C’mon, who didn’t love-hate the old Tetris game classic? All those totally annoying little blocks dropping down at increasingly difficult speed. Pah. We could have beat it if we’d have tried hard enough, only where’s the fun in that?
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We’re still reeling from this idea, which is either genius or a real doozy. The inventor behind the Tongue 2 Teeth product says that by slipping this little garment over our tongue, we can clean our teeth, and get into those little crevices at the back to remove bits and pieces that lodge there. Too much information?
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For most of us the real excitement comes when you open the packaging for your long awaited product, the famous unboxing. Getting it out, fondling the bits, doing assembly, they’re all important parts of the ritual. But the things that usually get lost in the excitement is the user manual, the warranty slip and the receipt.
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We can all agree that science has given us some truly awesome inventions in the past few centuries. We’re not going to list them here – but the words penicillin and magnetic putty spring to mind – but to say that we have a lot to thank the lab folk for. But the problem is it’s getting more difficult to do standard research nowadays, and by standard we mean research which may not have a huge financial return at the…
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Up till now there’s been something of a conflict of interest between warm and convenient. You want to chat on your mobile phone in the cold wind? You’ve got to suffer cold ears. You want to have warm ears? You can’t have a chat on your phone. But no longer peeps.
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We can’t imagine what it must be like to live in a place where you need to worry whether the floor is going to disappear from under your feet, or there’s going to be a ton of building falling on top of you at any moment. We guess you tend to forget about the possibility after a while, and just get on with things.
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Before you pour yourself another cup of coffee, I want you to think for a moment if you’re satisfied with the tiny machine you call the “coffee brewer”. If the answer is anywhere around “no” then we’ve got you covered. Because what we’re going to show you now is probably the supercomputer of the coffee-making world.
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy.
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There should be a special category of medal awarded to anyone who makes it easy to deal with bugs and creepy crawlies without getting too close. Not that we’re scared of spiders and tiny wriggly vicious nasty bugs you understand. It’s just that there are limits.
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Seriously, do you remember the days when you had to pay real money to get yourself a laptop computer? Just nineteen years ago a DELL laptop would cost you $4400, and you’d think yourself lucky, in fact you’d be happy to have grabbed a bargain. Of course ordinary people didn’t, it was mostly corporate accounts.
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We’re trying hard not to get a little paranoid here, but should we be worried that some major retailers, both on and offline, are now openly stocking what they’re calling emergency food storage products? Yes yes, we know that emergencies happen all the time, but when you start pushing them in larger packs, that could be worrying.
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Just stumbled across this little treat of a gadget, which looks like it’s simply an easier way to grab cool scans with your smartphone while ensuring the output is optimized properly. There’s so many things that can go wrong, right?
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Maybe it’s time to stop spending all that cash on cars or motorcycles, because let’s face it, the money is literally all going up in smoke. Fuel, repairs and maintenance, etc will slowly chip away all your savings unless you choose a budget-friendly way of transportation.
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The statistics are pretty grim. Every year over 17 million people suffer a heart attack of one type or another, with 700,000 of those happening in Europe alone. And one thing the experts agree on is the fact that in many cases prompt action in the first few minutes can go a long way towards helping to save that person’s life.
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We need a little less yes sir, and a little more attitude in this life. No more Mr Nice Buy, let’s try and shake things up a bit. OK, maybe not too much. Well actually, we’re happy to do some shaking, but would it be OK if we waited ’till after lunch, because we’re feeling a bit down, and maybe our blood sugar’s not where it should be…oh and is that the phone?
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