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When rechargeable batteries are mentioned, many of us will definitely think about Sanyo and their range of Eneloops that have garnered pretty high ratings from consumers over the years for its reliability and ability to live up to its own advertising in terms of performance. Well, this time round the Japanese electronics giant is back with a new Eneloop lamp - basically a rechargeable light that can function as both an interior lamp and a flashlight. According to Sanyo, “The Kobe earthquake is the starting point. We aimed at designing a shape that is really helpful in case of emergency.”

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Babies can’t talk, so they cry in order to communicate their needs to their parents. Of course, first time parents will go through plenty of trial and error before they figure out what cry means what, but here’s something that might help parents regain enough sleep (and sanity) with a newborn - the Baby Sshh Bee.

The Baby Sshh-Bee has been developed in collaboration with the Japan Acoustic Lab to create a toy that will help soothe your baby and stop them crying. The Baby Sshh comforts your baby by distracting them - the sounds and music it plays have a constantly changing tempo designed to make your baby curious. Your baby will be so busy trying to make sense of the wonderful noises coming out of their new toy that they’ll completely forget about crying. You activate the toy’s two different modes by pressing the buttons on the Bee’s face. Mode 1 plays scientifically developed melodies that constantly shift their tempo. It’s so effective that it distracted half of the office when we were testing it. Mode 2 plays some very silly noises indeed that trigger your youngster’s curiosity.

Apart from the couple of cracking audio modes, the toy itself features a squeaky tummy, dangly legs and crinkly wings to keep your little one occupied. Bear in mind that the £14.99 Baby SShh Bee works great only if your baby isn’t in genuine distress. If he/she is hungry, then feed him/her!

Summer’s here, and the world has to go on even when a couple of celebrities have signed out permanently in the past week. Well, guess sweat and tears will mix throughout the world as most people who grew up in the 1980s mourn for the passing of the King of Pop and to a lesser extent, the most outstanding Charlie’s Angel from the original trio. Well, it need not be this way for places that are experiencing summer (or if you happen to live in a desert or a place along the Equator where it is summer all year round), as there is the new waterless Air Cooler PLUS that provides air cooler comfort without the swamp cooler odor produced by water-based evaporative coolers.

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It can safely be said that virtually every kid you know these days have grown up watching at least one of the six Star Wars movies, and chances are pretty good they’ve seen them all many times. Well, not everyone is going to grow up to be part of the Jedi, as these younglings aren’t too young to figure out that the Dark Side of the Force seems to hold a whole lot of promise and power. Well, here’s the TIE Fighter playhouse that ought to give your little ones plenty of fun imagining that they’re Darth Vader, shooting down Red One in the Death Star trench run. Sounds like £44.99 well spent for the upcoming summer.

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We at Coolest Gadgets love to report on any technology that allows things to float in air. Yes, from the crazy conceptual Void LP Player to the Levitron Revolution, the future is completely “in the air”, so to speak.

So why not have a whole table that can float in air? Well, we are probably a long way from a table that hovers without any legs, but the Levi-Table is probably the next best thing.

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There are already plenty of forms of garden lighting, but now even your ice bucket can add a little mood lighting.  After all, why shouldn’t an ice bucket add to the atmosphere too?  Alright, so it is a little on the cheesy side of things.  However, it’s really no worse than a majority of the lights you find for sale that are meant to be outdoors in your garden area.  Plus, this does have a lot of customization features, so you can play down the cheesy factor.

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The Meatball Grill Basket brings flame broiled goodnews to spaghetti and meatballs.

I’m a culinary disciple of the Food Network, particularly of Alton Brown. And as such, I have an aversion for “uni-taskers,” so-called kitchen gadgets that are only for one thing and spend 99% of their time just taking up space in your kitchen. As AB puts it, the only uni-tasker in your kitchen should be a fire extinguisher, just in case. But I’m Italian, and this Meatball Grill basket may force me to say “Not so fast, AB!”

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VirtualHud gives heads up display to the private pilot

Like every private private pilot, I have a dream of enjoying a flight with a heads up display so I can spend most of my time looking outside the window, rather than having my head buried in the instruments. And now, the technology for a HUD is now available which utilizes the plane’s propeller as a projection screen, and it’s called VirtualHud.

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