Ahh…the glory and the power of our Internets. They tried to kill Muxtape and spawned something infinitely more pleasurable to the ear. Hypetape brings together the simple playlist creating elegance of Muxtape (which is slowly resurrecting itself by the way) with the musical blogselence of Hypemachine. Result, awesome playlists for you to enjoy on demand. Sign up, choose your favourite artists, and create and online playlist of their tracks. It’s simple, elegant and lovely. Hypetape is the illegitimate lovechild of…
Read MoreMonthly Archives: April 2009
The Hunt For Gollum – a Lord of the Rings fan movie
The Hunt for Gollum is a fan-made addition to the Lord of the Rings saga, with its world premiere on the 3rd of May, 2009. From a quick look at the two trailers, it’s looking pretty darn good. The script for the Hunt for Gollum has been pieced together from the appendices of the Lord of the Rings books. Chris Bouchard, the writer-director, then assembled a team of dedicated cast and crew and began filming around the UK. The 40…
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Super Power GSM Cellular Jammer – 24/7 peace and quiet in your location
This Super Power GSM Cellular Jammer provides total cell phone signal blocking in a 120 metre range, no matter what the weather. Interestingly you can define the coverage specifically using the supplied antenna, which means you can block the signal in one direction and not the other. The four fan cooling system means it’ll keep on working 24/7, which is reassuring eh? £2875.00. This highly sophistcated jammer offers a huge 45 Watts of output power which delivers a jamming range of…
Read MoreInfrared Nighttime Camera – sneaky cam lets you snoop on nocturnal visitors
Camouflaged, waterproof, silent and heat sensing, this Infrared Nighttime Camera grabs 3 megapixel stills and/or video and stores them onto an integrated 1 GB SD card. We’re talking 2800 photos or 500+ 10 second video clips. The rechargeable battery lasts for around 14 days and charges up in 2 hours, and the whole thing hooks up to a USB port to allow downloading onto your computer. A great way to capture scavengers, ne’er do wells and the next door neighbour…
Read MorePortable Misting Tower – keep cool outdoors
This Portable Misting Tower comes with absolutely no ecological cred at all, but if you dwell in a hot hot climate, you’ll probably appreciate the ability to stay cool outdoors. Of course there is a school of thought that says you shouldn’t be hanging around under a roasting sun anyway, but we’ll move on from that and try not to be churlish. $79.95. Portable misting tower creates a cooling, hydrating mist, so you can enjoy your patio, deck or garden…
Read MoreIdeaPaint – super cool paint turns any smooth wall into a whiteboard
IdeaPaint is a single coat roller applied paint that turns any smooth surface into a dry-erase writing surface. How cool is that? Of course it’s great for idea merchants, but maybe not so hot for conscientious (read fussy) homemakers who may blanche at the idea of a living room full of little Jimmy’s scribbles. But at work it’s gotta be awesome for team brainstorming rooms. It costs $199.50 for a 50 sq foot kit. Use IdeaPaint to transform office walls,…
Read MoreThe Men Pen – hide those blemishes the macho way
The Men Pen is a new ‘concealer product’ that lets us masculine types hide unsightly facial blemishes which are causing distress. It comes in 17 colours and it’s apparently the same stuff used by actors and policemen to de-burr, so we’ll be in very good company. It’s priced at $17.95 and sadly we can’t really think of anything else to say right now. The Men Pen is a men’s concealer product specifically designed to conceal specific areas like acne, moles, scars,…
Read MoreProfBay – how much money are you making from eBay?
ProfBay is a new online application that monitors your EBay account to help you track profitability from your sales. It’s in beta at the moment, and free, but the developers plan to charge a ‘small subscription fee’ sometime in the future. Could be useful for all you budding auction entrepreneurs. ProfBay will automatically import all your completed items from eBay, and in the process it will calculate exactly how much profit/loss you made from your auctions. Of course, we won’t know…
Read MoreSickCity – realtime disease tracking for your city
Just in time for the mother and father of all panics, we present SickCity, a neat disease tracker which makes use of Twitter to track epidemics across the globe. The code is open source, the graphs look pretty if a little scary, and it’s part of the uber cool DIY City program which promises to democratise the running of our cities. Yay! SickCity watches Twitter (and soon Facebook) for any mentions of disease in a city. It then collects this information and…
Read MoreMini Desktop Soccer Game – the sweetest wooden table football game ever
Table football (aka foosball in some places) just took a giant step forward in the cubicle furniture wars with the arrival of this Mini Desktop Wooden Soccer Table. It’s got style, is fun factor five and looks like it’s made to last. How can we resist? $39.00. It’s a Real Wooden Soccer Game Table that you can place it on your Desk. You don’t need a room to place the large soccer table. Have a Break! Just get a Beer…
Read MoreDIY High Speed Book Scanner – digitise your book library on the cheap cheap
This DIY High Speed Book Scanner is genius incarnate. It uses low cost materials – around $300 if you’re a good scavenger – and offers manual twin page scanning fast enough to do an average book in 20 minutes. Two cameras, two lights, a DIY book platen with perspex lid and that’s it. It’s efficient, simple, eco friendly and comes with some open source software for converting from images into PDF. Lovely stuff. Video. After suffering through scanning many of my…
Read MoreSprintCam V3HD – ultra slow motion can look so beautiful
The SprintCam V3HD ultra slow motion camera is a thing of wonder. Forget sports and documentary broadcasting, just think of the fun you could have with this shooting everyday stuff. Take a look at the stunning video sample and weep with joy. Price? Yeah right… SprintCam V3 HD is the only HD native fully integrated ultra slow-motion system for broadcast, offering unmatched frame rates and high definition native resolution image quality. The system allows the user to capture from 500 to 1,000…
Read MoreXMind 3.0 – cool open source mind mapping for all
XMind 3.0 is a hybrid online/offline mind-mapping tool which offers free and Pro services alongside a full open source code option. The tool works on Mac, PC and Linux and comes with all the usual productivity features you’d expect to find. We’ve recommended Mindmeister in the past, but I’ve got to say that I now find it a little too cumbersome to use, whereas XMind is simple enough to use in a matter of seconds. There are a couple of…
Read MoreBusiness Card Star – design and print your own business cards
Business Card Star is a super cool online DIY business card maker which offers standout ease of use and functionality. There’s no signup required to try out the service, which means you can be up and running in seconds. Just choose your template out of 100 or so, fill in the details, tweak and adjust and you’re good to go. The editor is a cinch to use, it’s all drag and drop and yet you have all the flexibility you…
Read More10 Fast Fingers – how fast can you type?
10 Fast Fingers is a simple online typing tester which will give you a reading of how fast you can type. It’s available in a multitude of languages and also offers a widget so you can embed your speed on your site. (?) Fun and useful. With the speed test you can test your typing speed. Of course you will not get an 100% accurate result, but at least a clue where you are. Try it again and again, and…
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