The Beer Barrel Music Box. How quaint. All sorts of stuff. MP3 player, CD, Radio Cassette, graphic equalizer, alarm clock, remote control. Guinness tap. What? Ah sorry, only an option. $130.00 or so. And yeah, so it’s not *really* a beer barrel. We know that, ‘K?  Cool and funky looking portable music box. It can play whatever you like – radio/cassette/CD/MP3 player. With ID3 tag and song title display. It even has a remote control. Colours: Black and Red

The Nyko Gameface 360 is for customising your XBox 360 with different faceplates. People clearly need this. Otherwise why would someone make it? Why indeed. £24.95.  Print the final creations on the 15 blank templates included using any home printer that supports 8.5” x 14” paper or alternatively try one of the 6 pre-printed designs also included in the kit. The templates fit snugly between the faceplate pieces and snap into place on the front of the XBox 360 to look…

The Sound Sensor Keyhole Finder. So. Ever stumbled home after a looong night out, and had trouble finding the correct receptacle for your wavering and unsteady key? Eh? Well curse no longer, for this light will hear, a) the sound of your key scraping ineffectually against the adjoining wall, or b) the sound of your retching into the shrubbery, and illuminate the keyhole in joyous anticipation of your inebriated return to earth. Oh the joys of modern living. $4.97.  It’s not safe, fumbling…

The Freego No Shock Aromatherapy Door Handle. They should start putting these on headmaster’s doors, or the doors to exam rooms or the dentist surgery. Anywhere in fact where stress lies on the other side of a hinge.  Aromatherapy version is enriched wtih special essences color/aroma – orange: cinammon, lilac: jasmine, white: vanilla, red: rose, black: opium. Other essences/colors available.

The LogiNoki Mouse Mod. Take one Logitech G5 optical mouse and the screen from a Nokia 6610 mobile phone and voila, a very very cool mouse with in-built LCD screen. What for? Fun of course. Neat. [Via Techeblog]  For some reason I had a thought on trying to combine a graphical LCD with a computer mouse. Perhaps this had something to do with my review of Logitech’s G15 Gaming keyboard six months back. Like in my MouseFan mod that I…

Kangaroo TV. Fascinating concept boys and girls. Short range rent or buy televisual gizmo for viewing events while you’re a live spectator. You know the scenario. You’re at a Formula One motor race but all you get to see are a line of cars flashing past ya at 200 mph every 2.5 minutes. With this puppy, you follow the action close up: from the cockpit, pit lane etc etc. Makes sense in one way, kinda weird in another (duh, what’s…

iDiamond Headset. White gold, diamonds, ‘would madam like it gift wrapped?’, plush, indulgent, muggable, crass, gauche, pretentious, Paris H*****. €660 to €750.00 a set.

The Calorie Watch. Monitors your heart rate and calories burned without the need for chest bands, cardio-vascular trolleys, ECG machines or any other embarrassing pieces of equipment trundling along behind you as you jog to work in the morning. $29.50.  # Measure heart rate (in bpm) # Measure calories burned during workout # Record resting heart rate # Out-zone alarm function keep you in training zone # Exercise timer

Hop Pops. They bob their heads up and down in response to sound or interaction. You need to know more? $17.00 each or $88.00 for the whole set of six. We’ll take a dozen. Please.  These adorable animals pop their heads up and down in response to sound or interaction. They are a totally cute and unique conversation piece for any desk. Available in duck, panda, frog, rabbit, monkey, or bear. Generally they react to sound in the same way…

Solo Lift. Ferrets hate carrying things. Which is why tools like this appeal so much to our lazy nature. Especially when it looks like magic. $24.95.  The Solo Lift enables you to lift and carry a with only one hand! No preparation of the box is needed. Simply grab the box using the Solo Lift and go. The box is carried at your side, allowing you to see what is front of you, such as a curbs, puddles or steps….

The Caddy Aid. A golfer’s PDA with a difference. Not only the usual distance guides, GPS and local golf rules, but also ‘fairway flyover’ videos and television style advertising. The hardware is a Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX N520, and the whole package will set you back £380.00 all in.  CaddyAid, a specialist golf software package, that will be available only on a Fujitsu Siemens Computers handheld, is a GPS distance guide that offers golfers an immediate readout of not only their…

The Memory Card Reader Calculator. Aw c’mon, doesn’t this make sense to you too? You never know when you’re going to need to calculate something important while transferring your photos across. And..and…it comes with a world time alarm clock and countdown timer included. So now you can image shift, calculate, check the time in Tokyo and still make sure your egg is perfectly boiled. Wow, no wonder they call it the All-in-One.   This is a complete integrated function card…

Cordgo. Isn’t it funny how every new generation of technology brings its own share of issues with it? Cars brought accidents and pollution, television begat Doritos and now portable media players have delivered the scourge of the headset cable to the world. The result? The cable tidy. This puppy is the latest, and it’s quite cool. $9.95 each and there’s a buy one get one free offer right now.  Cordgo is a one hand operated cord adjustment and storage accessory….

The XB/GC/PS2 3 in 1 VGA Box. Strange name for a box which lets you connect your XBox, GameCube or Playstation 2 to a standard computer monitor. Not, however, all at once. Runs both PAL and NTSC so you can even play your game in Chinese [eh? – Ed]. $52.99.   It will accept any PAL or NTSC system video input and convert it into RGB output for any VGA monitor. * It can be connected in a series between the computer…