The uMix 2 is a home DJ mixer with twin iPod docks. Never again will a Celine Dion number follow Korn at a party thrown by you. Budding DJs can cue up the next song on one iPod while the other is playing. There’s a heavy duty crossfader slider, individual volume controls, 6.5mm mic input, 3 band EQ with LED meter and headphone out with half volume cue. Best of all you can also output video from both iPods so…
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The Bicilavadora is a pedal powered washing machine made from easily obtainable parts and designed for developing countries. The clever machine has been under development for four years by a team at MIT, and uses an oil drum and bicycle running gear for its main components. Apparently the big problem is making sure the washing mechanism inside is robust enough and yet cheap. The video shows off the impressive spin cycle – arf! – to expel excess water from the…
Read MoreThis week’s Deal of the Day (if we had such a thing) would be this refurb Elonex ONEt Ultra-Portable Netbook computer, priced at a totally measly £99.99. Weight 650g, 7 inch TFT screen, Linux, WiFi, 3 x USB ports, SD card reader, 2GB SSD drive and 128 MB memory. Grab ‘em while they’re hot and sizzling. One thing you instantly notice about this the Elonex ONEt is its size and weight; it is an excellent travel companion as well as perfect…
Read MoreMoney To Burn Firelighters look just like a roll of £50.00 notes, but they’re not. At least not yet. [insert suitable credit crunch joke here]. They’re made from wax and paper, burn for 15 minutes, are NOT manufactured in Harare and are perfect for those dinner parties where the conversation is likely to be boring and predictable. £9.99. These 6 novelty fire lighters are made from paper and slow burning wax and will stay alight for 15 minutes. Should you not…
Read MoreOne Swarm is a new free P2P file swapping program which goes one step beyond BitTorrent by offering what the developers call ‘fine grained control’ over privacy by allowing users to set who can share files. This kind of friend to friend file sharing (video) can be very useful in all sorts of ways (think sharing massive photo albums and the like) which makes it much more than just a generic music swapping tool. The freeware is also backwards compatible…
Read MoreAirboards are an inflatable and lightweight sled for those hard-to-reach peaks. Designed and perfected in the Swiss Alps, they combine traditional sleds, with an inflatable body for ultimate fun. The hard base and runners give you fast response and a very fast ride, while the padded body irons out the painful bits. The airboards come with a hand pump and a carry bag and they can be inflated in about 3 minutes. There is a range of models and prices…
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The Google Adsense Generator is a fun way to spoof your friends with your massive advertising revenues. Of course it could be used for less benign purposes, such as promoting those ‘get rich quick on teh Internets’ scams, but we prefer to stay innocent and trusting. We suspect the site may not stay up very long anyway. [Via] I’m sure you have noticed a lot of sites where the owner claims to be earning several thousands dollar each day…
Read MoreUniversal Laptop Power Supply USB Hub. It’s a constant source of amazement to us why nobody has thought of jazzing up the boring power supply to make it more desirable to own. And now look. OK, so it’s not pink or tiger striped, but it will power any laptop you own via a range of interesting adapter heads, and also charge up your pocket gadgets via the two integral USB ports. Gosh, that’s absolutely fascinating don’t ya think? Totally. £34.99. Power your…
Read MoreThe Privacy Safe detects hidden wireless cameras and other nasty snoopy things from the comfort of your own keychain. The fact we’re even suggesting you stick one of these alongside your keys is pretty tragic, but let’s just pretend that the integrated LED flashlight is a good excuse to buy. Yeah right. $12.95. The Privacy Safe can detect the strength of radio frequency generated by different types of LED signal indicator such as wireless video camera. When a suspicious object is approached or…
Read MoreThe new MID M1 mBook from Korea is described as a ‘Mobile Internet Device’, which means it’s a smaller laptop with a thumb keyboard and Windows. This type of product has been around for a while of course, with the OQO et al, but the new generation are arriving with cool tech like 3G HSDPA on-board and longer (e.g. 6 hours plus) battery life, which starts to make them useful on the move. I’m still not convinced that the world needs a Windows/Intel computer…
Read MoreThe Find It All Key Finder is different from your usual location beacon system in that every unit is a transmitter and receiver. So you can use any of the dongles to find whatever you’ve lost, you don’t have to hunt around for a master unit. Which makes every kind of sense to us. You can also expand up to 36 units, which is a lot of potentially lost property folks and the system offers a hot/cold flashing light system…
Read MorePNG Gauntlet is a .NET freeware program that optimises the size of PNG image files. Actually it’s a front end for the PNGOUT command line program, but the end result is the same – your images get made smaller. Oh and most importantly, it does this impressive feat without losing image quality. If you have a lot of images and file size and disk space is important to you, then you’ll probably want to take a look at this. PNGGauntlet…
Read MoreWinkbill is a ‘simple online invoicing system’, which offers billing, contact management and online reporting to help you keep track of your financial flows. It comes with yer typical web service dashboard which in this case gives an overview of your invoice universe, and the interface is simple enough to be useful. The UI is also full of Ajax cuteness, which means you should spend less time waiting for the page to refresh and more time getting on with your business….
Read MoreWe featured Bookmooch way back in 2006 when it launched, and it’s great to see this free online book swap club go from strength to strength. What’s particularly nice about the service – and I use it far less than I should – is the fact that programmer and founder John Buckman is determined to keep it free, simple and valuable for the users. It’s quite hard to find that kind of integrity on the web nowadays, so we’re just flagging…
Read MoreThe Sky Cutter Flying Lawnmower looks like fun. If only it could actually cut grass as well. Wowee! The video is also hilarious. $149.99 for complete kit. Take offs are a breeze as the Sky Cutter takes to the air with ease. Simply apply power and pull up slightly on the controllers once speed has built up. High speed or slow, the Sky Cutter can fly at any speed and still retain a constant and steady flight path. Landings require…
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