Monthly Archives: April 2008

cool tech April 24, 2008 posted by

Truebones – motion capture for your animations at $1.00 or less

Truebones. Despite sporting one of the strangest site designs that I’ve ever come across, this is actually a very useful service if you’re involved in animation or 3D computer graphics work. The site lists and supplies motion capture clips which you can use with your animations to make them come alive without having to re-invent the wheel. Prices seem reasonable and there’s a custom motion capture service available on request. The clips work with all the major animation programs like…

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Bookmark This! April 24, 2008 posted by

Noise Ninja – Removing noise from photographs the easy way

Noise Ninja is a commercial software program which uses a bunch of clever tech to remove noise from grainy images. The program also comes with a useful profile feature which lets you create and store profiles for your particular camera at various ISO settings. This means that the program will automatically select the optimum settings when you open a photo for processing once it’s read the exif info from the image. Great for fast processing. The product costs $34.95 for the…

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Gadgets April 23, 2008 posted by

Pacemaker Portable DJ System – make like a one-man mobile DJ champion

Pacemaker Portable DJ System. Dynamic beat detection, touchpad, cue, crossfade and reverse, pitch change and bend, loop, effects and EQ – this puppy’s got it all. If you’re not willing to accept the sounds they give you, then this is your product dude. It handles all the major audio formats, comes with a 120 hard drive and USB port and ships with a choice of a Mac or PC audio editor. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s an online mix community…

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Gadgets April 23, 2008 posted by

Lost in Space Giant Pez – danger Will Robinson…

Candy holders don’t come any cooler than the Lost in Space Giant Pez Dispenser. Sure it’s bad for your teeth, but if you’ve got to dispense, at least do it with style. I mean what other 12 inch tall Pez dispenser plays authentic robot dialogue and sound effects, eh? Tell me that. $24.99.  Join the trusty B-9 Robot and the Robinson’s as they land, at long last, on the elusive Alpha Centauri. Theirs is a mission of peace, scientific exploration and…

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Awesome April 23, 2008 posted by

World’s Largest Abacus – faster than a calculator and a little bit bigger than a bus

This 18 foot long Thai abacus has got to be the world’s biggest non-electric calculator. It’s currently in use in a resort town pharmacy and can calculate drug bills faster than a calculator. We’re kind of wondering whether the speed includes running back and forth time. We’d love to see a video of this thing in action so if anyone is near Rayong in Thailand…?  A Thai pharmacist uses a 5.5-metre-long (18-foot-long) abacus in the resort town of Rayong, 205 km (127 miles) southeast from Bangkok,…

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Awesome April 23, 2008 posted by

Off The Grid – living eco style during Earth Week

As part of Earth Week, Steven Leckart of the very excellent DVICE site is attempting to live and work using only renewable energy sources like sunlight and…well…sunlight. It’s a great idea and something that we should all take note of, even if we live in cloudier climes than the C of A. One of the really interesting things I learned recently was that solar power is way ahead of the game in terms of efficiency and power delivery over the…

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Bookmark This! April 23, 2008 posted by

Snoop – receive alerts when something happens on your web site

Snoop looks like a clever bit of tech which streams alerts to your desktop when anything occurs on your website. Unlike the basic alert systems like Hyperspin et al, which are there to tell you when your site goes down, this service can be set up to deliver notifications for just about anything, including a sale on your site, when someone comments, a forum post etc etc. I can see it being very useful, but I do wonder how it will fare with high traffic sites. Definitely worth…

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cool tech April 23, 2008 posted by

New A380 luxury suites – more like a night on the Orient Express than a giant metal flying tube

Singapore Airlines has released a rather smooth video on its new luxury Airbus A380 Upper Class suites. It’s almost enough to make you go out and earn a million just to pay for the privilege. Kick back, watch the video and then go make a peanut butter sandwich. It’ll make you feel better.  With a host of innovative features masterfully crafted to meet your every need, experience your own bedroom, office, cinema and dining area – all from the comfort…

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Gadgets April 22, 2008 posted by

GPS Tracker Defence – shut down those pesky GPS trackers instantly

GPS Tracker Defence. Plug this small dongle into your car’s cigar lighter socket to instantly disable all GPS trackers within a 5 metre range. Just perfect for high jinks in a traffic jam. Or if you suspect the CIA are on to you. £149.99. [Thanks Dan]  Simply plug this adapter into the power socket in your car and after one minute it will disable all GPS trackers within a 5 metre range. It does this by preventing trackers from getting…

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Gadgets April 22, 2008 posted by

NDrive G800 GPS Navigator – world’s first real photo mapping system

The NDrive G800 GPS Navigator is billed as the first sat-nav device to come with real photo navigation. From the look of the product shots this could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your – literal – point of view. Anyway, it also comes with goodies like a 4.3 inch screen, MP3 music player, e-Book reader, FM transmitter for sending music to your car stereo and Bluetooth. £314.90.  The NDrive G800 is the very first GPS…

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cool tech April 22, 2008 posted by

Biodegradeable Picnic Ware – eat, drink and compost your leavings

This Biodegradeable Picnic Ware is just the stuff for us country slobs who can’t be bothered to wash up, pick up our litter or otherwise exhibit some consideration when out and about enjoying. It’s made of Cassava (the tapioca plant) and not only will it decompose within days, but you can eat it if you get stuck for a tasty desert. Well tasty may not be the right word… Anyhoo, nice one! £14.95/$29.60.  Perfect for festival fans, campers, picnic nibblers…

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announcement April 22, 2008 posted by

More eco and green stuff please….

Just to say that I’m going to try and do my bit for humanity by featuring more ecological and green products. So a head’s up to PRs and manufacturers to add that into your little black notebooks, or whatever. Please, no green for the sake of hype, eh? Thanks. Tags: ecological, green

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Bookmark This! April 22, 2008 posted by

Panda Managed Office Protection – free anti-malware for small businesses

Panda Managed Office Protection. Security company Panda has released a free beta version of its anti-malware and firewall package for small businesses. It uses P2P for updates across the network, and has an automatic proxy configuration feature which should make it easier to install and run.  Panda Managed Office Protection is the antimalware and firewall solution for clients and servers; hosted in Panda Security, that provides full control and monitoring of the remote centralized Security through the Internet from a single website….

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Bookmark This! April 22, 2008 posted by

Logo Ease – free online logo maker for all

Logo Ease is a free online logo maker. Select an image, add text, tweak and personalise it and download the result. Cool.  100’s of images to manipulate (soon to be thousands) and add fantastic font’s to as well. The number of variations of design layout, font and color provides an infinite number of logo design possibilities. Use these for presentations, a new company, an existing company or anything else you would want a logo for. See some of the free…

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hmm..interesting April 22, 2008 posted by

Apple lawyers exterminate iPhone clone sellers – Jobs and Gates now BFF?

 [photo] Apple lawyers have apparently been busy for the past few months destroying iPhone clone sellers in the UK who have been supplying copycat Chinese iPhones over the Internet. One casualty, which is now all but bankrupt, is Digital Playworld which received the full frontal assault of an army of Apple legal Rottweilers who, in the words of Simon Rimmer, Digital Playworld’s managing director, ‘came at me all guns blazing, big bully boy tactics’. It seems that Mr Jobs’ henchmen were not best…

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