The 3Style Wireless Mouse is a clever little Australian developed doo-dad that combines a standard PC compatible rodent with a jog-wheel. The base doubles as the recharge station and it can operate at a 10 meter range. This is a neat little gadget that might win a lot of friends in the video editing and music production arenas. Still on its way to market at the moment, so no news on price. The video is cool and worth watching.  The…

The Seascooter Aquanaut is a small sized water propeller designed for children over 5 years old. It’s powered by a rechargeable battery and will scoot along at around 1.2 mph. Strangely enough, it’s marked ‘For Pool Only’. $99.95.  NEW personal water propeller for children less than 100 lbs/45.4 kg; with extremely compact and light design powered by rechargeable battery. With various safety features including positive buoyancy, safety grille, safety lock With 16.5 ft/5 m depth rating, 3.5 kg thrust and…

Eleksen Double Sided USB Fabric Keyboard. Letters on the one side, number pad and media controller on the other. It looks like a neat idea, but will it really work? Or will you find yourself flip-flapping around trying to get the best of both worlds? Hmm…not sure. Tags: fabric+keyboard, double+sided+keyboard

The Light Saber Umbrella. Take the trendy and illuminating properties of an LED flashlight, mix in a light emitting multi-coloured handle, throw in the terribly useful water repelling function of an umbrella and you’ve got a hip and wacky way to brighten up a dismal day in the city. Around $41.00. Tags: LED+umbrella, light+saber

The Four Battery Solar Charger has a 7 volt solar panel and will charge up four batteries of the same type in six hours ‘on a good sunny day’. What makes this interesting is the fact that it’s on offer at just £7.49. It looks like 2007 could be the year of the solar gadget.  The charger is supplied complete with a 5-way spider for powering small electrical goods such as personal stereos, toys or torches. The built-in blocking diode prevents reverse…

The i.Dear Wood Speaker is a tiny 1.5W speaker on a keychain with a wooden case and a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery.  It’s clearly designed to broadcast your mobile phone secrets, although it will also work with ordinary media players. Although our Korean is a little rusty, we believe that it uses USB to re-juice, and lasts for a full 5 hours per charge. Cutesy, eh? Around $25.00 in Won-like. Tags: wood+speaker, portable+speaker

The iMainGo Portable Speaker System. The PR blurb says that this puppy contains a ‘state of the art digital amplifier’ and ‘high output stereo speakers’. Which apparently means that it will make your iPod sound very loud as needed. A set of batteries last around 30 hours, which should improve your popularity in the neighbourhood no end. Priced at £59.00.  Three years of R&D has produced a tuned and ported speaker design, working with an extremely efficient digital amp and high…

The Voice Activated Answering Machine is the ultimate lazy machine. Instead of pressing buttons to retrieve your messages, you just say ‘answering machine – play new’. At which point it will miraculously recognize your sentence and like the obedient servant it is immediately delete everything in its digital memory. Oh dear. Well, maybe it’ll make a nice ashtray instead. $249.95.  This hands-free digital answering machine operates in response to voice commands, and does not require complicated set up or tedious user voice…

The Ozone Inflatable Lounger with Speakers. So now you can pump up your seat, crank out the sounds and restore the breathless excitement missing from your puffed-up but strangely deflated lifestyle…. [enough already – Ed]. So tell us, gadget makers, what happens once you successfully embed tinny rubbish speakers into every single item of home and office furnishings? We deserve an answer. £24.95.  The Lounger looks good, feels good and sounds good! Constructed from ultra durable PVC, the Lounger is a tough…

The Purrforma Plus Cat Litter Appliance. You know there’s something weird with the world when your cat litter tray has more technology in it than NASA’s original computer system. This pussy has four – count ‘em – infrared sensors and an automatic multi-cycle cleansing process with waste storage area. All we’ve got to say is miaow, baby, miaow. £199.99.  The Purrforma Plus takes cat owners into the 21st century, with an odour free, hygienic and easy way to clean the litter box….

The iCar takes music player/dock technology to a whooooole new level, peeps. Plug your iPod or other music player into this puppy and – spitting in the face of threatened legislation – the car will…ahem…flash its lights, spin its wheels, hop its suspension and generally rock the house in time with your tunes. Oh and did we mention that it contains speakers too? Could you honestly – no honestly – ask to experience anything more glorious before you die? A mere $29.99 buys you a…

Fetch a Bubble. Apparently dogs love to chase chicken scented soap bubbles. We assume that they prefer chasing to actually catching a nasty soapy burst bubble on the taste buds, but then again with dogs who can tell? Anyhoo, this has got to be one of the wackiest ideas ever to come out of a Dr Jekyll lab, and you mark our words, no good will come of it. £14.95.  The Fetch a Bubble was designed as an Ideal toy for…