If you have ever tried to coordinate a teleconference, meeting, or even dinner with your mates you know how hard it can be to find a time that is good for everyone. What’s more, if you’re doing this by email it can be pretty complicated keeping track of who replied and when they said they could make it. In most office situations there would be some enterprise application to help out, but outside of the office what can you use?…
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The LED Radio and BBQ Fan entertains, guides and improves the life of the poor sod stuck on the dark patio trying not to carbonise the snags. Powered by 4 C batteries (and one LR54) this wunder-tool will even stop you burning things with it’s built-in count-up and count-down timer. A gooseneck stand and strong clamp ensures it stays where you put it and when time starts to drag stick on the AM/FM radio. All this for AU$39.95 (~ US$36.83)…
Read MoreIf you have a weed problem and no one else can help, then maybe you should hire, Eco Goats. Eco Goats provide a very environmentally friendly solution to weed and invasive plant species removal. After assessing your situation Eco Goats will deliver a collection of hungry goats, and electric fencing to keep in the right spot. If you have particular parts of your property that you don’t want touched, they’ll fence it off otherwise it’s open season for the goats…
Read MoreThe Kenwood KM070 Cooking Chef, apart from being tautologically challenged, is a brand new concept in kitchenware. Combine the food processor with the oven. Brilliant eh? They’ve done this bit of magic by sticking an 1100W induction system into the base of the unit, which is enough to power the thing up to temperatures of 140 degrees. Plus a 3 hour timer and steamer attachment. All they need now is a microwave oven on the back for the chips and…
Read MoreThe Allerta InPulse is a wrist worn mobile phone accessory that will display alerts and messages as they arrive to your phone without you needing to take the handset out of your pocket or bag. Right now it’s all very vapourware, with vague promises and specifications flickering across the Web. The inventor, Eric Migicovsky (pictured below) came up with the idea while at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and has been working on commercialising the thing since the tail end…
Read MorePhotoJoy is a free program from the Incredimail people designed to help you make the most of all those digital photos lying around on your hard disks. It’s structured like the wallpaper products, in that you install the client which then accesses web based templates, so you’ll need an Internet connection to get the best out of it. Once installed you can set up screensavers, desktop widgets and wallpaper ‘collages’ into which the software will stream your choice of holiday…
Read MoreOrdnance Survey, the UK’s venerable mapping agency which was founded in 1746, has just released information on its new OS 3D mapping technology, which has been in trials for 3 years. The new technique uses a combination of StreetMapper 3D vehicles and aerial surveying with precision lasers to produce high resolution 3D maps of an area. The first city to be mapped in this way is Bournemouth on the UK’s South coast, which has had every square metre of the town centre mapped using…
Read More[photo] Budget European airline Ryanair, famous for calling bloggers ‘lunatics and idiots’ and for planning a fat passenger tax and proposing that passengers stand up and pay for toilet use on flights, now seem have decided that flight schedules and confirmed bookings are subject to change on a whim. Having booked a flight to Brno in the Czech Republic back in June, imagine my surprise when I checked back on the booking yesterday to learn that the airline had unilaterally changed…
Read MoreLooking for the perfect Halloween gift? Then try the i-Fly Vamp remote controlled, flying bat. This isn’t a helicopter disguised as a bat, it actually flaps it’s wings and can be sort-of controlled. It even has glowing LED eyes so you can fly it in the dark, well see when it’s crashed into something and is on the ground. The controller needs 6 AAA batteries and is used to recharge the bat, which gets around 10 minutes of flight time…
Read MoreI’m not sure if SCART connectors took off anywhere except in Europe but they’re still floating around on older TVs I’m sure. This DVB-T to SCART Receiver lets you receive DVB-T broadcasts straight into your telly without the need for a big, clunky external decoder box. Just plug in your aerial (it also has an aerial pass through) and it will spit out either Composite+RGB or Composite+S Video via the SCART Connector in 4:3 or 16:9 and in either PAL…
Read MoreThe GE Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water Heater is more than a mouthful, it’s also an Energy Star certified water heater. Electrical hot water heaters are typically the highest contributor to a household’s power bill after air conditioning. GE claim their Hybrid Water Heater can reduce energy expenses by up to 62% (US$320/year) by using two different methods of heating water. The hybrid part comes from using a Heat Pump to remove heat from the air and transfer it to…
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter which phone you’ve got, the video sound recording on them is all pretty woeful. It might have something to do with the mic being behind plastic and only accessible via a pinhole, but what do I know. Brando is here to help if you’ve got an iPhone with this Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone for iPhone. It plugs directly into your headset port and swivels in any direction to give you the ultimate in sonic directionality. It comes…
Read MoreThis WoodStation item is a motion sensing block of laminated walnut effect dead tree which conceals a fancy digital weather station and alarm clock thing. We’re not going to comment on your taste in home furnishings if you buy one. Honest. £89.95. The WoodStation’s large coloured icons show sunny, partly cloudy, rainy, snowy and stormy conditions, so even a meteorological dunderhead can suss out what shoes to wear. If Beeb style weather symbols are too tame, Ian McCaskill wannabes can…
Read MoreDigital television PVR FM radio SD memory card readers don’t come much smaller than this August DA701C unit. Sure the screen is only 7 inches and the speakers will struggle with Apocalypse Now, but an inbuilt 7 day Electronic Program Guide linked to scheduled PVR recording functionality via the USB port (store your House episodes onto a USB memory stick maybe?) and video/MP3 playback via the card reader slots means it’s a pretty versatile puppy in every gosh darned way….
Read MoreBack in the day web browsers were not content to stay simple but bloated into huge sprawling products called Internet Suites. Well hey ho, here we are a decade later and what do I spy – why the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite. My how time flies…in a circle. This suite of net tools contains a browser (based on Firefox ‘natch) an email client, HTML editor for creating web pages, IRC chat client and some web dev tools. It’s a lovely…
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