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’ve got a voyeuristic streak in you, then chances are you will find the Button Pinhole Video Spycam w/ Mini DVR to be an important addition to your arsenal of weapons when it comes to recording subjects who are unaware of your filming.

This is a hidden surveillance spy camera disguised as a shirt button with a pocket sized DVR and all the necessary cables included in one complete kit. This high tech camcorder allows you to record directly onto a small mini-SD digital video recorder. The recorder includes a 2″ LCD viewing screen, so you can setup your shot and see what results to expect before you do your in-the-field recordings. In addition, this model allows you to record both color video and audio in AVI format, with 30 FPS quality. The small pinhole button camera can be DIY installed on any shirt or jacket. Included are multiple matching buttons in a variety of sizes to help you make your shirt modifications. You can even paint the buttons if needed to get a perfect match. The compact DVR recorder unit is easily concealed in a pocket.

Creepy stuff, but if you’re adamant on getting one of these, be prepared to fork out $149.99 for this device. Just hope that nobody else catches you with your pants down (literally or otherwise) using the same device when you think nobody else is looking…

Mac users are not left out in the latest round of product releases from Seagate as the company has lined up an advanced range of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage solutions and accessories, and they are the FreeAgent Go for Mac with USB, FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac, the 2TB FreeAgent Desk for Mac and FreeAgent Go Dock+, a powered USB hub and dock for the FreeAgent Go, where we’ll all take a look at it in further detail right after the jump. This comprehensive storage toolkit solution for creative professionals of today will not only offer capacity improvements but performance enhancements as well to help store, record, protect and share creative inspirations. All of the Seagate FreeAgent for Mac solutions will be available formatted as HSF+ for Mac OS X and are Time Machine ready for added convenience.

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With so many notebook manufacturers flooding the market with all sorts of products, who do you turn to when it comes to choosing a machine to help see you through the college years or one that is suitable for everyday use in both the home and at the office? Toshiba is one of the more reliable brands out there, although their releases hasn’t been exactly exciting enough in terms of being fashionable, although their notebooks have been pretty reliable in their own right judging by user feedback over the years. Well, Toshiba is back with a new Satellite L Series of notebooks which will target budget-conscious consumers as well as “Back-to-School” shoppers, striking a careful balance between style, performance and cost with prices starting from a somewhat high end netbook level – $549.99.

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Paragolfer makes playing 18 a breeze for the disabled

Life is markedly challenging for the disabled. But what’s always impressed me is how they never let that challenge really define who they are or limit the life they live. And when technology helps in that regard, so many of life’s passions – namely golf – suddenly come into view. And with Paragolfer, it’s flat out the truth.

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An iPhone user proves it’s not the “Jesus phone” after all by dropping it in the pool!

Hat Tip to Crave for this YouTube link of a user videotaping poolside using his iPhone 3Gs. He suddenly drops it and into the drink it goes. But here’s the amazing part. It continues to video tape while in the water and according to C’Net, two days after dropping it into the pool, IT STILL WORKS.

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Harnessing the power of the wind to travel is nothing new. America was discovered thanks to it, goods travelled all over the world for eons as a result of it, there’s even a super bowl of sailing in the world’s oldest athletic competition (the America’s Cup) which couldn’t happen as a result of the wind. And cargo ships are even considering using giant kites to travel on the wind as a green way to cut costs and save the environment while sailing the seas. So it’s nothing new. But toss in the ability to travel from the road straight into the ocean on the wind, and suddenly the “coolness factor” asserts itself. Especially when you can see an opening scene of a new Bond movie in it’s future.

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