Archive for December, 2007
Join Keep your iPod powered on the go with iPowerRush
Rare is the occasion when I actually let my iPod’s battery to get down so low that it dies while I’m listening to it. However, those rare times that it happens are horrible. I’m usually on a long flight or stuck somewhere for a while with nothing to do. It’s during these times that I would to just about anything for a backup battery. Which is why the iPowerRush would come in handy for any iPod or iPhone user.
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School Zone Makes Us Safer, Like it or not
I couldn’t help but think of the movie Blade Runner when I saw this next product. If you haven’t seen it, you should probably check out the latest version now available on DVD and those other formats.
The reason why I bring it up is because the 1982 film justly predicted that our urban sprawl would be decorated with as much electronics as possible. There is a scene in which a “Don’t Walk” sign has become a blaring voice commanding the citizens to “Cross now”. If you watch that scene, you feel this terrible feeling that machines are in charge of the future as they command them to cross the street like a harsh parent.
You can see how this applies to the School Zone. Though just a concept now, it is designed to make it safe for our children as elevated slabs that match the height of the curb come interlaced with LEDs, so arrows will point the way when it is safe to cross.
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Raise Me Up is great for removing plugs in tight spaces
If you’ve ever had to crawl behind your entertainment center to switch out a DVD player or game console, you’ll know how much of a pain it is to unplug your device. It seems like it would be a simple process, however, when you can only fit one hand back there it becomes much more difficult than if you had the use of both hands. This is because when you pull on the cord, your powerstrip has a tendency to lift up too. This is exactly why someone came up with this Raise Me Up powerstrip concept.
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Last Minute Gift Idea – Print Your Own Gadget Gift Certificates
If you’ve left your Christmas shopping a touch on the late side you can either go and battle in the shops on the last shopping day, or if you’d rather do your last minute shopping from the comfort of your PC you can order gift vouchers and print them yourself (unfortunately you do have to pay for them first).
You can order gifts vouchers from the from the following gadget friendly stores:
Think Geek – Order Vouchers here.
Firebox – Cool Gadget Gift Vouchers for us in the UK.
Amazon.co.uk – Another gift certificate page.
Big Screw Drinks Opener
Make your Christmas parties all the merrier without being thwarted by a stubborn cork with the Big Screw Drinks Opener.
The Big Screw, is not actually very big, and come to think of it, it isn’t a screw either, though if it were a screw, it would be big, as screws go. We may have laboured the point somewhat. Size aside, the little Big Screw is an ingenious piece of dipsomaniac design. Whilst we often have something on us to open a beer bottle (even if it’s our teeth), getting into a bottle of wine without a corkscrew is a whole different ball game. This stylish little key ring will of course open beer and pop bottles (thus saving your gnashers from a horrible fate), but it also conceals a corkscrew, so access to wine is no longer an issue. Of course it also looks deeply stylish, tooled as it is from stainless steel, and coming with a tough fob ring and rather natty tag. Never be beaten by a wine bottle again!
This nifty little kitchen gadget can be yours for £9.99.
Coolest Gadgets in National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Recent weekend stats have shown that National Treasure: Book of Secrets has surpassed its predecessor.
As a gadget blogger, I was amazed at the amount of cool gadgets displayed in this film, and would like to review several of them at once. None of these contain any spoilers to the film.
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Hyper Dash game from Wildplanet
Okay, I’m probably overdoing the whole “I’m reporting on products from Wildplanet” thing, but I like this product almost as much as I liked the whole Spy Video Car.
This Hyper Dash game is one of the coolest simply because it is so limitless as far as its gameplay. You see that long joystick-like object up there? You have to take that, and slam it onto the numbered discs up there.
Yes, it really is that simple. The thing is battery operated, so it shouts out what disks to slam, and you slam them. Settings can make it so a player can slam it down by number, or by color.
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