Zana Wood Engraved USB Flash Memory Drive. Does the world need hand made, wooden, engraved flash memory drives? Does USB 2.0 benefit from close proximity to ‘wood, silver and precious stones’? Will your street cred improve if you stump up $59.00 for 1 GB of data storage with your own name embossed on the front? Answers on a platinum Amex card to… (…wow, that dollar sure is tanking, eh?) For the production of our goods we have used highest quality…
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ReQall – cool memory tool links phone and web in one seamless reminder system
ReQall. Use your phone, web panel or instant messenger to keep track of things you need to remember. Shopping lists, to-dos, capturing ideas, whatever you need to store and recall. Just ask the system to remember, and set it up to remind you or forward the data via email, SMS text message or RSS and iCalendar. Just start your message with the right keyword (e.g. ‘buy’ to have the item automatically added to the shopping list) and tell it what…
Read MoreQuick Media Converter – free media converter rocks the kazbar
Quick Media Converter. Belgium freeware program does more than just convert a lot of media types to other types. It also features a webcam mode to record video from your webcam, and has Camstudio embedded so you can create screencasts of your Windows desktop and convert the footage into anything you like. There’s also a video portal included where you can upload videos for public and private consumption. Nice comprehensive little package all round (and it comes with some solid…
Read MoreGoogle Ad Manager – 600 pound gorilla stretches, yawns, advertising forest quakes in terror
Google Ad Manager. Hot on the heels of the Doubleclick acquisition announcement, we get news that Google is testing their new display advertising engine for delivering direct client ads on your website. That’s incredible news and it’s astounding that they’ve moved so fast to re-package the Doubleclick tech. If Google can do for display ads what they did for text ads with Adsense/Adwords, then it could revolutionise the World Wide Web. Really! Why? It integrates completely with Adsense. If you don’t have any banner ads…
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Just sent back my loan iPhone after a few weeks use, and to be honest I was happy to see it go. I found it a bit underwhelming actually (in fact it stayed in the box towards the end of the period). Why? You need to charge it every day? Wow, how quaint. Very unimpressed with the feature set. I use my Nokia 6110 a lot on my travels, and often have the GPS running alongside the MP3 player and Fring for…
Read MoreHolux M-241 Bluetooth GPS Logger – goodbye yellow brick road…
Holux M-241 Bluetooth GPS Logger. Pretty little GPS logger offers Bluetooth connection for smartphones and data logging for up to 130,000 positions. $77.94 says you’ll never lose your GPS data again. Hah! The M-241 is a high performance wireless GPS logger with the following features: # Dual interface (Bluetooth + GPS-mouse by USB cable). # Compatible with Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP) completely. # Powered by one AA battery. # LCD display to show position information, speed, capable logging memory size, date…
Read MoreTalent Show Kit – olde tyme karaoke on a stick comes to town
Talent Show Kit. Take one olde fashioned style microphone and stand, throw in an amplifier, speaker and some electronics and you’ve got some sort of karaoke set up guaranteed to make you look like a doofus in front of Auntie Mabel. That’ll be $79.95 please, sir. Inspired by an original 1956 Sears Wishbook piece, our “karaoke on a stick” features separate volume and tone control. The removable microphone allows the more expressive tenors and sopranos “room” to move. The mounting base contains…
Read MoreSecurephone Encrypted GSM Cell Phone – shhh….tell no-one
Securephone Encrypted GSM Cell Phone. Military grade secure conversations built into a conventional form factor mobile phone handset. We’re talking triple layer, 256 bit encryption based on AES, Twofish and Serpent ciphers. Got that, soldier? Good. You’ll need two of them to make like private, but £1051.63 x 2 shouldn’t deter the truly paranoid punters. The Securephone hosts a unique assymetric key generation engine, which is hardware optimised for extremely fast key generation. Private and public keys are generated for…
Read MoreVeropedia – Wikipedia gets cleaned up
Veropedia is a new service which has been set up to collate, clean up and stabilize Wikipedia content. The idea is for their team of ‘experts’ to grab hold of the volatile material on Wikipedia and add some control, so it can be made more stable and reliable. In effect this is an attempt to apply old style editorship rules onto the new style Wikipedia model. It seems to be a worthy cause, even though critics will probably accuse the Veropedia founders of of piggy-backing off the world’s largest…
Read More35 Fantastic HDR Pictures – beautiful tone mapped images
35 Fantastic HDR Pictures. Some very nice examples of the trendy HDR process. I’ve tried taking some HDR photos too, but they’re not quite as fancy as these examples. Here’s my tree. Tags: 35+fantastic+hdr+pictures, photography, hdr
Read MoreCrayon Physics – oooooooooh!
Crayon Physics. Petri Purho’s innovative game prototype is so much fun that it’s…well…beyond. There’s a full-on commercial version called Crayon Physics Deluxe coming. Oh my giddy feet. You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects. With left mouse button you can draw and with right you can remove objects. Tags: crayon+physics, game, freeware
Read MoreKey Chain Solar Charger – handy power backup for your pocket hungry devices
Key Chain Solar Charger. Designed to provide power at the drop of a battery, on the go, anywhere you need it. They call it an emergency power backup, which probably reflects the fact that it will take three days of Gobi desert type sunlight to get this thing charged enough to make it worthwhile, but let’s just think of the children, shall we? Oh and just in case you live in darkest Europe, you can charge it up from a power socket too….
Read MoreEgg Soldier Cup – yikes, eggy soldiers get their own assault vehicle at last
Egg Soldier Cup. OK, so some of you transatlantic types may not know about Eggy Soldiers, but just because it’s not in Wikipedia, doesn’t mean it’s not scrumchious. Anyway, here’s the first tool-kit custom designed for enjoying said breakfast, comprising a themed egg-cup for the soft boiled egg, and a handy toast cutter for the soldiers. Mmm…enjoy! £14.95 ($30.20). Thankfully the ingenious Perfect Soldier Cutter speeds up the process and actually improves the dunkability of your soldiers. Simply press this…
Read MoreSnipe It Game – weird electronic game inspired by online auction tactics
Snipe It Game. This electronic trivia game is apparently inspired by the tactic of sniping on eBay whereby you bid for an item in the last seconds of an auction in order to prevent others outbidding you. No we kid you not, with this game it’s not how fast you answer, but whether you’re the last one to give the right answer before the timer goes. What the…? $19.97. Name a flavor of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. You know tons…
Read MoreMJPEG Surveillance – cool free motion sensing webcam security program
MJPEG Surveillance. Nice free security webcam program comes with motion sensing technology which starts the recording when it senses movement in any particular area of the room. It can handle multiple cameras and can convert the JPEG file stream into a proper WMV, DivX or MPEG4 video clip. Lots of other features too, including video editing and auto video recycling which records over the oldest videos first (useful for keeping hard disk space under control). My best motion detection algorithm so…
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