Drips is a free online art box. Just pick up your mouse, or webcam and mic (yep!) and start creating stuff. It’s fun. Y’know? You can upload to Flickr, Facebook or Twitter, and print and save your stuff as you like. Enjoy. Tags: drips, art, online+application
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EconoDriver – clip a cool car computer to your keychain
EconoDriver is a car computer which you clip to your keychain. The device is designed to help you drive carefully and conserve fuel, but the trip reports also give useful info on how much you’ve spent on the journey and whether you wasted fuel because of sloppy driving. You need to install a small wireless dongle into the vehicle’s ‘data port’ which is normally found under the dashboard, and that’s it. Instant readouts. A great way to instantly add some intelligent…
Read MoreMint Electronic Mop – the lowly bucket jockey gets an hi-tech friend
The Mint Electronic Mop is a rechargeable floor cleaning robot that will swish its way round your hard floors quicker than you can say Beetle Bailey. The thing comes with pre-moistened and dry electrostatic cloths, and uses some sort of table top guidance system to ensure full coverage of a room. Cleans for up to 3 hours before needing a recharge and will do 1000 sq ft of dry or 250 sq ft wet cleaning. We suggest you try and…
Read MoreWakeMate – smartphone accessory helps you sleep better
WakeMate is a smartphone kit which is designed to help you sleep better. Rather like the Zeo Sleep Coach we featured a while back, this puppy promises to help you analyze your sleeping habits, while also ensuring you wake up refreshed and ready for the day via an intelligent alarm clock system. The kit supports iPhone, Android 2.x (earlier versions coming up) and Blackberry, with Symbian also coming. The product is priced at $49.99 including wristband, dongle and software and is available via…
Read MoreWood Burning Iron – mark your stuff the primal way
Forget about all this fancy embossing and engraving stuff, when you absolutely totally need to brand your chattels, you’re gonna need one of these Wood Burning Iron things. Make sure the people know who owns what in your neighbourhood, comes complete with 7 different decorative stamps and a set of writing tips. £8.99. * Great for the decorative marking, inscribing or embossing of wood or leather * Includes 7 stamps with different designs and 7 different writing tips * With…
Read MoreSpyShelter Personal Free – freeware anti-keylogging and anti-spyware tool
SpyShelter Personal Free is a freeware anti-keylogger and anti-malware tool. The free version is for personal use only, but other than that comes with a impressively comprehensive set of functions for locking down your computer. As well as monitoring for key-loggers and trojans, the freeware automatically creates program whitelists, and you can also manually set a list of restricted programs which cannot alter the registry et al. I generally tend to find these ultra low level security programs a little intimidating, but it’s nice…
Read MorePSX4Droid – play Sony Playstation games on your Android phones
PSX4Droid is a PSX emulator which lets you play Playstation games on your Android phone. The emulator costs $5.99, and you’ll need a high end phone to get the most out of it, especially if you want to use the full controls. The software requires a bit of setup and config, and you’ll need to grab some ROMs of your games in order to play away. Here’s a full walkthrough of the process you need to complete. Looks like the days of the…
Read MoreFree eBooks – download free ebooks for free. No charge….gratis…
Free-eBooks.net is a free ebook download site. It features a great interface which makes it a cinch to read books online, or download them in a variety of formats. You need to register, but it’s free, or you can sign up for a VIP membership at $49.95 a year which gives you additional download rights and access to an online storage area for your favourite titles. The design is simple and easy to navigate, with a great category and author search, and each title…
Read MoreDragontape – awesome new app lets you create mixtapes of your favourite videos
Dragontape is a new web application for creating video mixtapes of your fave Youtube videos. It’s brilliant! Just fire it up, enter your search term and drag and drop the resulting videos onto the timeline. Perfect for creating an awesome music video playlist for your party, or just setting up a kittens video timeline to keep the little ones amused for a while. Dragontape is a webapp that enables you to create mixtapes of your favorite online videos, so you can watch…
Read MoreFerret posts this week
Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. iZiNN CJ-3 Nokia N8 clone – Finland cringes after receiving Android love – This iZiNN CJ-3 Nokia N8 clone… Spinning Wheel of Doom – badges show off your l4m3 cred… – These Spinning Wheel of Doom… Electric Cigarette Maker – cancer on tap… – This Electronic Cigarette Maker… Minimem – freeware optimizes Windows memory for faster operation – Minimem is a neat freeware……
Read MoreUSB Solar Charging Port Hub – charges, powers, connects and shines
The USB Solar Charging Port Hub works hard all day so you don’t have to. You can plug your flash drives into it as needed, stick it in the sun to recharge the internal battery as an emergency power brick, and even carry it along to LAN parties to demonstrate the versatility of your adapter tips. Oh and it’s also an LED flashlight. Life doesn’t get any finer than this, my peeps, it really doesn’t. $22.00. The USB Solar Charging 4-Port Hub with Torch is not only a…
Read MoreAutomatic Fresh Pasta Maker – you sure you knead this…?
This Automatic Fresh Pasta Maker is called Luigi. At least in our universe it is. And Luigi’s fresh pasta is the talk of the town. Soft, fluffy, and ever so clingy, just like the sauce likes it. Luigi is thinking of opening up a small Trattoria down the street, but we’re trying to talk him out of it. $199.95. Eliminating the strain of hand-kneading, the mixing bowl’s paddle automatically combines flour and eggs and moves up and down to mimic…
Read MoreHama Zero Solar Powered Bike – 220 km of travel for just 2 Yen
The Hama Zero Solar Powered Bike can travel for 220 kilometres for a cost of 2 Yen ($0.02). That makes it rather cheap to run, right? Top speed is 72 km/h and it takes 20 days to charge up. We jest, but note that the video does say you use mains power to charge when it’s a cloudy day. Interesting product, and notice the ultra frictionless wheel tech. We could see that in other products soon maybe? “Here’s the solar panel,…
Read MoreHM4 Thunderbolt – not so much a watch, more a work of Spock
This HM4 Thunderbolt wristwatch is either designed deliberately to look like a StarTrek propulsion unit, or someone needs to get help and quickly. The marketing blurb tells us it’s got a ‘three dimensional horological engine’, our brain tells us it’s also got an obscenely high price tag, what with all that Titanium candy-floss and all. Anyway you can ‘make it so’, if you’ve got $158,000. The aviation-inspired case and engine of the Thunderbolt are one. Neither would, nor could, exist without…
Read MoreCoveroo – add a custom backplate to your mobile phone
A Coveroo is a customised backplate for your mobile phone which replaces the boring old grey, white, green one you get as standard. So no, it’s not a case, nor is it a skin protector, nor is it a decal. It’s a complete replacement plastic back cover with a custom laser engraved image set into it. Interesting idea. They call it giving your phone ‘personality‘, we think it’s just showing off. But hey, it’s your $20–$60.00, so knock yourself out….
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