The Invisible Hand addon for Firefox is a cool shopping assistant which constantly scours the net for cheaper pricing on the product you’re viewing at any time. It’s not the only tool of its kind, but the devs have made it nicely discreet which makes it more acceptable than most. The software copes with 50 stores in the UK and USA, so it’s worth installing just to make sure you’re getting the best deal. Of course one of the things…
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Ultra Slim Emergency Charger – pocket friendly iPhone ally
This Ultra Slim Emergency Charger is not much bigger than a business card and threatens to re-charge your ultra slim mobile phone that shall remain nameless in lickety split time. The thing sports 1200mAh, is 1 cm thick and has can cope with most A**le player re-charging needs as well. $24.99. Have you imagined how an emergency charger for iPod / iPhone could be? This emergency gives you 1200mAh while still keeping itself very slim. It is slightly larger than a…
Read MorePetSafe Wireless Fence – producing a predictably Pavlovian pet performance
The PetSafe Wireless Fence creates an electronic boundary through the use of a pet collar and a transmitter/receiver base station. Plug the base station into any wall socket, set the distance of your boundary (up to 180 feet) and any time the animal gets close to the limit it will receive a ‘mild static correction’. That’s equivalent to a static jolt from a metal door knob to you and me. It’s all a bit Buck Rogers but without the funny bits. Still,…
Read MorePower Pouch – universal solar charger
The Power Pouch is a universal solar charger for your gadgets and gizmos. The neat bit is the fact that the adapters are contained inside the charger bag (pouch, geddit?) which makes it all a very compact unit. It comes with a separate rechargeable battery which you can keep juiced up for night time re-charging, and enough adapters to cope with most bits of kit. £25.97. The Power Pouch is a fast (double the speed of some products on the market) universal solar…
Read MoreWord to HTML Converter – from doc to rock in one move
Word to HTML Converter takes your Microsoft Word document and converts it to the HTML format. Surprised? Good. It’s free and works fine as long as you don’t expect miracles. Needs .Net though. Word to HTML Converter is powerful tool developed to convert a word documents to HTML file. Doc to HTML Converter tool allows you to publish a Word document like a press release, technical manual or other conditions on the web with very fast speed. Conversion tool is…
Read MoreBrandstack – new brand marketplace says yah boo to ad agencies
Brandstack is a new online marketplace for logos, domain names and anything else you might need (like a ready built website) to create your new business empire. Need a hot domain name like weturtle.com? You got it. It also copes with your print needs too, or it will do sometime soon. And it’s got a community and forum too, how awesomely awesome is that peeps? We’re liking anything that helps to spread the design and branding love, so we’ll give…
Read MoreioSafe Disaster-proof Hard Drive – Competition Winner
Well another competition draws to a close. A big thanks to everyone who entered our ioSafe Disaster Proof Hard Drive competition. The correct answer was 1550�F for half an hour. Well without further ado let’s get on with things. The winner of the competition is Wes (no surname), who not only provided the correct answer and was randomly chosen but also included a very nice recipe for serving your ioSafe drive after it has been baked. Congratulations Wes, I’ll pass…
Read MoreBMW City – BMW’s cool new electric car
BMW – purveyor of top quality cars – has plans for a smaller, city-style electric car. The neat thing about it is the electricity will be stored in a water-cooled lithium-ion battery pack that’s expected to provide a 100-mile range. This super-efficient, four-seater, three-door hatchback, currently called the BMW City/Project i , is being designed specifically for the U.S. market will meet California’s Zero-Emission-Vehicle (ZEV) requirements and will be smaller than the Honda FIT. With tentative plans for a launch…
Read MoreNoodlehead – smarter sprinkler
Every garden sprinkler I’ve ever seen uses a metal tube with holes in it which is fine but it’s fixed and apart from either waving back and forth or spinning, it can’t do much else. Well water is precious so you’ve got to put it where you need it most, so now there’s the Noodlehead garden sprinkler. Noodlehead is a garden sprinkler with twelve, flexible watering tubes. You can bend and reposition each tube individually and they’ll stay wherever you…
Read MoreWorld’s Biggest Bubbles – all done with soap and mirrors
Zubbles finally got their act together and got to market, but that’s nothing compared to this guy. Samsam Bubbleman (not related to Samsam Sam I Am), has perfected what he’s calling the World’s Biggest Bubbles. Via his company Bubble Inc Sam is having a crack at the world record for the biggest free floating bubble. Using a secret bubble formula and what looks like string on a stick Samsam can make bubbles in the order of 20 feet long, by…
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. Spotify rolls onwards and upwards – Streaming music service, Spotify,… Zuvo Water Purifier – declare total war against grubby water – We don’t usually go… Red Ferret Competition Reminder – win an ioSafe Disaster-proof Hard Drive – Quick reminder folks, we’re… Nikon Pro Battery Grip – keep your DSLR running with some standard AA batteries – This ingenious Nikon Battery Grip… Amphibious…
Read MoreRebit – the totally automated computer backup system from Seagate
Plug a Rebit external USB backup drive into your computer, activate the software and that’s it, from then on your computer files are automatically backed up without you having to lift a finger. At least that’s what it says here. The thing backs up files on the fly, so it’s continuous rather than scheduled, and most amazingly it will also give you a complete operating system restore too, should the worst occur. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?…
Read MoreWilcraft – amphibious ice fishing and hunting vehicle
Apparently amphibious cars are here, I must have been looking the other way. The Wilcraft, or Water-Ice-Land-Craft is an amphibious vehicle designed for ice fishing and to get you into those hard to reach hunting spots. It’s extremely light, has a ground pressure equivalent to a person walking and it can float, so it’s great for crossing those pesky frozen lakes and rivers. It can carry about 250 kg and has 11″ of ground clearance. It’s powered by a 305…
Read MoreOmron HBF-306C Fat Loss Monitor – where’d it go, Ma?
The Omron HBF-306C Fat Loss Monitor sounds like just what we need here at Ferret Towers. After all the last time we lost some fat was when the dog left home, so anything that’ll help us shed the poundage accrued from squatting in front of a monitor all day has got to be welcome. Mind you, there is that old saying – why turn over dead leaves when the forest is crashing around your ears? Or something like that. $26.99. More here. The…
Read MoreFiio E5 Headphone Amplifier – adds oomph to your doofdoof
This Fiio E5 Headphone Amplifier gives your larger headphones a little more oomph. Using it’s built-in amplifier and Li-Ion battery the Fiio E5 will provide around 20 hours of playback before it needs recharging via mini USB. It has a built-in clip, it’s own power switch, an electronic volume control and a bass boost EQ. US$29 from Brando. Fiio E5 Headphone Amplifier is used to improve the sound quality and volume of any Digital Audio Players like Mobile phones, Laptop,…
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