The Micro-Camcorder is billed as the smallest high resolution, real time digital camcorder ever produced. Stick it into a pack of chewing gum and you’ve got the perfect way to record stuff for all sorts of honest, upstanding, legitimate uses. The GumCorder – for thus shall we call it from now on – delivers 3gp resolution video footage at 15fps, all stored on a MicroSD card. That’s 33 hours of footage on a 1 GB card for you stat grabbers. Yours for just $295.00 complete with…
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Push Up Preston – the perfect gift for the jock in your life…
Push Up Preston is the perfect gift for the macho in your life. Just watch the look of awe and gratitude on their face as they watch this miniscule Muscle Beach reject poundin’ his pecs. Or something. Priceless. Or rather £5.99. A curious clockwork, muscle bound beach hunk. Arms pump and head turns with a realistic push-up action. A suitable joke for girls that like guys to be in shape! 12cm Tags: push+up+preston, jock+gift, novelty
Read MoreStelton Super Charger – cable clutter made designer friendly
Stelton Super Charger. It was inevitable that the designer brigade would eventually latch on to the horror that aesthetes feel when they confront tangled cables in their eyeline. Result, a minimalist steel and plastic cable tidy box which is guaranteed to make your gadgets look more delicious or your money back. Maybe. €24.80. Stelton’s new Super Charger – a “charging station” shaped as a cylindrical container in stainless steel and plastics with a slot at the top. In it you can place…
Read MoreKitewing Rage 55+ – windsurfing for landlubbers
Kitewing Rage 55+. This new ‘wing’ is a pretty scary piece of kit. Just 195cm in transport mode, it unfurls to a big 5 sq mtr handheld carbon composite kite which you can use with your skis, skates, snow or skateboards etc. Clip on the groovy MP3 playa, super shades and a bit of sunscreen, and career along the land route of your choice. Check out this video to get an idea of the potential for self damage you can expect with…
Read MoreElectrolux Wascator – the environmentally green dry cleaning machine
The Electrolux Wascator may look ugly, but you’ll learn to love it muchly once it starts dry cleaning your clothes using harmless carbon dioxide instead of all those nasty smelly, environment destroying chemicals. See, you’re feeling better about it already, aren’t you? The Electrolux Group is presenting an environmentally sage dry cleaning machine. Developed by Electrolux subsidiary Wascator, the machine replaces these potentially damaging chemicals with carbon dioxide. At around 50-60 times normal atmospheric pressure, carbon dioxide liquefies[semicolon] when liquid,…
Read MoreMobileTCP – auto switching mail servers when you laptop roam
MobileTCP is one of those really simple fire and forget freeware utilities that could easily turn out to be indispensable. What does it do? Well if you’re a Windows laptop user who moves around with your machine a lot (e.g. from home to work to client etc), then you’ll know what a hassle it is to keep changing SMTP server settings to send email from your new network location. The Thunderbird email client makes it easier, but it’s still a drag to…
Read MoreYouTube Desktop – yet another video skin
YouTube Desktop. An interesting attempt to bring some sort of user friendly front end to the incredible phenomenon that is YouTube. The eye candy makes it look pretty snazzy and the video download buttons make it a snap to grab your favourites, but at the end of the day, this is just another skin to add to the list. Still on private beta at the moment. What makes YouTubeDesktop unique? Designing YouTubeDesktop we followed one primary idea – to bring…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Introducing the Book – hilarious look at a medieval help desk – This YouTube video is just… Weather Wherever – free weather reports to your inbox everyday – Weather Wherever is a new service… Loudtalks – web based instant voice chat – Loudtalks. A free VoIP… Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracker – keep tabs on the pooch in long grass – The Garmin…
Read MoreLa Bague Gazon – your own little finger meadow
La Bague Gazon. Fashion jewellery meets horticulture in this delicious fusion of art and nature. Porcelain fashion rings, supplied with a compost and grass seed mix which you sow and cultivate for 15 days before wearing. How terribly modern. €120.00 a ring. Put in a light place, avoiding direct sunlight and keep the compost moist. You will have to wait 15 days before you can wear the ring. Happy growing! Tags: bague+gazon, jewellry, novelty
Read MoreVirtual Distance Football – test your passing ability electronically
The Virtual Distance Football is designed to make you feel good about that last throw, even if it ends up embedded deep in your neighbour’s rust brown screen door. The sensor measures the distance thrown upon impact and is accurate to within 1 yard, which is really quite handy. Now all they’ve got to do is perfect a directional gauge and they’ll be getting somewhere. $19.95. Take your pass to new lengths – and measure your distance – with advanced sensor technology built…
Read MoreBillion BiPAC 7300GX – the mobile wireless router for the road warrior
The Billion BiPAC 7300GX 3G/ADSL2 Router is a pretty clever device which incorporates a 3G HSDPA, EDGE, UMTS, GPRS cellular card slot in a standard ADSL WiFi router. Not only that but it comes with a 12V car charger, which means that you can deliver a full wireless network to your family while you’re on your way down to Safeways for the weekly shop. Now how cool is that, children? The idea of slinging your router into a bag when…
Read MoreUniversal Mini Hi-Fi Speaker – cell phone speaker dock gets cute
This Mini Hi-Fi Speaker is rather cute. It’s also quite useful because it doubles up as both a standard MP3/iPod player 2 x 5W speaker dock and a cell phone dock which is compatible with Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola etc. There’s even a handsfree feature for when you phone is docked. Price is a mystery, but did we mention it’s cute? Ah, OK then… Tags: mini+hifi+speaker, mobile+phone+dock, ipod
Read MoreCustom Gameday Tailgate Trailer – luxury in the car park
Custom Gameday Tailgate Trailer. Hey, why suffer at games when you can drag along your whole condo in a trailer to make life easy? Yep, this puppy comes complete with a 26” LCD satellite TV and dish, DVD player, 1000 watt generator, complete draft beer system and a toilet. Just throw in a massive and ostentatious barbecue and you’re The One. No really. $13,900.00 is your starting price ladies. The 27″ flat screen TV, sink, CD/DVD player, and beer tap…
Read MoreVeodia – the live TV studio in your browser
Veodia is a new video broadcast service which is a direct competitor to Neokast in that it lets you stream live videocasts from your PC webcam or a DV camera. Unlike Neokast, however, this product supports Firefox out of the box, which is a very good thing. It also streams to 3G mobile phones, AppleTV and Video iPods as well as PCs running Quicktime 7.0. The interface is simple but very usable, and it’s easy to get up and running with…
Read MoreYou Convert It – the ultimate online file and unit conversion service
You Convert it. Ooh, a very nice online conversion service which lets you convert documents, images, audio and video files. To spread icing on the cake it also has a unit conversion section to let you swap between those tricky volume, area, weight measurements and stuff. The whole package is very comprehensive (although I did notice no PDF conversion was available). Anyway bookmark! Tags: you+convert+it, file+conversion, unit+conversion
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