Monthly Archives: November 2010

Gadgets November 1, 2010 posted by

The $82 Smartbook Mini Laptop – almost cereal packet fodder

This $82.00 Smartbook Mini Laptop features an ARM chipset, 256 MB of RAM, WiFi, 3 x USB ports, ethernet, SD memory card slot, headphone and mic ports, audio speakers, four hours battery life, and a 7 inch screen. It runs Windows CE and if you club together and buy more than eight, the price sinks to $77.17.   System: Embedded Windows CE 6.0 operating system, high security and virus free # CPU and Chipset: ARM 926EJ Core Laptop CPU # 7 inch…

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Hanebrink All Terrain Electric Bicycle – all of the zoom, with none of the vroom

This Hanebrink All Terrain Electric Bicycle features a 600W electric motor driving the rear wheel, 14 gears, a top speed of 20 mph and a run time of 1 hour (after a 3 hour charge). You can strap on extra Lithium batteries for extra range up to 5 hours and those chunky tyres are designed to handle most off road environments you’ll find in your neighbourhood. You’ll need a little bit of $5500.00 to buy one though, so good luck with…

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Recordable Parrot Wireless Doorbell – squawk…

Not a lot to say really. It’s a Recordable Parrot Wireless Doorbell. Y’know. A parrot which doubles up as a wireless doorbell, onto which you can record your own audio. Give one to a friend, or ex. Arf! $13.06.  Novelty wireless doorbell, with a Parrot that will either give a bird song when the doorbell is sounded, or will play back up to 6 seconds of prerecorded sounds. A wonderful gift idea, this Parrot Wireless doorbell is easy to install…

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Crazy Browser – the smallest, fastest loading, full featured web browser in the world

Crazy Browser is the smallest and fastest loading full web browser I’ve come across. Sure there are smaller browsers like the OffbyOne browser, but who needs something that doesn’t support Javascript (thereby ruining most sites on the web today)? I need a tiny (710K) fast (i.e. instant load) browser for those times I just want to search for something or check out a site quickly, and I don’t want to hang around waiting for Firefox/Opera/Chrome to do it’s load up…

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Vici.tv – browse YouTube by anything you want

VICI.TV is a clever new hack on the venerable video site which lets you search for any topic you like and browse the results with instant controls. Don’t like what you’re watching? Then just hit the forward button. Not quite sure what the sidebar is for (maybe just a suggestion list?), but the full screen option is cool and the whole thing is rather addictive. [Via] Tags: vici.tv, youtube, search, video

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Restore Your Missing USB Drive in Windows (updated for Windows 7)

Ever suffered from that sinking feeling when you insert a USB flash drive into your computer and it fails to register? Yeah, annoying isn’t it? No to mention the panic attack as you realise it contains the only copy of the data you need. Well kudos to the HowtoGeek folk for coming up with a simple cure which recently worked for me on a drive I was about to throw away as broken. Apparently a lot of the problems with USB drives that go…

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