The Slik Stik is a foldable, height-adjustable walking stick with built-in LED assistance. It has 9 LEDs in total that illuminate both the ground beneath you and the road ahead. To improve the visibility of the walker there also red LED strobes. If things go wrong there’s a panic button and alarm built into the back of the handle, and to assist you with picking up your dropped keys the handle is magnetic. The stick is powered by rechargeable batteries…
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Ekahau – Locates people and equipment via Wifi
Ekahau makes an asset tracking system that uses enterprise or VoIP level wifi routers to keep track of people or equipment. Everything you want tracked needs to be tagged with a wifi tag but there’s a tag for almost every application, including hospital patients, assets or equipment, remote temperature probes or even employees that work in dangerous or hazardous areas. They even have a wifi pager. The system is accurate enough to tell whether a tagged object has moved within…
Read MoreAtari Free Arcade Games – Where very old dead games live again
Atari have rereleased five of their original arcade games on the Atari website. If you’ve got a hankering for a quick game of Asteroids, Lunar Lander or the bizarre Yar’s Revenge then you’ve come to the right place. Who knows, maybe they’ll add more, just don’t forget to crank the sound kiddies. Atari Arcade is the place to find beloved Atari classics including Asteroids and Lunar Lander. You can play them all here online, any time and free of charge….
Read MorePhonograph 218 – be still my beating wireless broadcast
It’s the Year 2010, it’s snowing, and I’m gazing in rapt fascination at this photo of the Phonograph 218, as lovely a piece of retro, old tyme nonsense as you’re ever likely to witness coming out of Guangdong, China. As if the beautifully sculpted sleep and snooze buttons weren’t enough to set the pulse racing, you have that delicious – almost sublime – lampshade on top to set the whole thing off. Please please Mr Skyway Global Designer, never give…
Read MoreCacoo – create diagrams the gorgeous way
Cacoo may have an unfortunate sounding name, but the service itself comes over as beautiful, polished and sincere. Sure it’s yet another diagram drawing tool thingy, but it’s done with style and craftsmanship. The Japanese designed app offers multi-user collaboration as well as team annotation and easy ‘live’ embedding in blogs, web pages and applications. A good part of the allure comes from the use of lovely looking icons and components, which is guaranteed to make any layout look good,…
Read MoreEneloop Music Booster – Backup power for musicians
Sanyo’s been busy expanding their Eneloop rechargeable battery line, including this Eneloop Music Booster which is perfect for musicians – pro and aspiring alike. Aimed at musicians who use AC adapters to power their effects pedals, amplifiers, mixers, and other gadgets on stage, the Music Booster has a built-in, high capacity rechargeable lithium-ion battery that can be used in places without power. Along with this, the Booster can power two 9-volt devices simultaneously, has an LED power indicator. It’s green…
Read MoreScoring Karaoke – Sharpen your flats
Yo. SingStar. How’s your pitch? No, your singing pitch. Well grab one of these Scoring Karaoke wireless mic sets and test your mettle. Plug the box into the TV and croon along with Frankie, trip along with the Beatles or swing with the King, one hundred songs in all. The wireless mic keeps track of your singing and even records it so you can play it back later on a PC for an in-depth analysis. You can also upload new…
Read MoreUSB Voice Controlled LED Lamp – Shout your way to illumination
A USB Voice Controlled LED Lamp. What could be simpler? It has 12 white LEDS, it runs off a USB port and either shout, click or clap to switch it on or off. It also has a normal switch, presumably for those hard-to-clap situations. US$14.99 from Giz Fever. # Features: USB Powered # Super bright 12 LED Lamp # Without Blinking # No Thermal # With sensitive voiced controlled function Tags: gadget, usb, led+lamp, usb+voice+controlled+led+lamp, voice+controlled+lamp
Read MorePhotosimile 5000 – world’s first office photography machine
The Photosimile 5000 is billed as the world’s first office photography machine, but they should also have tagged it the ‘most expensive’ light box in the universe. Sure it’s got cool remote PC controlled camera positioning in two axes, zoom and tilt, turntable, controllable lighting and cool software which will output Flash, 360 degree and watermarked images. But good grief, is that worth $18,999.00? Answers on a piece of white card with some string and halogen lights please. [Thanks Matthew] …
Read MoreUSB Triple Action Keyboard Foot Pedal – let your tootsies take the strain
Is it just me, or can anyone else picture a sort of crazed looking Phantom of the Opera type figure seated at a PC laughing maniacally while playing this USB Triple Action Keyboard Foot Pedal like a demonic organ? No? OK, back to what you were doing then, nothing to see here. $119.99. Plug and Play (Use the OS built in HID drivers, don’t need do the driver-installating) – Can emulate any standard keystroke (Pre-program key functions on the foot pedal…
Read MoreuTorrent SpeedUp Pro – freeware speeds up your BitTorrent downloads?
This freeware product uTorrent SpeedUp Pro is supposed to speed up your uTorrent file downloads by ‘optimizing’ your connection settings. It’s one of a range of such optimizers for different file sharing programs like Limewire, eDonkey etc, but for some reason I’m not 100% convinced. Maybe it’s because it’s very hard to identify real speed improvements, or because there are no proper reviews from users or tech sites out there on the net yet. Or maybe it’s because the same company…
Read MoreIconizer – superb free icon maker with added sparkle and dash…
Iconizer is a very cool new online service which gives you the power to create your very own icons. For web, for software for any little reason. You get to select from a nice range of different types, play with colours and transparency and size, then generate and download in a variety of image formats. Whooeee, excellent stuff. You are encouraged and legally entitled to copy and modify any images, generated by http://iconizer.net web-site. —All images are completely free to…
Read MoreElmoto HR2 – Zen and the Art of Electric Motorcycle Design
One of the most attractive features of electric transport is its inherent simplicity. Electric bikes especially, just don’t have to be complicated, the only requirement is the regular battery charging. Elmoto have taken this philosophy and built the Elmoto HR2, a light, electric motor bike that will zip you around a busy town effortlessly. It was designed in Germany to make use of specific laws so it’s limited in a few ways. It’s top speed is 45km/h (30 mph) and…
Read MoreTelescoping Ice Scraper – Extend your glass-warming reach
Defeat the frozen windscreen monster with this Telescoping Ice Scraper. Powered by the car cigarette lighter, the heated blade will rip through the night’s ice and snow, helping you get to work faster, which is really what you want right? It has a built-in LED to help you find things in the dark and the handle extends to 18″ long. US$12.98 Heated Ice Scraper Telescopes For Extended Reach! Easily telescopes to reach the other end of the windshield. Heating coil…
Read MoreDigital Outdoor Thermometer – Simple but effective
Through the miracle of transparent glass technology, this digital outdoor thermometer resides outside but can still be read whilst you’re inside in the warm or cool. Degrees? I got degrees, it works from -20�C to 60�C (-4�F to 140�F) and the stylish display rotates 270� so you can see it from any angle. It also records maximum and minimum temperatures so you don’t need to boast when you’ve got guests. US$12.99 from Improvements. Digital Outdoor Thermometer sticks on your window…
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