Monthly Archives: January 2008

cool tech January 25, 2008 posted by

3-in-1 Mouse with Speaker and Microphone – speak, scroll and listen

3–in-1 Mouse with Speaker and Microphone. Just dandy for those quick chats in the airport via your laptop and a WiFi connection. Sure you’ll look a bit weird talking into your mouse, but hey, closing that deal is the important thing, right? Go get ‘em tiger! $15.99.  Optical Technology – Scroll Wheel, no need to rely on scroll bar again – high precision: 800dpi – No need for extra power…if you want to use your built-in speaker in your laptop…

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cool tech January 25, 2008 posted by

Furuno NavNet 3D Marine Navigation – give your small boat big boat technology

Furuno NavNet 3D Marine Navigation System. 3D navigation is just about to reach the GPS vehicle navigation market over in the West (it’s been around for a while in Japan) and who knows, one day it may end up as slick as this marine navigation system. Sure, we won’t need the radar and fish finder accessories, but the ability to find your way around via detailed 3D maps and satellite overlays – a la Google maps – is going to be…

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Gadgets January 25, 2008 posted by

CorTemp Body Temperature Monitor – so, am I hot or not?

CorTemp Core Body Temperature Monitor. Luckily we’re finding it less and less necessary to determine our digestive tract temperature as we get older, but in earlier times it was something of a ritual as we left the house to go partaying. We used to joke about the hottest guts in the room, you know, junior stuff like that. Well for those of you still dating, this is your machine. Just swallow the [white] pill and record the temperature readings as…

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cool tech January 25, 2008 posted by

Chef’s Quad-Timer Professional – because cooking is more than just a boiled egg, dude

Chef’s Quad-Timer Professional. If you cook, you need to be organised. If you cook a lot, you need to be fast, accurate and bold. Alternatively you need a housekeeper. Or one of these puppies. It bleeps, it flashes, it remembers previous settings. It’s simple, it’s cool. Which is what your souffle should never be. $22.08.  Its four at-a-glance indicator lights are arranged like stovetop burners, dual-color icons that visually connect what’s being timed to what’s on your stove: Green means still cooking; red…

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but is it art? January 25, 2008 posted by

Firebrand – or how to treat advertising like…uh…art?

Firebrand. Take a bunch of television adverts, thrown in some ‘E’ style veejays, docu-commentary and a super slick interface and what have you got? Er…a bunch of television adverts? Yes, it’s every ad exec’s wildest dream come true, as all of a sudden the annoying stuff that we want to fast forward gets its own online channel complete with stylish Web 2.0 features like embed links, favourites et al. Eat your heart out Visit4Info and AdForum, ‘cause this is art. Y’hear?…

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Bookmark This! January 25, 2008 posted by

World Golf Tour – fun online golf game

World Golf Tour. This free online game is just a teaser for the full ‘sign up’ golf tournament game, but it’s fun. Nearest the flag, nice combination of timing and strategy. I like it because it’s simple, like me, and very quick. Which means I can play a round every so often in between important things like lunch and dinner. Oh and did I mention it looks really good too? [Via Metafilter]  San Francisco-based World Golf Tour (WGT) offers the world’s most photo-realistic online golf experience….

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Gadgets January 24, 2008 posted by

Chatterbox Talking Pet Feeder – record your voice into a dog bowl. And good luck…

Chatterbox Talking Pet Feeder. Yes that’s right, record your 10 second message of love into the bowl before you pop off on that six month cruise, and moggins will be sure to flip out each time it triggers the photoelectric cell while frantically hunting for you around the house. “Here kitty, kitty, kitty…”, makes your heart flutter don’t it? $24.99.  It was quite entertaining watching our cats interact with the Chatter Bowl. At first they looked around, trying to figure out where…

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Gadgets January 24, 2008 posted by

TrekStor i.Beat cebrax RS MP3 RadioStation Player – beaming your hits out to the world

