The Snowflake is a super-cute plug-and-play, high quality USB microphone. The neat design allows it to sit on a desk with its built-in stand or to hang over the back of a laptop monitor. Slide it into its drawer to protect it and to store the USB cable. Ideal for podcasting, narration, Skype and VoIP, IM software and even vocals-recording for your next big single, Blue Microphones reckon the Snowflake can do it all. It works with Mac and PC…
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Dup Detector – hunt out those duplicate photos on your hard drives
Dup Detector is a very clever freeware utility designed to locate duplicate photos on your hard disk. Dupes are an inevitable part of life if you do a lot of – disorganised – photography, so this tool is probably the single most useful thing you can install if you have images scattered across disks and machines. It will find near matches too, so even if you have cropped or resized and stuff, you’ll be able to track down the similar…
Read MoreMonstrous iPhone Battery – Never say die
This Monstrous iPhone Battery from ThinkGeek sure lives up to it’s name, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why they didn’t just make it fit behind the phone? The battery is 3000mAh with LED charge indicators and it will add either 500 hours of standby, 8.5 hours of talk/surfing time, or 40 hours of music. It uses the ordinary iPhone cable to charge and it weighs 105 g (3.6oz). Works with the 3G or 3GS. US$59.99…
Read MoreTrack Ball Mouse Numeric Keypad Hub – Nothing else to add really
You thought you’d seen it all didn’t you? Well behold the Track Ball Mouse Numeric Keypad Hub, chock full of computer interconnected goodness. The thumb-driven trackball works with the mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Stick it in your laptop bag if you can fit it and you’ll never need another peripheral. The only bit I don’t understand is whether you can slide the whole thing around as a mouse as well. Buy one and let us know will you?…
Read MoreLazer Tripwire – Keep people out of your stuff
Use these Lazer Tripwires to make an invisible fence around your precious valuables. Each unit has a sender and receiver and if any of the beams are broken the alarm will sound. Use the bottle of “special laser water” to mist the beams and align them. You can add as many units as you like to extend the fence. The lasers are eye-safe LEDs and each unit needs 2 AAA batteries. US$42.49 for a pack of three from Amazon. In…
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. Pico Plumber – Fixes pipe leaks with E. coli – The boffins at the University of… Thunderbird 3 RC2 – latest release candidate confirms that this is one sweet email client – The latest release of… Bike Speaker Bag – Keeps your music player dry – This nifty Bike Speaker Bag lets… CarGo – Saves car spaces for parking bikes – Copenhagen,…
Read MoreEneloop Kairo – Keeps hands warm
Winter means a constant battle to keep hands warm and Sanyo has just released two new Eneloop Kairo portable rechargeable hand warmers that will do the job. The single-sided Kairo KIR-SE1S comes in white or pink, while the double-sided Kairo KIR-SL2S is available in silver or pink. Use them in or outdoors. Smaller than a deck of cards, the Kairo fits easily in a purse, pocket or backpack. The 2 versions differ in that the single sided has an internal…
Read MoreVenturer HD Camcorder Titanium – Tiny adventure camcorder
If you’re looking for a smaller and cheaper mini HD camcorder than the Flip, have a look at the Venturer HD Camcorder. The Venturer gives you full HD video recording in a package that fits in your hand. It can record 30 FPS at 1920×1080, 1440×1080, 1280×720 resolutions or 60 FPS at 848×480 and video is saved as MPEG4 (H.264 or .mov). It will also take 5 megapixel photos, 8 MP if you don’t mind a bit of interpolation, and…
Read MoreCR-5500 JBOD USB Thumbkey – Turns microSD cards into useful
PhotoFast, the people who brought you the microSD Compact Flash Adapter, have done it again with the CR-5500 JBOD USB Flash adapter. At one end it’s a normal USB flash drive, at the other end, it’s a 4-stacker microSD array. Just stick in up to four, formatted microSDHC cards (they can even be different sizes) and using the JBOD (just a bunch of discs) protocol, they’ll magically appear as a single USB drive. No drivers, no worries, works with Windows…
Read MoreThe Talking Teaching Alarm Clock – help them understand it’s time to get a job
The Talking Teaching Alarm Clock is supposed to teach your little tykes how to tell the time. We think there ought to be a model which teaches them how to smell the roses instead, but maybe we’re just incurable romantics. We’re also not sure how a complicated digital/analogue interface coupled with ‘five levels of difficulty’ is really the best way to make ‘em love the idea of recording the passage of their swiftly vanishing youth. Sigh. $49.95. The clock displays…
Read More4-in-1 Red Laser Pointer with WiFi – you pointing at me or just happy to get a signal?
It’s actually no fun being a boring old laser pointer, just staring at a whiteboard screen all day. How much more jolly to be a 4–in-1 Red Laser Pointer with WiFi then, eh? Not only highlighting words on a wall, but detecting WiFi connections, scaring away darkness with your LED flashlight and scribing stuff as a PDA stylus. $49.95. Gosh! Find the nearest wireless connection on the go with this cool laser. Equipped with a state-of-the art Wi-Fi detector, this…
Read MoreKeyScan KS810-P Color Scanner Keyboard – combo PC keyboard scanner gets the data entry job done double quick
The thing I love most about the marketing image for this KeyScan KS810 Color Scanner Keyboard is the fact that someone thought it was really really important to include the words ‘magazine not included’ on the page. I want you to close your eyes, lean back and digest with delight the thought of that conversation. I get goosebumps. $99.99. The KeyScan KS810-P Color Document Scanner PC Keyboard scans a variety of paper documents with smooth surface plastic cards up to 1mm thickness…
Read MoreMedia Monkey – the ultimate music freeware
Media Monkey is for serious music playas, what need the power of an all-consuming player, converter, jukebox, device synch, ripper, auto tagger, burner, podcast scheduler and music mood mixer. If you’ve got music on a hard disk, this is the puppy you need. It’ll cope with up to 50,000+ tracks and recognises iPhones, iPods and most MP3 devices on the market. And dude, that’s just the free version. The UI is a bit 1990’s but it’s fast, small and works hot…
Read MoreKids expelled for parent’s parking – Tough love
[Photo from Flickr] Harried parents dropping children off at school seems to be problematic in most places, however Bede Academy in Blyth in the UK is trialling a tough stance on parents who insist on flouting safe parking laws. The Academy will give infringing parents 3 strikes before expelling their children from the school. Being the UK I’m sure this will catch on. [Via Autoexpress] A spokeswoman for the Academy said: “We cannot expect the young people to be responsible,…
Read MoreT3D – turn your boring old 2D photos into 3D lovelies
The T3D program gives you the power to convert your boring old photos into glorious 3D. You’ll need a pair of special goggles in order to view the results properly, but the good news is the program can convert into a range of 3D formats, so you may not end up with a headache. There is a free version but it watermarks the images, so you’ll probably have to fork over the $39.95 if you want to do things properly….
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