When buying things for your house, it’s nice to find items that are a bit more unusual than you would see elsewhere. After all, what’s the fun in having the exact same stuff that your neighbor has? Well if you’re in the market for a rather unique lamp, let me direct your attention to the Silhouette. At first glance, this lamp looks just like any other, with a simple white strip in the shade. However, after a double-take you’ll notice…
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Spynet Laser Trip Wire brings out the spy in all of us
When we were young, we always wanted to be super secret special agents or stealthy spies. While a good 99% of us didn’t end up with either of those jobs, we still like to pretend now and again. (Makes you sort of wonder about that 1% doesn’t it?) Spynet has always been good about bringing the super spy out of all of us, and now they’ve done it again in a way that involves lasers. The Spynet Laser Trip Wire…
Read MoreJPEGmini shrinks your images without losing quality
If you’re wanting to send pictures to someone, or plan on hosting them on a website, size can be rather important. I’m not talking about the dimensions of the image, but rather the file size. If you’re wanting to send a set of wedding photos to your aunt, she’s not going to want to download a bunch of 3MB pictures. Thus, you might want to try compressing the images. The trouble is that depending on the compression tool you use,…
Read MoreThe Accurate watch reminds you of your own eventual demise
Have you ever been so busy with things that you stop and wonder the point of it all? I mean, no matter how hard you work, you’re simply going to die someday. It’s a terribly morbid way to look at things, despite the fact that it’s true. Life is all about living in the moment. And what better way to live in the moment than to be constantly reminded of your own mortality? The Accurate watch has a simple stainless…
Read MoreSonoma GuitarJack for iPhone
If you play music and are always trying to think up new tunes, you likely want to try and find some way to record things as quickly and easily as possible. If you have a great riff going in your head, you know just as well as I do that if you don’t find a way to get it down, then it will be gone forever. That’s why the Sonoma GuitarJack for iPhone is perfect for the musician on the…
Read MoreMake your own one-of-a-kind t-shirt using household items
Have you ever had an idea for an amusing t-shirt design, but didn’t think it was worth the effort of trying to have a screen printer make one up? It can be rather expensive, and unless it’s a really good idea, not worth it. Now if you still are bent on making the shirt yourself, you can try buying a kit with printable transfer paper, but again, that can still be expensive. But still, there is a method for accomplishing…
Read MoreSpillNot No-Spill Mug Holder
Whilst walking around at your workplace, it is a bit difficult to carry around a mug of your favorite coffee or tea. The actual act of holding the mug and walking isn’t the hard part, but all of the gravity acting against you that is trying to put your scalding drink on your clean clothes is what makes things interesting. That horizontal force that comes with walking presses the side of the cup against the liquid, which will force the…
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. Elecom Battery Charger adds juice to your phone with 4 AA’s – We all need a quick charge for our… LeoTab – An 8 inch budget Android media tablet review – Chinavasion have sent me their… Samsung announces flexible AMOLED screens, shows that they can take a beating – Look at your cellphone. What do… Use Vocre to translate speech almost instantly…
Read MoreiLuv Workstations try to disguise your iPad as a PC
Some of us prefer to work with an iPad, or simply don’t have enough room for a whole PC setup. If you want to turn your iPad into a work space, all you need are a stand and a keyboard. While you could just go for any old regular stand and Bluetooth keyboard, you might want something a little more powerful, such as the iLuv Workstation iMM737 and the iMM517 Workstation Pro. Both have an adjustable desktop docking station, and…
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