Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. Hobbit Hole Playhouse is the closest you’ll get to living in Hobbiton – When our children grow up, we want… Library of Classics MP3 gives you literary classics for almost nothing – In this day and age, reading the… PocketDroid is an iPod Touch Alternative At A Ridiculously Cheap Price – The iPod Touch has gained a… 5 Lean Mean Firefox Browser…
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The Free Universal Construction Kit is a brilliant way to connect your Lego to other kits
The beauty of building kits like Lego and Duplo is the fact that they unleash the imagination in ways that ordinary battery driven playthings can never do. Over the years the number of different building kits around the world has multiplied hugely, and one of the sad things is each manufacturer deliberately makes their kit incompatible with others in order to build their own empire. We all lose.
Read MoreNew bio-marker could predict the decline of Alzheimer’s patients
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, have released he results of a three-year long study that shows a new bio-marker that can quickly predict the rate of mental decline of Alzheimer’s patients. Released in Neurology, this three-year long study followed 60 patients with mild, early Alzheimer’s disease. The Patients with very mild or mild Alzheimer’s disease participated in the study. Researchers measured VILIP-1 levels in the patient’s spinal fluid. VILIP-1 levels appear to reflect…
Read MoreURWEK Zeit Machine Pocket Watch has more numbers than it knows what to do with
Whenever you think of a pocket watch, you likely think of a round little clock like the one the white rabbit carries in Alice in Wonderland. The URTWERK UR-1001 Zeit Machine Pocket Watch is here to challenge the average pocket watch by making it the size of a computer mouse. It is also stocked with more numbers and gauges than some cars.
Read MoreTransceiver for iPhone is the walkie talkie from your childhood
Do you remember using a walkie talkie as a kid? It was so exciting to talk to your friend who was less than ten feet away, because you got to push that little button on the side when you wanted to talk, and got to say “roger” here and there. The Transceiver for iPhone is quite reminiscent of those days, when people used CB radios instead of email and cell phones.
Read MorePanasonic Rice Cooker that uses your smartphone?
It seems as though everything is connected to our smartphones nowadays. You can find an app that correlates with anything from sound systems to heated toilets. Panasonic has caught onto the craze, and has made what might just be the wold’s first smartphone-controlled rice cooker.
Read MoreMouse Magnifier helps you see life more clearly
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they stop seeing things clearly. Politicians, bankers, Charlie Sheen’s PR manager, they’ve all suffered from the problem at one time or another. And so too the rest of us, even if not now, then one day. And when that moment arrives, we’re going to need help, of the mechanical kind, to get us through it.
Read MoreEvery Time Zone is a super cool way to track time around the world
Every Time Zone is a great way to track the time zones across the world quickly and easily. What makes it especially cool is the fact that you can move a slider along the time line to check different times in world regions before they happen, which is very useful for arranging conference call timings with foreign locations. It also sports one of the easiest interfaces I’ve ever seen for identifying dateline changes. If you’ve ever had to call Australia from the Europe and struggled…
Read MoreBrass Monkey is like a cloud based Nintendo Wii on your smartphone [Daily Freeware]
The Internet is changing everything, and especially in the world of entertainment. Nowadays you can watch television, listen to music, watch movies and play games using the ubiquitous network connection we call the Web. It’s astonishing how fast it’s advanced in just a few years. All of which means it’s great to see innovative new applications hit the scene, especially ones which really make a bold move into uncharted territory.
Read MoreFulljoin NMP001 is probably the strangest little Linux TV in the world
There’s something a little strange about this Fulljoin NMP001 Internet radio. For oen thing it’s not just a radio. It also supports Internet television streaming, which you can enjoy (we use the word in a liberal sense) on the integrated 2.4 inch LCD display. As if that wasn’t enough, the device is actually Linux powered, and the makers claim that it will happily tune in to over 20,000 radio stations and 2000 TV stations on the Net.
Read MoreYUMI makes it easy to create your own computer on a flash drive [Daily Freeware]
What with all the current talk of tiny computers, it’s easy to forget that the idea of carrying around your own computing environment on a keychain is not new. Sure, very few technologies are as cool as the Raspberry Pi, or as cheap, but it’s still possible to impress the socks off your wannabe geek grandma if you know what you’re doing.
Read MoreS3FM turns your Amazon S3 storage into a low cost online radio station
Just a few years ago, the cost of online storage was ridiculously high and the idea of setting up a streaming multimedia service like a radio station was out of the question unless you had deep pockets or a rich backer. My how times have changed. The launch of Amazon’s powerful and incredibly aggressively priced S3 online cloud storage service really changed the landscape, and encouraged a bunch of services and applications to launch to the world.
Read MoreBelkin LiveAction iOS Camera Remote makes sure you’re not the odd man out
Whenever you’re in a group setting and want to take pictures, it seems like there is always one person left out. No one wants to be the photographer and be non-existent in the memories that will be forever preserved on Facebook. Well, unless you are actually a photographer, and enjoy taking photos more so than being in them.
Read MoreAquaGlow Pool Fountain will bring some pizazz to your party
We got to look at a product that could quite possibly make a very impressive light show with the Professionally Choreographed Orchestral Fountain, but it was a little too expensive for those of us with a normal income. Not to mention that you needed to purchase the entire fountain to enjoy the light show, so it was either all or nothing. For those of you that have a pool and would like a cheaper version of this water and light…
Read MorePortable Water And Surface Sanitizer is perfect for germophobes
If you are frequently on the road or in the air, you may be forced to buy bottled water, as some tap water sources can be a bit questionable. Normally, this is only a problem found in a few foreign countries, but it’s likely better to play it safe than sorry. Buying individual filters can be a pain, so why not purchase something that is going to keep producing the same quality without having to wonder if it needs a…
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