Listable now has a list of some 160 + online file storage services. That’s a lot of files and a lot of competition in one small market. The trouble is that few people will trust their precious data to a small company which could go belly up next week, so these tiny services are probably doomed as soon as Google offers its own version for real.
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United Airlines takes advantage of helpless elderly couple, extorting nearly $3000: Big Bad united Air Lines
Nasty United Airlines. How not to treat your customers. [via BoingBoing]
Read MoreARC Freedom Wireless Antenna – boost your cell indoors
The ARC Freedom Wireless Cell Phone Antenna is designed to boost the signal of your cell phone indoors when all those nasty walls and doors threaten to cut you off from your lifeline to the world. Best of all, you can carry it around with you, so there’s no excuse for a bad signal when you’re staying in that flea-pit basement of a hotel on business. Wonder which marketing guy thought that making it look like a tombstone would sell more units, though? $39.99. Do…
Read MoreMelitta Coffee Maker Weather Station – low pressure lattes
The Melitta Smart Mill & Brew Coffee Maker with Weather Station. This wonderful example of lateral thinking combines a conventional coffee brewing machine with a small LCD screen on which is displayed information about the weather in your area. The weather data arrives via an MSN FM signal every 10 minutes, the coffee probably comes from sunny South America. And so the world turns. $199.95. With a small screen on the front, it shows updated information about weather via FM…
Read MoreRollies – skate light, skate free…
Rollies. Strap on heel skates with lights. They fit any sized trainer and contain a built-in generator to power the multi-coloured lights. Twinkle, twinkle baby. £36.99 a pair. Rollies simply strap on to the back of your shoes and away you roll! The wheels have a built in power generator and work when the wheel starts to turn, so no batteries are needed and when the sun goes down the brilliant multi-coloured lights stand out and can’t be missed by…
Read MoreThe Fishloft – a fish pond with a view
The Fishloft is a rather spiffy idea all round. The fish get a pretty un-fish like view of their universe, the humans get to watch fish hanging out in a social environment on the 10th floor. The cat stays hungry.
Read MoreDIY Voice Recognition Security System – who goes there?
If you’ve got a spare few minutes this weekend why not sit down and replicate the DIY Voice Recognition System project from Xiaowen Lu and Shihjia Lee. Of course you’ll need to know about the Nyquist Rate Theorem, Chebychev filters and the Fourier Transform, but apart from that it should be a piece of cake, eh? The project has not met our expectations fully, as we initially specified that the system would be able to recognize a sentence as a password….
Read MoreOpenArena – Open Source Quake Arena game
OpenArena is an Open Source re-packaging of the Quake Arena III FPS game. Proof once again that free software can be fun too, y’know. OpenArena is an open-source content package for Quake III Arena licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game. You do not need Quake III Arena to play this game. Bots were added starting in 0.6.0. They will spout taunts and everything! Concepts would be loose, so don’t expect a remake of Klesk in his original…
Read MoreProtogo – turn your iPod into a geek toolbox
TechTool Protogo is a portable suite of diagnostic tools for the Apple Mac that you can load onto your old iPod instead of throwing it away. You can then use it to boot up, diagnose, test, recover data, virus check and optimise your Macintosh at will. Ten cool points in the office for whipping out a cultural icon to debug a problem computer, eh? Priced at $148.00. Do you have an old iPod lying around? Or perhaps a small portable hard drive…
Read MoreArt-o-Meter – critique a la geek
The Art-O-Meter. MIT concept that measures the quality of a piece of artwork based on the amount of time that people spend in front of the exhibit. Result? Sauntering equals approval. Mmm….really? Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece. It bases its evaluation on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition. The measurements are graphically represented by comments and a 5 star rating system….
Read MoreSenao 668 cordless phone – awesome 128 km range
The Senao SN-668 Long Range Cordless Phone System. Forget about those piddling little 30 metre range cordless phones, if you really want to talk long distance on a cordless system you need one of these puppies. 128 kilometer range with booster antennas, which makes it a real alternative to a standard mobile phone. You can use it as a normal phone or a walkie talkie, and even transfer calls between handsets. Goodbye cell phone charges for local businesses? Er…but do note that you…
Read MoreFoods that heal – the benevolent buffet
Foods That Heal. Interesting little list of foodstuffs that are beneficial for the body. Pineapples dissolve warts? Really?
Read MoreShazou for Firefox – instant location info for links and sites
Shazou. Another very neat extension for Firefox which shows you the geographical location – complete with a Google map – of the link or web site you are visiting. It also has a nice anti-phishing function too. [Thanks Jose] The product called Shazou (pronounced Shazoo it is Japanese for mapping) enables the user with one-click to map and geo-locate any website they are currently viewing. Shazou was developed as a tool to improve the awareness for people surfing the internet…
Read MoreWorld’s longest motorbike – stretch and glide
The World’s Longest Motorbike. Stretching a full 9 metres, 57 cm from end to end. Sixteen seats including the driver. Somehow think that it wouldn’t be wise to populate it with more than one person though. In fact…
Read MoreCasio GzOne Mobile Phone – tough like Arnie!
The Casio GzOne Mobile Phone is just about the toughest handset on the street. Apparently. It will survive immersion in water for up to 30 minutes (1 meter) and can be dropped repeatedly from 1.5 meters onto a steel plate over concrete. Did we mention tough? And it comes with a camera and all the other goodies you might expect, and some you might not, like onboard GPS.
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