This Mini Donut Maker is perfect for those dreams. You know the one, where sweet, sticky consumables contain no calories, carbs or harmful additives and can be eaten safely in large quantities. Sigh. $29.99. Bake delicious donuts without icky frying! Mornings will never be the same once you switch on this donut machine. It’s so easy and convenient you’ll never have an excuse not to have donuts! Makes 7 mini fresh donuts in under 4 minutes. Easy to use non-stick…
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Magtenlight – zero battery bike light illuminates your way with magnetism
This Magtenlight Bicycle Lighting kit provides zero battery illumination by harnessing the power of magnetism. Just clip the magnets to the wheel, attach a rather clunky generator unit to the front forks and bingo, let there be light. The generator turns at a rate of 150 RPM when the bike is travelling at 15 km/h, but the really cool thing is the fact that the lamp keeps on shining for 4 minutes after the bike has come to a halt….
Read MoreiRecord Pro – Records anything and sticks it on your phone
The iRecord Pro is a simple way of recording almost anything and cramming it onto your iPhone/iPod/Zune/Blackberry/AppleTV/PSP or PC. It can do most resolutions all the way up to SD (720×480/576) at either 25 or 30fps. You can plug almost anything into it including; turntables, VCRs, CD players, DVD players, cable box or radio. You can even leave it to record programs without you being around and it can time-shift video and radio, encode video and transcode MPEG2 into H.264,…
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DocFetcher – freeware delivers instant deep file search on your computer
DocFetcher is a cool freeware program which gives you the power to search deep inside your documents and folders. The software supports a whole bunch of formats, ranging from .doc, .ppt and .PDF to HTML and vector graphics files, which makes it very useful for finding stuff within a large collection of files. I like the simple interface and the fact that the indexing is nice and swift, around a minute to index 200 documents. But by far the most useful part…
Read MoreThe Meaning of Color – a must-keep explanation of the impact of color in design
The Meaning of Color is an absolutely brilliant post (the first of three) from Smashing Magazine which looks at the meaning of color in terms of design. It comes with some great practical examples of the use of color in web design. If you’re involved in design or even just interested, then you really need to bookmark this and keep it for permanent reference. Outside the western world, red has different associations. For example, in China, red is the color…
Read MorePolitical Compass – find your place on the political spectrum
The Political Compass site helps you locate your political place in the world by asking a series of basic questions. Well some aren’t so basic, but anyway… If you’ve ever wanted to know just how far right of Attila the Hun you actually are, or feel a deep kinship with Mahatma Ghandi, now’s the time to find out for certain. Actually the finesse of the final results chart is such that you might end up rather surprised. Interesting! You can also…
Read MoreFlower Design Baby Monitor – Cute and useful
This Flower Design Baby Monitor is what happens when webcam designers make baby monitors. The baby-end of the setup is an adjustable, clip-on, nightvision camera and microphone with a lovely flower design. It still requires AC power but it connects to the base station wirelessly over a choice of 4 channels with a range of 30m. The parent-end has a 1.5″ colour screen, speaker and an AV-Out for connection to a TV. ~US$60 This baby monitor will allow parents to…
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Miele Hybrid Vacuum Cleaner – Battery powered vacuum cleaner with oomph
Sure, Dustbusters and other cordless mini vacuum cleaners are useful but they’re horrendously noisy and they only give you 5 minutes of vacuuming on a charge. Enter the Miele Hybrid Vacuum Cleaner (warning very painful Flash site), a home vacuum cleaner that can run on mains or battery power. The cleaner is a bag-filtered, 1,800W cleaner with a 9 levels of air cleaning, and a built-in attachment caddy around the hose base. The lightweight Li-Ion batteries can power the vacuum…
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Flair Hair – Hair replacement surgery
Flair Hair is outrageous hair, supplied in an easy-to-apply sun-visor. There’s a few different styles and a colours and the visor is fully adjustable. Not guaranteed to make you interesting though. US$19.99 It’s not just hair when yours is not there — get stealthy with this new Camo Flair Hair visor. This fashion-forward model will keep you covered without blowing your cover. Fully adjustable. Tags: gadget, flair+hair, fake+hair, hair+hat
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Digital Scale Measuring Jug – always there for you, wet or dry…
Hot from the ‘oh that’s clever’ dept, comes this Digital Scale Measuring Jug, which not only measures your liquids but weighs your dry stuffs too. Gosh. In fact it’ll also measure your dry stuff and weigh your liquids (keep up at the back) which is even more awesome. It’s at times like this you realise all is well with the world. $39.95. A 1 1/4″ LCD on the handle displays digital measurements in ounces, pounds, or grams. The scale automatically…
Read MoreFujitsu F-01B Mobile Phone – more tech spec than a Mars Rover
Think you’ve got a smartphone? Think again. This Fujitsu PRIME F-01B handset comes with…wait for it… 3.4 inch touchscreen 12.2 megapixel camera (with ISO 25600 and 28mm wide angle lens) Golf swing trainer (using internal sensors) Water resistant to a depth of 1.5 metres Fingerprint sensor for security Exercise monitor (measures calories burned during exercise) Now *that’s* a smartphone. This application extracts body-motion data collected by sensors built into the mobile, uses it to analyze the arc of the user’s…
Read MoreTomato T99 Motion Controlled DVR –
The Tomato T99 Motion Controlled DVR takes the security equipment business into completely uncharted new territory. What with the cute name, the range of cartoon colours and the type of design you’d expect to see on a consumer pocket product, this is definitely not yer granpappy’s security cam. The thing will sit there recording VGA quality 25 fps video of its surrounding triggered by any motion in field of view until its 2 GB memory is full. Complete with auto-switch…
Read MorePeratech QTC technology – touch sensitivity coming to a mobile phone near you soon?
The good folk at Peratech have just signed a $1.4 million deal with Nissha, ‘one of the world’s largest manufacturers of touch screen technology’, to license Peratech QTC force sensitive technology in small touchscreens. If the tech takes off we could see a raft of new phones with pressure sensitive touchscreens, offering new features such as pressure sensitive artistic capabilities on a cell phone, faster scrolling with increased finger pressure or audio loudness control based on the pressure exerted on the screen. The trick is done…
Read MoreDisposable Sunglasses – Stick em to your face
I guess these disposable sunglasses make sense, on some level, somewhere. They’re printed onto sellotape and you just tear off the style you want and stick them onto your face. I’m a bit late though, they’re so totally last season darling. You can buy them here. �11 Since first coming together in 1995, Azumi and David have progressed through a variety of creative projects – initially with limited edition artist’s books and performance art, moving gradually on to fashion and…
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Data Crow – the ultimate freeware data cataloging program
Data Crow is a cross platform freeware database program which is primarily being pitched as a media catalog manager, but which can clearly do much more. The program is Java based, which has its good and bad points – while it should run on any hardware that supports Java, it can also feel a little sluggish in operation, even with an empty database. The main section deals with managing your collection of anything from movies to music, books and photos….
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