TrekStor i.Beat cebrax RS MP3 Player with RadioStation. Not just any old vanilla USB MP3 player, this puppy comes with an integrated FM RadioStation function which beams the music to the nearest radio. Not bad for a small device like this which runs off a single AAA battery for 9 hours. The thing handles MP3, WAV and WMA and has an integrated microphone for voice recording as well. Not a bad spec at all. Priced at $51.94 for the 2GB…

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Gadgets January 24, 2008 posted by

Apple iPhone Telescope Lens – snap sharper further faster

Apple iPhone Telescope Lens. Pah, forget about the feeble lens that comes with the iPhone, what you really need is a 6x zoom telescope lens for those totally intimate, close Britney shots. And you, yes you, you know who I mean, good luck with the focusing, OK? $19.00.  # he new design to run of rays can effectively avoid the contortion of image, and makes the super wide angle, the larger luminous flux, the higher visual acuteness, good for color…

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Bizarre January 24, 2008 posted by

Save Windows XP – whoa, weird stuff happening alert…

Save Windows XP. Er…ah…huh? OK, so in all your wildest dreaming, would you ever imagine that Microsoft would have produced an operating system that was SO bad, that someone somewhere set up a petition to keep using the older version? Could you? This must rank as the most humiliating thing ever to happen to a software company. Ever. And worse, 57,000 people have already signed up. Sheesh! I’ve got to say, I actually enjoy using XP right now (it’s really really stable as long…

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cool tech January 24, 2008 posted by

FlipSilent – switch your Nokia N95 to silent mode simply by flipping it over

FlipSilent. OK, so you’ll need a Symbian S60 handset with an accelerometer for this (Nokia N93i and N95 only at the moment?) but it’s still very cool nonetheless. Install it and you have the power to turn off an incoming ringtone just by flipping the phone over. You can also set it up to switch into silent mode when you flip the handset over, which makes it useful for meetings (as long as you remember to take the phone out of your…

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Bookmark This! January 24, 2008 posted by

44 free anti rootkit tools – stay safe out there…!

44 Free Anti Rootkit Utilities. Castlecops has gathered together a great selection of anti rootkit programs in a public wiki format. Definitely worth a bookmark for future peace of mind. Nice.  Currently (2006-2007), rootkits are the number 1 threat on most people’s horizons. Surprisingly, most of the current offerings that specifically target rootkits are freeware or open source. This list includes mainly generic anti-rootkit tools that are capable of detecting unknown rootkits rather than detecting only specific rootkits using only signature methods. All antiviruses and…

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cool tech January 24, 2008 posted by

Drum Buddy & BeatBearing – DIY instruments prove that invention is the mother of Frank Zappa

Drum Buddy is a great example of what seems to be a growing trend towards ‘build your own’ musical instruments. OK, so a lot of them seem to be a little..ah…digital and not hugely melodic, but it’s a start. Open source the music making business we say. So to say, take a look at the BeatBearing video too, ‘cause it is also digital cool. Tags: gadget, drum+buddy, beatbearing, music+instruments

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Gadgets January 23, 2008 posted by

Pick Up Line Generator – happy geeks head out with renewed but misplaced confidence

Pickup Line Generator. Push the button to hear one of 40 stored pickup lines from history. Hmm…one of those products which probably sounded great as the room full of salivating design engineers went into testosterone fuelled mental overdrive. But if I were you, I’d be a little cautious about relying on such gems as ‘Do you think I’m cute, or haven’t you had enough to drink?’ to deliver a future life of love, warmth and happiness. Just saying, OK? A$19.95/£8.98.  The Pick Up Line…

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Gadgets January 23, 2008 posted by

Sony UX70 MP3 Dictation Recorder – voice meet music, music meet voice…

The cute Sony UX80 USB Voice Recorder plugs into USB, records in MP3 format, and can also play back music when you’re sick of the sound of your own vowels. The thing comes with up to 2GB capacity, which will deliver over 580 hours of recorded voice in long play mode, which should be enough for most non-politicians. Price? Price? Hey you, what’s the price? Waddya mean you don’t know…?  Designed with more than dictation in mind, the UX70 and…

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