William Appleyard

UVSunSense Wristbands – tells you when to reapply sunscreen

Gizmo of the Day, Sports, Health & Fitness, Outdoors / By William Appleyard / May 30, 2009

Skin Cancer is becoming a bigger problem – but here’s a little gizmo to help you reduce your risk. Presenting the UVSunSense Wristband. While there are other devices that warn you of excessive exposure to UV radiation, this one will actually tell you when you need to apply more sunscreen. Think of it as a cheaper, and perhaps cooler version of the Portable UV Monitor.

When you’re applying your sun screen, simply take a moment to apply a little to your wristband as well, over the words, and when they change color you know you need to reapply. For a simple (and perhaps eventually live-saving) gadget, a mere $6 will buy you 7 wristbands – enough for a good long stay on the beach!

Now we just need to design one with an alarm in it so that it can wake you up need to reapply when you’ve dozed off.

Buy now!

Price: $5.87 for 7 wristbands
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Freezer Failure Sensor Kit

Gizmo of the Day, Home Automation, Tools, DIY, Home, Office / By William Appleyard / May 24, 2009

A little while ago we pondered what a gadget/gizmo actually was and found one of the definition to be a ‘device or control this is very useful for a particular job’ well, I think we can safely say we’ve found something to fit this bill perfectly – presenting the Freezer Failure Sensor Kit.

This nifty little device being offered by Smarthome will notify you if your freezer’s (or any cryonics units you happen to have lying around the house ;-)) temperature goes above 39°F via a range of different INSTEON home automation kits available from their website. Snag this gadget and prevent food loss or house flooding!

Buy now!

Price: $64.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

GfG’s Article Recap for Week Ending May 22, 2009

Gizmo of the Day, Networking & Internet, Software, Tools, DIY, Home, Office / By William Appleyard / May 23, 2009

This past week on GfG, we featured FINIS’s new product – a heart rate monitor for swimmers. Palm have confirmed they will be rolling out the Palm Pre on June 6.

We took a look at the upcoming movie, Gamer, which has a different take on gaming in the future. Gmail has even more new features.

Coffee lovers rejoice. There are two new products out there: the Aerobie fresh coffee maker and the Aerolatte To Go milk frother.

Aerobie Aeropress – hand press coffee maker

Gizmo of the Day, Tools, DIY, Home, Office / By William Appleyard / May 21, 2009

Here’s another coffee gadget for you caffeine addicts – the Aerobie AeroPress. This ingenious creation allows you to brew fresh coffee into your cup without having to make a big pot or invest in an expensive machine.

All you have to do is stick your fresh coffee into the top of the ‘tube’, position it over cup, add water and plunge – sounds like a quick and tasty brew. If you’re struggling to see how it works, there’s a neat video on their website which is worth a watch – hit the link below.

Buy now!
More info from the manufacturer

Price: $25.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

FINIS Aqua Pulse – Swimmer’s Heart Rate Monitor

Gizmo of the Day, Sports, Health & Fitness, Outdoors / By William Appleyard / May 18, 2009

With the world swaying more and more towards one where people like to stay in shape, more products are appearing to help you out. Here’s where FINIS have found their niche – they’ve developed a heart-rate monitor to measure your body’s exertion and exercise intensity while swimming. They claim that other products aren’t quite up to the job when it comes to swimming as they keep falling off.

Aqua Pulse works by picking up your heart rate from your earlobe (slightly unusual – have to try that one out sometime) and then tells you the results by sending sound waves through the bones in your ear, as you wouldn’t be able to hear it through a normal speaker. It appears they’ve thought of just everything with this. Hit the read link for a full description and feature list.

More info from the manufacturer

Price: $139.99 (To be released this month)
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

GfG’s Article Recap for Week Ending May 15, 2009

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Computers, Gizmo of the Day, Home Automation, Networking & Internet / By William Appleyard / May 17, 2009

This past week we took a look at the very beautiful (although perhaps not awfully practical) glass foosball table from Teckell. We reviewed a powerful nutrition scale to help you keep an eye on what you eat.

Virgin Galatic is looking to offer uber short long haul flights and we reported on the new bill that may overturn the current online gambling ban in the US.

Google is always tweaking and improving their products and they’ve added tasks to G Calendar..

In the media center category, we featured the latest Netgear networked multimedia device – the Entertainer Elite, but in even bigger news, it looks like MvixUSA is about to roll out their much-awaited next-gen Media Center Player, successor to the MX-780HD.

A little coupon love to finish things off – $25 off SmartHome!

Teckell Glass Foosball Table

Gaming & Toys, Gizmo of the Day / By William Appleyard / May 11, 2009

Recently we’ve found ways to bring retro products in to the modern world and this glass Foosball table by Teckell is no exception; it takes all the ‘traditional’ aspects of gameplay, and mixes it with extreme styling more fitting for today’s world.

The table is made out of glass walls and pitch, and has little wooden pegs for the players, with a basic white net at each side. Unknown is how well this stands up to the abuse I’ve seen doled out to foosball tables. I’ve been party to warping a few rods and breaking a few of those little soccer players!

via Gizmodo.

GfG’s Article Recap for Week Ending May , 2009

Automotive, Gizmo of the Day, Networking & Internet, Software / By William Appleyard / May 10, 2009

Another week – another recap; this week we looked at Cablevision’s new 100Mbps internet access plans for seriously fast downloads. Another technological breakthrough was General Electric’s 500Gb optical disc and China has developed a new competitor to Blu-Ray, although it will probably be primarily used within China.

Information Architects have released 2008’s Web Trend Map – pre-orders available now! We displayed the quite amazingly small wireless-N adapter.

The much awaited Tata Nano car surpassed a massive 200,000 pre-orders! And lastly, Vopium has released their free iPhone app.

HAVA Titanium HD WiFi

Audio/Video, Home Theater, Gizmo of the Day, Networking & Internet / By William Appleyard / May 9, 2009

Okay, Okay, I know we seem to love HAVA here, but we thought we’d let you know about the HAVA Titanium we mentioned in a pervious post. The HAVA Titanium HD WiFi (to use its proper name) allows you to stream HD video to your TV via a super-fast 802.11n connection.

The device basically works by streaming HD video through over your WiFi system to the dongles plugged into all your receivers (TVs and what have you). If you so wish, you can back away the box and take it with you on your travels (potential SlingBox killer?) – wherever there’s an internet connection you can watch your TV shows from home via a wide range of media, including mobile phones, and can stream simultaneously to multiple receivers, as with most of these cool HAVA items.

More info and buy now!

Price: $249.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

GfG’s Article Recap for Week Ending May 1, 2009

Computers, Gizmo of the Day, Networking & Internet, Portable / By William Appleyard / May 2, 2009

Let’s take another look at what we found worthy of a post this week! Let’s start with 2 recession-busting bargains that you can’t afford to miss out on: a D-Link Print Server for $20 and a nicely-spec’ed MacBook Air for $999.

Next up is the uber hi-tech Emotiv EPOC that allows you to play games and control your computer with your mind. On a similar theme we featured the very futuristic Ripple Bluetooth Headset.

In tech business news, ABC and Disney are partnering to show ABC shows on Hulu, Microsoft and Verizon are to work together on a possible iPhone Killer and Amazon are acquiring Stanza to expand their Kindle operations.

Finally, for all you Apple fans out there (everyone?), we have heard rumors of a new, cutting-edge Apple product: The iPad?

Author name: William Appleyard