The MySpeed bandwidth tester. Pretty cool Java speed test shows how fast your Internet connection is.

Quffs. Religious icons for the Starbucks age? $8.49.  Function – the Quff protects the hand from a hot cup and absorbs the moisture from cold/iced beverages, eliminating wet hands or water rings on a desk or table from the sweating cup/glass/can. Environmentally Friendly – the Quff replaces wasteful paper sleeves and double-cupping for hot drinks. Comfortable – the Quff is 100% cotton with insulbrite or thinsulate insulation. It is soft and quiet, and allows for easy grip of cup, can or…

Giant Border Guard binoculars. Guaranteed to stop Mrs Miggins at number 35 twitching the curtains when you’re flexing your pecs. Rotweillers not included. $3,250.00.  Loaded with features like oversized, individually focusing diopters, reticle scales with rangefinder, interpupillary adjustment, slide-out sun shades, objective/ocular lens covers, top headrest. Filter set, canvas cover and original factory docs. Anti-fogging

The Aqua Pill Timer. $29.95. Not just a pill holder with alarm, but a teeny water bottle with straw too. Perfect design for the pill popping 21st century, eh?  Pill holder with built-in alarm reminds you when to take your medication. Stash your pills in this compact holder, then simply program the electronic alarm and a beep lets you know it’s time to take a pill. There’s even a built-in, 2-oz. water holder and a straw so you’re always prepared.

Zipcar. Join up, reserve a car, locate it at the appointed time, unlock with card. Drive away. Return. A new form of car rental or just a trendy way to litter the streets with tin?  You can do it online or over the phone. You choose the car you want – there are MINIs, BMWs, Prius’s, even pickups. Choose the time slot you want at the location you want. Reserve minutes or months in advance. Your Zipcard will only open the car…

The MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test II. And the UK version. Test yourself to see if you can identify the real and fake service emails. Be warned though, peeps, this is hard! [Via]

No Tamper Drug Tape. Don’t trust the postal service? Gee, shame on you! You need some fully DCMA certified tape. No peeking now! $4.95 a roll.  Say you’ve got some baby pictures of yourself that you need to ship cross-country; you know, the really embarassing ones. You want to make sure no one but Mom see ’em, right? Try “No Tamper Drug Tape” to seal your package! Companies use it when sending manufactured drugs and the like, thus the name. It leaves telltale…

The Biosphere Terrarium. $39.95. Exercise Divine Power with your own real life Sim City.  Peer through the magnifying lens and watch your miniature, self-contained world bustle with life! It’s the ultimate enclosed environment for raising plants, animals and insects. The awesome, futuristic design features digital temperature and humidity gauges to let you monitor your world, and the included “rain maker” lets you cool off your critters with a spray mist.

“G’day Bruce, wassat then?” “It’s a Shark Shield, mate.” “Great. Uh…reckon it’ll look bonzer once you manage to find some water.”  Shark Shield creates a unique protective electrical field around the user, which is detected through receptors located on the snouts of sharks. The field causes intense discomfort to the shark, resulting in them leaving the area. This technology does not affect any other marine life. It has no known harmful effects on the wearer or the shark.

The Smokey Amp. £24.95 ($46.90) A guitar amplifier in a cigarette box? What next, a computer in a beer can?  One square battery will give you about ten hours of playing time, and there’s a 0.5w output into the built-in speaker. Of course, you’re not going to play Wembley with one, but a whopping great Marshall doesn’t fit in your pocket, does it?

Thorn Armor Gloves. High tech gloves, useful for gardening and perhaps for handling a prickly boss? $45.50.  A revolutionary new glove for pain and injury free gardening for roses, cacti, berry vines and all thorny trees, shrubs, vines and plants….Thorn ArMOr gloves are constructed out of space age Superfabric, a light, flexible, long lasting material three times more puncture resistant than leather. Superfabric extends around each finger tip to allow easy grasp of plants and pots without knuckle damage.