Booksnap is a book ripper, not a scanner, OK? You place the book in the v shaped holder, and use a brace of digital cameras to snap photos of the two pages. The software then does all the clean-up and conversion to PDF for you automatically. The samples look OK, but it’s going to take patience to keep flicking the pages, although they say 500 pages an hour. Yours for a mere $1595.00. [via Gizmodo] BookSnap digitizes books at…
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Diamond Flower Mouse – expensive, optical, insane
The Diamond Flower Mouse is unremarkable save for the fact that it is made of white gold and inlaid diamonds will set you back £14,995.00. Who buys this stuff? Can someone point them in my direction, because I’ve got a bridge I need to sell real fast…? Upper case and buttons of the Diamond Flower are made of 750 white gold. This means that 750 parts out of 1000 are pure gold. The gold gets its white color from the…
Read MoreDiscovery Polymer Lab – mess with slime for fun
Discovery Polymer Lab. Yay, at last a chance to mess with slime, goo and ooze without risking the wrath of family members. No word on whether the box comes with built-in permission for the dining room table, but what the heck, go for it. You have nothing to lose except your Einstein street cred. $39.95. Create your own gloopy goo, stretchy slime and funky foam – just like a mad scientist! * Learn real-world science as you experiment with slime * Play with polymers and long…
Read MoreF35 Fighter Pilot Helmet – scary Sci-Fi reaches real world next door, reality surrenders
This is a photo of the new F35 Joint Strike Fighter Pilot Helmet and it scares us muchly. Does anyone else think that it’s very very worrying when our worst Cyborg nightmares come to life in front of our eyes? We wouldn’t mind so much, but they promised us flying cars too, and where are they? More here. VSI is now under contract to develop the Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Some of…
Read More101 Things to Do with Spare CD ROM Disks – just stay away from the microwave oven, OK?
101 Things to do with CD ROM Disks. Title says it all really. Don’t just throw them away, recycle. Oh and you realise that this applies to DVD disks too, don’t you? You do? Awesome. Apparently the trick to cutting CDs is to warm them with a hair dryer and then use utility kitchen scissors. Tags: 101+uses+for+CD+ROM+disks, recycle, CD+DVD
Read MoreBest Used By – track your perishable foodstuffs online
Best Used By. We’re kind of confused by this one. So on the one hand it’s a free, clever and rather useful online application to let you keep track of the Best By dates on your groceries, which is a neat alternative to the DaysAgo digital day counter gadget. On the other hand we’re wondering just how many people will bother to keep updating a computerised grocery list every time they do a shop? Anyhoo, for those who do keep up, the…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. LaserScan Long Range Hidden Camera Detector – world’s most powerful hidden camera detector – The LaserScan Long Range Hidden… PP3 Machine – weird thing does nothing, wastes my time – This PP3 Machine thing is absolute… Sony Ericsson FM Transmitter – beam your mobile phone music to a radio near you – This has got to be one of the only… alaTest –…
Read MoreBreezewalk Shoes – world’s only air-conditioned footwear
They may look like ordinary – nay boring – shoes to you, but in reality they’re…well…interesting. Breezewalk Shoes come with their own built-in air conditioning system which keeps the insides cool, your socks nice and unsmelly and your feet supple and spry. The shoes come in a range of incredibly civil service styles including Bureaucrat, Red Tape and Jobsworth and are guaranteed to get you noticed at the bus stop on your way home. In fact they’re so great that…
Read MoreElectronic Bubble Wrap Keychain – pop yourself silly wherever you go
Electronic Bubble Wrap Keychain.What’s the single most annoying thing in the world. Well after that, the second most annoying thing. Yep, someone popping bubble wrap within 80 feet of your head. So imagine how much fun it must be if you’re a complete drongo, to go around pressing buttons on this doozy all day. Hey, who said nerds were unimaginative? $9.99 says you’ll only need 2 stitches. Each keychain device has 8 rubbery little “bubble” buttons. They have a pretty…
Read MoreDiscovery Star Theater V3 – unlock your ceiling and set your lampshade free
The Discovery Star Theater V3 comes with a full set of Captain Kirk logs and a Klingon raincoat. OK, so we’re lying about the logs. Anyhoo, your bedroom ceiling will never be the same after you’ve projected Ursa Minor onto it a few times, so be warned. Oh and you can use it outdoors too, which means double trouble for all. $24.95. Transforms any room into a 360-degree planetarium # Projects hundreds of realistic stars and constellations on the walls…
Read MoreWireless 3D Finger Mouse – total freedom to scratch, sniff and scroll
Wireless Finger Mouse. Ooh look, a new and improved finger mouse. No cable, more buttons and a new finger clamp (with 3 different sizes for different digits). 2.4GHz wireless, 1000dpi resolution and 15 metre range. Scrummy. $26.99. Now you can wear your mouse! Wear your mouse as a ring! It is 3 dimensions and now you can always put your hands on the keyboard, as you can wear your mouse on your finger and let the keyboard as a mouse…
Read MoreHush Media Center – super sleek and powerful media center makes light work of entertainment
The super sleek Hush Media Center crams a whole lotta computer power into something that sits in a living room. We’re talking Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM and a 1 TB drive (upgradeable to 2 TB). Of course it comes with all the other bells and whistles, digital TV, PVR, optical this, Internet that, DVD the other. All that remains to discuss is whether you’re willing to spend £2,800.00 for a top of the range E5200D model or whether…
Read MoreDIY FM Radio Kit – turn your favourite item into a radio
DIY FM Radio Kit. Build your own FM Radio and amaze your friends and relations as your kettle starts playing morning DJ tunes or your slippers read the news. Hey, it’s good to dream dude. £13.00. Easy to assemble • No coils to wind • One single adjustment • Complete FM band (88 – 108MHz) Tags: fm+radio+kit, diy, gadget
Read MoreAmAze – cool free GPS software for just about any mobile phone
AmAze is free GPS satellite navigation software for any Java enabled mobile phone (which covers a huge selection of handsets). Unlike similar offerings from elsewhere, this is your full on, voice enabled, turn by turn software which features not just maps but also photo satellite images during navigation in many areas. It’s got a great selection of international maps, offers yellow pages type business info and gives a choice of pedestrian or vehicle navigation as well. The free bit? Well they…
Read MoreLocate TV – good looking television search engine
Locate TV is a new television search engine which gives you a fast, clean search service for programs and movies on your box. The interface is lovely Web 2.0, it’s international (US & UK) and you can embed a widget into a web page to receive reminders when the show or film is about to be broadcast. But to be honest it’s not got the power or flexibility of my fave TV Genius (which unfortunately is still UK only), but which lets me set…
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