Suppose you are a traveling salesman with a yen for the local anchorwoman. You spend day after fruitless day on the road, only to come home each night to a lonely hotel room. You sit there in your underwear drinking beer and watching the sub-par anchorwomen of whatever godforsaken town you happen to be in tonight. Well fret no more because the Japanese company Novac has released a television tuner for Skype software. It enables your computer to broadcast TV shows via the internet. With a laptop and an internet connection you can watch your local shows no matter where you happen to be.
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This is one of those pointless but cool gadgets that I love. A pen with a built in shredder.

You can scribble your secret doodles and then as soon as you hear somebody coming shred the evidence. I would get one but there is no point as I’m certain my daughter would pilfer it (in a friendly) before I got it out the wrapping.

More info at radicauk, found via Shiny Shiny. Oh and it contains an FM radio too, obviously!

Some people have way too much time on their hands, cool though

Filmed by DIY Happy found via Ounae.

Golf is meant to be a relaxing pursuit however you’re at serious risk of getting fit if you’ve got to lug your own golf clubs about. Yeah you could get your own personal caddie but they want paying every game so what you need is your own Remote Controlled Golf Caddie.
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For me there’s not much worse than men who threaten or harm women – we all know the kind of predators that we’re talking about. There might be some protection with this lipstick pepper spray though.

Girls, if you feel threatened or in danger, let him have it in the face and he will be temporarily blinded and have great difficulty breathing for 40 minutes!

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I added a spam filter to our comments yesterday and since then we’ve blocked about 200 spam comments which is great. Whilst I was checking that no legit comments had been blocked I thought it may be a good idea to check the junk folder in Outlook!

I now humbly apologise to the 100 or so senders of valid emails over the last 3 months, unfortuantely dumb Outlook sorted them in my junk folder and dumb me didn’t check for 3 months. I’ve belatedly replied to many but if I missed you I do apologise so feel free to comment here or contact us and I promise that I will check.

Now off to investigate a proper spam filter that I’ll write about in our sister site SoftSift.

I hate spam though I now hate false positives even more!

I really want one of these case mods! I’m really not interested in over-clocking gadgets; my PC’s fast enough, but it looks too plain. I’d be very happy to have one of these boy racer mods though.

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Last month we did a feature on RAM jewelry and asked for photos and one of our readers has kindly obliged with a pic, thanks Vera

We also recieved an email about the online store Fractal Spin which is filled with geek jewelry, you can check it out here.