Memory Foam MP3 Blackout Shades. We’re thinking that while you’re blissfully submerged in your soothing blacked out MP3 sounds, you’ll be getting some looks, real funny looks from your colleagues. And your pencil sharpener stolen. Your call. $24.99. Plug in your MP3, iPod, or Zune, wrap yourself in silky soft darkness and comfort, and lose yourself in relaxation at home, at work, or while traveling. Made with memory foam to conform to your individual face shape. Tags: memory+foam+mp3+shades, gadget, mp3,…
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Desktop Mini Aluminium Soccer Game – finger twiddling fun
Desktop Mini Soccer. Why is it called fusball? Why? The proper name is table football. Heh. $22.90. Come On! Just get a Beer & have a Mini Football League in your Office & Home Tags: gadget, desktop+mini+soccer
Read MoreHaluz2 – point and click adventure game is fun, pretty and clever
Haluz2. Nice little point and click adventure game with innovative graphics and some clever Myst like puzzles to solve along the way. I’m hopeless at this type of game, but I know that you clever folk will do much better. [via Lazylaces] Tags: haluz2, game, adventure
Read MoreLivestation – new live television netcast service launches beta
I’ve been checking out the new Livestation online television service and it’s pretty impressive. Very similar to the Zattoo service we reported on earlier, and also in beta. The main difference is that this one is based on the Microsoft Silverlight platform, which makes it an interesting technology experiment. So far it looks pretty good. The video quality is reasonable, although it’s not that hard to serve good quality video when it’s based mostly around news channels (which is all…
Read MoreKill Dead Pixel – simple tool to recover dead pixels on your LCD screen
KillDeadPixel. Here’s a cute little tool which may help to recover dead pixels on your LCD monitor. You know, those little points of light which indicate liquid crystal cells which have stopped working. Definitely a bookmark for the toolbox (although it gives me a bit of a headache if I look at it too long). Simply drag the above graphic to your dead pixel and let it stay there for about 1 hour. The graphic will try to massage the dead pixel back alive…
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Try this. Go to Google and enter ‘mofo’ as a search term. First result? Giggle! (er..maybe they should consider a domain name change?) Tags: humor, google+search, mofo
Read MoreSimple Mail for Firefox – cool embedded email client runs inside the browser
Simple Mail is a cool new Firefox extension which embeds a full function email client inside the browser. Although I can’t see this replacing Thunderbird on my machine, it could be very useful for folks who travel a lot. You could install Firefox and this extension on a USB key and use it as your ‘on the road’ mail and browser. Or even use it as part of a full Mojopac environment install on a USB key. Neato! [via Lifehacker] Configure…
Read MoreKaossilator Touchpad Synthesizer – fun mini synth plays on, dude
The Kaossilator Touchpad Music Synthesizer sure looks like a lot of fun. Judging by the funski video, you can generate a really cool range of music and sounds just by jiggling the knob and running your fingers across the touchpad at strategic moments. It runs off 4 AA batteries which will last for around 5 hours at a stretch, which is just perfect for laying down those kickin’ beats on the move. Just wear headphones, OK? $199.99. his pocket sized music synthesizer is…
Read MoreSmarteBear – connect, click, cuddle, yeuw…?
The SmarteBear range of children’s playthings will read stories, play games and sing songs at the press of an ingratiatingly obsequious paw. Happy parents can plunk down their cash for a bundle of activity packs which will be able to keep their cute little tots occupied for…oh…minutes at a stretch. And hey, you can even have the little critters interact with your child in a number of different languages, for those high quality Alpha Child moments. Expect to pay around $80.00 for the creature, plus…
Read MoreWide Angle Lens for iPhone – grab all the action in one snap
iPhone Wide Angle Lens. Pop this onto your very sophisticated iPhone and you’ll be guaranteed a laugh down the bar. OK, so at least you’ll be able to snap all the grinning faces around you at the time, so there is a silver lining. $11.99. Plug and Play – 1 piece off attachment, just attach it when you need it. – Special coatig on lens – compace size: 20x15x12mm – Magnification : 0.68x Tags: gadget, iphone+wide+angle+lens, mobile+phone
Read MoreRussian SUV – chug, rumble, crash, tinkle…
This Russian SUV conversion goes to show that where there’s a will – and a 13.6 ton armoured personnel carrier – there’s a way. You wouldn’t want to travel large distances in this though, would you? Not at 3 inches to the gallon or whatever it does. The mechanical gear stick was replaced with electronic joystick which is connected to electro driven gear box. Now they can switch the gears as easy as on a video game, before one had to have a huge muscle…
Read MoreAviary – beautifully ambitious online creative suite promises much…
Aviary is a beautifully designed and very ambitious online suite of creative applications covering everything from image editing to desktop publishing. It comes from the Worth1000 people (who do those fabulous Photoshop contests) so the pedigree is very cool. I say ambitious because the suite includes apps like video editors, wordprocessing and even a font editor, so it’s likely that this is going to take time to build out. The first application is Phoenix, the image editor, which although still a…
Read MoreeBuzzing – new pay to blog service. like. recommend. earn? Hmm…
eBuzzing. Hmm…well it’s a new version of an old concept. Advertisers pay bloggers to recommend products. PayPerPost redux? Just for the record I think this stuff is not a valuable addition to the blogging community. Yes bloggers take advertising, yes we respond to valuable PR, yes we can be commercial/pro operations and don’t necessarily have to be totally amateur status to retain credibility (although I do think that those blogs which have avoided any adverts or commercial sponsorship like Bifurcated Rivets, Presurfer, RobotWisdom2 and…
Read MoreLingoes – super impressive dictionary and translation freeware
Lingoes. Lovely freeware dictionary and language translation program. Comes with a bunch of useful features like clipboard translate, right mouse click access for immediate translation/definition of any word or phrase, and the ability to download and install a large number of add-on dictionaries in different languages as well as English. Super nice package all round. Recommended. # Cross translation over 80 languages # Text translation over 22 languages # Ctrl + Right mouse button key for the cursor translation #…
Read MoreMultifunction Card Reader – clock, thermometer, memory card reader…what talent
Multifunctional USB Card Reader. It’s a clock, it’s a thermometer, it’s a strange bit of plastic which also reads multiple types of memory card. Slightly confused? Probably. $15.00. Digital Clock and Thermometer are equipped # Dustproofed triangular design # No Adaptor required in M2/miniSD/micro SD (T-Flash )Cards # Supports auto-detecting slot with card inserted # Fully support USB 2.0 # High-speed transfer rate up to 480Mb/sec # Supports SDHC (4GB-32GB) Memory Cards # Support Windows Vista / XP / 2000…
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