We all know what a pain it can be to run out of batteries on the go, rendering our digital camera useless at the most inopportune of moments. Fancy a rechargeable AA battery that does not require you to lug around a huge and heavy charging station? Enter the USBCell, a rechargeable battery that is capable of charging directly from any USB port without the need for using a charging station. This will definitely give you more luggage space when you travel while lightening your load simultaneously.

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Instead of getting yourself a fingerprint scanner, which can often be fooled by ordinary Play-Doh, get yourself a bit more security, maybe the Snappy Face Recognizer? I think so.

It looks like an ordinary webcam, but actually uses advanced facial recognition technology to detect your face and then either log you in, or give you an error message.
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This is one of those really obvious gadget ideas, a USB car charger. So provided you haven’t got a flat battery you can simply charge your USB gadgets via your cars cigarette lighter (I knew it had to be useful for something).

This has got me thinking, if all manufacturers agree (yeah I know they never will) we could use the Splash Power to charge our gadgets at home and if all future gadgets had a USB port we could use the car or any PC to charge our stuff when we’re out and about. It will never happen but it’s a nice idea.

Ministry of Gadgets sells the USB Car Charger for the bargain price of £3.95.

What can you make out of 2 ping pong balls, a glue gun, 2 LED lights and a nail? A DIY hand gesture interface for Google Earth, obviously.

Atlas gloves are very easy to make (full instructions here) and with the help of a little free application you can navigate the globe by simple hand gestures. You’ve got to watch the video to appreciate how these things work, very strange.

Hat tip to Case for the link (via our gadget forums).

After severe critiques by almost every tech related blog on the net about the new “privacy” internet browser called Browzar, the software has been updated with a couple a unique interesting change.

One of the most criticized points, the search engine that provided sponsored results (without making it very visible) on the first 2 or 3 pages has been transformed into something else. Now it uses the Ask.com engine, there are still sponsored links (which is normal in search engines) but now they are more visible – contain the word Sponsored Results under a light-blue background. These kind of links are usually visible on top of the first normal results only, but Browzar takes one step forward and includes them on the bottom of every page too.
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Have you heard about the new celebrity diet craze? It’s easy. No dieting or exercise is required. Just a few Adobe Photoshop lessons and you can lose 20 pounds in the matter of minutes… like new CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric.

Evidence of Katie’s new “digital diet” was published in a CBS publicity magazine called Watch, and distributed on American Airlines flights. The former NBC Today star’s neck and waistline have clearly been digitally “photoshopped” to make her look about 20 pounds lighter. The original photo was taken at an advertiser presentation earlier this spring before getting a digital workout in CBS’ graphics department.

Is CBS photoshopping more than publicity photos of news anchors? We hope not. Why not let a photo speak for itself?

digg story | methodshop

It’s September 6th and I’ve just received my first Christmas press release, now that’s what I call planning ahead.

Our friends over at Brando have just started selling a singing and dancing USB Santa, the video of it actually looks surprisingly cool (for a wacky Christmas gadget). They’ve also released a USB Christmas tree which has various optics and light patterns (no where near as cool as the dancing Santa).

If you fancy getting ahead of the festive game (by 3 months) the USB Dancing Santa Claus costs $17 and the USB Christmas tree costs $16.

Browzar was announced a few days ago as a new internet browser with the slogan - Your private window on the Web. There was a lot of hype on different big and important websites (Register, BBC and others) because this new piece of shit software was suppose to offer plenty of benefits such as no installation required, browsing history, stored files and cookies were not saved to protect the users privacy, being freeware and only occupying 246k of space were the other bonus offers.

Well, it didn’t take long for everyone on the internet (besides the previous mainstream sites) to notice that Browzar is nothing but a program with adware and doesn’t have the announced features. It is considered adware/bullshit program by many people. Read the rest of this entry »