Just sent back my loan iPhone after a few weeks use, and to be honest I was happy to see it go. I found it a bit underwhelming actually (in fact it stayed in the box towards the end of the period). Why? You need to charge it every day? Wow, how quaint. Very unimpressed with the feature set. I use my Nokia 6110 a lot on my travels, and often have the GPS running alongside the MP3 player and Fring for…
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Holux M-241 Bluetooth GPS Logger – goodbye yellow brick road…
Holux M-241 Bluetooth GPS Logger. Pretty little GPS logger offers Bluetooth connection for smartphones and data logging for up to 130,000 positions. $77.94 says you’ll never lose your GPS data again. Hah! The M-241 is a high performance wireless GPS logger with the following features: # Dual interface (Bluetooth + GPS-mouse by USB cable). # Compatible with Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP) completely. # Powered by one AA battery. # LCD display to show position information, speed, capable logging memory size, date…
Read MoreTalent Show Kit – olde tyme karaoke on a stick comes to town
Talent Show Kit. Take one olde fashioned style microphone and stand, throw in an amplifier, speaker and some electronics and you’ve got some sort of karaoke set up guaranteed to make you look like a doofus in front of Auntie Mabel. That’ll be $79.95 please, sir. Inspired by an original 1956 Sears Wishbook piece, our “karaoke on a stick” features separate volume and tone control. The removable microphone allows the more expressive tenors and sopranos “room” to move. The mounting base contains…
Read MoreSecurephone Encrypted GSM Cell Phone – shhh….tell no-one
Securephone Encrypted GSM Cell Phone. Military grade secure conversations built into a conventional form factor mobile phone handset. We’re talking triple layer, 256 bit encryption based on AES, Twofish and Serpent ciphers. Got that, soldier? Good. You’ll need two of them to make like private, but £1051.63 x 2 shouldn’t deter the truly paranoid punters. The Securephone hosts a unique assymetric key generation engine, which is hardware optimised for extremely fast key generation. Private and public keys are generated for…
Read MoreVeropedia – Wikipedia gets cleaned up
Veropedia is a new service which has been set up to collate, clean up and stabilize Wikipedia content. The idea is for their team of ‘experts’ to grab hold of the volatile material on Wikipedia and add some control, so it can be made more stable and reliable. In effect this is an attempt to apply old style editorship rules onto the new style Wikipedia model. It seems to be a worthy cause, even though critics will probably accuse the Veropedia founders of of piggy-backing off the world’s largest…
Read More35 Fantastic HDR Pictures – beautiful tone mapped images
35 Fantastic HDR Pictures. Some very nice examples of the trendy HDR process. I’ve tried taking some HDR photos too, but they’re not quite as fancy as these examples. Here’s my tree. Tags: 35+fantastic+hdr+pictures, photography, hdr
Read MoreCrayon Physics – oooooooooh!
Crayon Physics. Petri Purho’s innovative game prototype is so much fun that it’s…well…beyond. There’s a full-on commercial version called Crayon Physics Deluxe coming. Oh my giddy feet. You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects. With left mouse button you can draw and with right you can remove objects. Tags: crayon+physics, game, freeware
Read MoreKey Chain Solar Charger – handy power backup for your pocket hungry devices
Key Chain Solar Charger. Designed to provide power at the drop of a battery, on the go, anywhere you need it. They call it an emergency power backup, which probably reflects the fact that it will take three days of Gobi desert type sunlight to get this thing charged enough to make it worthwhile, but let’s just think of the children, shall we? Oh and just in case you live in darkest Europe, you can charge it up from a power socket too….
Read MoreEgg Soldier Cup – yikes, eggy soldiers get their own assault vehicle at last
Egg Soldier Cup. OK, so some of you transatlantic types may not know about Eggy Soldiers, but just because it’s not in Wikipedia, doesn’t mean it’s not scrumchious. Anyway, here’s the first tool-kit custom designed for enjoying said breakfast, comprising a themed egg-cup for the soft boiled egg, and a handy toast cutter for the soldiers. Mmm…enjoy! £14.95 ($30.20). Thankfully the ingenious Perfect Soldier Cutter speeds up the process and actually improves the dunkability of your soldiers. Simply press this…
Read MoreSnipe It Game – weird electronic game inspired by online auction tactics
Snipe It Game. This electronic trivia game is apparently inspired by the tactic of sniping on eBay whereby you bid for an item in the last seconds of an auction in order to prevent others outbidding you. No we kid you not, with this game it’s not how fast you answer, but whether you’re the last one to give the right answer before the timer goes. What the…? $19.97. Name a flavor of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry. You know tons…
Read MoreMJPEG Surveillance – cool free motion sensing webcam security program
MJPEG Surveillance. Nice free security webcam program comes with motion sensing technology which starts the recording when it senses movement in any particular area of the room. It can handle multiple cameras and can convert the JPEG file stream into a proper WMV, DivX or MPEG4 video clip. Lots of other features too, including video editing and auto video recycling which records over the oldest videos first (useful for keeping hard disk space under control). My best motion detection algorithm so…
Read MoreTwing – superb forum search tool looks great and works great too
Twing is a new forum and community search engine which comes in a nice Web 2.0 wrapping and with some interesting features which make it stand out from the rest. There’s a few of these things out there that we’ve reported on before, like Omgili and Boardtracker, but this one now becomes the engine to beat for a number of reasons. For starters the user interface is great. The front page is clean and features just enough info to keep you interested…
Read MoreThe End of WiFi Hotspots?
Johan Bergendahl, a senior exec with Swedish mobile phone giant Ericsson, has come out and said what I’ve been saying for years, that WiFi will shortly be replaced by cell phone broadband technologies such as HSPA and beyond. It’s really a no-brainer. WiFi is an incredibly frustrating technology once you start moving away from a limited number of environments like airports, offices and home networks. Try getting a WiFi signal in a car on a motorway for example. At the end…
Read MoreBiometric Vault Security Safe – access your valuables at the touch of a finger
Biometric Vault Security Safe. This funky looking biometric safe stores up to 50 fingerprints in the flash memory and works off batteries or A/C power. Oh and of course it stores your valuables as well. It’s especially nice that the designers included a soft spring-loaded door mechanism and LCD screen as well, because it’s those little touches that make it worthwhile handing over $499.00 for a metal box don’t you think? The Biometric Vault Security Safe provides convenient access with…
Read MoreMiharu Home Care Camera – peer into places even your mother wouldn’t go
Miharu Home Care Camera. This video camera and LED light combo offers you glorious full colour access to places that you probably didn’t know existed. Check out the back of your throat, your plaque problem, even the dandruff on your bald patch. It’s battery powered and works through your TV, so you can even watch your bits in 42 inch plasma cringing terrorvision if you really want the complete experience. Good luck with that. $159.00. Using the Miharu intraoral dental camera,…
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