Who doesn’t enjoy a good old sleep-in? Going to bed late, sleeping until the afternoon, emerging tired and grumpy as the sun sets. And that’s only on Tuesdays. But for some folk, sleep problems are a sad reality, which is where the SleepBot sleep cycle alarm comes in. This app is designed to help you sleep better.
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The recent ‘right to be forgotten‘ ruling from the EU has definitely allowed some very…um… interesting people to avoid public attention in Europe, and even more so now that Bing has just joined the party. The result has been as expected, various people removing their search engine listing for things like court cases and adverse newspaper reports, which means of course they can then move on and either reform, or do their stuff again to other unsuspecting victims.
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Sometimes it’s just not enough to have a piece of furniture in your room, it also has to be happy. Like ridiculously happy. Which is why we’re loving this Happy Sunflower Wall Lamp, which not only features a glorious smiling face, but also stickers – yay stickers! – so you can make it come alive in more ways than simply with a plug.
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We seriously need to do some compulsory education of the legal profession around the world, judging by this unbelievable court judgment in France. A French judge, who is unfortunately not named, has ruled that a negative review of a restaurant called Il Giardino in Cap-Ferret, which had the title “the place to avoid in Cap-Ferret: Il Giardino”, was overly critical and should be toned down. The judge also fined the writer. Incredible.
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When is a block of wood not a block of wood? Easy. When it’s a fancy techno gadget which will wirelessly charge your phone, and do lots of other cool stuff as well.
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We all know that we waste a lot of energy every day. Even while doing the simplest of things like taking a hot shower, we can end up sending a bunch of valuable energy down the drain in the form of still heated waste water. But thankfully there’s now a very cool gadget which will make our shower time more efficient and save money at the same time.
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The days of the physical and bulky dictionaries are definitely over, as one only needs to open a browser and look up a definition of a word online. As if this wasn’t easy enough, a Chrome extension called Instant Dictionary by Goodwordguide gives you an even quicker way to know what a word or phrase means.
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So I want to start by saying you don’t need this. But then again, you definitely need this. Because, let’s face it, what living room is complete without a fully functioning, play controlling Nintendo Controller Coffee Table?
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I love food, so anything that makes my kitchen work better is aces in my book. The Flare Pan was designed by a team of rocket scientists to cook food more efficiently – i.e. better and faster – than conventional cookware. It took three years to perfect, and has won awards for innovation and energy conservation.
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Look, huge clunky wireless headsets are just so 1990s, know what we mean? Who needs to look like a fugitive from a cable company call center any more? Today we’ve got the ultimate in miniaturization, and that means small small small.
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You can go two ways with image sourcing. You can either trawl through one of the many free image sites on the web, and take your time to select the shot which fits your needs closest, or you can opt for one of the growing number of curated image services, which do the searching for you and come up with images they think will fit a wide demographic.
Read More![Splashbase – free public domain high resolution photos to download for free [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/splashbase.jpg)
If you’re a tabophiliac, you’ll know that working on different computers and devices can be a confusing and daunting task, especially if you want to keep all your tabs intact and ready for action at all times. And even more so if there are a lot of them! So it’s good to see that there is now a very cool tool to keep your browser tabs synched, so you can hop on to any computer or device and be back…
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Tuning a guitar is probably the most important part of learning how to play, but the physical act of tuning can take some time, and can really require good ears. The Roadie guitar tuner does all the work for you, including winding the strings, which is pretty much all you could ask of a real live roadie, except to go grab you a coffee.
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Remember those pencils that you popped the lead out of and then put the empty plastic bit in the bottom to push up a fresh point? Now a company called Mininch has made a screwdriver with the same kind of concept, but with a lot more style. The Mininch Tool Pen is a pop a point screwdriver that looks like a pen, but contains a set of useful screwdriver bits for those little jobs you have to do now and…
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This week’s weird ‘why did somebody do that?’ product comes from a development team that thinks that putting a video camera into a pair of full over the head/ear headphones will make some sort of sense. The marketing looks very slick, the idea seems less so. Lots of lovely computer graphic images though, if you like that kind of thing.
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