The License Plate Flash Frame is a scrolling LED board that attaches around your car license plate to beam your words of wisdom to the car behind you. You can preprogram up to 5 messages, each with 120 characters and select your message scroll speed. All it needs is attaching to the active wire and ground on your car electrics and you’re all set. You can even wire it into the brake light circuit so it only comes on when…
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The Power Mister is a NiCad powered, rechargable bottle sprayer. You can fill it with anything you normally find in a spray bottle and a charge lasts for 8 hours of continuous spraying. Yes I know, I know, we’re all lazy and fat and gadgets like this are the problem, blah, blah, blah. That’s what I was going to write, but no, I’ll think this time I’ll scratch the surface and call this a fabbo gadget for the elderly, arthritic…
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Networked attached storage devices are becoming increasingly common in home network setups, but they remain fairly expensive for what seems like a fairly simple idea. If you’d prefer to make rather than pay for a NAS then take a look at NASLite. They have a range of options for building your own NAS device from any ancient PC you might have lying around. NASLite has 3 main distributions, CD based, HDD based or USB based depending on how you want…
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Just in time for [insert holiday here], these USB fairy lights will liven up any drudge-filled corner of meatspace. They’re 183mm long, don’t require drivers and work on PC or Mac, and I’d be willing to bet they’d work on Linux too. How much more class could you want for �6.99? Brighten up your day and show off in the office with these cool USB Fairy Lights. We all get bored sitting in a dark office with nothing but the…
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The X2VGA2 is a video transcoding device that allows you to use your Xbox, Wii or PS2/3 with a computer monitor but retain the high definition video signal. It’s designed for use with game consoles that use the standard video component output which it transcodes, outputting 480p, 720p, 1080i or 1080p equivalent resolutions for use on a computer monitor via a VGA connector. You can connect 2 video consoles at once and it has a VGA pass-through so you can…
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High speed photography used to be the domain of the super geeky or nuclear scientists but with the rise of cheap and very good digital SLRs, anyone can give it a go. To assist you there is the Universal Timer, a 3-in-1 high speed photography timer with a bevy of tricks up its sleeve. You can use the Universal Timer to remotely control either flash guns or a camera shutter, or both. Once a triggering signal is received, the timer…
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BookCrossing has been around since 2001 and is still going strong with over 718,000 registered participants. For those of you new to the idea of BookCrossing, it’s very simple. Simply register at the website and register the book you’re going to set free. Write the resulting BookCrossing ID in the book, add a label and then leave the book where someone will find it. When the book is found, the person can look up the book on the website and…
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Moviestorm is a do-it-yourself package for creating 3D animated CGI movies. The free starter kit kicks you off with the movie creation studio, some generic people, sets and props. Build your sets, furnish and light them and start reliving your fave scenes from movies or strike out and be the director you’ve always wanted. You have full control over your virtual studio, put people and props wherever you like, record lines for your characters to deliver or if you prefer…
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So you think your data’s safe eh? Got RAID equipped hard drives? Got sequential backup of your important stuff? Ok, so what if there’s a fire and it’s all destroyed? Have you got an offsite backup? Well don’t worry, Think Geek has got you covered with the SentrySafe Fireproof Databox … but before you click off thinking it’s just another fireproof bitbox, read on. As well as being able to hold 60 CDs or DVDs, having a 30 minute fireproof…
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Have some fun at your own expense with Yearbook Yourself. Upload a pic of you (or someone you know) looking straight on, choose your decade, stick it on Facebook and groove out ’cause you’ll be popular all over again. Ever wondered what you’d look like in the past? Upload your photo and see yourself with classic hairdos and outfits through the decades. Tags: yearbook+yourself
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Sure, Google has the online mapping business kind of sewn up, but just because everyone uses it, doesn’t mean it’s very pretty. Onionmap is trying something else by creating 3D maps of landmark cities from around the world. Rome, New York, Beijing and Stockholm are some of the cities you can explore from your browser. There is also some limited information provided such as transport info, attractions, hotels and the like. None of the cities are complete yet and only…
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Celestia is a free piece of space simulation software which allows you to seamlessly explore the solar system … the galaxy and BEYOND!! Celestia’s development has been ongoing since 2001 and it has become immense with data added from the latest space missions and terrestrial telescopes. The Celestia software is open source and although it comes with a large catalogue of celestial objects built-in, you can download and install add-ons like Kuiper Belt Objects, comets and spacecraft (both real and…
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A quick squiz at the Red Ferret dates and URLs and you’ll see that Nigel’s been at this game for quite a while. We thought it might be a nice idea to see how some of these gadgets and technology from the past are faring these days. So every week, I’ll venture down to the disused lavatory display department with a torch, being very wary of the leopard and see what I can find in the bottom of the locked…
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The Ego Flash is a nifty little bluetooth handsfree device with some very cool extra features. It’s as if they started with a list of everything you could add into a bluetooth-handsfree unit and just ticked them all off. Instead of the usual, trying to build the thing and then squeezing as much stuff into it as they could. Even the user manual looks spiff! The Ego Flash has two parts, the brains of the outfit which can be hidden…
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The Speak & Spell emulator is a fan-created, flash-based emulator of the iconic Texas Instruments spelling tutor, created from the original sound files. Whilst not fully functional it’s sure to help you wile away a bit of time as you stroll down memory lane. Just don’t forget to turn your sound on. This emulator began in 2002, as a personal project I started with the single aim of improving my Flash Actionscript skills.As with any good personal project, you need…
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