Archive for December, 2007

There’s a couple of times I’ve been on a beach with the wind blowing and thought, “I wish I had a kite with me.” Well now you can carry one with you everywhere with the Keyring Kite.
The keyring kite is designed to fold down into a tiny keyring pouch. When taken out of the pouch, […]

Xenics have introduced these “unique” looking portable speakers.  These can be used on your IPod, MP3 or Laptop as they simply plug into the headphone jack-plug.
As they are also don’t rely on an external power source, you won’t need to carry batteries around with you. As they only output sound at 1watt, don’t expect to […]

With the price of flat-panels falling you can see their uses have become more widespread. One of the most ingenious ideas was the digital photo frame. This frame from Gigantor stands out from the rest due to the massive size of the screen. At 15” wide, it’s as big as the first flat-panel LCD monitor […]

If your looking for the effect of a real candle without any of the dangers of setting fire to your home, then consider this Remote-Controlled Candle. Described as the world’s only remote-controlled candle, the electronic candle uses energy efficient LED lightbulbs that give a flickering effect that will never burn out like a conventional candle.
These […]

In the continued competition to make all things thinner/smaller, Korea based Tomato have come up with the Tomato D-18.
A little on the skinny side, the D-18 is only 8.5mm thick (about a 1/3rd of an inch I’d guess). More amazingly, is that inside it’s svelt casing the D-18 is housing an 1.8inch Seagate Hard Disk […]

If your taken to listening to tunes on the piste while snowboarding / skiing / sledging then take a look at the Frequency Audex Motorola Blootooth helmet.
Not only will the helmet stop your head turning to mush when the inevitable collision happens, it’s also bluetooth enabled with built in controls.
The helmet is available in Black, […]

If your looking to share your music with friends (or annoy people on the train), but don’t want to lug a huge set of speakers around with you, then take a look at the Audio Bug Mini Speakers.
These little speakers simply plug into the headphone socket of your IPod, so could be used on any […]

When it comes to MP3/IPod docking stations, you’d think all the basis would have been covered by now… It appears not.
Those of the retro-loving style looking for an IPod dock that’s a little different should check out the ILava IPod dock. It offers all the usual dock features with one exception… A huge lava lamp […]

In the search of ever faster graphics, Samsung have revealed their new incarnation of DDR memory. GDDR5 has been built specifically with graphics technology in mind. GDDR5 neary doubles the speed data can be pushed to the graphics chipset by GDDR3 (from 3.2 gb to 6gb per sec).
Impressively, on a typical 512 mega-bit design with […]

I’m a real sucker for pretty much anything retro, so this alarm clock really appeals to me. It’s not that it does anything particularly exciting (it literally is just an alarm clock). But this clock has visible precision gears, so as time passes they slowly move around.