They sent me a new Invisio G5 Bluetooth Headset to look at a week or so back and I’ve been stuffing it in my ear ever since. It’s billed as the smallest and lightest headset in the world, and at 3.3cm long and a trifling 6 grams, who’s going to argue. I have a bit of a long standing ‘thing’ with the Nextlink folk, ever since two of their supposedly awesome Bluespoon headsets failed to work for me out of…
Read MoreMonthly Archives: December 2007
Aquarium Toilet – for exhibitionists only perhaps?
The Aquarium Toilet . Well at least the fish get a good laugh. This underwater restroom built into the side of an aquarium is located at a cafe in Akashi, Japan. Tags: aquarium+toilet, bizarre
Read MoreKitty Wigs – er…
Kitty Wigs. Um…not sure there’s much we can say about this small online store. $50.00 per wig complete with a ‘paw prrrooof case’ and small rattle. There’s a Flickr group too? Yowsers! Kitty Wigs is a product of the feverish imagination of Julie Jackson and her siamese partner in crime, Boone. Sometimes the pressure of Julie’s day job…combined with Boone’s constant state of leisure results in loud music, wigs and dancing. This has brought such great stress relief (particularly during the holidays), that we decided…
Read MoreStamp – manage and sort your digital photos so they display chronologically
Stamp. Great little freeware utility that lets you sort your digital photos by the date/time information embedded in the image’s exif data. Translated that means you can sort your photos so they display in date and time order on your PC, DVDs or other media. It sounds like a small thing, but it’s a real pain when you’ve come back from vacation with a shed load of images and the filenames messes with the slideshow order. Especially if the family…
Read MoreMy Bad Flight – online noticeboard for awful airline experiences lands at last
My Bad Flight. Register and post your worst flying experiences for the world to see. I wish this site had been around a couple of years ago when I endured the journey from hell on a Virgin Atlantic transatlantic flight with two attendants who were clearly Satan’s goblins on a rest break. At last the customer gets a chance to fight back! The idea of MyBadFlight.com came from a horrible airline experience in February of 2007…Upon arriving home from Ecuador,…
Read MoreSpace Navigator – six degrees of separation from your mouse hand
I find myself strangely attracted to the Space Navigator. Not, however, because it sounds otherworldly in a Carl Sagan kinda way, but because it looks as though it would be a fun thing to play with on the desktop. This 3D mouse lets you pan, zoom, rotate and generally do stuff that your common or garden rodent will not allow. The video shows more. $59.00. SpaceNavigator is a virtual extension of you. Pressure sensing technology allows the controller cap to become a virtual extension…
Read MorePocket Films Festival – celebrating the art of movies taken with camera phones
The Pocket Films Festival celebrates the art of making movies with camera phones. It’s been running for two years now and has got to be the strangest example of the festival craze going. Still, if you like staring at a 2 inch screen for an hour or more, this should be right up your street. Watch out Cannes! Japan’s first attempt at the Pocket Films Festival is based on a partnership between the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music…
Read MoreTwendy One – Robby The Robot comes closer to real life
They’ve just posted some new videos of Twendy-One, the Japanese robot with the sensitive touch, and it’s quite clear that the developers are aiming to recreate Robby The Robot for real. Which is a tad scary. But not as scary as these robot babies from Yamazaki Educational Systems. Sheesh! Tags: robots, zeno, gadget
Read MoreDrive eRazer – wipe that disk cleaner than a camel’s bottom at bedtime
Drive eRazer wipes hard disks clean of data by overwriting every bit on the platters, carefully. The result is a drive that’s still usable but clean clean clean. No computer needed. For ultra peace of mind the Pro version overwrites multiple times. Comes with adapters for 3.5 or 2.5 inch drives and it’ll wipe a 250 GB drive in around 2 hours. From $99.95. Does it meet DoD specifications? The Department of Defence has recently (June 28, 2007) updated their specifications regarding sanitization. Drive eRazer meets the DoD requirements…
Read MoreTanks For Sale – pick up a handy little Hummer crusher for a song…or two…
Tanks for Sale. Bored with the Bentley? The Lambo getting a bit ho-hum? They why not splash out a bit and pick up a top quality ‘simple to maintain’ T55 battle tank. Low mileage, great fuel economy (cough) and guaranteed to win (or create) a space in the local parking lot. Priced at around €40,000.00. [Via Metafilter] With the T55 you are buying what is probably the most reliable and simple to maintain Main Battle Tank for sale in the UK. The…
Read MoreI Love Anything – heart your T to bits
I Love Anything. Stick your fave love on your T-shirt quick-like and easy. Or on other pieces of apparel even. Screen printed, not iron-on. Priced from $17.99 (for some strange reason it looks like ladies only though). ILoveAnything.com would like you to know that we support sweat shop free clothing and American made products such as American Apparel. We are trying to rediscover the essence of classic products like the basic I Love T-shirt, an icon of American culture. Our goal…
Read More3D Box Maker – need a box graphic for your new product?
3D Box Maker. Need a box graphic for your new software, gadget, or whatever? Just upload three images and press Create. Voila. Handles the popular graphics formats like jpg and png and gives a choice of box styles (CD, DVD etc). Simple and nicely useful. 3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free! Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF,…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. World’s Smallest Precision Electric Guitar – careful with that axe, Eugene – The World’s Smallest… Stewart Golf X3 Remote Golf Caddy – improve your game by intimidating your opponents – The Stewart Golf X3 Remote Golf… OLED Tie – small flexible screens coming to a piece of clothing near you soon? – OLED Tie. I’m trying to work… I Wonder Why? – Snapped…
Read MoreShanling MC-30 Music Center – tube powered Hi-Fi glows with pride and hates prejudice
The Shanling MC-30 Music Center looks the business, doth it not? All shiny brushed aluminium, glowing perspex and silvered pepper pot vacuum tubes. Stick it on your mantlepiece – you do have a mantlepiece sonny, doncha? – and wait for all the admiring looks and jealous comments. Just remember that it doesn’t actually mean that you’re cool or anything, OK? Sorry ‘bout that. $994.99. Combining a High Quality CD Player, Tuner, Dedicated iPod Input and Tube Power Amplifier… All in…
Read MoreTux Droid – more intelligent than a bus full of lawyers, and twice as pretty
Tux Droid. Forget yer RoboBoring, this is the real geek deal peeps. Linux compatible only (haha, no fun for us Windows muppets), wireless fed, text to speech enabled, programmable robot doohickey that flaps and twirls, reads your email to you, tells the time, streams Internet radio, is a motion sensing alarm, provides VoIP phone services and generally does everything except call your Mom and tell her she looks lovely today. It’s all done via 2.4GHz wireless, a shed load of sensors and…
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