Your Face in 20 Years. Upload your photo, wallow in some temporally oriented cosmic depression for a bit. Then have a cup of tea. Luckily I didn’t come out too bad! In20years is using advanced face detection and morphing technology to predict what your face would look like in 20 or 30 years from now. Our magical engine turns your face old automatically. All you have to do is upload your photo You can also see what future holds for…
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Minox Digital Spy Cam – Hollywood prop favourite comes in from the cold
This Minox Digital Spy Camera comes from an illustrious pedigree. Bond, Flint, Kuryakin…at one time or another they probably all handled one of its classical 60s predecessors. Not sure how many real spies did though. But now it’s back, in a brand new, retro styled, film-less package guaranteed to scare Herr Blofeld to death. Five.1 megapixel, microSD card storage up to 16GB, 50 cm close focus for those oh so secret documents, and an external flash that would choke a Doberman….
Read MoreInteractive Intelligence Games for Dogs – make them work for their supper
I think the idea behind these Interactive Intelligence Games for Dogs is for you to hide a tasty snack inside them, and let your poor pooch snuffle around for an hour or so trying to dig it out. The amount of intelligence exhibited by this pathetic scrabbling will be demonstrated by just how long it took your mongrel from Mars to finish the task. Or something. From $29.99. Hide the treats in the compartments, place the bones in their slots, give…
Read MoreRestore Clean Water System – make your tap water luxuriously expensive
So how do you make your tap water as expensive as store bought bottled water? Why just throw it in a Restore Clean Water System and plug it in of course. So not only are you spending dosh on the filters to sift out all odorous stuff, but you’re also purifying it with the integrated UV lamp and using electricity for the privilege. Bingo, double whammy. From around $99.00. Restore is a breakthrough in clean water. It uses a revolutionary…
Read MoreMoney on Thread – freeware budgeting program makes your finances less scary
Money on Thread is a cool new freeware financial budgeting program which aims to make it easy to track your income and expenditure by running it all in a simple thread format down the page. Stuff you spend out is on the right and stuff you earn or take in is on the left. In the middle is your balance. You get all sorts of instant feedback from this kind of approach, although it won’t help you budget for the…
Read MoreNurph – real time chat for any website…instantly
Nurph is a super instant real time chat box which you can embed on any website, just by entering a URL and hitting the Go button. It’s simple, very purple, in beta and works. Login via your Twitter account. Try it. Nurph is the easiest way to chat online, but the best way to find this out is to join a Channel and to jump straight in to the REAL-TIME chat experience. Leave a Nurph Channel open in a browser tab…
Read MoreEton Scorpion – All in one survival gadget
The Eton Scorpion is a day-after-tomorrow survival gadget powered by a hand crank or just good ol’ Sol. There’s a 3 LED torch, an AM/FM/Digital radio, carabiner, solar cells, high grip weatherproof case and a USB phone charger. Now all you need is a disaster. Available now for US$50 Digital AM FM Radio Tuner NOAA Weather Band Built-In LED Flashlight Large Solar Panel Crank Powered USB Cell Phone Charger Audio Line Input Aluminum Carabiner Splashproof Rugged Exterior Skin Battery Charge…
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Wireless Flying Key Mouse – Air Mouse for your home theatre PC
Well how do you like that? We spotted this Wireless Flying Key Mouse doohickey a couple of weeks back in Shenzhen and now Brando’s got them up for sale. Basically it’s a cordless QWERTY keyboard, but when you hold down the mouse button and wave it around, it’s an air mouse. Runs on 2.4GHz wireless and needs 3 AAA batteries. US$59. The USB 2.4GHz Wireless Flying Key Mouse is a mini handheld keyboard which consists of 75 keys and a…
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Smories – Stories for kids, read by kids
Smories is an online storytelling video site for kids. Just launched, it has 50 story videos currently available but with 50 more to be added each month you can see it promises to keep shortstuff occupied. Stories are graded by suggested age and are read by anonymous (British) kids. Free, free, free. [Thanks Hiren!] Smories are free original stories for kids, read by kids. 50 added every month. Tags: online+kids+videos, childrens+stories, online+childrens+stories
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Titanium – Quadband Projector Phone
This Titanium quadband projector phone seems to have just about everything. There’s a 2.2″ touchscreen, GSM phone usable in most countries, 640×480 LED projector, FM radio, stereo bluetooth, camera and it can receive good ol’ analogue TV. Oh and it’s dual SIM too. I wouldn’t be expecting stellar battery life out of it though. It can also play 3gp and mp4 videos and the projector will throw an image 80cm across, over 2 metres away. All this multimedia heaven can…
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Umazone X-TUBE USB Surround Sound Adapter – give your laptop some 3D sound lovelieness
This Umazone X-TUBE USB Surround Sound Adapter is an uber cute vacuum tube amplifier which plugs into your laptop’s USB port to deliver real DTS surround sound lovelieness through twin speakers or DTS compatible headphones. It also comes with a mic input for recording, and a little blue light that glows in the dark for ya. Gorgeous right? But oh so fragile in your laptop case we’re thinking. $79.99. X-Tube is an one-of-a-kind USB powered audio gadget for PC laptops….
Read MoreJust 5 Mobile Phone – the ultimate anti-smartphone…
Sometimes all you need is a phone…no smarts, no fancies, just a phone. Like this Just 5 Mobile Phone. It’s got big buttons (all the better for dialling, my dear), a loud volume (all the better for…blah) and a super long lasting battery which won’t run out in the middle of the woods (6 days standby). It comes in a variety of colours, will work with any GSM carrier (hint: almost all of them) and comes with a speaker based FM…
Read MoreInstant Car Reversing Alarm – stick ’em on your reversing lights and beep beep to safety
Now here’s super clever. This Instant Car Reversing Alarm sticks onto your vehicle’s reversing light/s to provide an automatic audible warning to people when you start reversing the car. It works by light activation, so when the light hits the little self adhesive gadget, the alarm sounds. No installation hassles, no fuss. And hopefully accidents avoided. £10.95 a pair. These ingenious little alarms simply stick onto your vehicle’s reversing lights. When you change into reverse gear, your reversing lights automatically activate them,…
Read MoreAirport Control Simulator – fun game lets you manage landing planes
Airport Control Simulator is a direct rip from the most excellent iPhone and Android aircraft landing games Flight Control and Flying Aces, but done up for the PC. As you’d expect with the additional computing power, they’ve thrown in a bunch of extra features like dynamic weather, uprated real graphics and airports, complex landing manoeuvres and cool landing sounds. (!) Check out the free downloadable demo to get a taste of what you can do. The full game costs £19.99….
Read MoreBarTab – free Firefox addon controls your tab memory consumption
BarTab is a superb tool for all you Firefox tab junkies out there. It’s a free add-on which manages the loading of your tabs so you consume minimal memory until you need to access a tab. You can also set it so Firefox will boot up faster by managing startup tab loading. I’ve got it installed and it’s great. I’ve set it up to load all my tabs first thing, but then unload the ones I don’t access very often after…
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