I don’t know, I’m thinking the only thing worse than being woken up by the ‘exterminate’ of this Dr Who Dalek Talking Alarm Clock thing, would be if it rolled up to your bed and shoved the sink plunger into your eyeball repeatedly until you made a move for the bathroom. Man, masochism comes in strange shapes nowadays, that’s for certain. $37.15. At 25 centimetres tall, this golden replica of those dastardly Daleks features an alarm clock with LCD display set into…
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LightForm – world’s first flexible LED lighting film has awesome potential
LightForm is the world’s first flexible LED lighting film. This amazing stuff comes in 10 inch x 1 mm thin strips with sticky backed 2 sided tape, which you can cut and shape to your requirements. Just attach a battery pack to one end and you’ve got yourself a red, amber, green or blue decoration or safety lighting strip for your transport or other needs. You can also sew the strips onto material, which makes me think it could offer a…
Read MoreWireless Doorbell Monitor & Camera – check on your callers when you’re out
This Wireless Doorbell & Camera combines a plain vanilla wireless door bell…natch…with a teeny video recorder. When a visitor presses the button to ring your doorbell, the camera starts working and records a video of them to a hidden removable SD memory card. The camera offers 2 megapixel resolution and 30 fps video rate and will record down to 1 Lux illumination (i.e. gloomy). When you return home, just pop the card into a reader on your computer and check…
Read MoreBiknd Helium – Ultimate bicycle protection
The Biknd Helium must be the ultimate bike transportation bag. It can carry a road bike with a 64cm frame or a full-suspension mountain bike. There’s even room inside for a spare pair of wheels. There’s a lot of novel tech in the Helium including hub covers on the outside of the bag to protect your tyres, and a hard-hitting polyethylene, drop-down endcap that takes all the hard knocks. The bag is even on wheels. The other neat bit is…
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BakadoPlayer – free media player gives ultimate control over subtitles
BakadoPlayer is a free media player which focuses on subtitle handling, which is something that most players tend to overlook. The main thing is the customisability, which means you can make them more legible in terms of position, font and colours. It may not sound like much to you, but imagine you have Italian friends over for the weekend and you’re watching that rip of The Sound of Music…! See? It’s strictly Windows media compatible, but looks like something that could…
Read MoreWholesale Oscar Dresses – For the person who has everything?
Now this is just funny. Welcome to the instant wannabe wardrobe service designed for our slave-to-the-label fashionista cousins. Mega everything-wholesaler, Light in the Box is offering Wholesale Oscar dresses, in any size, a whole day after the Oscars (ok so I’m a day late). Fancy yourself as the next Elizabeth Banks’ or what about Helen Mirren? They’re all there, in most sizes, with a 10-15 day lead time, priced around US$180. Tailor made evening dresses and party dresses at wholesale…
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Can’t You See I’m Busy? – awesome online game site delivers hidden gameplay, crouching scores
Can’t You See I’m Busy is a very cool online game site designed to give you, the slacker mouth breathing cubicle dweller, a perfect gaming experience without getting fired. The small selection of games includes a Break-Out clone based in a word-processor, a great Moon Lander in a spreadsheet and a block game. The games are all coated in these serious business environment wrappers, making it look like you’re working your socks off when in actual fact you’re just adding to…
Read MoreNew Royal Mail Online – snail mail comes out fighting
The Royal Mail, purveyors of fine snail mail services to the citizens of the UK, have launched a new updated Royal Mail Online Postage service. And it’s nice. You can now set up an online address book to save fave addresses, personalise your mailings with logos and templates and make use of fast drop areas on the high street to make sending parcels less of a queue and snore process. Just sign up, choose your mail item and desired UK…
Read MoreKideos – Kidsized YouTube
One of the best things about the ‘Net is that it stops you plonking your kids down in front of the television for hours at a time, instead you can sit them in front of YouTube and follow [insert children’s television show character here]-related video links for hours at a time. Unfortunately that does lead you, on occasion, to some not-kidsafe content. Kideos provides a subset of YouTube selected by a panel of parents, where each video has been deemed…
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Google Apps Marketplace – Better watch your back Microsoft
Google have just announced their own place for business applications – they are calling it the Google Apps Marketplace . There is a spot on one of their websites where they are showing off fifty ( yeah 50) of their partners in this venture. You can check out the video right here. This is clearly the next logical stage in Google’s plans for world domination, but there’s nothing wrong with that, right? Who wants to be using Microsoft Word in…
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White Goat – Office recycling with a twist
This ingenious White Goat machine, made by Japanese company Oriental, turns used office paper into toilet paper. Simply feed shredded paper (or it can shred it for you) into the White Goat (after you’ve removed all the staples!) and it will mix the paper with water and presto – a perfect roll of toilet paper emerges on the other side. The process takes around 30 minutes and 40 sheets of paper to make one roll. Its designers say it will…
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Joos Orange – super solar charger promises 20 x more power for your gadgets
The Joos Orange (geddit?) promises to take portable solar charging performance to a new level by delivering up to 30x more power than any solar charger currently on the market. How? Well apparently it uses a sophisticated micro-processor controlled energy management system tied to some Ninja mono-crystalline Silicon Nitride anti-reflective coated solar cells. It’s waterproof, shockproof, operates in very low light (including under water and in rain) and can store power for years on the internal 5,400 mAh battery. Most…
Read MoreAero 600W – Portable wind generator concept
With Mother Nature’s natural disasters so fresh in the news, this Aero 600W portable wind generator concept could come in very handy. Designed to provide instant power in disaster zones or areas under construction, this portable power station comes in an easy-to-transport package. The central column telescopes out in three stages to take advantage of the wind and the feet and wire guys keep it nice and steady. The base of the central column stores the wires and the batteries…
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Power Station Traveller – Home away from home for your gadgets
Just because you’re away from home doesn’t mean you have to be without your multiple device charging station. This Power Station Traveller keeps your rechargeables all neat and tidy (and out of sight) and allows you to strap them down in a car if you need. Inside the traveller is a 12V power strip with space for three 12V car power adapters. There are sliding clamps to keep the devices in place and if you want to charge via mains…
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FirstView PC607V Computer – an ‘andy Android ‘andheld for just 95 dollars?
This FirstView PC607V handheld computer runs on either Android or Windows CE and apparently costs around $65.00 to make. The minimum spec says that’s for 128MB of RAM, 2GB storage, 7 inch touchscreen, 3G SIM slot, WiFi, SD card slot, speakers and two USB ports. At that price, we’re probably talking $95 retail, which is scary. Expect a gazillion of these cheapo Chinese computers to hit the market this year and next. [Via] Tags: android, firstview+pc607v, handheld+computer
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