Monthly Archives: April 2010

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Fashion For Freedom

Upset about the Mandybill, righteous citizen, subject of Her Majesty the Queen? Feel betrayed by the rushed Digital Economy Bill, undebatedly voted for in what seasoned gamers would call a zerg attack? Now it’s yours to fight back and take the most saccharinous revenge at hand: buy into a fashion statement. Fight commerce by commerce. Be proud to eat cake. So what about wearing a good ol’ times pirate ship? ($18) Showing the threat of a copy-happy cassette tape monster?…

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Ivy Carat Jewelry Case – say it with diamonds…and a multimedia videoshow

This Ivy Carat Jewelry Case looks like the perfect vehicle for popping the question. You know, that question. Sigh. No, we do not mean the burger or pizza one. Anyhoo, not only is there space in the box for a delicious diamante encrusted forever ring front and center, but also a 2.0 inch LCD screen with speaker, which will play soothing music as you hobble down on one knee. You load and charge the thing via a laptop and USB port,…

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Vibrating Anti-Snore Pillow – shake the noise silent

We’re sure this Vibrating Anti Snore Pillow must be pretty effective in stopping the sound pain, but really, is this something you’d want to inflict on your partner’s sleep patterns? How about you keep a jug of iced water on the bedside table and pour a bit over them every hour or so. Same effect, and they wake up showered and refreshed too. $52.98.  Ergonomic memory foam pillow has a hidden trick to battle snoring! When sensor detects any snoring, pillow vibrates to encourage the user to change…

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Chat Stick – snoop on your family’s chat history with this sneaky USB stick

Slot this sneaky little Chat Stick memory stick into a computer’s USB port and it will hunt down and copy across chat logs from a bunch of social network tools and sites, like Yahoo!, Skype, MSN and ICQ. We can think of all sorts of legitimate reasons you’d want to do this, and quite a few illegitimate ones too. But far be it for us to judge, eh? $99.99.  Instant Messengers have become an essential part of businesses today. Instant communication…

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uPrompt – freeware teleprompter software turns you into a Saturday night anchor

uPrompt is a new freeware teleprompter program which gives you all that cool smooth scrolling text up the screen so beloved of presidents TV anchors. Now you can talk straight to screen and fool your webcam into thinking you actually know what you’re doing. Good luck with the running for office thing, though.  uPrompt is designed to be a very simple, limited use, yet effective teleprompter. Using left-hand keyboard commands for controlling scripts, uPrompt leaves the right hand free for…

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Guvera – Free music revolution

Guvera is a new way of acquiring music for free, legitimately. It’s an advertisement-driven system but with a big twist, you have to subscribe to the ad channels to gain credits. It sounds a bit dinky but it does work. Advertisers create “channels” promoting TV shows, drinks, movies or products and by subscribing to the channel you get credits with which to purchase music. The benefit being, you only see brands and products that you want to look at but…

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NK-T5353- HTC Diamond 5353 Clone

This NK-T5353 tri-band GSM phone is a clone of the HTC Diamond 5353. It’s equipped with a 524Mhz CPU and it has 128MB of ROM and 64MB of RAM, running Windows Mobile 6.1. Other impressive features are the 3.2″ WQVGA 16:9 high definition touchscreen and you can upgrade the storage to 16GB. For $99.62 (RMB680) it sounds like a bargain. You can order it here and you can check a video of it in action below: -GSM 900/1800/1900Mhz -2.0 megapixel…

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MyPad – A 5 inch Windows PDA and phone

A Windows Mobile 6.1 based UMPC might be a strange choice of product releases for i-Week, but this MyPad has the goods. First there’s the gorgeous 5″ 800 x 480 screen with a 624MHz processor behind it. Inside there’s b/g wifi, Bluetooth 2.0, PC sync, a microSD slot (16GB max, 2Gb included) and auto screen rotation. There’s also a 3 megapixel camera and 320×240 .3gp or mp4 video recording. The phone part is quadband (850, 900, 1800 and 1900MHz) with…

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50 Free Gorgeous Web Templates – why settle for ordinary, when lovely is in town?

Stumbled across this collection of 50 Free Gorgeous Web Templates and thought…mmm…nice. Very nice. They’re in Photoshop PSD format, so you’ll need to get them coded up before use, but there’s some seriously nice stuff here. Definitely a cut above your usual pile ‘em high cheapo templates out there. If you need a web makeover you could do worse than start with one of these. Oh and there’s more than 50.  Photoshop is an excellent tool to designing a website….

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Cush N Shade – Keeps your head out of the sun

It doesn’t really matter what I write here no one is reading it, so I’ll just wait until I have your attention. All set? Away we go … the Cush N Shade is a beach accessory that keeps your head off the sand and out of the sun. There’s a little cushion for your noggin and when it’s time to go it all folds up into a neat little tote bag weighing less than 1kg. It’s AU$39.99 but they’ll ship…

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Yogo – the first electric scooter with removable batteries

The Yogo Electric Scooter. Well it took long enough, but they’ve finally delivered an electric scooter to the market which has a removable battery. Which means that a) you can now charge the thing in your kitchen without having to trail a cable across walls and asphalt and b) you can carry an extra battery to give yourself longer range. The Lithium battery pack gives a max range of 22 miles and charges up in an hour, which is pretty awesome. The…

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Hidden Camera DVR Cell Phone – brringg, brringg…smile

Wouldn’t it be cool if this Hidden Camera DVR Cell Phone actually made and accepted calls? Instead, you’ve got to walk around doing the old fake ‘really, no way’, stuff while snapping the locale and villains.  Comes with a 16GB SD card which gives 16 hours of recording, and hey, press a button and the screen even lights up to convince people it’s really a phone. Magic! Got $595.95? No? Tough then.  What looks like an average cell phone is actually…

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PeopleTowels – Reusable hand towels

No it’s not towels made of people it’s something better. PeopleTowels are reusable take-with-you hand drying towels designed to reduce the amount of waste from paper hand towels. There are a bunch of different designs, a pack of 3 costs US$21 and a pack of 5 costs US$35. PeopleTowels is the newest concept in sustainability – 100% organic cotton, reusable personal hand towels that make going green as easy as drying your hands. Switch from paper towels to PeopleTowels to…

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Context Menu Enhancer – super cool freeware gives you ultimate power over your right mouse click

Context Menu Enhancer is one of those very cool little free Windows utilities which can make your life more than sweet. It does nothing more than let you add stuff to your right mouse click context menu (copy, move, encrypt etc), but that’s definitely enough. The amount of times I’ve wished I could just click and send a file to a standard location on my hard disk. Now I can. Definitely a keeper.  Context Menu Enhancer provides you with following…

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