Just a quick note to you our beloved readers to make sure you tune in next week. We’re just putting the the final touches on the next Red Ferret Competition. Here’s a hint. [Photo from Flickr] Tags: gadget, competition
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The ATNMBL car – a concept vehicle by the design team of Mike and Maaike – is one step closer to the cool car I grew up seeing on the Jetsons. You control the vehicle with simple voice commands. It’s the ultimate future car – with a flat screen, electric glass sliding doors with a standing-height entryway, but no steering wheel, brake pedal or drivers seat. The engine is four in-wheel electric motors and the batteries are augmented by solar…
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If you, like me, have been enjoying the ride through Neill Cameron’s subconscious, skillfully blended with heavy doses of reader input then hang in there, it’s nearly complete! If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about then swing by and check out Neill’s A to Z of Awesomeness. Today is the final installment. Fantastic Awesome work Neill! Neill Cameron writes and draws comics for a living. His Mecha Action Schoolgirl Comedy Epic ‘Mo-Bot High’ appeared in weekly children’s comic…
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These V Beat Drumsticks let you unleash the drummer without all the noise and gear hassles. The drumsticks have motion sensors in them that respond to your flailing drumming movements and a pair of pedals for the hi-hat and bass. The kit comes with two sticks, two pedals and the base unit. Wire it all up and you can jam along to the inbuilt tunes, belt along with your MP3s or just wave your sticks in the air like your…
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This Vibrating Hair Brush and Massager is designed to ensure that not only your hair and scalp gets the VIP treatment, but also any other part of your anatomy which needs a bit of TLC. Sore shoulders? No problemo, vibra brush to the rescue. Sheesh, who thinks up these things? £3.18. Gentle soft plastic tipped bristles of the Comb Massager # Two selections of massaging intensity Hair Brush Comb # Increased blood circulation helps remove toxins and micropollutants from the hair…
Read MoreThis Finger Dance Alarm Clock is guaranteed to drive you nutz with a capital aaargh. When the alarm goes off…you’re way ahead of me aren’t you?…yep, you’ve got to do a little finger dance, copying the light show, to switch it off. You can picture the scene, eh? Fingers dancing, clock shrieking, fist smashing. Ahh the beauty of another day. £9.99. If you love electronic dance mat games – the ones where you have to follow the onscreen pattern by dancing…
Read MoreThe new FeFoo search application is a Firefox extension which adds super hero functionality to your browser search box. The fab thing is it works seamlessly. Use it conventionally and it will return standard default results from your favourite search engine, say Google. But if you need more just enter in a : (colon) followed by a code to get some very specialised search power at your fingertips. I particularly like the ability to search my Gmail messages from the browser just by adding :em in front of the…
Read MoreCash Right is the world’s first online pawnbroker (aka pawnshop) which is definitely a sign of the times, eh? Register and receive a discreet brown envelope into which you stuff your jewellery, watches, gold or silver, in return for which the company will send you cash. It’s never going to be enough of course, but it’s cash nonetheless. Once you’re in the clear again you pay back the loan to get your goods back. For the privilege you’ll be charged…
Read MoreThe Public School is the kind of online service which really makes me sit up and take notice. The idea is that anyone can suggest or teach a class and once there are enough interested pupils the class starts. Super cool. At the moment pupils attend a physical location (in LA) to learn, but why couldn’t the idea be extended to online education, via Skype or some other remote communication technology? I just love the idea of crowdsourced education, delivering…
Read MoreeyePlorer is a visual search engine. It uses this colourful interface to not only show links to your search query but also to related items. There’s also a “notebook” on the side of the page where you can place the information you’ve found for later review. You’ll need to register to save the info though. It’s in beta for whatever that’s worth but still well worth a look. eyePlorer.com, powered by vionto, provides immediate access to facts. It visualizes facts…
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This rather strange USB Auto-Scroll Mouse Pad & Hub has us somewhat puzzled. Should it really have been an auto-scroll mini-projector screen, except someone read the design wrong and thought it was supposed to be horizontal and sold as a mouse mat? Who knows? Anyhoo, the long and short of it – a mouse mat with 4 USB ports, a ‘blue moody’ light and some sort of folding mechanism to make it easier to hide inside a dead mackerel. No really. $17.99. Auto-Scroll…
Read MoreAre the kids kicking your bum at World of Warcraft or COD4? Well show them who’s boss by installing the EZ Internet Timer on their PC. You can create and set up to 6 different timers for surfing, email, IM, internet etc. You can also program shutdowns based on the number of hours someone has been online. It even works if the PC is in Safe Mode. There’s a free 14 day trial and you can buy a 3 PC…
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The WiFi-N-Spy Finder is a 2–in-1 combo device which not only locates useful wireless networking hotspots in your locale, but also alerts you to the presence of nasty hidden wireless spy cameras buried in walls or objects. Perfect for those dingy hotel rooms in Tangiers when you’re about to Skype the Femme Fatale before escaping from the bad guys over the adjacent roof. Or something. £12.99. * A smart, dual-function detector for wireless Hot Spots (2.4G, 802.11b/802.11g wireless Internet…
Read MoreDownload the free Mosquito Ringtone if you’re young, fresh and have a set of good ears. Once it’s installed on your mobile phone only you and your peers will be able to hear it when it rings, oldsters won’t, so you can receive calls wherever you are and whenever you want. It’s one more way to stick it to the wrinklies, dude. The short version, A tone outside the audible range of hearing for most people over the age of…
Read MoreFont Squirrel is a free source of lovely looking fonts for your design projects. They’re 100% free and available with full commercial use licenses, which is pretty awesome. A great resource. Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We’ve done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format. Please help us by submitting your own free fonts or showing us where…
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