Why You Cell Phone Reception Sucks, and some tips on how to fix it. Nothing mind-bogglingly new here, but it’s a nice graphic and it might help trigger some ideas if you’re a sufferer. Tags: why+your+cellphone+reception+sucks, mobile+phone
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Digital Eyepiece for Telescope – Turns your analogue telescope digital
If you want a telescope with a digital capture you’re looking at big bucks. However if you’re already got an analogue telescope then this could be the answer. This Digital Eyepiece for Telescope replaces the telescope’s optical eyepiece allowing you to capture video and digital stills straight off the mirror. It comes with trial DVR software (Windows XP and later only) and it can show you live images from the telescope via your PC. It comes with a USB cable…
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T Power USB Stick – heal yourself with some geek love?
This T Power USB stick promises to reduce eyestrain, help blood circulation and generally improve your health and vitality through some unknown mechanism. We think it has to do with the fact that USB stands for Ultra Super Benefits, but we’re not sure. You’ll need to invest £39.95 in order to verify or disprove these claims, which may not be the best use of your time or money. Your call. Tags: gadget, t+power, usb+stick, usb
Read MoreBarcode Digital Watch – see the time in a whole new way
This Barcode Digital Watch features three cylinders which display seconds and day of the week. We’re not quite sure if this makes the thing easier to read or harder, but since when has that been important anyway? Priced at an astonishingly high $6.99. It features high-performance stainless steel back, and plastic watch case and strap. # Stylish Black Men’s Digital Watch display time in numbers indicate the hour, minute and second. # Right side barcode display the day of…
Read MoreHeli Mission SWAT Truck and Helicopter -awesome drive and fly combo fires your imagination, or gets you fired
The Heli Mission SWAT Truck & Helicopter combines the fun of a full radio control assault truck with a hidden compartment…whee…containing a full remote control helicopter. Two-fer! Drive up to your unsuspecting adjacent cubicle dweller with lights flashing, pop open the truck roof and take off, from the heli-pad, remembering to hum Ride of the Valkyries loudly as you do so. Bonus points for landing back on the roof again after you’ve done the harassment run. Tally Ho! £69.95. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5nQnedqKRU…
Read MoreSave a Drop Hose Nozzle – save water, several gallons at a time
This Save a Drop Hose Nozzle comes with a handy water use counter which will let you know exactly how many gallons you’re squandering using on your garden. There’s nothing better than knowing your saving the planet as well as the roses, eh? $24.95. Help decrease your overall water usage and make your home a little greener when you’re in the garden with our Save A Drop Hose Nozzle. Each nozzle features a digital readout that displays exactly how many…
Read MoreProgress Bar Clock – cute little freeware clock for geeky screen watchers
The Progress Bar Clock. A clock, in the form of a progress bar. Much of a geek are you? Picture ProgressBar Clock is a normal clock that shows seconds, minutes, hours, years, months and days. The time is mainly shown in progressbar form, but labels have been added for an accurate time. ProgressBar Clock also has a stylish glassy look. Tags: freeware, progress+bar+clock
Read MoreFileinaFlash – the super easy, no upload way send files to someone in an instant
File in A Flash is a new P2P file transfer system which is incredibly easy and effective to use. No more uploading files or emailing attachments. Just visit the site, browse to the file you want to transfer and copy/paste the resulting link to the recipient. They can then paste the link into their browser and start a direct file transfer from your hard disk, no uploads or waiting around. Perfect for quickly moving files around between co-workers. If you send…
Read MoreIntelligent Solar Pest Killer – the low power bug killing machine
The Intelligent Solar Pest Killer a very efficient device for attracting and killing bugs and pests in a large scale garden, nursery or other agricultural area. One unit with two 18V/12W solar panels and a lead acid battery can keep an area of up to 50 acres clear of pests, which it does by using light to attract them, and then electromagnetic waves to exterminate. It is portable, obviously very energy efficient, and easy to maintain. A very effective way to protect…
Read MoreHow I Cured my RSI pain – interesting viewpoint on pain relief
How I Cured my RSI Pain is an interesting little article detailing the writer’s successful experiment with mind-body treatment for his RSI pain. What makes it especially intriguing is the fact that it’s written by Aaron Iba, a programmer, successful entrepreneur and someone who was ‘highly skeptical’ until he tried the technique and found it worked for his problem. I think that’s the key really, that it may work for some people better than others, which doesn’t take away from the benefits,…
Read MoreSoundGraph FingerVU 706 – A dedicated widget screen for your PC
The FingerVU 706 is a 7″ 800×480 (16:10) external mini-monitor that connects over USB, but it’s not your run-of-the-mill external screen. For starters it’s a resistive touchscreen and it’s also a widget dock complete with its own user interface. It comes with a whole world of preconfigured widgets that show you weather, play music and videos, stream your RSS feeds, show the news and draw on the screen. You can add up to 625 widgets across 25 pages! The screen…
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Spy-Point IR-C – Infrared game camera
I’m not quite sure what the fascination is with strapping cameras to trees and letting them take photos autonomously, but I’m willing to learn. This Spy Point IR-C is an 8 megapixel autonomous game camera with an IR motion detector built-in. Any thing that pops in front of it will fill the full blast of it’s 48 LED flash, and it can shoot colour stills during the day, or B/W stills at night. It can also shoot VGA .avi movies….
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E Ink Technology Sneak Peak – we get a sneaky look at some of the upcoming e-paper displays
We were fortunate enough to grab a brief session with E Ink Vice President of Marketing, Sriram Peruvemba the other day in a bookstore in London, to have a chat about upcoming E Ink technologies and where they would be popping up in the near future. Among the interesting prototypes and samples he showed me were an E Ink access card, which contains a random number generator for instant security access and a mobile phone with a dynamic graphical cover, which changed patterns constantly….
Read MoreAdebis Photo Sorter – freeware brings order to the chaos of your digital photo collection…fast
Adebis Photo Sorter is the perfect freeware program for disorganised folk, like what I am, who have accumulated thousands of digital photos on their computer arranged in a chaotic jumble of brain ache. The program lets you quickly set up a sort order (based on date/time) and will automatically scan your hard drive and place copies of your photos in beautifully sorted folders, in month, day, year – or even time – order as you specify. The software is obviously reliant on the strength…
Read MoreCalendar 365 – duh, it’s a calendar…
Calendar 365 is a web page. With a calendar on it. Actually it’s got lots of calendars on it, perfect for that fast ‘at a glance’ check to see what day Sophie’s getting married. It’s not fancy, there’s no huge interactivity, no social networking. Just a calendar. Actually I’m lying, there’s also a handy month view which gives you sunrise, sunset and significant dates for different cities of the US. Useful. Oh and did we mention the world clocks page? This…
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