The Tanita IronMan Body Composition Monitor combines feet and hand sensors to produce what must be the ultimate map of your body. We’re talking not just mere body fat and weight here, but total body water, visceral fat rating, bone mineral mass, metabolic rate, muscle mass, daily calorie intake, plus…well you get the picture. Basically you’re going to end up knowing far too much about your sack of flesh, OK? And hey, there’s a guest mode, so you can like totally…
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Universal SIM Unlock Card – unlock your phone at home alone
Universal SIM Unlock Card. Yet another variation on a theme, or how to unlock your mobile phone without passing go. This thin piece of plastic with gold connects sits between your SIM and the handset to fool the phone into running any SIM card instead of the ‘authorised’ one. Your service provider may be somewhat miffed, but such is life in this rough and tumble, mobile millennium. $22.99. This SIM unlock is a revolutionary do-it-yourself Plug & Play card for unlocking Mobile…
Read MoreTwistori – the first step in an ongoing social experiment…
Twistori. We’re posting this to prove that we’re not averse to weird and wonderful, oh no. We love it. Even when we don’t really understand. If it’s pretty, nicely done and keeps our attention for more than 19.347 seconds, then it’s in. That said, we’ll pass this one over to you dear reader, and let you judge. This is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and…
Read MorePC Decrapifier – freeware automatically removes all that annoying pre-loaded software from your new PC
The PC Decrapifier is a new freeware program that removes all the junk that comes with a new Windows PC nowadays. You know, the kind of settings and sample software that the computer manufacturers pre-load at the factory and which pop up all the time asking you to buy/subscribe or whatever – annoying toolbars, start-up pages, icons, that sort of thing. This is definitely one utility you want to download and store for future use, even if you don’t have…
Read MoreR2 Fish School Kit – teach your fish to slalom, limbo and play soccer
The R2 Fish School Kit is a complete system for teaching your pet fish how to do tricks. Video. Um…right. Oookay. So…let’s see. NEXT!…. $29.99. THE R2 FISH SCHOOL IS A COMPLETE TRAINING SYSTEM THAT INCLUDES EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH YOUR FISH REALLY AMAZING TRICKS * INSTRUCTIONAL DVD * R2 FISH SCHOOL TRAINING PLATFORM * OVER 20 COMPATIBLE TRAINING ACCESSORIES * ALL NEW FEEDING WAND * INSTRUCTION MANUAL WITH 100+ PHOTOS * COMPACT BASE FOR BOWLS OR SMALL TANKS…
Read More7 inch Central Armrest DVD – more roam than home theater
This 7 inch Central Armrest DVD is a bolt-on DVD, MP3, JPEG playing roam theater which absolutely guarantees that the back seat of your vehicle will accumulate more fast food crud on a journey than a flight attendant’s meal apron. It’s got a USB port and SD card slot and doubles up as an auto-parking robot sensor. Nah, just kidding. $149.95. The DVD & Digital Drive-in Theater plays DVDs, Video CDs, CD music, MP3 CDs, MP4 video discs, WMA audio…
Read MoreSuggestionBox – new online service takes customer feedback to a new level
SuggestionBox is a new online service which takes the simple idea of customer feedback and adds some zing to make it sparkle a bit. Anyone can set up a suggestion box, and people can then leave their suggestions and comment on other suggestions. The cool thing is that companies can then respond to the suggestions and thereby start up a dialogue with their customers, which sounds good to us. It’s actually not a million miles away from the communication backbone of…
Read MoreRota – freeware lets you rotate your photographs with no loss of image quality
Rota is a freeware program that lets you rotate your photographs without harming the image quality. Pretty useful if you’re doing a lot of vertical type shooting. Loss-less JPEG Rotation doesn’t de-compress JPEG image completely and moves intermediate data from-to rotate 90/180/270 degrees position. It doesn’t cause loss of image quality. The samples shown above do loss-less JPEG rotation 4 times by Rota. No loss of image quality occurred. Tags: rota, lossless+image+rotation, photography
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. XPLite – Windows your way! – XPLite is a software utility which… iPoki – new GPS based social network is a voyeur’s delight – iPoki is either a work of genius… Wikimedia Free Icons – you need icons, you got ’em… – Wikimedia Free Icons. The Crystal… Cost Controller Power Strip – measure and protect your power consumption as it happens – Cost…
Read MoreR3-D2 DVD Projector Limited Edition – updated home theatre is utterly lust worthy
Nikko R2–D2 DVD Projector Limited Edition. They’ve gone and updated the venerable R2–D2 home theater system and boy does it look cool. Check out the awesome video to set your saliva glands aglow. It now throws a 260 inch image onto your wall or screen, features 1800 lumens brightness and a whopping 1800:1 contrast ratio, and comes with the same gorgeously groovy stuff like iPod dock, memory card, USB drive and game console support and a built-in virtual surround 20W speaker…
Read More14 Plant Watering System – keep all your babies happy and wet for up to 2 weeks
The 14 Plant Watering System will keep all those pots happily wet for two weeks. It’s got a 7 litre water tank and a 65 foot long hose with adjustable taps. The whole shebang can water your beauties at 12 or 24 hour intervals which should ensure their survival no matter what the temperature. $69.99. A long, 65-foot hose connects the plants to the Deluxe Plant Watering System. Taps are inserted at user-specified intervals to accommodate the plants to be…
Read MoreRobo Vacuum – because sweeping up is so 19th century
These Robo Vacuum things are never going to replace your beloved Roomba, but they’re probably better suited for those tiny desktop messes, eh? Available in twinky colours and with some totally useless appendages, it’ll probably get used once and dumped in a drawer alongside your Buzz Lightyear pencil sharpener. $14.99. Picking up life’s little messes! The desktop robot that never gets tired of cleaning up your sloppy mess. Simply push the top button to activate suction and slide over dry…
Read MoreDog Lamp – good boy, down boy…
Dog Lamp. You know how you always wanted a puppy when you were young, but the mean parent people wouldn’t let you? Well now you can get your own back by indulging in one of these floor lamps. Shaped like a pooch and – here’s the good bit – a tap on the head delivers more light. How cool (i.e. ridiculous) is that? £74.99. Show him that he is a good boy by giving him a pat on the…
Read MoreSpotMixer – make your own video ads for free
SpotMixer is a new DIY video advertising service. Select a template, add images, video, music and voiceover, add your contact info and sign-off and save it for YouTube, Adwords or as an MP4 to use anywhere on the web you choose. Creating the ad is free, but you pay for distribution at prices starting at $79.00 for a month. It’s an interesting way to enfranchise small business advertising, although we do wonder whether you’d be better served just using something…
Read MoreHere kitty kitty…
Question: What do you call a kitty that’s just walked all over your freshly painted white window sill? Answer: Sheepish! [Hint: those four white things at the bottom of the legs should be pitch black!] Tags: sheepish+kitty
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