Things that go ‘boo’ in the night!
Shocking Nail Clippers. There is clearly a school of thought out there that says giving your friends a bit of a jolt when they’re not expecting it is a jolly hoot. Why else would there be such a large number of items for said task? Why indeed you ask. So for all of you electro-sadists, here is a more useful product. A pair of real working nail clippers which start shocking at the flick of a switch. Gosh, happy happy. $10.90. This…
The AutoSafe Compact Car Safe for SatNav. ‘Tis a sad fact of life, is it not boys and girls, that SatNavs are the new car smash target. So no surprise then that someone’s come up with an aluminium and steel tethered safe in which you can put your precious GPS system when you leave the vehicle. Our first thought, of course, is that they’ll just hoist the whole car and remove the goodies at their leisure, but hey, what do we know? £49.98. The Autosafe Compact…
Delkin Pop Up Shades. Stick or snap on LCD shades for digital cameras. Make bright sunlight your friend, fret not about knocking or scratching your LCD, take better photos (well maybe we exaggerate a tad on that bit). Priced from $24.99 for the 1.6 inch pocket camera version. Pop-Up Shades are LCD screen protective covers, which also double as glare guards. These sturdy and lightweight covers are easily installed (and removed), but most importantly help to protect a digital camera’s…
Robosapien RS Media. Proof once again that you can’t keep a good robot down. This puppy comes with a full colour LCD display on his chest on which you can watch videos, and listen to music – hence the Media, geddit? Speakers and bass woofer reside in his armour, and he also sports an MP3 player, SD slot and USB port for downloading of cool tunes. Yep kind of loaded, in a metro-robotual kind of way. £299.00 ($538.20). Robosapien RS…
The QDOS Genesis. A ‘revolutionary’ 4 way, 360 degree surround sound dock for your iPod. Four x 3W, 4 x AA batteries give 8 hours of play or mains supply. White or black. Compatible with…oooh…lotsa iPods. €129.00. The contemporary design of the unit is further enhanced by customisable skins. Measuring only 115mm in diameter and 85mm in height when closed and 125mm in height when open, Genesis is compact yet sturdy, weighing no more than 0.8kg. Using four AA batteries,…
The Marmitek GSMGuard 300 is a wireless home security system which uses a standard GSM SIM card to contact you via SMS text if it senses anything wrong in your premises. Which makes it a cool way of checking on temporary locations, or places like vacation homes. Kit includes door and window sensors and a siren. Battery or mains operated. £325.00. Place the GSMguard300 Unit in a convenient location in your home (or storage area, vacation home, garage, etc.). The…
MoPods. Extremely silly mobile phone accessory. Attach these tiny characters to your handset and watch them spin and light up when a call or text arrives. Who thinks of these things? We want one. No we don’t. Yes we do. £4.95. The idea is to wear your MoPod as a kind of charm-cum-collectable on bags, belts, clothing, keyrings, or even mobiles. With several characters to choose from including a penguin, kitten, monster and devil, MoPods are destined to become must-have mobile…
US Modular 4GB QuikDrive USB Flash Drive for just $69.95? Wow. QuikDrive by US Modular is a portable flash storage drive which allows you to easily store and transfer files via the USB port on any computer. QuikDrive is proudly assembled and packaged in the USA, and is Windows and Mac compatible.Imagine having your Hard Drive from your personal computer with you on the go, and it could fit in the palm of your hand.
The Bravo SE Disc Publisher is being billed as the ‘world’s most affordable CD/DVD duplicator’ which sounds interesting. Basically we’re talking an all-in-one, robotic DVD recorder and 4800dpi full colour disc printer crammed into a single small desktop unit. Pretty clever stuff. You can run off jobs of up to 20 at a time, which is ideal for the small budding pirate record label, and it’s Mac and Windows compatible. At $1495.00 it sounds like a deal (mmm…wonder what they’re charging for the…
Black & Decker ATM 100 Auto Tape. The powered tape measure. Isn’t this power thing becoming a little bit ridiculous nowadays? We can’t pull a tape measure out of it’s holder? We have to press a switch? At what point is this going to stop? The mind boggles. $24.95. [Thanks Daniel] Extend and retract with the push of a button for one handed operation and ease of use. Use as a powered or manual tape measure for versatility and continuous…
Cropcam. High tech comes to farming with this clever piece of engineering. Take one automatic model airplane, throw in a digital camera and a GPS location module, and you’ve got a system which is perfect for gaining a literal overview of your farm land and its condition at any time. Inexpensive and effective. Well inexpensive compared to losing your crop. $10,000.00. The CropCam is a revolutionary mini agriculture plane that takes high resolution GPS based digital images for precision agriculture. Simply…
The iDea Wireless Home Dock. All in one dock for your portable bits, kiddies. iPod, PSP…er…MP3 player. You got it, you can dock it. Including video playback through yer TeeVee. Coolio. $149.00. It also has iPod video and photo playback for televisions through composite or S-Video so you can watch your downloaded shows or movies at home, in the office, or on the go. The wireless version has a universal design that no other product can promise. The iDea Wireless…
The Griffin FireWave promises us the wisdom of the ancients, eternal bliss, the beauty of Helen, and surround sound for Apple Macs. Plunk down $99.99, plug it into your Firewire port and bask in the 5.1 audio you’ve always wanted (it says here). FireWave’s small size makes it easy to incorporate into any computer setup, and portable enough to use on laptops. For the ultimate in mobile convenience, FireWave gets its power through its FireWire connection to the computer — no…
The T.One USB Microdrive. 12GB in the palm of your hand? Er..isn’t that rather a lot? $149.99. So trust us when we say the T.One is the mack-daddy of USB thumb drives. You get 8 or 12 gigs of storage and high-speed USB 2.0 transfer speeds in a sleek case less than 2 inches square. How do you cram a boatload of storage into such a small package? Amazingly, each T.One Microdrive has an eensy weensy hard drive inside. Buy one…
The Hear Now Two-Way Pet Communication System. GPS tracking collar with walkie talkie functionality plus a virtual fence feature. Not only that but it’s got an LED flashlight so you can spot your roaming pet from over 2 miles away. Unless they’re a mole of course. The cat harness model looks particularly naff. From $199.99. [via the always excellent Gizmag] The Hear Now is the latest high tech two-way pet communication product. Do you want to communicate with your pet…
