Here’s another cool add-on for your INSTEON home automation system - the I/O Linc Doorbell and Phone Ring Alert Kit. Use this kit to generate a visual alert when the phone or doorbell rings.
This is great for when you’re in a noisy environment - listening to music, working in the backyard/garage, partying. Also great [...]

How would you like to use less printer ink, thus saving money and helping the environment, and even making your print job go a tad faster? Try out the aptly named Ecofont. Ecofont is essentially a sans serif Verdana font but with lots of white holes in the lettering that you don’t really notice at [...]

Here’s the quick recap for the week:

Skyhook Wireless has a new positioning service that works via WiFi
Metal detecting sandals
IEEE has a video contest to celebrate their 125th anniversary.
Guitar Hero 5 on its way!.
Really Easy Reader can help speed up your reading
Google could add number portability to Google Voice, and Google Voice is opening up to [...]

Heinz’s new innovation is not a new type of super-bean, but in fact a microwave. Talk about diversification! This particular item was designed by Gordon Andrews and Stephen Frazer who entered a partnership with Heinz to produce this for Heinz’s small ‘Snap Pots’ which would benefit from an ultra-portable microwave to cook them with and [...]

Today’s Gizmo is the Really Easy Reader whose aim is to get you reading documents at a faster speed - they claim that this can easily be double your normal reading speed. This basically works by flashing words on your screen very quickly (hit the manufacturer link for an example), or by running a ticker [...]

We’re ever looking for ways to save time and become more efficient in today’s world and this idea is no exception. Presenting the Metal Detecting Sandals, allowing you to detect metal while you walk via a sensor built into the sole up to 2 feet deep; a control box is then strapped to your leg [...]

Yes! This is real news - a few organisations are reporting that Guitar Hero 5 is due to be released this fall to try and increase its target audience with a whole range of new features (not much news yet on what these are) but there seems to be general focus around so-called ’social play’. [...]

Have Zune begun to copy Apple’s stylish music players with the upcoming Zune HD? We’ve got your weekly fill of format wars - this time focused on home automation and could we really be that much closer to wearable remote controls?
Father’s days coming up and, being such a caring bunch, we came up with a [...]

Zensify is an app available for both iPhone and iPod Touch that brings together all your social networking sites in one, easy to view page enabling you to view all your social network updates simultaneously without having to load each page individually.
Currently only available for iPhone and iPod, if you dig a little deeper to [...]

Here we have a furious round up of some of the many analog to digital converters we’ve featured over the years to persuade you to digitize your precious analog collections of audio cassettes, vinyl records, photographs, slides/negatives and VHS tapes. Let’s go!
Audio Cassettes
With CDs looking like they’re being overtaken by new performance discs and music [...]