iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalised calendar of upcoming concerts you might enjoy in your city. Pretty cool idea, although if you live in Teenytown, Nowhere County, you might have a problem I guess. Windows and Mac.  iConcertCal searches the web to find the concerts of bands in your library. We are continually working on adding more sources for smaller websites in local areas to the iConcertCal search. We want to…

Meh, if you’re gonna get all Star Wars fan boy on us, what you really need is a hand-crafted Steampunk Lightsaber to show the cud chewers how it’s really done hard core. More l33tness per square centimetre than the entire six episodes crammed together, end to end, in one long popcorn filled, couch pig, love-fest viewathon.  Seriously, this is the coolest thing ever, and I’ve only seen the pictures. He’s still going to custom-build a case for it, and then I’ll get it…

t+ Diabetes is the latest in a series of self-management tools which use Web and mobile technologies to let patients take more direct control over their condition. In this case you enter in details of your insulin intake and other factors such as exercise and the program sends a report on your condition to the handset so you can keep a watch on how things are going.  With t+Diabetes’ simple technology, your mobile phone, and by linking to your own…

Camera Image Search is a fascinating little Ruby application which lets you search the Alexa web database for images according to which camera model was used. You can also do things like find images by exposure time or focal length. Really interesting little concept.  The Camera Image Search is a nifty little tool I stitched together using the Alexa Web Search Platform for source material and Amazon’s S3 for storage. The idea is to let people search for photos based…

The 325W Plug & Play Home Solar Power System. Bearing in mind that solar power systems may soon be delivering astonishingly high levels of efficiency, it looks as though this may be one of the ways we combat our reliance on oil stuffs in the future. This kit also points the way – basically a solar system which will power your home for not much more than the price of a high end HiFi system. Eat dirt, oil barons. Priced from £2,095.00.  Our Remote…

Movie Machine Biometric Movie Kiosk. A 24 hour movie store. DVDs dispensed via a slot and authorised by fingerprint and credit card. The future of retailing in general? Or a horror story? Your call.  As security measure and protection of children and young people you identify yourself before selecting the film with your finger mark. The return by a friend/an acquaintance is always possible without finger mark – also loading of the assets is possible by someone else! Select at the screen…

We first wrote about the Gen H-4 ultralight helicopter last year, but now it looks like they’re actually shipping the kit to customers for $29,900.00 a pop. What you get is clearly a beta version of the ultralight craft, which would make me a little nervouse. Flying beta software is one thing, flying at a higher altitude is totallllly another. There are, however, other alternatives you can look at, if you’re one of those brave souls who believes that a thing…

The Fab@Home Project is an Open Source home fabrication machine movement. We’re talking about everyone eventually making all their own products at home, instead of buying them in shops, so it’s a hugely ambitious project, but good luck to it. They also talk in terms of wresting innovation away from global corporations, which makes it sociologically pretty scary stuff too. But good luck. Did we say that already?  Inspired by this history, the goal of this project is to offer an open-source,…

UK insurance giant Norwich Union has just launched a new Pay As You Drive car insurance service. When you sign up they install a GPS unit into your vehicle (Audi A8 excluded for some bizarre reason) which tells the company what journeys you do, and you then receive a monthly itemised bill for the insurance costs of each trip. You pay £50.00 for the GPS box, a flat monthly fee to cover fire and theft and then a charge for the journeys….