Monthly Archives: April 2012

Awesome April 26, 2012 posted by

JetMax-737 Flight Sim Kit turns your garage into a Boeing 737 cockpit

If you’ve never flown a real pilot training flight simulator, you’ll not know just how amazing the experience is. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve flown a full sized Boeing 747 commercial training simulator for an hour, and way back in the day a friend of mine gave me a lift in the jump seat of his Jumbo en route from New York to London.  And let me tell you, the two experiences were almost identical, except for the bumpy turbulence…

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JetMax-737 Flight Sim Kit turns your garage into a Boeing 737 cockpit
Bookmark This! April 26, 2012 posted by

Prayaya lets you run a full Windows computer on your mobile phone or iPod

There are times when you don’t want the hassle of carrying around your laptop or other Windows computer, even when you know you’re going to have to do some essential work, like over a weekend vacation. Sure you could use your host’s computer or a nearby Net cafe, but wouldn’t it be cool to have your full Windows system stored on your phone or other memory drive, ready for instant access?

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Bookmark This! April 26, 2012 posted by

Scrambls turns your browser into a cool encryption machine for private communications

Do you remember when you were small, and you invented your own private language so you and your best friend could chat to each other in the playground, and no-one would understand what you were saying? You didn’t, well you missed out big time. Of course, private languages are only for young folk, because we stop needing them when we get older. Or do we?

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Recommended April 26, 2012 posted by

SpeedClean BucketVac turns a boring bucket into a mini shop vac

If you think of having to clean up a giant mess, you would likely turn to a shop vacuum. They’re pretty heavy-duty and can handle just about anything, whether it be wet or dry, whereas your regular old dust-sucker can’t. If you don’t have one yet, you have some tough decisions to deal with. Should you choose a lower quality one, it likely will lose suction rather quickly, and a high grade is going to cost you a pretty penny.

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SpeedClean BucketVac turns a boring bucket into a mini shop vac
hardware April 26, 2012 posted by

DashDrive HD710 is a water and shock proof portable hard drive

Many of us like to constantly update the world about the things going on around us. Whether it be pictures, videos, or blogs, we want to make sure that people know what we’re up to. If you are on the road quite often, there’s a good chance that there’s not going to be much room left on your hard drive if you are constantly dumping content onto them. (mainly videos are the culprit here)

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DashDrive HD710 is a water and shock proof portable hard drive
Recommended April 26, 2012 posted by

Wiss Auto-Retracting Utility Knife might save your fingers

It is that most joyous day that you have been waiting far too long for. The package containing that super amazing thing you ordered is finally here, and all you need to do now is open it to receive its glorious contents. In your overzealous state, you grab for the box cutter, and immediately go for that first clean cut, and slice through the side of your thumb.

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Wiss Auto-Retracting Utility Knife might save your fingers
Bizarre April 25, 2012 posted by

Ghost Hunting Starter Kit makes you the one they’re gonna call

There are times when you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do, and if that includes donning a strange outfit and creeping round dark, dank houses carrying some exotic equipment, then so be it. With or without a large dog. Anyway, this Ghost Hunting Starter Kit is probably as good a place to start as any, since it comes with a bunch of gizmos which should help your search run smoother than a spray painted VW combi van.

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Bookmark This! April 25, 2012 posted by

Basket Buddy and Smoopa are great for bargain hunters, but not for retailers

Rather like using dynamite to fish in a lake, bargain hunting is becoming something of a killer sport, and the writhing creatures on the end of the line are the retailers, struggling to balance lower margins with increased price competition. Of course it’s technology that’s changing the odds in favor of the consumer, and a couple of new mobile apps are pointing the way to the future.

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Bookmark This! April 25, 2012 posted by

Wajam turbo-charges your web searches with social network results

The world now revolves around friends, the more you have the happier you are, and in fact if you don’t have thousands of mates, you’re a bit of a loser. Yeah right! OK so we’re talking social networking land here, which we all know is not exactly real. Even so, it was inevitable that companies would start to come up with clever ways to make use of all this Liking, Friending, Tweeting and Plussing…and so they have.

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Bizarre April 25, 2012 posted by

Resonating Transparent Speakers…made from SCIENCE

Upon first looking at this, I was somewhat impressed at the thought that these might be made of glass. Even though the general awe still stayed with me after finding out they are made of acrylic, it dawned on me that these Resonating Transparent Speakers would be a nightmare to clean if there are children with fingers that smudge everything around. Although, the sound quality they produce might still make this $180 purchase a worthwhile endeavor.

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Resonating Transparent Speakers…made from SCIENCE
Bizarre April 25, 2012 posted by

Vacuum Brewer turns your morning upside down

French press coffee is definitely a favorite of mine. It has leftover granules that often sink to the bottom of your cup, and they can be a bit obnoxious as it feels as though you are leaving that last drop of coffee to be forever unfinished. Thankfully there are many methods to brewing all that caffeine goodness, so it is always a happy day to find out about new ways of going about your morning ritual.

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Vacuum Brewer turns your morning upside down
Fun & Games April 25, 2012 posted by

TeleTweet App lets you use Morse code to tweet

We have seen many crazy inventions that let you post a tweet through a machine that requires you to enter each letter via Morse code. This is an awesome way to not only learn a new method of sending messages, but is also an interesting nod to the past. Even though mainstream society doesn’t use it on a day-to-day basis, it’s still a pretty neat idea.

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TeleTweet App lets you use Morse code to tweet
cool tech April 24, 2012 posted by

USB 3.0 Quadruple SATA HDD Dock says you can never have too many external drives

If you’re like me, you’ve got a bunch of legacy hard drives lying around which have accumulated from years of upgrades, broken computers and other such tragedies relating to obsolescent gear. These drives never go home to their disk heaven, they just lurk around cluttering up drawers and shelves. If only there was a way, Santa, to use them productively and gain some extra storage space at the same time.

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Awesome April 24, 2012 posted by

Tomahawk is a superb free open source music player which is a music magnet [Daily Freeware]

There’s a huge selection of software music players around at the moment, and they all have good and bad bits. However for the most part they all fail in one way or another, which means that you miss out on the best music choice on and offline. What’s missing is a tool which lets you combine just about every music source anywhere in one simple interface. Well, guess what…?

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Bookmark This! April 24, 2012 posted by

Your Logical Fallacy helps you win arguments and influence people

The Internet has spawned a lot of conversation, too much some would say. It’s also attracted unsavoury elements like trolls and bullies, as well as the most common type of online personality, the know-it-all. But often these so-called experts are less informed than you’d think, and in fact they only end up on top of conversations because they use commonly held debating tricks to confuse the unwary.

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