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Awesome October 29, 2009 posted by

Foldable Kitchen Scale – Super space efficient scales

These foldable kitchen scales are brilliant. They fold up into something the size of a spice jar, but open out to 22cm in diameter. Takes up to 3kg and is accurate to 1g. The display doubles as a digital clock and a timer and the whole things needs a pair of AAA batteries. �33.95. [Via OhGizmo!] Accurate and never in the way. Also perfect on boats, caravans and your holiday home. Or a practical letter scales for the office. Folded…


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Awesome October 28, 2009 posted by

QOOQ – Mastering the art of French cooking computers

The QOOQ (pronounced kook) is a kitchen computer that’s actually designed to withstand the rigours of being used in a kitchen. It’s a very stylish looking piece of kit that is part recipe book, part cooking show and part Filofax. QOOQ isn’t just a place for a bunch of recipes to live, it’s like a year at cooking school. There are complete meal preparation videos to show you the art of cooking, recipes, ingredient information and a magazine all built-in….


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Awesome October 26, 2009 posted by

Mealopedia – plan, shop, cook the 21st Century way

[photo] We all know that preparing dinner at home is cheaper and better for you than getting takeaway every night. But planning each meal, and shopping for ingredients, is pretty time-consuming. And if you’re like me you’re unlikely to take the recipe book with you to the supermarket so most of the time you end up either lacking one or two vital ingredients, or with far too much of something else. Conversely you could sit down and plan your meals…


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Awesome October 26, 2009 posted by

Ninite – Awesome customisable application grabber and installer

Ninite is an application packager and installer that makes installing all your favourite applications a piece of cake. Just go to the Ninite website, pick the programs you wish to install and it will create a tiny executable file that will grab the latest and greatest versions of your chosen software. There’s a wide range of applications you can add including four of The Big Five internet browsers (no IE obviously), IM software, Media Players, Image Editing, Torrenting, Anti Virus,…


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Awesome October 22, 2009 posted by

Wearable Retinal Imaging Display – Puts images directly onto your eye

Since 2005, Brother have been working to perfect wearable retinal imaging displays. They work by projecting an image directly onto your retina so it appears to hang in space in front of your eye. The retinal imaging device is small enough to hang off a pair of glasses and can display images at 800 x 600 resolution with a 60Hz refresh rate. The image will appear to be a 4″ x 4″ display being viewed from a distance of 1…


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Awesome October 22, 2009 posted by

Eco Goats – Biological weed removal

If you have a weed problem and no one else can help, then maybe you should hire, Eco Goats. Eco Goats provide a very environmentally friendly solution to weed and invasive plant species removal. After assessing your situation Eco Goats will deliver a collection of hungry goats, and electric fencing to keep in the right spot. If you have particular parts of your property that you don’t want touched, they’ll fence it off otherwise it’s open season for the goats…


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Awesome October 21, 2009 posted by

Ordnance Survey 3D Maps – the future of digital maps looks beautifully bumpy

Ordnance Survey, the UK’s venerable mapping agency which was founded in 1746, has just released information on its new OS 3D mapping technology, which has been in trials for 3 years. The new technique uses a combination of StreetMapper 3D vehicles and aerial surveying with precision lasers to produce high resolution 3D maps of an area.   The first city to be mapped in this way is Bournemouth on the UK’s South coast, which has had every square metre of the town centre mapped using…


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Awesome October 14, 2009 posted by

Google Building Maker : recreating the world, one pixel at a time

The new online Google Building Maker is a superb idea – literally to recreate the world’s cities in 3D using Google Earth and the Sketchup program. Ooh crowdsourcing at its best, clever clever. Having played around with it, I’ve got to say that Google has definitely got it right, Sketchup and Google Earth go together like Jam and Cheese (yum…what?). The whole idea of getting bored geeks to create a 3D world is also brilliant, as it becomes less of a…


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Awesome October 13, 2009 posted by

The Most Useful Periodic Table Ever – with real world applications

This has got to be The Most Useful Periodic Table Ever. Not just a boring list of elements and stuff, but also includes things that actually use these basic building blocks of our universe. It’s a joint effort between the University of York in the UK and some other bods, and it’s sitting on a staging server at oil giant BP.com, so this link might not survive long. Definitely worth downloading if only to learn that Hafnium 72 is used…


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Awesome October 13, 2009 posted by

Solar Cell eBook Reader – Perfect partnership

Now this makes sense. One of the main selling points of e-ink powered e-book readers is that you can read them in full sunlight, as opposed to traditional LCD displays which are often hard to read outside. LG have taken that idea and applied the next logical step, and stuck a solar cell on it creating a Solar Cell eBook Reader. A 4-5 hour snooze in the sun would extend the reader’s battery by a day. It’s a thin-film solar…


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Awesome October 13, 2009 posted by

3G starts to flex muscles – other wireless techs whimper and huddle dejectedly in a corner

(photo) Martin Sauter’s recent post on the upgrade of the HSDPA spec (3G + to you and me) made me stop and blink. So mobile phones are now on their way to achieving data download speeds of up to 84 Mbit/s with existing hardware? Really? In fact, a quick trawl of the Wikipedia site reveals that there are now 250 HSDPA networks in 109 countries, with a few supporting speeds of up to 21 Mbit/s and 28 Mbit/s peak data…


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Awesome October 12, 2009 posted by

Myna – Online audio editor

Aviary is racking up quite a collection of birds in it’s online freeware stable. The latest noisy edition is Myna an online audio editor, and it looks fantastic. Basically it’s a multi-track audio editor but for an online application it’s remarkably agile. There’s drag and drop clip placement, snap to tempo and extremely simple fading and panning all done using the mouse. As well as offering the editor, Aviary have also partnered with APM Music to offer a huge library…


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Awesome October 12, 2009 posted by

Uniqlo Screensaver – awesome arty screensaver offers glorious tilt-shift video

We featured the brilliant Uniqlock online clock a while back, with its combination of artsy dancing, stylish clothing and surreal music, but now the Japanese fashion store has gone one further with an awesome Uniqlo Screensaver which lets you sample these delights on your Mac or PC desktop. The usual dancing clock is there (I shut off the music quite quickly), but they’ve also included the desktop version of their awesome tilt-shift video based online calendar, which gives date and weather for your…


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Awesome October 8, 2009 posted by

Honda U3-X – more videos showing off awesome new miracle transporter

The astounding new Honda U3–X Personal Mobility Unicycle is getting some real buzz around the world right now, and well deserved too. These guys have managed to cram a Segway type transportation device into something backpack sized, with enough battery power to run for an hour and propel you along at something between 5 and 10 km/h. And all based around some super clever Asimo robot balancing technology. Miraculous indeed.   Of course it’s all concept/prototype talk right now, but…


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Awesome October 8, 2009 posted by

eROCKIT – A new type of vehicle

The eROCKIT is an electric motorcycle that you pedal. It uses a 50� force multiplication system meaning that while you keep pedaling it, the 8kW/75Nm electric motor and Li-ion nanophosphate battery will do the rest. If you want to go faster, pedal harder. If you want to stop, pull on the brakes and the regenerative braking system will turn your go into whoa. It’s quiet and simple and is registrable as a motorbike. It can do 80km/h and has a…


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