Grow Show is a cool new service which lets you upload photos of your children to build a physical time-lapse photo frame which shows off your little ones as they grow up. The clever bit comes with the magnetic frame system called Grow Frame Timelapse, which lets you add, arrange and group images in all sorts of interesting ways, as well as cope with multiple siblings. The only thing we can confidently say is that this will eventually embarrass your…
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Digital camera protective bag with built-in tripod
There are quite a few of these digital camera protective bags with built-in tripods about the place, but Brando gives it to you on the cheap. The bag is actually a hard case and there’s room inside for a small sized point-and-shoot and a little pocket for a spare battery or memory card. The tripod can swivel 360� and tilt upwards to about 45�. US$12 Bag can be become as a Tripod to take a self-photo! / Become a Tripod…
Read MoreICSI Netalyzr – awesome free tool to check your Internet connection
The new ICSI Netalyzr is an awesome new online service which runs a Java test of your Internet connection and feeds back all sorts of tech information, along with explanations. The results are also colour coded so you can tell which are serious and which not so much. It comes from Berkeley U., so you can be sure the tech is top slice and it’s a superb way to check if your connection is all it should be. A must-have…
Read MoreRCA Airnergy Charger – Recharge your devices using WiFi signals
The RCA Airnergy WiFi Hotspot Power Harvester creates energy out of the air, at least if it’s in a WiFi zone. This amazing charger – featured at the recent CES 2010 in Las Vegas – “grabs” energy from a WiFi hot zone and converts it into electricity, while the internal battery charges itself. It can charge a Blackberry from 30% to 100% in around 90 minutes! And unlike solar chargers, it can charge itself even at night when in proximity…
Read MoreBattalion Touch Notebook – world’s first multitouch gaming laptop
The Battalion Touch Notebook is apparently the world’s first multi-touch gaming laptop computer. The rest of the spec seems fairly standard for a 15.6 inch laptop, so we’re wondering exactly what market really wants to swap the lean back ease of use you get with a mouse and keyboard for the hunched over finger stretching hassle that comes with multi-touch screen technology? Sure it’s cool for mobile phones, but a notebook computer? Really? Anyhoo, those of you with an urge…
Read MoreGerm Free Remotes – you stay healthy out there, y’hear?
Just when we thought we’d seen it all, up pops Germ Free Remotes, the classiest business idea in a century. Take one ordinary remote control unit – A. Take one custom fit plastic bag – B. Insert A into B. Seal bag – profit! Genius, simply genius. Why didn’t we think of this? The average number of bacteria on a typical remote control is 320, and remotes have higher levels of bacteria than any other object in hotel and hospital rooms…Germ…
Read MoreXEN XHT668 HDMI Ethernet hybrid cable – grab some Internet with your HD viewing
The XEN XHT668 HDMI Ethernet hybrid cable lets any Internet enabled HDMI product share its connection with another Internet enabled device. So your smart TV can talk to your smart DVR which in turn can chat to your smart satellite box and so on. That’s a lot of smarts. Luckily the cable also features 24K gold plated connectors and ‘proprietary Nitrogen Gas-Injected Polyethylene Dielectric’, which is reassuring, doncha think? £129.00 for 1.5 metres and good luck with the indoor aerial Maureen….
Read MoreTurn your Google Docs account into a Dropbox clone…
The recent announcement by Google that you can upload and store any kind of file in your free Google docs account is likely to spawn a raft of new services offering additional functionality. One such contender is likely to be the Cloud Hero service which offers a free mass file upload service to manage the files between your desktop and the Net. The $10.00 Cloud Hero Sync version gives you automatic synching of your Google Docs files and desktop machine. Every time you modify…
Read MoreHolophone PortaMic 5.1 – Surround sound 5.1 microphone
Most of the familiar multi-channel sound that we hear; stereo, 5.1, 6.1 etc, is produced in post-production. Multiple (usually mono) sound sources are mixed and tweaked to produce the surround-sound-extravaganza that we know and love. Well Holophone do things a little differently, they make a range of 5.1 surround sound microphones, including the PortaMic 5.1, that can record 5.1 sound using a single mic. The PortaMic 5.1 sits on the microphone accessory shoe of high-end camcorders and lets you record…
Read More6Rounds – online meetings get some fun style glitter
They’re pitching 6Rounds as a ‘social webcam experience’, which basically means you get to watch each other with live video while indulging in games, social events or other online activities. Sharing the moment, see? I guess it’s a reasonable supposition, but you can’t help feeling that all this trendy social engagement would be so much more meaningful if you could just leave the house occasionally and become less remote and more in-yer-face. Anyway, interesting idea. 6rounds is a live meeting…
Read MoreYouTube does Hulu – and so the seventh dimension pops into existence…
Wow, colour me late to the party, but YouTube now does television and movies? No way! Way? Wow! Not just cheesy Net knock-offs either, but also fave mainstream TV stuff like The IT Crowd, Fawlty Towers and Wallace & Gromit. Sure the video quality ain’t comparable to Voddler or regular broadcast, but hey, it’s free and stuff. And there are movies too. Wow again. Tags: youtube, movies, hulu
Read MoreAdy Gil Sunk
It must be summer, Sea Shepherd are back in the news. The Ady Gil, ex Earthrace, Sea Shepherd’s stealth anti-whaling boat was involved in a collision with a Japanese whaling vessel on January the 5th. The result wasn’t good for the 6 person crew or the 13 tonne carbon fibre vessel and 2 days after the collision it sank but not before the fuel and equipment was offloaded. One of the crew sustained some broken ribs. But it’s all good…
Read MoreioSafe Solo SSD – Solid state ruggedness
We’ve talked about the ioSafe range of semi-indestructible hard drives before, and as well as increasing the storage capacity to 2TB they’ve now changed gears and are offering solid state external hard drives. The ioSafe Solo SSD gives you the same 30 minute 1550�F fire protection and 30 day water immersion protection in up to 30 ft of water (non-operating). The hard drive comes in a range of sizes up to 256GB and there’s the addition of eSATA connectivity on…
Read MoreOWLE iPhone Video Rig – James Cameron, please call in, your time’s up…
Now here’s one ridiculous piece of tripe tech. The OWLE iPhone Video Rig is designed to help you take ‘professional’ quality video with your Apple phone. *Boggle* Like the iPhone has this absolutely amazing video capture capability which rivals top class products like the RED camera, so you totally need a fancy looking system to improve your footage. Yeah right! It doesn’t get any better than this, does it? $129.99. Now the OWLE iPhone Video/Rig solves that problem using anodized billet…
Read MoreLaptop Case and Organizer – pack it away James Bond style
Fact is, we of the gadget generation are carrying around too much stuff. You only have to work out how much time it takes to gather up all the chargers, cables, devices, accessories, memory cards and assorted gubbins when taking a weekend trip to know this is true. So maybe this Laptop Case and Organizer is just what we need? A place our little bits can call home? But for $129.00 perhaps I’ll just stick to the tatty supermarket plastic…
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