Booksnap is a book ripper, not a scanner, OK? You place the book in the v shaped holder, and use a brace of digital cameras to snap photos of the two pages. The software then does all the clean-up and conversion to PDF for you automatically. The samples look OK, but it’s going to take patience to keep flicking the pages, although they say 500 pages an hour. Yours for a mere $1595.00. [via Gizmodo]   BookSnap digitizes books at…

Discovery Polymer Lab. Yay, at last a chance to mess with slime, goo and ooze without risking the wrath of family members. No word on whether the box comes with built-in permission for the dining room table, but what the heck, go for it. You have nothing to lose except your Einstein street cred. $39.95.  Create your own gloopy goo, stretchy slime and funky foam – just like a mad scientist! * Learn real-world science as you experiment with slime * Play with polymers and long…

The Discovery Star Theater V3 comes with a full set of Captain Kirk logs and a Klingon raincoat. OK, so we’re lying about the logs. Anyhoo, your bedroom ceiling will never be the same after you’ve projected Ursa Minor onto it a few times, so be warned. Oh and you can use it outdoors too, which means double trouble for all. $24.95.  Transforms any room into a 360-degree planetarium # Projects hundreds of realistic stars and constellations on the walls…

Wireless Finger Mouse. Ooh look, a new and improved finger mouse. No cable, more buttons and a new finger clamp (with 3 different sizes for different digits). 2.4GHz wireless, 1000dpi resolution and 15 metre range. Scrummy. $26.99.  Now you can wear your mouse! Wear your mouse as a ring! It is 3 dimensions and now you can always put your hands on the keyboard, as you can wear your mouse on your finger and let the keyboard as a mouse…

Meteo Personal Weather Clock. Not your average weather station clock, this. It can deliver the weather from 176 European cities to your bedside via a radio signal. Of course when we say deliver, we don’t mean you wake up to a snowstorm round your slippers, but you knew that anyway didn’t you? It’s a great way to tell what the weather is going to be like at your destination if you’re setting off on your travels. Hey, and it comes with…

Vivago Personal Wellness Manager. Buying one of these must be like strapping your grandmother to your wrist. It monitors your sleep patterns, measures your activity, calculates your calorie consumption and reads you bed time stories. OK, so we’re lying about the last bit, but you get the picture. It’s Finnish – of course, where else? – and is clearly designed to help you live to 100. Good luck with that!  The foundation for a healthy life is regular sleep and…

The DigiScribble is a new take on the old handwriting capture game. The USB device has two modes, pen and mouse, and the thing apparently also learns your handwriting as you go, which should make it a bit more useful than other products in the genre. You don’t need special paper either, which is a neat cost saving. The package includes handwriting recognition software, which will need to be very good to cope with normal human scribble, let alone doctors or…

The LaserScan Long Range Hidden Camera Detector can locate a covert camera up to 50 feet away. OK, so that may not sound like much of a long range to you and me, but apparently it makes this puppy the king o’ the hill when it comes to detecting stuff. It’s got two – count ‘em – two high power pulsating lasers and an optical glass view port. And that’s all we’re going to say about that. $349.95.   The…