William Appleyard

USB Stick Analyzes Air Quality, Detects VOCs, Protects Your Health

VOCDetector

Most breathing conditions are made worse by poor air quality, but if you’re inside you can simply improve the air quality by opening a window. Knowing when the air quality is bad is an issue – today’s gizmo is a very simple-to-use air quality tester. All you do is you plug the USB stick into [...]

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Ojo Offers Enhanced Video Calling Phones

OjoVideoPhone

Ojo has brought its cutting edge voice-and-video-over-broadband (VoBB) calling service to a HD video phone. The phone itself looks like any more standard video phone, except it utilizes Ojo’s high definition services to give you a clearer experience compared to the other services you’re used to.

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Are Sifteo Blocks ‘The Future of Play’?

Sifteo

Sifteo – the future of play. OK – so the slogan got me hooked, but I don’t think I’m too happy with this being the future of play/gaming. Sifteo is essentially a set of 1.5″ (inch) cubes with color displays that you interact with to play a series of challenging games (for adults) or simpler [...]

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Stomach Pacemaker Reduces Food Intake

StomachPacemaker

A new gadget recently approved for use in Britain, and designed in California, helps you lose weight by acting as a pacemaker to your stomach. Recently trialled in Germany and yielding successful results, this ‘stomach pacemaker’ acts in a very similar way to a heart pacemaker – when you have eaten food, the stomach pacemaker [...]

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4-Bit Binary Watch is Stylish Yet Geeky

4-BitBinary

Binary watches are nothing new, but they can look a bit weird on your wrist unless you are in the presence of other geeks all the time. Think Geek have managed to find a wristwatch that lets you show off your geek cred in a more subtle way.

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Withings Blood Pressure Monitor App for iOS

WithingsiPhoneBloodPressureMonitor

Whether you’ve got a medical condition that means you need to check your blood pressure regularly, or you simply like to keep an eye on it, the iOS Blood Pressure Monitor is for you. This blood pressure monitor is a compact device that can be plugged into any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and [...]

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[Video] Easy to Follow Tips to Improve your Computer Ergonomics

Computer ergonomics are important for our well-being, but we tend to balk due to the seemingly long list of rules. This short but entertaining video posted by VodafoneES gives you some basic tips on how to improve your set up in an easy-to-follow manner. Don’t worry about the Spanish title, there is no speech to [...]

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Energizer Inductive Charger Only Requires Near Contact

EnergizerInductiveCharger

Energizer has released their inductive-charging alternative to the Powermat – they call it the Energizer IC2B-US Qi-Enabled 3 Position Inductive Charger. We’ll call it the Energizer Inductive Charger for short. The gizmo is compatible with all devices that use Qi technologies for charging. At the moment this appears to consist of covers for the iPhone [...]

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LaCie’s Little Big 1TB Drive has 10Gb/s Transfer Speed

LaCieLittleBigDisk

LaCie have announced their new Little Big Disk, featuring Thunderbolt technology. And, no, it has nothing to do with Little Big Planet – this is a storage drive that offers transfer speeds of 10Gb/s! Developed by Intel,Thunderbolt even trumps USB 3.0′s top-end 5Gb/s speeds.

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SmartHome’s SecureLine 2 Full Home Security Control System

SecureLine2

Today’s Gizmo is an updated version of an alarm system we featured almost exactly 4 years ago, the Web-enabled SecureLine. The new SecureLine 2 offers a more modern display and extra features. The main control panel looks flashier, with a style that would fit in better with the modern home. It also supports home automation [...]

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