If you’re interested in 3D printed objects, then it’s probably because you want to see your ideas come to life. Well, alive as they can be anyway. Writing down a thought is one thing, but it’s another for that brief synaptic instance to take physical shape. Perhaps that’s why 3D printing is so appealing. However, what if I told you there was a way to draw your ideas into 3D existence?
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Go on admit it, you’ve always wanted to control your smartphone through the use of a Dick Tracy style watch on your wrist, haven’t you? After all, it’s so so boring to have to dig the phone out of your pocket or bag when it rings or chimes, so why couldn’t things be easier? Well fear not, happy occupant of planet earth, for we may have an answer for you.
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If you’ve been anywhere near Thailand, the Indian sub-continent or other parts of the Far East, you’ll recognize the distinctive Tuk Tuk (or auto rickshaw) shape when you see it. These cute little vehicles unfortunately have a pretty bad reputation in these places because of the typically high levels of noxious fumes they give out, even when converted to gas as is the case in parts of India.
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This whole aerial photography thing is going ballistic, judging by the number of new products coming on to the market every month. We’re seeing quadcopters at extremely low prices, toys with cameras on board and at the top end sophisticated flying machines which deliver the kind of video photography usually reserved for helicopter footage. But the one problem is that most of the time, piloting these flying cameras is a royal pain, unless you spend countless hours learning how to…
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If you’re one of those who prides themselves on being news junkies and keeping up to date with all the latest happenings around the world we’d like to offer up a new, exciting technology which could transform your life. OK, so not exactly new. Or transformational. More like informational. But still cool.
Read More![Tickr – the latest news on your desktop with a click [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tickr2.jpg)
Our world is an ever-changing place. If you bought something 20 or 30 years ago, is was big, bulky, and sturdy. Sadly, now a lot of the things we buy are cheap, plastic, and doomed to break within a year. There seem to be fewer and fewer arcades anymore, which is Bad News Bears if you’re a pinball addict. Playing a computerized version is just not the same if you don’t have the buttons to control the flippers, or can…
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It’s always fascinating to see what sort of new virtual or augmented reality gizmos are coming out. Some make you excited for the future of entertainment, and others make you disappointed. Grand steps have been made for virtual reality with things like the Oculus Rift, but what about augmented?
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No one wants to sit by themselves in front of a computer all day long. It’s boring, and you feel like you don’t have anyone to talk to. Putting up pictures of family and adding little gizmos to your area can make a workspace feel more homey, but it can get kind of lonely.
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If you’re big on numbers you’ll probably spend a fair amount of your time punching the digits on one of those there adding machine things. They’re compact, easy to understand – hey, what’s complex about a keypad? – and fast. We’ve seen bookkeepers do sums on these things faster than a 4 year old can clear a Rubik’s Cube. And that’s fast.
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There are so many potential uses for the Doodle Pillowcase, that we’re genuinely surprised it took people so long to come up with the idea of a notepad designed pillow cover that can be written and drawn on with washable pens. The first company to commercialize it seems to have been StitchDesignWorks, but since then a bunch of imitators have doodled onto the market.
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Nowadays many of the latest smartphones come with an interesting new feature that few people know about. Embedded inside the handsets of products from companies like Samsung and Motorola are barometers, small devices which register atmospheric pressure readings. Why? Well according to the guys at Google, they are there to help your phone get a quicker GPS fix. By measuring latitude, longitude and altitude (via the barometer) the satellites can lock on to your location faster, which makes for a…
Read More![Pressure Net – let your phone improve the world’s weather forecasts [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/pressurenet3-1.jpg)
We’re not sure whether this is desperation or inspiration, but the marketing peeps from the mighty Mars corporation have come up with a jolly wheeze of putting Internet connected vending machines into universities as part of their nationwide recruitment campaign. Wow, we’ve heard of the Milk Round, but this is something else.
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Do you remember those Chinese finger traps you would be locked in battle with as a kid? Once you mastered the art of not trying to pull your finger off and pushed your fingers together, you could once again be free. The initial panic of getting stuck in one though will forever be in your memory. If you don’t want to lose something, say, a purse, then a finger trap would be the optimal way to make sure you’d never…
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Joint pain is no laughing matter. You can feel it with every movement, and it can quickly make any day sour. There are all sorts of pills and creams you can use to numb things up, but they can get costly over time. Of course hospitals have all sorts of equipment that is out of our price range that can ease up soreness, but we can’t exactly tote home thousands of dollars worth of gear now can we?
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Have you ever wanted to soar into the heavens, but not in an airplane stuffed full of passengers? I think we’ve all at least had one dream of flying free, only to wake up to boring ole gravity pulling us down. Of course, science is hard at work trying to make these dreams a reality, but they’ve still got a ways to go.
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