March 2009

USB Flash Drives For Your Spare Change

Looking around on the LaCie website recently I found these interesting looking USB devices: Coin Shaped USB Flash Drives They can survive a shock in their nicely coloured die-cast casings and the USB connector can twist inside the coin. Transfer rates are up to 480 Mbit/s.

Read more

Oxo Food Scales

This set of food scales is something a bit out of the ordinary – instead of having your display on a little screen under that big mixing dish where you can’t quite see it, it pulls out to allow for easy reading. Apart from the pull-out, backlit display, the scales are pretty much like any [...]

Read more

Review: Laptop Lifts – legs for your notebook/laptop

If you are one of the ever-growing number of laptop users, you will have noticed that you continually need to take your laptop off your lap to let your legs cool down or place something like a book or magazine underneath it. Well, laptops are not about to get any cooler, or be made with [...]

Read more

Stone Ice Cubes

Here’s a refreshing innovation – (reusable) stone ice cubes. These stone cubes only need to be placed in the freezer for about an hour before needed and voila – instant ice cubes. This means they are both quicker to produce than ice cubes, and (slightly) cheaper and definitely more environmentally friendly as they can be [...]

Read more

Trustware’s BufferZone separates files and applications

As a follow-up to our piece on the Conficker C worm, a vendor called Trustware sent us news about their product (BufferZone) which can arguably be classified as an Anti-Virus app, but doesn’t quite work like the typical AV program. BufferZone claims to prevent malicious code from installing on your system by placing it into [...]

Read more

Suit Pillows for Working Late

Not every gadget out there comes with batteries or a power adapter, and of course, they can be a bit silly too! Here’s one of them: the ‘Pillow for Working Late‘ which is just like the name suggests – a pillow for those who work late and often find themselves falling asleep at their work. [...]

Read more

Tesla announces their 2nd all-electric car

Electric car maker, Tesla Motors, unveiled their 2nd all-electric auto this week, the Model S. Their first model, the Roadster was (and still is) sold for over $100k. Despite the price, there is still a waiting list for these cars. The Model S will have a more down-to-earth price tag of $50k (with an approximate [...]

Read more

Article Recap from the Week of Mar 27, 2009

Here’s our weekly summary of featured items from Gizmos For Geeks: There’s a new feature from Google Labs that allows you to ‘unsend’ an email just after sending. Why oh why is the Sci Fi Channel renaming themselves to SyFy? For noisy environments, you’ll be able to get a ‘throat microphone’ from Sanwa. Home improvement [...]

Read more

Filtertone Air Filter Alarm

The Dirty Air Filter Alarm from Filtertone is a new way to reduce your HVAC system costs, whilst reducing the pollutants in your home. The EPA ranks indoor air pollution as one of the ‘top five environmental risks to public health’ and so give this tool a closer look. The alarm simply plugs in to [...]

Read more

3D Eyetracking UI

Remember those little holographic things you used to play with when you were a child that showed different pictures depending on the angle you looked at them? Well the 3D Eyetracking UI from Tat does something similar – the UI can detect where you’re looking at the phone by tilting it, which allows the software [...]

Read more

← Previous Entries