The I.C Can self cooling can. No pressure, no toxins, no gas, no kidding. ‘When activated, the all natural desiccant contained within a vacuum draws the heat from the beverage through the evaporator into an insulated heat-sink container. It is this patented vacuum-power which lowers the temperature so dramatically and quickly, leaving the beverage inside cool and refreshing.’

Apparently if you attach this little Smart Tube gizmo to your ordinary vacuum cleaner, it will turn it into a super-dooper cyclone model. Dear old Dyson must be happy. Neat idea though, eh? �20.00. ‘Fit SmartTube between the hose and cleaning head of your conventional vac, and suddenly you’ve got yourself a cyclonic cleaning machine. Cyclone-action brings three big benefits, the first of which is dramatically improved pick-up power. Next, because SmartTube acts as a filter, only negligible amounts of…

Classic British Cafes. Also known as ‘greasy spoons’ for obvious reasons (and akin to the famous American Diner I suppose). Fabulous stuff for nostalgia and culture buffs. What this site doesn’t tell you is just how much money many of these cafe owners make. Rather like London taxi drivers, cafe owners do all right for themselves, believe me. Even if they only have a hole in the wall type. ‘Often dismissed as ‘greasy spoons’, classic cafes are actually little gems…

Vacuuming and ironing in the middle of a busy street? All in a day’s work for the Urban Housework people.

Look, fergedabout Roombas, Trilogolgibites and the rest, what you really need is a Hello Kitty Desktop Cleaner. $9.50. ‘The Hello Kitty Desktop Vacuum Cleaner. Put it on your desktop and turn it on (takes two AA batteries, not included), and Kitty will remove dust, dirt, and make your desk clean for you.’

The miraculously tranforming Radio Watch. $19.98. ‘Digital watch with built-in FM radio transforms into sleek clock radio. To listen to watch radio, just plug in provided earphones and press scan button to pick up the strongest FM stations. To turn it into a clock radio, simply plug watch into docking station. Now radio plays through docking station’s built-in speaker and gets exceptional reception with its 6.5″ telescoping antenna.’

No, I’m not really sure why the new eVac Robotic Vacuum sits in a photo with two traffic cones. Maybe it’s part of the optional turnpike cleaning attachment? But the master feature of this $299.95 product -apart from the Trilobyte smashing price of course – is the fact that it comes with a toggle joystick RF remote control, thus ensuring that carpet cleaning shifts firmly and irrevocably into the province of the gadget man about the house! Guys, we’ve been…

I’m not quite sure how this is supposed to work in real life (as opposed to marketing life) but it looks quite interesting. Interpolation heaven? PhotoAcute. ‘Have you ever dreamed of snapping the high-quality images [sic] by your phone built-in camera?…Now imagine, that your 300Kpixel camera is turned to 1.2Mpixel one. Amazingly, it’s possible just by installing the PhotoAcute application…PhotoAcute utilizes a unique image processing technologies [sic] developed by Russian scientists, formerly used to work in the area of data…

Looking like something Darth Vader rejected in his Evil Idol costume auditions, the Eyezone Massager is supposed to ‘revitalise your eyes and banish bags, pain and puffiness.’ Just perfect for those geeky peepers we reckon, especially after a long night pounding the Everquest beat. �14.95 ($24.67). ‘The Eyezone Massager was developed using the principles of Chinese acupuncture and massage and magnetic therapy. Massaging the eyes stimulates circulation which tones the surrounding muscle tissue, reducing bags, dark circles and the signs…

Vintage Video. Oodles of classic video-visual material for thy entertainment. Can thee spell nostalgia? My Pal Trigger. This film features Rogers trying to mate his mare with Hayes’ stallion and being acused [sic] of killing the stallion when Holt, who’s trying to do the same thing, accidentally kills the horse.’ They just don’t make ’em like this anymore. (Thank goodness.)

Is it just me, or are those robot vacuum cleaners just a load of old hype? Especially when you’ve got things like the SweepEze. Just sweep the dirt up to this ‘always on’ broadband cleaner and bingo! Dustgone. ‘Gone are the days of bending over with a dustpan to pick up pet hairs, broken glass, and crusty food messes. The SweepEZE is always on and ready. When its patent pending “Eye-Vac” infrared sensor (driven by an internal microprocessor) detects the…

The SPY-PH-NOKIA 8310 cellphone is an ordinary mobile phone that makes and receives calls as normal but – ‘when the phone is called using the previously programmed spyphone number, it automatically answers without any ringing or lights and the display appears as if it is on ordinary standby.’ In other words when called with a special number it silently goes into transmit mode and broadcasts whatever the mic picks up from the environment. Sneaky is not the word, eh? You…

The iMedic Chair is billed as the ‘world’s first massage chair that understands your body’s needs.’ Wot’s that mean? Well 10 airbags with vibrators, heat therapy via air massage, infrared sensors to detect ‘all the major 27 acupressure points on your back’, 4 roller massage system and twin LCD remote control. Yours for a mere AUS $6495.00. Oh and guys, do yourselves a favour and remove the cheesy javascript right mouse click lock if you want to get publicised properly…

Don Klipstein has a thing about lights and lighting. A big thing. The result is his Lighting Info Center. Including the Great Internet Light Bulb Book…Part 1. ‘It is fairly well known that Thomas Alva Edison invented the first reasonably practical incandescent lamp, using a carbon filament in a bulb containing a vacuum. Since that time, the incandescent lamp has been improved by using tantalum and later tungsten filaments, which evaporate more slowly than carbon. Nowadays, incandescent lamps are still…

The Relief Band is a ‘a watch-like nerve stimulator worn on the underside of the wrist…Stimulates P6 Acupuncture Point With Gentle Electrical Stimulation…Interferes With The Nervous System�s Normal Processes Related To Nausea. Priced at $99.95.