The Segula Double Ventilator Fan is for people who’re serious about moving air around. Why mess with a mere single blower when you can move a massive 42,377 cubic feet of the oxygenated stuff an hour with this puppy? They call them turbines, but we know they’re just fans, right peeps? Anyhow, it’ll cost you £89.95 for the privilege of stripping the fur off the cat with this little gadget. This ingenious double ventilator operates differently to other conventional fans…
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Bluetooth Recording Headset – the perfect hands-free Skype recorder
This Bluetooth Recording Headset offers up some neat wireless walk around Internet phone chat with a cool in-built recording function. It’s a great combination for either mobile phone or Bluetooth enabled laptop. The hands-free lets you do stuff while you’re talking, so of course you’re not going to be listening too closely. Which is why the one-touch recording comes in handy. Just hit the button and you’ll be able to hear your wife explain that she’s leaving you for the postman because…
Read MoreThat’s My Face – upload your photo, become someone else
That’s My Face is a wearable facemask service which will create a realistic looking composite resin facemask which you can wear to scare people at the office. Upload some photos of your boss and have fun. For a while. Unlike the other pro service we mentioned a while back, this one doesn’t have moving lips, but the good news is it only costs $299.00 for the face, and it’s delivered in 2 weeks. Sounds like a prankster’s perfect gift, doesn’t…
Read MoreSolar Cockroach – creepy gets eco crawlier
This Solar Cockroach is everyone’s idea of a perfect eco pet, right? Small black, wriggly. Saving the planet. Wait… $15.00. Cockroach design # Powered by sunlight # Works directly under sunlight # Size: 40*19*19mm # Weight: 5g Tags: solar+cockroach, gadget, ecological, solar
Read MoreWaze – crowdsourced GPS navigation promises lots of awesomeness
Waze is an awesome new free GPS navigation service which promises to radically improve the road travel experience in a number of very cool ways. For one thing the software – available in 4 languages for just about every phone platform on the planet – learns as you drive, so it will pick up on your favourite routes and suggest those after a while, which is something I have always wished for in a navigation package. The coolest thing though…
Read MoreQVAC – instant irc type chat gets a Swedish makeover
QVAC is a new instant group chat service which aims to make it uber simple to set up and chat in groups. Yesterday’s introduction of the new Groups feature in Facebook shows that there’s a demand for more contextual conversations, and I like the simplicity of this service a lot. You can set up private or public groups for any topic you like, and invite your friends to hook up instantly and there’s a private messaging feature built in if…
Read MoreMicro Samsonite – the carry-on that thinks it’s a scooter
OK, what are the odds this cute little Micro Samsonite scooter combo gets banned in every mainstream Western airport within months of its introduction? Can you imagine the terror this doozy will cause as stressed suits scurry from one terminal to another at kickboard speeds? The blue rinse brigade will have a fit. But cool idea nevertheless, especially since it fits into the overhead locker on the plane. £249.99. The result is a conventional hard shell case with cabin-size-dimensions which can also…
Read MoreDragon Quest Controller – bringing the dark arts into the living room
This Dragon Quest Controller for the Nintendo Wii demonstrates once again how hard it is to separate life from noble cause in this day and age. Gosh isn’t plunging down with a sword to vanquish evil fun when you’re in a cosy living room? $219.00 brings the quest to your hearth (or rather sofa). The Dragon Quest Monster Road Victory Controller is a home version of the arcade controller that allows you to finish off your enemies by stabbing firmly down on the special sword. Once you…
Read MoreLaser Audio Surveillance System – play like a pro without all the Tom Cruise nonsense
This Laser Audio Surveillance kit is your pukka, honest to goodness, listen at the window ’cause we’re spies, type surveillance equipment. Shine the infrared beam at the glass and you’ll be able to eavesdrop on the conversation within from 500 metres away. The price of…cough…£21,150.00 includes training. In Germany. The system allows the operator to carry out an undetectable laser surveillance operation from outside of the building up to a distance of 500 metres (Sometimes more subject to operating conditions)….
Read MoreEZCap Music Grabber – quick and dirty audio capture
This EZCap Music Grabber has got to be the simplest solution to recording from old analogue to shiny new digital. Just plug one end into your computer’s USB port, and the other into the headphone socket of your record, cassette or other player and use the software to capture the audio. It’s not sophisticated, but it should do the job. £29.95. Now you can make digital recordings from any old-fashioned audio source with a headphone socket. Convert your old vinyl…
Read MoreThe collapsable portable solar powered lamp
We’ve all seen and heard about solar powered lights. How about a Collapsible and Portable Solar Powered Lamp? This concept light couldn’t be cuter – or more portable! Designed by Swedish designer Jesper Jonsson, was designed for multiple uses. Take it outdoors, use it as mood lighting or use a bunch of them to light up your backyard barbeque. You can hang it on its strap that attaches to it by magnets, which let you place it all kinds of…
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Final Countdown – freeware controls your computer operation
Final Countdown is a freeware program for Windows that you can set to control the operation of your computer. You can shutdown, hibernate, restart, logon and off and even lock the machine at custom set times. Pretty cool if you need things to happen in your absence, for instance a lock down or shut down at night when you’re away from the office. It’s a countdown software for windows Operating systems. It shutdowns, restart, stand by, hibernate, log offs and…
Read MorePay With a Tweet – sell your products for a twitter mention
Pay With a Tweet is billed as the first social payment system. Instead of selling something for cash, vendors can gain viral publicity by asking that people purchase their item for a tweet. In that way they can possibly gain extra publicity for the product and themselves. Of course the small problem is that at the end of the day you can’t eat tweets, so no matter how viral your product goes, you’ll starve to death. But maybe it could be used…
Read MoreFour + 3 Easy Ways to Print Files from Your Mobile Phone
For some reason printing from a mobile phone is still a mystery to most people, probably because there’s no clear cut world class way of doing it easily. For that reason I thought I’d cover off a few alternatives to demonstrate that the technology is improving, albeit slowly. Print Using Dropbox. This free solution lets you print from any mobile phone using a free Dropbox account and a small Windows Visual Basic script. The idea is you move the file you want…
Read MoreParty Popper Machine – automate those boring party chores
This quaint and amusing Party Popper Machine takes the drudge out of tedious party frolics by helping with the activation of poppers. No, we’re not sure either, but there’s clearly a sensible explanation somewhere in the depths of the artist’s brain. Anyhoo, you can now have the pleasure for a measly £420.00. Excluding poppers naturally. The Party Popper Machine by Martin Smith continues his theme of devices of celebration for Laikingland. In homage to the humble plastic party toy and to…
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