Here’s a quick round-up of Ferrety posts from the past week for anyone who missed them. Enjoy. WildCharge Wireless Chargers – power for your small devices moves on slowly – The WildCharge Wireless Charger… Klipsch AWR-650SM Speakers – stone cold rock and roll – These Klipsch AWR-650SM… You Need A Budget – free personal budgeting software for troubled times – You Need A Budget is a free…
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Auguste Reymond Braille Hi-Touch – style meets function in this elegant timepiece for the visually impaired
This Auguste Reymond Braille Hi-Touch is a commendable attempt to bring a touch of style to the art of making timepieces for the blind or visually impaired. The time is read by raising the watch glass to touch the face and specially crafted numerals. Beautiful and functional. And probably very expensive, non? Classic quartz watches by Auguste Reymond that allow those visual impared with a way to read time with their fingertips via raised hour-markers and special hands. Tags: gadget,…
Read MoreTele-Recorder – record your phone calls automatically
The Tele-Recorder connects up between the phone jack and your home phone and automatically records every call that comes in or goes out using voice activation technology. It’ll hold more than 14.5 hours of testimony chat which you can download to your PC using a USB cable when ready. You can also use the handheld component as a standard voice recorder/dictating machine when you’re out and about. Cute. $99.95. Just plug TeleCorder between any standard phone jack and your single…
Read MoreSwinger Video Sports System – wii clone offers cheap, energetic living room games
Swinger Video Sports System. If you’ve not had much luck finding or affording a Nintendo Wii yet, you might want to take a look at this rather similarly marketed TV games console package. The kit comes with two wireless controllers, a nunchuk and five on-board games, including golf, tennis, boxing and bowling. Oh OK, and baseball. The photos look jolly enticing, but as we know, chillun’, it’s all about the gameplay isn’t it? Anyway the price is a stonkingly magnetic…
Read MoreResponding Heads – control your computer with your voice
Responding Heads is a freeware voice control utility that gives you total control over your computer purely through the power of your voice. So we’re exaggerating a tad. However you can launch programs, and set up special commands which you trigger via a microphone. And as a bonus you get to create your own on-screen avatar with a special free editor. Thrilling stuff. Responding Heads enables you to launch programs, commands and actions via voice commands spoken into your PC…
Read MorePC Remote Controller II – point and shoot with couch potato stylings
PC Remote Controller II. There are times when keyboards and meeces just don’t cut it. When flicking through emails, the Web and your favourite music player needs something of a more lazy, laid back touch. That’s probably when you’ll start thinking about a remote controller like this puppy. And then you’ll remember you’ve got a butler to do all this geek stuff. $21.00. PC Remote Controller II is designed like a TV remote control. With the wireless mouse function, users…
Read MoreUSB Mice Wheel – a reflection of the position of our souls?
Consider this USB Mice Wheel to be not so much a silly gadget and more a reflection of life in general. Plug it in and the faster you type, the faster the little fake critter runs around the wheel. Going nowhere. Remind you of anyone? Yep, same here. Plug the USB Mice Wheel into your computer – and when you type the keyboard mice will run in his wheel! In fact the faster you type the faster mice will run! You have…
Read MoreGranthaalok Library Manager – run your own book library service for free
Ever fancied opening up your own book library? Got enough reading material? Well then you might want to take a look at the exotically named Granthaalok Library Manager, which turns your PC into a fully fledged book lending service. OK, so you will have to put up with a few multilingual Indian textual embellishments dotted around, but it seems to contain most of the stuff you’ll need, like membership lists, book tracking and search. It simply revolves around the nine basic…
Read MoreUSB Double SATA Enclosure – black…check, shiny…check, useful…oh yes
USB Double SATA Enclosure. Scoop up two spare 2.5 inch SATA hard drives you’ve got hanging around and stick them in here and you’ll have a nice shiny black external storage box that will have people oohing and aahing all over the place. This effect will be enhanced when you press the One Touch Backup button and they watch all the little lights flicker like demented squirrels. You’re excited already, aren’t you? We can tell. $170.00. The USB 2.5″ Double…
Read MoreJinsei Tokei Life Clock – grab some of that gamer responsibility and follow us please…
This Jinsei Tokei Life Clock contains a tiny digital life form who mimics your lifestyle to the extent that will probably make you very nervous. It’s all very Tamagotchi like, and the object of the exercise is not to kill the creature or, we assume, yourself in pursuit of your abandoned excesses. You’ve got a choice of three types of lifeform and of course the alarm clock works as expected. $55.00. Your Jinsei Tokei character wakes up with you when…
Read MoreWabMail – freeware email address extraction tool
WabMail. Short and sweet. Freeware proggie extracts a list of email addresses from your address book. Perfect for making whitelists to combat spam, or simply to check who’s in there and shouldn’t be. No frills, no spills. Sometimes, you just quickly have to get a list of all the e-mail addresses in your address book. This can happen, for example, when you are configuring an anti-spam tool and you want to put all the addresses from your address book in…
Read MoreKinetik bags – protect your notebook from the school of hard knocks
Computer peripheral company extraordinaire, Logitech, make a range of hard shell backpacks and briefcases for your notebook called Kinetik. Incorporating a padded sleeve inside for your notebook and expandable pockets for all your other goodies, the outside of the bag is a hard plastic shell to beef up protection and defend against knocks. The backpack version even stands up when you place it on the ground. Professional yet stylish and practical the Kinetik bags hold most 15″ notebooks or a…
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Kool Dogz – home-made icy doggy treats
Keep your pooch cool, calm and collected with the Kool Dogz frozen treat maker. It comes with everything you need to make giant fun-filled ice blocks for Fido and Fifi. Simply toss in pooch’s favourite toys or freeze-proof snacks, fill with water and freeze. When it’s ready attach it to the fitting, stab it in the ground and let ’em at it. Doggy heaven on a stick. Kool Dogz was invented out of pure necessity. After fifteen pairs of shoes…
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BoomCooler – cool refreshments and cool sounds in one handy box
The BoomCooler is an all-in-one portable (see the wheels?) cooler and sound system. What, you thought it was a medical trolley? So it comes with a Sony FM/AM radio and CD player, 1100 watt subwoofer, 600 watt amp and space for a small can of Coke. Well how else are you gonna get those massive batteries inside? OK, so we’re sure it holds more than a single can, but whatever the payload lady, it’s gonna have to be dry. No…
Read MoreFinger Beats Mixing Desk – tap and mix your tunes and record them for Auntie Posterity
The Finger Beats Mixing Desk is a music mixing product which is clearly designed for small fingers, and not the kind of hulking sausages we usually get around this place. The fact that it’s also a mouse mat should be a clue as to the quality of it’s primary purpose, but we’re not going to snark too much because it’s demeaning. £11.99. Finger Beats allow you to tap your own tunes with the latest technology flat touch sensors and high quality…
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