You just never know when a rainy day is going to sneak up on you. Bogus weather reports can say it’s a 30% chance, so you risk going out without an umbrella and boom, absolute downpour while you’re half-way to your destination. Toting around one of those long umbrellas is annoying, and while the small ones are useful, it takes an uncomfortable minute of slogging through the rain to get it fully opened.
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Only a few months ago, the Hobbit came out and renewed our love of Tolkien’s work. Obviously things weren’t exactly as they should have been, as Hollywood seems to enjoy adding a little artistic flare, but it brought stories we’ve always loved to life. Wizards, creatures, and items of power we could’ve only imagined were now tangible things, and now we can bring a little bit of that home with us. We did look at a tiny version of some…
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You can never be too prepared. No really. Like those times when you left the house without your shoes, and you had to walk. Or the day you left your pepper spray behind and got attacked by squirrels. Big ones. It happens all the time, which is why those insurance guys are so happy and fat looking. But you have choices you know.
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Google is turning into so much more than a search engine nowadays, isn’t it? Not content with dominating the smartphone market, running a global advertising colossus and hosting the world’s videos, documents and maps, the company looks as though it’s ramping up its retail product offerings more and more. Could this be an indication of future long term plans?
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Graphing or grid paper is one of those hidden treasures that you never realize you’re going to need, until you need it. Sure if you’re a scientific type, student or a mathematician then you’re clearly friends with the stuff, but the fact is that it can be used in lots of places where you wouldn’t obviously think of it. Think about sketching, designing, drawing a plan or a map, just about any place where you need accurate scaleable illustrations.
Read More![PaperKit – free printable grid paper for all [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/paperkit.jpg)
There’s no denying (!) that the discussion over climate change remains extremely…um…heated. On one side are the climate experts and scientists, who maintain that the planet is indeed on a warming trend, fueled to a significant extent by human fossil fuel activities. On the other are the deniers, who claim it’s all a load of tosh, and the planet is doing perfectly fine thanks very much.
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When you need to shield yourself from a rainy day, you’ll grab a raincoat or an umbrella. They’re both usually made out of the same kind of swishy material that are used for tents. While these work fine and well, wouldn’t it be kind of awesome to use tree bark as an umbrella instead?
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Whether it’s inexperience of cooking, or just not having time for a full breakfast, we have all succumbed to the dreaded drive-thru breakfast at one point or another. It will fill you up, but it’s not a great start to your day as it’s normally quite greasy. Not to mention you don’t know the quality of the food that is going into it.
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There was once a time when television and video games didn’t exist. That’s a little hard to imagine in this day and age, but there was a lot more playing outside and running around for kids. Nowadays you’ll need a crow bar to pry them away from a screen. When one form of entertainment stops existing, kids will make up a new one. If you want them to chill out from the tube, there is a way to prevent them…
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How do you find water in the desert? If you’re in or near Lima, Peru, all you have to do is look for this cool billboard, which grabs moisture from the desert air and converts it into filtered drinking water. Created through a partnership between the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima and the advertising agency MAYO-DRAFT FCB, this billboard stands along the Pan-American Highway, the nifty device helps local residents get clean drinking water while also generating…
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Just in case you thought the market in crazy far out USB peripherals had come to an end with USB slippers, we thought we’d pop right back in here and drop a new product onto your unsuspecting braincells. It’s got one really interesting feature that you might enjoy though, it looks like it could be useful in the dark.
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OK, so we have to admit to a slight touch of cynical disbelief when we first heard claims that a small bottle of liquid could convert your favorite gloves to work with your phone or tablet touchscreen. Yeah right, and we’ve got a tiny pink unicorn from Tibet we’d like to sell you. But in the interest of fair and balanced reporting we decided to accept the chance to see if the stuff really worked as advertised and do a…
Read More![AnyGlove – can you really make your favorite gloves touchscreen friendly? Yep! [Review]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/anyglove.jpg)
Ever wondered what it would be like to live on the International Space Station for six months? Think it would be easy? Well think again. Apparently not only is it a very busy place indeed, with lots of scientists doing amazing experiments and all that boffin type activity, but it also comes with its own share of weirdness. Like the fact that you don’t ever sit down. Not for 6 months or however long your tour is. No chairs you…
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We’ve come across some weird games in our time, but at least most of them had some sort of…well purpose. This Skyscraper sim, on the other hand, seems to just exist for people who love high buildings. You can’t drive it anywhere, you can’t populate it, you just build stuff. Tall stuff.
Read More![Skyscraper – the most stationary sim in the world [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyscraper.jpg)
Memories are fleeting things. A place or event may be so important that we want to immortalize the memory of it through videos, text, or photos. For those of you who find that every memory and thought should be recorded, you’re going to need extra space to store it all. While you could just go for a plain ole hard drive, there are always options out there that will suit your personality.
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