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.
For folks who want to pick up a pair of walkie talkies for your own use this summer, why not take on an eco-friendly stance with the new Wind Up Walkie Talkies? After all, there really isn’t any reason to fill up our earth with even more batteries, and on the other hand you will get some decent amount of exercise once you’re done juicing up your Walkie Talkies.
Powered by a dynamo mechanism using good, reliable old-fashioned wind up muscle, this strapping set of two-way walkie talkies provide a hassle-free way to keep in touch. That means no more batteries and no more getting caught short without them. Stay in touch up to 3km away while you’re camping in the great outdoors, enjoying a day at the park, trip to the seaside, shopping centres and festivals. At full power each walkie talkie radio provides a whopping 1 hour 30 minutes of talk time and 8 hours standby, although just a few cranks will provide enough power for a quick location update, roger roger, over and out. Added features include an LCD display, 8 channels and a 6V mains adapter which you can use to charge your wind up walkie talkies via the mains before you embark on your next big outdoor adventure. Get yours today, over!
You can pick up the Wind Up Walkie Talkies for £49.95 a pair.
If you’re not fond of the cases that although do protect your iPod in the shower, it still requires that your iPod be near water, you might like this wireless idea. With this you can have your music playing in the shower, all the while your iPod is tucked safely away somewhere nice and dry. Plus for the guys there’s a fogless mirror so you can shave in the shower. Just mount it to the shower wall and you’ll have an endless supply of music, well at least until the batteries die.
Forget about the yellow rubber duckie that most people bring with them to the bathtub - the Yellow Submarine Radio requires no imagination on your part as it feeds your ears with news and the latest songs from the local airwaves, and doubles up as a bath time toy for you to fool around with when the going gets boring. This is one of the coolest waterproof gadgets around, measuring 6″ long while featuring an On/Off switch, an AM/FM selection button in the rear, a propeller tuning dial and a rubber sealed battery compartment that is powered by a trio of AAA batteries. The Yellow Submarine Radio is currently going for $24.95 a pop.
Star Wars fans will definitely find the following 3D Star Wars Starfighter Kites something worth purchasing, especially for those who live in the northern hemisphere where summer’s here, which means spending plenty of time outdoors with family and friends to enjoy the nice, warm sun before the chill of autumn and winter sets in.
Each ship is presented in all the kite detail that kites can provide. You can choose from either Luke’s X-Wing, Vader’s Tie Fighter, or Han’s Millennium Falcon (hey, he won it fair and square). Imagine the peaceful, floaty dogfights as Darth chases Luke in the trench of a cloudy-made Death Star, with Han zipping in and taking Darth down. Just like the movies, but a lot more relaxing. We love it, the Alderaanians loved it, and so will you.
Imagine having kite fights with these, where fierce battles are not decided by turbo lasers but the sheer sharpness of crushed glass pasted across the entire length of the kite’s line. The 3D Star Wars Starfighter Kites will retail for $39.99 each.
Although it might seem like having a vacuum that sanitizes the floor is going a little over the top, I can understand the logic behind it. After all, you track in all kinds of things from the outdoors onto your floor. Then if you have kids, you have a whole different set of issues. Let’s face it, kids are just plain dirty. They bring in germs from other kids and then get the rest of the family sick. Plus if you have extremely young kids, they might enjoy playing on the floor, which puts them in direct contact with a very dirty area.
Stray hairs can get quite irritating especially when you’ve got a date coming up or a social event where plenty of the rich and famous will be in attendance. Well, we suppose if you were actually invited to such an event you would definitely be able to afford the best forms of beauty care, but for folks who are part of the rags-to-riches story and prefer to take on a more DIY approach might prefer to remove these stray hairs themselves without the pruning and preening of some prima donna beautician who costs hundreds of dollars per session. The Easy Trim from Andis Company is a spanking new battery powered personal trimmer which aims to eradicate any stray hair spotted. Measuring a mere 4.5″ long, the Easy Trim is highly portable and slips into a travel bag or purse, ready to trim hair from ears, nose, eyebrows, beards - virtually any spot that requires a quick trim before an encounter where errant hairs might cause embarrassment.
Most kids have played with a kaleidoscope, but most of us remember an extremely lo-tech version. Well now kids have one more way that technology changes the toys their parents remember into something much bigger and much more complex. Leaving the kaleidoscope of yesterday looking not nearly as cool. With this instead of looking through a small opening and seeing the colors that way, you can project the image for more than one person to enjoy.
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