Stanley Compass Watch. Water resistant to 30 metres, hourly time signal and with a digital direction indicator marked in degrees. Finding your way home suddenly got easier. $65.00. [via Geek Alerts] Stanley Compass Watch not only function as a compass, but also features daily alarm and countdown timer… 6 Position electronic compass in English characters display Digital direction indication in degrees with 1 degree intervals Normal time with hour, minute, second, month, date & weekday User option for 12/24 hour display format 3…
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DEK 2 LED Desk Lamp – super chic battery tech
DEK 2 LED Desk Lamp. DIY LED lamp kit lets you enjoy minimalist lighting action based on classic designer products. Cool. $29.00. The Designer Emulation Kits (DEK’s for short) are meant as the sincerest homage to some of the greatest modern designers of our time. The lamps and designers being “emulated” have a particular importance. They are represented in countless design tomes extolling the various movements, and they are held up as prime examples of “good design.” We revere these…
Read MoreSony Vaio AIO HDTV PC – slimline elegance meets designer tech
The new Vaio All-in-One HDTV PC looks like a home PC should. None of that pig ugly beige block and clunky, instead we are treated to a delightful slice of Sony style on a stick. 1680×1050 resolution, 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, Blu-Ray DVD, 500 GB hard drive and 2 GB of RAM. Yep, it’s a proper PC too, as well as a full on 22 inch HD Media Center television and PVR. Of course there’s a price to pay for all this…
Read MoreSmokescreen Fingerprint Smoking Control System – point and puff
Smokescreen Fingerprint Smoking Control System. A biometric entry/exit product designed for clubs and private areas to permit people to leave for a cigarette and re-enter when they have finished. Isn’t it wonderful how quickly technology follows a need? Poor sad addicts can now get themselves fingerprinted and be allotted an exact amount of time to try and kill themselves out in the pouring rain. Watch the video. Joy! £399.00. smokescreen is the rapid entry exit system that allows your customers to…
Read MoreVISA Micro Tag – wave and pay systems coming closer
The VISA Micro Tag payment system is a new way to pay for purchases under $25.00. Just wave your key ring over a terminal at the payment point and off you go. Just make sure you don’t lose your keys! Micro Tag is Visa’s smallest payment device to-date. To be issued as a companion device to existing credit, debit and prepaid cards, the Micro Tag enables payment by waving the device in front of a contactless payment terminal. The key-ring…
Read MoreActive Security Monitor – free dashboard widget lets you see your security status at a glance
Active Security Monitor is a free dashboard thingy for Windows that gives you a visual picture of the security settings of your computer. It covers things like firewalls, virus and spyware and wireless networking, which means that it’s pretty useful if you’re someone who can’t be bothered with digging into the guts of your system to check things individually. Not sure about the P2P setting though. Since when is that prima facie a security risk? * A simple, easy-to-understand…
Read MoreFree Albums Galore – free and legal MP3 albums for download
Free Albums Galore. Like music? Want free MP3 (and other format) albums to download? Then you need this superb music blog. It features a regular selection of free and legal music downloads of full albums across a wide range of genres. Excellent stuff indeed. And I won’t even hold it against him that he’s not featured our world famous 1 Million Free and Legal Music Tracks wiki on his links page. Definitely a bookmark! What makes Free Albums Galore special? Four things,…
Read MoreMetropix – 3D walkthroughs from 2D floor plans
Metropix is a a clever tool which lets you create 3D walk-throughs of your property from floor plans. There are other products which do this of course, but the interesting thing about this is the link to Google Earth, which means that you can get an idea of the actual location of the property from a 3D rendition of it on the map itself. The company hosts the data, so it can be accessed from any browser. For some strange…
Read MoreDoberman SE-0202 Credit Card Reminder – never forget your plastic friend again
Doberman Credit Card Reminder. There are times near the end of the month when we wish no end of ill will onto the inventor of the credit card. But mostly they’re pretty useful things. So what better way to protect your little flexible asset than to keep a timer in your wallet or purse to remind you when you’ve handed it over to someone? Now the fact that the timer is designed for hourly periods indicates that this is going…
Read MoreRemote Control Wax Candle – hours of fun as Auntie tries to blow it out
This Vanilla Scented, Hand Poured Remote Controlled Wax Candle is billed as the world’s only remote control flameless candle. And it produces a flickering flame effect too. All we can think of is the potential for sitting on the other side of the room while asking our dear short sighted Aunt Ethel to blow out the candle. Yes yes, we know we shouldn’t. $39.99. This candle captures the elegance of a real wax candle in a flameless, everlasting candlelight at…
Read More5 in 1 Executive Pen – do it all scribbler for the total power freak
5 in 1 Exective Pen. Look, if you’re going to carry around a writing implement at least make it work for a living. This puppy is not only a…er…pen, but also a USB flash memory stick, an LED flashlight, a laser pointer and a very nice PDA stylus. It comes in a variety of colours and capacities and costs £30.00 for the 128MB model. The USB pen can be accessed by unscrewing the body of the pen. The pen…
Read MoreStar Wars R2D2 Shampoo Bottle – from a bath tub far, far away
The Star Wars R2D2 Shampoo Bottle has to rate as one of the strangest merchandise products to come out of the Hollywood machine so far. Wash time fun though, eh? $11.00 in Yen like. Tags: r2d2+shampoo+bottle, bathroom+accessory, star+wars
Read More20 Ridiculous Audiophile Products – hear that sound? It’s your credit card screaming in quadrophonic agony
20 Ridiculous Audiophile Products. David Stark has compiled a list of audiophile products which claim to improve your Hi-Fidelity listening experience beyond the bounds of normal credibility. The sad thing is he’s received hate mail because of it. Tsk. I think my favourite is the Silver Rock Volume Control which costs $6,820.00. Wow! Just wow! [Via the Museum of Hoaxes] My offering is the Ultra Purifier Block, an 8–way power socket block which at £550.00 redefines the whole meaning of ‘clean electricity’….
Read MoreSplashtop Instant-On Computing – banishing boot-up blues for ever?
Splashtop is a new embedded Linux package which provides instant-on access to the Internet or Skype on any computer on which it’s installed. The product gets an official release on Wednesday, but here is a preview write up of the tech running on an ASUS P5E3 Deluxe motherboard which makes interesting reading. The software bundles together a Skype client and badged Firefox browser which is accessed on power-on before the operating system. At that point you have a choice of whether to surf or…
Read More368 File Sharing Firefox Plugins – (record industry = dead man walking)
368 File Sharing Search Plugins for Firefox. A quick note to those in the music industry engaged in futile litigation against their customers – twenty four months ago there were just 12 of these plugins! Tags: p2p, bittorrent, freeware, 368+file+sharing+firefox+plugins
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