This Wireless Outdoor/Indoor Speaker looks rather audacious, doncha think? What makes it even more unusual is the fact that it comes with two bases, so you can either sit it on the floor or spike it into the grass or ground. Rechargeable internal battery gives up to 8 hours sound after which it’s the mains plug or 5 AA batteries. Versatile little puppy, isn’t it? £50.00.  It has an impressive 230ft range (70m) and comes with two bases depending on…

Laser Combat Cars. Nowadays you can’t turn round and spit without hitting some laser equipped piece of junk running at you, skulking in corners, flying overhead or looking balefully down its nose. These little doozies go one further by letting you indulge in two player fun all by yourself (all together now, aaahhh..) That’s right, switch one to auto-pilot and use the other to zap and blast at will. It’s interesting to remember that there’s probably more intelligence in these things…

Wall Projection Clock. At last, a projection clock that looks as though the designer had a sense of humour. Or a hangover. Anyhoo, the full face Roman numerals and analogue look also shows some creativity, so big hugs to the marketing department. $129.95.  Celebrate the intangible nature of time with this projection clock, which creates a large clock image on any wall surface. * Projects a bright and elegant clock on wall or ceiling * Accurate quartz clock * Sweeping second hand…

The R2–D2 Home Theater System is not new, but we had to feature it anyway simply because of the Millennium Falcon remote control. Actually everything about this tickles our chuckle bone, from the DLP projection system located in the ‘radar eye’, to the iPod dock, memory card slots, DVD player and 20W internal speaker. In fact the only thing that dampens our unalloyed enthusiasm is the price…$2,799.95. Next week, the 3CPO vacuum cleaner.  R2’s head houses a DLP projection system with superior 1,500:1…

The Plush Puppy Cam with Receiver not only looks unbearably cute, but could be useful too, if you have child watching duties while the other half goes out pot-holing of a night. The camera in nose is wireless, so no nasty cables cluttering up the nursery, and the receiver is designed to accept both audio and video so you can hear the screams as well as see the tears flowing during tantrum time. Perfect. $149.00 and no his name’s not…

The Horntones FX-550 System is a three part kit of control panel, speaker and amplifier which you bolt in to your car so you can scare the living bits out of everyone on the road with loud and obnoxious audio clips, music, sound effects and general mayhem. You get 27 ‘horntones’ in the box, and you can add your own MP3 recordings as you wish via a USB flash drive. 256 MB of memory, nine preset buttons and some very dodgy…

The new Tenori-On from Yamaha is billed as a ‘digital music instrument for the 21st century’ and actually that description is spot on. If you were asked back in the ‘70s what kind of new musical instrument we’d be playing in 200x, you’d probably come up with a synthesizer type, flashing light, cold sounding techno machine similar to this. It’s not horrible, it’s just so cliched. Why couldn’t they have come up with something wooden, thunky and ever so rich in…

The WE EVO570 Standalone GPRS Camera is designed to transmit images over the cellular networks when the on-board motion detection system sees movement. It also sports two way audio, so presumably once you’ve received the pic of the the villain stealing your Petunias, you can call up and harangue them into stopping. “Unhand those flowers, you beast…” and suchlike. Thankfully it’s forward compatible too, so you’ll be able to take advantage of HSDPA to transmit even clearer images of your…

Brian the Brain – the world’s first digital roommate. There may come a time in some distant future when historians will retrieve one of these from a dank forgotten cellar in Poughkeepsie, and recognise it as the last remaining icon of the lost years of 2000’s Techno Age. “Ahh…” they will say wisely to each other in Esperanto, “So this is from the time when our ancestors still had the option to take a different path.” And they will give each other a small knowing nod, as if to…

Intellicot Cot. Only four men could come up with something so hideous and call it a baby bed revolution. C’mon guys, where’s the cute little bear motif, the elephant mobile and the pink or blue decor? Sheesh! Anyway, it incorporates an automatic rocking system, a back saving elevator, air circulation system and an in-built video monitoring system so you can watch little Johnnie scream as he tries to escape. Developed a year ago, it looks like it should be on sale…

The Dialogue Speaker may look like a boring black box with a speaker inside, but in fact it’s actually a boring black box with a speaker inside. Yep. Oh, sorry, apparently there’s more. Right…oh yeah, the speaker ‘especially accentuates voices’, to help you hear your television set better. Which is nice to know, isn’t it? Because we’d all be lost if we couldn’t catch the drivel from yet another episode of I Was a Desperate Survivor of The Idol Makeover Millionaire show….

The new Gamercize Pro Sport promises to make you fitter, leaner and more attractive to Britney Spears in one easy stretch. Just hook it up to your Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft games console and use the stepper or cycle attachment to power your game controller. So basically, no exercise, no game. They’re saying that a full workout equals 400–700 calories an hour burned, which is scary. Any game works, and prices for the previous version started at £69.90.  Gamercize interacts…