The Acme License Plate Maker. Relive those happy times in the slammer by crafting these to your hearts content. Jolly.
Read MoreYearly Archives: 2007
La Cie Brick Hard Drive – lego of your data
The LaCie Brick Desktop 300 GB Hard Drive. A stackable hard drive that looks like a LEGO brick? Mmm…there’s a joke in there somewhere, but it eludes us right now. $139.99. Stack & Play with other LaCie Brick Hard Drives * Professional storage is now easy and fun * Add colors to your computing life * Store & back up music, photos, videos and office files
Read MoreSpectec SDG-810 GPS Receiver – teeny tiny Micro SD GPS device
The Spectec SDG-810 GPS Receiver fits into a Micro SD slot on your PDA or mobile phone and offers top quality SiRF Star III GPS functionality along with a neat additional slot for your now homeless Micro SD card. Nice design. [Update: thanks Chris for pointing out that it’s a standard SD slot device, which in turn offers an internal Micro SD slot. Not quite so cool, but noteworthy nonetheless.] SiRF Star III with low signal levels and high sensitivity acquisition. Built-in…
Read MoreBattery hacking – turn your 9V into 6 AAA cells
Clever emergency hack of a Duracell 9V battery pack to provide six AAA batteries. Not sure how safe, useful or cost effective this is, but it’s worth remembering. Maybe. Lots of disclaimers. You will notice that these internal cells are a bit smaller than a normal “AAA” battery. However, by bending the attached tab on the internal cell, you can get it to work in most any application requiring a triple A cell, at least as a temporary fix until…
Read MoreOpen Designs – more Open Source web templates
Open Designs. Well if the quality of their web site is anything to go by, this new portal for free Open Source web design templates is going to be a fabulous resource once it gets going in earnest. At the moment there are just under 200 designs on the site, and there are some really nice ones on the front page. Check it out. Our goal is to create a community owned and managed site, where users can share their free website…
Read MoreBioLife Biometric Door Bell – touch and go tech
The BioLife TAP-01 Fingerprint Access Control with Door Bell. So here we are fresh into a shiny new year – and a very happy one to all of you, hope you get what you desire in 2007 – and up pops another of those rather strange devices. How can a bell improve the usefulness of a biometric security device? Ding?
Read MoreSofaTube
SofaTube is a neat little web application that lets you browse and watch videos from YouTube and Revver on your television set. As long as there’s an internet connected computer attached of course. Designed for the 10 foot, rather than the 2 foot experience see? Bigger fonts, boxes, navigation. Might be a bit sucky watching YouTube sized videos on a glorious 42” HD plasma though, eh? Still, this is definitely a bit of a subversive application when you really think about it. SofaTube…
Read MoreRIAA Toilet Paper – season’s greetings to the music biz
RIAA Toilet Paper. A wonderful way to remember our granny hassling friends in the music industry. At a novelty price of $5.95 a roll. Ok, so, we are STILL laughing every time we see this product on our shelves…LMAO! Nothing compares with the way it feels when that text slides across your butt. Sorry for the high price, but you’re buying it for the novelty. When it comes to functionality, stick to Charmin.
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