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Business Card Star is a super cool online DIY business card maker which offers standout ease of use and functionality. There’s no signup required to try out the service, which means you can be up and running in seconds. Just choose your template out of 100 or so, fill in the details, tweak and adjust and you’re good to go. The editor is a cinch to use, it’s all drag and drop and yet you have all the flexibility you…
CycleKarting is a new invite-only participant sport which looks awesome. Take a cut down framework of no more than 200 lbs in weight, throw in a tiny 6.5 hp motor, clad it all in a vintage racing car theme and dash around dirt roads to your heart’s content. It’s all very DIY (mandatory) and no boy racer types allowed. Most excellent way to return to the fun of motor sport without all the nasty commercial rubbish. Amazing. More here. [Via]…
The Axxana Phoenix is a solid state flash memory disk array which backs up and stores your vital data for you, on site. That’s right no more remote transfer, your data is protected inside your building. How safe is it? Well they’re calling it the toughest data recorder in the world, designed to withstand earthquake style shocks of up to 40 G, and 5000 pounds of pressure (e.g. rubble debris sitting on top). It will also survive direct flames of 2000…
This new iPhone Credit Card Terminal software turns your groovy handset into a portable full blown credit card processor. No more ties to the landlines, or having to buy expensive swipe equipment. Install the app, sign up to authorize.net and you’re good to go, grabbing payments over WiFi or 3G. Instant approvals and declines over the air, a transaction history log and email receipts. What’s not to love? Unless it’s the $25.00 a month service charge and 2.09% transaction fee? But…
Pool Angel is a new anti-drowning system that has been developed for domestic swimming pools. After installation the alarm will sound within 3 to 7 seconds if it detects a body of around 8kgs falling into the water. There is a secondary receiver which will then sound inside the house within a couple of seconds. Clever tech. How does Pool Angel work? When a child or pet is falling into a home swimming pool, Pool Angel will sound alarm in seconds….
We featured Acoustibuds on the Ferret a few weeks back, and the PR company offered to send me a set to try out properly. To refresh your memory, they are adapters which you slide over your existing earphone ends to improve the sound and comfort. So, do they work? Well let’s put it this way, if you’ve been fretting about the random sound quality, uncomfortable fit and constant adjustment needed with your current set of earphones, run…don’t walk…to your nearest…
You probably haven’t heard of John Alvin, but if you’ve seen a movie in the last 35 years then you’ve seen his work. John was a movie poster artist and was responsible for some of the most memorable movie posters ever created. Sadly he passed away early last year but has left behind an incredible legacy of artworks to enjoy. Posters for everything from Bladerunner to The Goonies, from Blazing Saddles to Empire of the Sun. A remarkable talent. Considered…
Way back in 2003, before some of you were even born, we featured the mind-boggling conceptual electric car called Eliica, brainchild of a mammoth $4m research project from Keio University in Japan. We’re now happy to report that the Eliica lives. We’re talking 8 wheel electric drive, 160 km/h top speed and absolutely bristling with hi-tech goodies. Just perfect for a credit crunch environment. Video (in Japanese). No word on production dates (hah!) though. Tags: ecological, electric+car, eliica
Dominic Wilcox’s Anti-Theft Bike/Car Device is a genius idea. Clear stickers which contain rust and scratch marks, which you place on your property to make it look too old to be worth stealing. Not sure how it would work on a 2009 Porsche, but on a bicycle or aging car, pretty good? Of course there’s people who’ll steal the rust off your tractor for a sweetie, so it won’t always work. Lovely idea though, and worth a punt at £3.99…
This Team Fortress 2 Turret Case Mod contains a full blown Intel Quad Core 2 Extreme based motherboard, 2 GB of RAM and a shed load of graphics hardness all crammed into a lovingly recreated defensive implement. Imagine turning up to a LAN party with that puppy under your arm, eh? Now, what were you saying about your Macbook Pro? Here’s Video. I am building from scratch, a computer case mod based on the 3rd Stage Sentry Turret from Valve’s…
This utterly brilliant Read the Cyrillic Alphabet in 5 Minutes post manages to teach the basics of this alphabet in a few paragraphs, and it’s actually not that hard to learn. I’m gobsmacked, having struggled mightily with trying and failing to understand Moscow road and tube signs back in the day. It’s actually not all gobbledygook, fantastic. Now if someone could do this for Japanese and/or Chinese we’d be set. It used to be that when I saw Russian words like this–…
The amazing Microsoft Telescope Web Interface adds simplicity and functionality to the wow-ness of the original. It’s powered by Silverlight – which for the sneering classes, is starting to power some pretty cool stuff like the video on demand services of Sky – which works really well as a streaming technology! How cool is this…? Well try a zoom in from a space view of earth… …to a view of the East Village in New York. Totally amazing. There are some great tours…
YouTube Edu is proof that there’s no part of the world that the Web can’t touch in a significant way. It looks as though the Google machine has gathered together a bunch of educational video material to make a portal for online learning which could revolutionise the genre. C’mon, to have a chance of watching Professor Leonard Susskind of Standford University expound on Einstein’s general theory of relativity? Priceless. Oh and the time limits have been removed, so we’re talking full…
Sky Television has just released a beta of what could be the most revolutionary service ever to hit the television and movie world. Never Miss is an email service which you can use to receive notifications of any TV series or movie you want to see. Log on, select the series or film you would like to see and the service will email you five days before it’s about to be aired. It covers around 34,000 movies and 80 series including…
Everything Search is a superb freeware desktop search tool which combines a blindingly fast indexing engine with a super swift instant result search. It indexed my full Vista machine and external drive in just 3 minutes (we’re talking 300+ GB of data!) after which I could find any file or folder instantly by typing just a few letters. It supports boolean and wildcards too, which makes it even more of a beauty. Definitely a keeper! “Everything” is an administrative tool that…
