just a….ah sorry, wrong product. OK, so this puppy cleans walls and buildings. Easier than using a bucket and scrubbing brush we presume. Announcing the launch of the first real fully mobile cleaning laser unit in the world. The ‘Backpack’ laser is a low cost, portable, battery powered solution for gentle cleaning for restoration, conservation and industry,…Available in…
Read MoreMultiClock – flexible free on-screen clock program
MultiClock is a free clock application that can display analogue and or digital clocks from multiple time zones or countries. You configure it as you need. Pretty useful for those who deal with different times. Not the greatest graphics in the world, but hey, it works. An application that displays multiple-clocks on the screen, each of which can be configured to display a different time-zone. Daylight Savings Time is taken into account wherever necessary. Clocks can be dragged into different…
Read MoreVoltage iPod Control Bag – to tweak thy tuneful tote
The Voltage iPod Control Bag contains a full set of integrated control panels so you can mess with your iPod sounds on the go. Because, you know, taking out your iPod and physically having to mess with the volume and track settings normally is just too…well normal. OK, so the fact that you just slot your iPod onto the docking connector and that’s it, is pretty neat. But we’re not going to bow too low to this technology, no sirree. From…
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