Monthly Archives: January 2010

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SD to Compact Flash II Adapter – Use SD cards in your CF camera

If you’re afflicted with an older or high-end digital SLR, and more SD/MMC cards than you can poke a stick at, then you’ll be needing this SD to Compact Flash II Adapter. It will let you use any SD card, including the HC types, with a Compact Flash II (5mm thick) compliant device. It’s a bit slower than your traditional CF cards so you probably won’t be riffling off 30 full-res RAW photos, and type II Compact Flash cards don’t…

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SD to Compact Flash II Adapter – Use SD cards in your CF camera
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Ion Twin Video – Video camera that watches the watcher

The Ion Twin Video is a like a video phone camcorder. It has a main camera for recording all the good stuff and smaller camera on the back to video the videographer. You don’t need complicated gear to edit the video either, you can choose the desired effect while you’re recording. You can have picture-in-picture, swap between fore and aft cameras or have the images side-by-side. Records onto SD/HC cards and has X-Y stereo mics. No other specs available, but…

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Ion Twin Video – Video camera that watches the watcher
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Misa Digital Guitar – one gorgeous musical instrument for the 21st century

This beautiful looking Misa Digital Guitar is just fine in every direction. Not only does it come with some impressive tech chops (e.g. touchpad, Ethernet etc) and look great, but it also sounds like it can do the business. And to top it off the Aussie designer has powered it with Linux and open source software, so anyone can hack on it. It’s a MIDI interface of course, but even so, what a lovely way to move the art of…

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Pill Shaped Pill Box Timer – for really really really forgetful people

This Pill Shaped Pill Box Timer is clearly designed for those folks with chronically bad memories. No excuses now, Jack, not only does it beep to tell you when to take the meds, but it even looks like a capsule itself. Geddit? No chance you’re gonna take the dog out for a walk when it bleeps. Um…is there? The one thing not answered is who’s going to program the darn thing in the first place? $2.19/£1.34.  This Capsule-look pill box features…

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Indoor Fireworks Projector – the super cheesy home entertainment experience

This Indoor Fireworks Projector sure looks like fun. For about 5 seconds. “What’s on TV, dad?” Five projector lenses, 19 firework cartridges, battery power option. $203.00.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5H2wY9nC5Y  The Uchiage Hanabi is a fireworks projector that uses 5 projection lenses to blast moving and animated exploding fireworks all over your walls and ceiling. It even tracks the rocket from launch to explosion, so you can watch it just like a real show. Tags: indoor+fireworks+projector, gadget

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Mobilewitch – freeware turns your mobile phone into a Bluetooth remote control

Mobilewitch is a free program that converts any mobile phone into a universal PC remote control. The software is Java based and so should run on most conventional handsets, and uses Bluetooth which means your laptop or desktop should be Bluetooth enabled or you’ll need a USB Bluetooth dongle ($1.35). Once installed you’ll be able to do all sorts of cool things like control your PC music or video player, surf on your PC connected TV from 10 feet away…

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Google Sight Seeing – See the world from your laptop

Google Sightseeing is a site dedicated to finding interesting and odd things on Google Maps and Google Earth. From before-and-after pictures of the Haiti Earthquake, to the “Door to Hell” in Turkmenistan and the giant ship graveyard in Mauritania, there’s plenty here to wile away a wet or snowy afternoon. Tags: google+sightseeing, google+earth+sightseeing, arm+chair+travel

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Murphy’s Law Calculator – awesome tool to calculate whether you’re going to mess up

Ladies and Gennlement, the mucho brilliant Murphy’s Law Calculator. Find out the odds of you fouling up or perhaps succeeding in your next project. Gets my vote for Safety Tool of the Decade, should be a mandatory requirement for every politician and diplomat on the planet.  From a formula for Sod’s Law provided by British Gas: ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10)) – “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong!” Find out in advance whether you will be able…

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Bizarre January 19, 2010 posted by
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ManPacks – Home delivered underwear

Men, apparently we’re stupid. Stupid and lazy. If this isn’t news to you then have a look at ManPacks, delivered packs of socks, undies and T-shirts that will find you every 3 months without you having to do tedious things like leave the house, or even *gasp* go shopping. It’s a subscription service, and after choosing what you’d like delivered it’ll show up, every 3 months until you stop paying. US$36 gets you the macho pack, with 3 shirts, 3…

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ManPacks – Home delivered underwear
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Newspaper schoolhouse – Ultimate recycling

Canadian-born John Lamorie and his Taiwanese wife, Shelly Wu have built what’s probably the most eco-friendly schoolhouse in the world in Taiwan. Using more than 2,200 pounds (over 1,000 kg) of newspapers, many donated by students, the couple has built a 75 sq-meter newspaper schoolhouse in rural Pingtung county in southern Taiwan where Lamorie and Wu live. Lamorie built a blender using a truck bed and a lawn mower blade, then fed newspapers, water and cement into it to form…

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Newspaper schoolhouse – Ultimate recycling
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Netbook Tool Bag Travelers Edition – Old dog with no new tricks

If you have a warehouse filled with thousands of those multiconnector travel kits that were really popular 4 years ago, and you just can’t get rid of them, fear not as help is at hand. Just stick the word Netbook in front of them and behold the Netbook Tool Bag Traveller’s Edition. Comes with a wireless mouse, 4-port hub, a bound-to-break headset and a bunch of retractable leads. It might be a little more useful if they ditched the USB…

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Bizarre January 18, 2010 posted by
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Garmin Nuvi 1245 City Chic – The Valentines Day GPS

The Garmin Nuvi 1245 City Chic is evidence that in marketing land, all you need to differentiate is a bright colour and a pretty case. Whatever the story is, the City Chic is a 3.5″ Garmin Nuvi 1245 GPS in a delightful candy red with matching leather case just in time for Valentines Day. It’s nice and slim so it should disappear into your bag of choice and it has extra options for travelling on foot, including landmarks like public…

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Gadgets January 18, 2010 posted by
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Math Quiz Wall Clock – tell the time and show off too, why doncha?

This Math Quiz Wall Clock is designed to make everyone else in the room feel inferior as you reel off the quadratic results of your massive brain box. Well listen up Nerd-tastic, I may not be any good at that stuff, but at least I can whistle with two fingers. Yeah right, eat that!. $34.99.  Each hour is marked with a mathematical problem to solve. Metal wall clock with second sweep hand requires 1 AA battery, not included. 11 1/2″…

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Anti-Itch Insect Bite Tool – instant pain relief at the touch of a button

This Anti-Itch Insect Bite Tool promises to relieve the nasty symptoms of a bug bite by neutralising the acetic acid via electromagnetics. Does it work? Ask Harry Mosquito who had to give up his day job and return to piece work on the cucumber farm shortly after this device was introduced. Things are hard all over, folks. £4.11.  Get relief from the most painful and frequent insect stings (hornets, bees, black-flies, and mosquitos) after 20 to 30 seconds with Spectrum…

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