This Lakeland Egg Boiler has got to be the most ridiculous gadget ever. Because let’s face it, if we’re now so incapable that we can’t plonk an egg into a saucepan of water and boil for 3 to 5 minutes, then we might as well call it a day and wait for those aliens to come harvest our marrow right now. And it comes with a water measuring cup’? Unreal. £9.81. For anyone who can’t boil an egg, or for those that…
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Go! Fabric Cutter – the ultimate quilting accessory?
The Go! Fabric Cutter is a portable fabric…ah…cutter, which makes it easy to cut out those dinky shapes for all your patchwork and quilted loveliness. Quite why it has to be portable I don’t know, but whatever, it’s apparently 90% faster than scissors and comes with a set of optional extras for those really exotic tapestries. $349.00 is a small price to pay for creating beauty in the home, eh? The AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter is a fast, precise, affordable…
Read MoreRainCloud C-15 Water Generator – pure drinking water in your home taken from the atmosphere
Someone dropped a leaflet for one of these RainCloud C-15 Water Generators into my postbox last week, which piqued my interest. The machine is a desktop de-humidifier with an integrated water purification system, at a home user price of £719.90. Room air is sucked in via a fan, the water extracted and then run through a series of ultra-fine filters and a final Ultraviolet bug zapper and then served to you just like a conventional water filter device. It holds…
Read MoreMobileRiser – give your gadget its own personal viewing stand
Attach a MobileRiser to the back of your phone or PDA with the sticky back bracket and you’ll instantly give your precious the ability to stand on its own two feet, leave home, get a job and start earning its keep. You’ll also be able to watch movies and view photos without having to hold the gadget by hand for hours on end (or 20 mins if it’s an iPhone battery). Priced at $4.95. (Video) Ultra thin support bracket that attaches…
Read MoreFotoSketcher – freeware turns your photos into pretty artwork
FotoSketcher is a free Windows program which lets you convert your boring old photos into glorious works of art worthy of any gallery. OK, so maybe we’re eggzageratin’ a tad here, but judging by the gallery you can certainly obtain some rather nice results. From our brief play it looks to offer a nice set of features, although we suspect that you’ll need to spend quite a bit of time playing around with the settings in order to mimic the effects…
Read MorePayload Specialists – scientific research rockets for hire
Payload Specialists is a personal space transport business that can shoot pretty much anything you want into sub-orbital space. They’ve got a few different rockets capable of reaching altitudes of 65,000 feet all the way up to 93 miles, carrying payloads of 20 lbs to 500lbs. Because it’s sub-orbital, anything launched will eventually return to earth, however payloads will experience weightlessness for 3 – 13 minutes depending on the type of rocket, before it all comes heading back home. The…
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Soundzit – 300 million songs, instantly, no sign up…
Soundzit offers a massive 300 million songs (we’ll be counting them up later just to make sure) for your free listening enjoyment. It’s French, doesn’t need a sign-up, uses YouTube data (of course) and has a nice clean interface. What more to say? Tags: soundzit, music, mp3, search+engine
Read MorePDF to Word – 200 invites for Red Ferret readers
The good folk at PDF-to-Word have given us 200 invites for their free private beta, so here you go, grab ‘em while they’re hot… Just add your email address and enter the word ‘redferret’ (without quotes) into the Code box and you’ll receive access shortly thereafter. Enjoy! Using our PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect. Best of…
Read MoreSurvey – please help us by filling it in, and maybe win an Xbox 360?
Folks, I’ve been asked to pop up a survey on the sidebar over right to learn a bit about our readers. Could you do me a favour and spend a couple of minutes filling it in? There’s a chance to win an Xbox 360, which is a bit of a nice incentive eh? PS To save you time hunting for it, just click this link. Thanks. (Needless to say, it’s all totally private blah blah…) Tags: red+ferret+survey
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Money To Burn Firelighters – the perfect gift for one of our banker friends, perhaps? – Money To Burn Firelighters look… One Swarm – P2P goes cool style friend to friend – One Swarm is a new free P2P file… Airboard – inflatable ultra fun in the snow – Airboards are an inflatable and… Google Adsense Generator – show off your massive…
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