Every time you order a cone of ice cream, you always hope that whoever scooped it out knows what they’re doing. If the perfect balance is not there, you’re going to be looking at a giant mess toppling over as soon as you get it. Even at home, making a sundae for yourself can be risky business with a regular scoop, as you can project ice cream all over the place if you’re not careful. There’s always running it under…
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Table Tennis is taken extremely seriously as a sport. I mean, it’s actually part of the Olympics, so there is definitely a degree of physical exertion it takes to play this game. However, if you just want some friends over, and enjoy playing the game casually, it’s hard to get more than two to play what with all the swinging and running around. That’s why the Quad Table Tennis set is such a great option for gatherings.
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The art of writing seems to be disappearing as time goes on. By writing, I mean things like penmanship. These days we spend more time on the computer typing emails and status updates than we do with a pencil, pen or any other writing implement. Although, very now and then we like to write a letter to that relative who lives far, far away and won’t have anything to do with technology. Sure, you could use a regular old mechanical…
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During the last few months, and especially in recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about SOPA and PIPA. Thankfully these bills, which had the potential to destroy the open internet as we know it, have been shelved. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be brought up again at a later time. What’s sad is that when you look behind these proposed pieces of legislature, you find little more than a group of lobbyists funded by…
Read More![We The Lobby uses crowdfunding to lobby for non-corporate causes [Daily Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wethelobby.png)
If you’ve ever found yourself to be trapped in the wilderness, you know that making a fire is going to be essential to your survival. However, it’s a little difficult to actually get a fire going. Sure, there’s a lighter or matches, but a little bit of water could completely destroy both of those options.
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Everyone has had a use for a bucket at least once. Whether it’s for watering the plants, cleaning, or bailing out the basement which seems to keep flooding, there seems to be many a use for this simple tool. The only cumbersome thing about this particular tool is that it is rather large, and somewhat awkward to stow away when it’s not in use. This is why the Pack-Away Collapsible bucket is such a welcome relief.
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Show your opposition to SOPA/PIPA by participating in Internet Blackout on Wednesday – There’s a word that’s been… What if you could make your phone waterproof without a case? – There are a lot of ways to ruin… SolarKindle charges your eReader in the sun – It seems that books are starting… Thermador Freedom Induction Cooktop lets you set your pans anywhere…
Read MoreWe are definitely in an age of technology. Hundreds of tablets, Smartphones, and other high-tech devices are available to the general public. Being as bulky as they are, paper products are looking to become things of the past. However, a lot of important documents are still on the good old fashioned wood pulp, and if we want filing to be easy, it’s best to keep everything categorized and in order. That’s quite possibly why the iConvert iPad Scanner could come…
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We do love our gadgets and electronics. But apparently we aren’t the only ones. Orangutans in some zoos have been using iPads as enrichment to reduce boredom. For the past six months, these orange primates at Milwaukee zoo have been playing games and watching videos on Apple’s iPad. One of them, a 31-year old orangutan named MJ, is a big fan of David Attenborough’s nature documentaries. Zookeepers and and the charity Orangutan Outreach are now considering setting up WiFi, cameras…
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Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) is a continual hotbed of innovation. They recently introduced their latest – a luminous ceiling made of LED’s that simulates both outdoor light and passing clouds. Created in collaboration with Fraunhofer’s partners at LEiDs GmbH, each ceiling tile consists of 280 LED’s, with a matt white diffuser film attached beneath them to ensure that individual lights aren’t noticed. Red, blue, green and white LED’s combine to produce full spectrum lighting that lights up…
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Sometimes our muscles get tired, so we go and get a massage. However, if you have ever experienced chin, neck, or facial muscle pain, you’ve probably discovered that there aren’t many people who are going to know how to properly massage your face. I can’t seem to tell if this is a serious product or not, but the Rhythm Slim Chin Muscle Exercise Beauty Anti-Aging Face Neck Jaw Pain Gadget (yes, that’s the real name) looks as if it is…
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Those of us with good hearing often take things like watching videos for granted. Thankfully most movies and TV shows have the option for Closed Captioning, which translates the dialogue to on-screen text. However, this doesn’t always apply to videos watched online. Thankfully there is a program that can assist you with adding captions to existing videos.
Read More![JustSubsPlayer can add subtitles to any video [Daily Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Example.jpg)
When eating fresh vegetables, you must know that those leafy greens came from outdoors. This isn’t a big deal, because that’s where most, if not all plant life thrives. However, being outside and situated in the dirt, there’s a good chance that bugs of all sorts have been having a field day on anything from your peppers to your leaves of lettuce. While it’s not problematic for your body to digest these bugs, some people can’t stand the thought of…
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We are all met with the problem of pulling the wrong cord at a bad time. It’s not done on purpose, but shutting off someone’s game mid boss-battle, plunging a room into darkness by yanking the plug on a lamp, and unplugging a computer when an unsaved draft of a final paper is just sitting there can be extremely aggravating. These are annoying situations, but thankfully they can be saved by better cord organization.
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Do you ever get the feeling that you were born in the wrong time? Maybe you feel like you’d have fared better as a gunslinger in the old West, or perhaps you could have been a valiant knight at Camelot. But what about those people who think they were born millions of years too late? Well if you ever thought that you should have been alive in the Cretaceous period, riding a T-Rex, then you can be comforted to know…
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