The Roberts SolarDab is being billed as the world’s first solar powered digital radio, which sounds a little fanciful from where we’re sitting. Notice the words ‘under good conditions’. What that really means is if you’re sitting in the middle of a Dubai garden on a lovely summer’s day, you’ll get enough juice to power up the sounds without a problem. But if you’re in foggy Berlin in December better hunt out the mains cable. There, fixed it for you guys. £79.99. solarDAB…
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Plantbot – sun seeking plant pot guaranteed to creep you out
This exotic looking Plantbot thing comes with some sort of solar seeking tech on board which literally moves it around to follow sunlight in the room. It’s one of those genius but oh-so-creepy technologies that we can imagine will feature in some upcoming shlock-horror fest before very long. It’s a fading autumn day and all that can be heard in the front parlour is the clump…clump…clump of the plantbot hunting for the precious few remaining shafts of light before it…
Read MoreVenture Cordless Heat Wrap – high tech far infrared jacket soothes muscle pain
The Venture Cordless Heat Therapy Wrap contains a small Lithium Ion rechargeable battery pack and delivers up to six hours of muscle pain relief to arms, legs or body via four different infrared heat settings. Set it to auto-defrost on cold days. Nah, just messing wit yer head! $129.95. Get back into game shape quicker with our cordless Heat Therapy Wraps. A small Rechargeable Lithium-ion Battery Pack delivers warm, soothing relief for up to six hours; choose from 4 different heat settings. Far…
Read MoreRK Launcher and RocketDock – two free Mac type docks to make you feel Cupertino cool
RKLauncher and RocketDock are two free Mac-type dock utilities which give your PC that cool looking animated application dock on your desktop. OK, so if you’re like me desktop real estate is precious and not to be wasted on cool looking animated whatsits, but for some people it’s all about style. So enjoy! RK Launcher is a free application that will allow the user to have a visually pleasing bar at the side of the screen that is used to…
Read MoreBioBot – bye bye Exxon, hello your own small scale oil company
The BioBot is the latest biodiesel processor to hit the market. We’ve talked about these things before, and they’re definitely interesting in a ‘will they/won’t they’ kind of way. Succeed that is. What makes this one different is the fact that the developers have clearly thought about the whole process and built in some clever and simple technology to make the whole diesel production thing much easier to do. Here’s a very clear video of the process. Instead of a confusing…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. Speak & Spell Emulator – relive your misspelt youth – The Speak & Spell emulator is… HDD Silicone Case – protect your docked drives at all times – This 3.5 inch HDD Silicone Case is… Telephone Alarm Clock – recreate that cozy hotel wake up call feeling in your own home – The Telephone Alarm… VCAN GPS-431 – car satnav dvd ipod dock…
Read MoreThe ultimate singles record collection – forget about the new house, music comes first
The Ultimate Singles Record Collection consists of every – yes every – 45 RPM vinyl single record that was listed on the Billboard Top 100 rock and roll charts from 1955 to 1990. Thirty five years of plastic music glory (18,400 records in total), some autographed. It’s what we in the trade call an instant record collection. The one teeny, and we’re stressing tiny, problem here is the fact that you’ll need to cough up $275,000 for the complete set….
Read MoreR2-D2 Whizzwatch – beep..boop…blip…bop
The R2–D2 Whizzwatch is a watch. Oh yes it is! Tells the time and everything it does. The fact that it comes with a cute little remote controlled droid attached is merely a distraction. What more can we tell you? Well, the watch can switch between 12 and 24 hour display, and will deliver a ‘variety’ of different digital readouts. Excellent eh? Oh and the droid moves around your desk. £14.95. The geek-tastic R2-D2 Whizzwatch is a timepiece with a difference…
Read MoreWowee Chatterbot Dog/Cat – USB connected joke machine to drive you nuts
The WowWee Chatterbot Dog/Cat attaches to your computer via USB and then apparently ‘entertains’ you with a constant stream of jokes, dialog and comments about life in general. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it will even synch with email and calendar applications to deliver what we can only imagine is more side-splitting entertainment related to our sad and mundane cubicle-locked existence. We gasp with admiration at the engineering excellence that went into creating such a fine and valuable artifact….
Read MoreC120 Renaissance Fighter – motorbike meet credit card…credit card meet motorbike
The Confederate Motor Company C120 Renaissance Fighter motorbike is not a frivolous endeavour. Hmm…where’s our ‘pretentiously extravagant George Clooney magnet’ tag? We’re talking limited edition (45 production), 190 mph, carbon fiber, titanium, 2 litre engine silliness. Yours for a mere $110,000.00 plus tax, delivery and ‘please sign here for your extra life insurance, Mr Mullet’. The Fighter clarifies opaqueness and nullifies hype with straight-forward true to concept certitude. At the source is a classic right triangle. Proportion is classically derived….
Read MoreSpotify – the free music war is over, and we won…
OK, so today I’m going to declare it. The free music war is over, we won, the RIAA and music industry dinosaurs are licked. Forget all the stuff still going on in the courts, the RIAA press releases, they’re all smoke screen. It’s done, folks. Music is free. The battle is now about who controls the access and how it’s monetized, and that’s a completely different thing. The reason for my, some would say foolish, pronouncement is Spotify, which is a…
Read MoreTip of My Tongue – find that elusive word, pronto
Tip of My Tongue is a small web application which helps you identify those elusive words that are on the…. It’s clearly a work in progress, but is potentially a very useful idea which could supplement your traditional thesaurus nicely. Regarding the dictionary: I need a better one. Even the word ‘pizza’ is not in this list! I have looked at WordNet and the problem is that it doesn’t include all words. So I have to compile my own dictionary from…
Read MoreAssault Cube – free open source first person shooter game
Assault Cube is a free Creative Commons licensed first person shooter game. It’s multi-platform (Mac, Linux and Windoze), very small and can be played multi-player over a 56k dial-up modem. You can even run it on an ancient Pentium 3 machine. Nice to see someone thinking of the cave-dwellers amongst us, eh? AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast…
Read MoreYearbook Yourself – you know you want to
Have some fun at your own expense with Yearbook Yourself. Upload a pic of you (or someone you know) looking straight on, choose your decade, stick it on Facebook and groove out ’cause you’ll be popular all over again. Ever wondered what you’d look like in the past? Upload your photo and see yourself with classic hairdos and outfits through the decades. Tags: yearbook+yourself
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OnionMap – makes getting lost fun
Sure, Google has the online mapping business kind of sewn up, but just because everyone uses it, doesn’t mean it’s very pretty. Onionmap is trying something else by creating 3D maps of landmark cities from around the world. Rome, New York, Beijing and Stockholm are some of the cities you can explore from your browser. There is also some limited information provided such as transport info, attractions, hotels and the like. None of the cities are complete yet and only…
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