It’s not even fall yet, but all we have to do is blink and it’s going to be winter again. Frost-bitten fingers and bundling up in coats that look like marshmallows will be upon us before we know it. Whether rain, shine, or snow, we’re still going to be listening to our music, and cringe every time we put ice cold earbuds in.
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We’ve already previously noted just how much the radio control gadget market has changed over the past year or so, as component costs plummet and cool designs become affordable, and nowhere is this more evident than with model aircraft for the enthusiast and funster.
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Researchers at NTT DoCoMo in Japan are well known for their attempts to propel the mobile phone into more and more areas of our everyday lives, and the latest iteration of this vision involves our health. Following on from earlier handset prototypes which measure our body fat and other physical markers, the team has now come up with a handset that measures a fundamental aspect of our metabolism, our eating patterns.
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Don’t you just hate it when you’re out at a party and you manage to finally obtain the email address of your total soul mate, only to get home and find that it’s a dud? Maybe you wrote it down wrong? Or…oh noes, did you get given a deliberate fake? Well now you can shortcut the anxiety on the spot, with a new free tool.
Read More![Email Checker Basic verifies if an email address is real [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/emailcheckerbasic.jpg)
It seems that toys just aren’t as interesting to kids if they don’t light up. Shoes? Put some lights in the sole and they’re ready to go. Bouncy ball? Adding in lights means it will be played with three more times than it would’ve been otherwise. When it comes to remote-controlled cars, you have to be ahead of the game if you want to charge $150 for one. So what do you think it has on it?
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There’s something about looking at a ticking clock that’s kind of depressing. The hands move so slowly that you can almost feel each second as it passes by. Looking at a wristwatch helps you to know if you’re on schedule or late, making it only a reminder of the wasted time in between. Life shouldn’t be so boring as that, and neither should your watch!
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There are some of us in the world that don’t have an automatic ice maker in our freezer. While this isn’t a huge issue, it does mean we have to resort to ice trays if we want any in our drinks. There’s no real harm in this, but the journey from the kitchen sink to the freezer is a lot harder when you’re trying to an entire tray of water from spilling all over yourself and the floor.
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What rule book is it that says we should all suffer under the weight of grey plastic and fake chrome gadgetry? If I want a lime green and purple toaster I should be able to have one, right? Right? Which is clearly the thinking behind the new product we see here.
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As if to remind us once again just how versatile these new fangled smartphone thingies are, we’re seeing more and more apps which are pushing the scope of what you can do with permanently connected 3G broadband technology and a decent camera. The latest iteration is to take the humble phone camera and throw yet another super valuable task at it…remote webcam or security camera.
Read More![IPWebcam turns your Android phone into a remote webcam [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ipwebcam3-730x391.jpg)
Over the years we’ve covered a fair number of search engines, most of them trying to reinvent the wheel by adding thumbnails, or some other interfering feature in the search process which doomed them to failure. Or they’ve simply not produced good enough results when compared with the global leader.
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No matter the season or weather, it’s nice to have a good fire going that you can warm your hands next to. Sadly you can only make this a reality if you have both a fireplace and a fire pit for the various seasons. There are very few people who would want to warm their house via fireplace in the summer if they don’t have access to a pit, and an even fewer amount that will want to try and…
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It was several years ago that snap bracelets were the big trend. My school actually had to ban them because the kids kept hitting each other (go figure). While they may have hidden from the fashion world in the past few years, they are starting to resurface again, and this time with a little more ingenuity.
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On a daily basis, we go to our favorite websites, check out our friends’ status updates, look at Twitter, scroll through Facebook, answer emails, send texts, and you can see where I’m going with this. We are constantly plugged in and part of the digital world. There are some days where you wish that you could completely remove yourself from it all.
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It’s taken a while, but the manufacturers are finally waking up to the idea that combining a cell phone SIM card with a static digital camera can result in some pretty cool products if you get creative. Wildlife cameras are nothing new, but the idea that you can set a camera in an extremely remote place and have it beam back images to your mobile phone is something that’s only now catching on, for both sport and security.
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The world is becoming a smaller place. Not only can we traverse the planet in mere hours nowadays, but at the click of a button we can be chatting to someone literally the other side of the globe. It’s incredible how much we take it for granted, so it’s nice to see that some developers are still creating tools to make it easier for us to communicate with each other.
Read More![Dictionary .NET is a mutli talented language tool [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dictionarydotnet2-730x506.jpg)
