I’ve always wondered where those ‘Work from Home’ signs come from. Well now I know (hint: blame Herbalife maybe?)

The Top 10 Impossible Inventions that work? Real or fake? You decide. One thing’s for sure, that Tesla guy was some inventor dude. “We are confronted with portentous problems which can not be solved just by providing for our material existence, however abundantly. On the contrary, progress in this direction is fraught with hazards and perils not less menacing than those born from want and suffering. If we were to release the energy of the atoms or discover some other…

Here’s a nice little report on recordable DVD drives from the folks at The Tech Report. If you’ve been wondering exactly what the state of play is with the various products, manufacturers and standards, then this should be very helpful.

A full sized, projected virtual keyboard for PDAs? Whatever will they think of next? Well this for one. A fabric keyboard that has just been launched commercially by Logitech (it’s a branded ElekSen product actually). The KeyCase is a brilliant concept and more to the point, it actually works. I’ve been playing with this �100.00 keypad and PDA cover combo for a while now, and it works. In fact it more than works, it’s excellent. Touch typists may have a…

I’m late on this one, due to my absence, but I simply couldn’t let it pass. Spam Radio? Genius, sheer genius.

A lovely online word counting min-app from that genius crackpot Ben. Nice one, and a great service for remotely roaming journos everywhere!

I’m not into gambling, waste of time and money as far as I’m concerned, but this has got to be the craziest stunt on the Web (or maybe anywhere for that matter). Moolette (!!) is a Web site that lets you bet on the random location used by a live cow to drop a…..er…..cow pat. The cow is given free rein over a roulette table marked patch of grass (hence the name) and whichever number the pat lands on is…

This little puppy must rank as one of the smallest digital camcorders in the world. The Panasonic E-Wear, SD A/V Recorder (snazzy name) has an integral LCD, lasts for an hour per charge and records onto SD cards instead of tape. OK so the video size is nothing to shout home about at 320×240 (or half VGA) but the size of the thing is staggering – a mere 1.97″ x 1.1″ x 3.43″. Pocket sized? Oh yers!

While we’re on the Casio subject, I’m not really sure what to make of this puppy. The USB E-Pen is a wireless pen that ultrasonically transmits an image of the the user’s writing to a remote PDA via a small receiver attached to a USB port. It sounds a little like that Seiko pad device, and at $200.00 or so, it had better work as advertised. I’m still not convinced by these little pen input gizmos I must say.

Q: What’s very close to credit card size, and incorporates a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player and audio/movie recorder? A: The new Casio Exilim. The company is billing it as a wearable digicam, which is one way of looking at it. I love some of the things they’re doing with this technology at the moment, long may it continue. Oh and it also has an integral LCD review/preview screen. Sheesh! Here’s another super skinny digicam, the EyePlate, but judging by…

From the ‘I want’ Department. Those clever boffins in Huddersfield, Yorkshire (where?) have come up with something called the Silence Machine. Apparently working on similar principles to sound cancelling headphones, this machine can filter out noises based on user set up. The creators expect to produce sophisticated versions for the home within a year or so, which will be able to screen out noise such as music and speech. Think of it, no more banging on your wall to silence…

The Roq-it, yet another pretender to the iPod throne, but at a particularly interesting – read cheap – price. 10GB should be enough MP3 storage space for most people, but what’s with the USB connection? Doesn’t anyone realise just how slooooow that can be?

Oh, if only all lawyers were like this.

If you like speakers you may like these. Derived from some very expensive technology indeed, these ‘full circle’ OmniSat speakers promise to deliver perfect audio integrity (!) no matter where you place them. They apparently radiate the sound rather than projecting it directionally like conventional speakers, which makes for a better surround sound effect. The full 5.1 surround set will cost �1600.00 (phew!) but there will be a cheaper micro version coming along real soon now.

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