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Posts on ‘January 21st, 2007’

Canon EOS 40D on the way?

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Digital Cameras
Canon just slopped-out an “EOS 40D” DSLR page onto their Hong Kong site. No specs or pictures of the unannounced camera but it’s fair to say that we’re looking at a followup to [...]

Doggy Pedometer ushers in new era of dog training

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household, Wearables
Sometimes all we can do is tell you about a product and leave it as is. In this case, Yamasa Tokei delivers the canine accessory for which all jogging dog owners have been pining — the Doggy Pedometer. Tripling as a dog tag, timer, and pedometer, [...]

Subbuteo table football USB key from Marco Leone

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Storage
Our friends across the pond have no doubt heard of Subbuteo table football (soccer, as we Yanks call it). As the hobby / diversion takes off here in random parts, we keep our eyes on reasons to talk about Subbuteo, and Marco Leone has given us that little excuse. Enter the [...]

AVAtrix HD Home Theater System - majorly moving movies

The Audio Authority AVAtrix HD Home Theater Routing System. Six in, seven out video routing system which will spit HD video around a Cat5 cable network faster than you can say, ‘let’s wire up the East Wing, darling.’ Are we right in thinking this is about $4000.00 a pop?

 The AVAtrix is [...]

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Some hands on time with the iPhone

As a popular technology blog headquartered in Silicon Valley, we were lucky enough to get a chance to try out the final shipping version of the iPhone this week. If you think that it looks somewhat different from the pre-release versions of the iPhone that were shown off at MacWorld, you’re right: Unlike those, [...]

JBL Creature II speakers - style and substance

The JBL Creature II Speakers offer 8 watts per channel in a distinctly un-boring form factor. Translation – they look purty and should be reasonably loud. They’ll work with computers, music players and portable media devices, but actually we just like the jellyfish shape. We’re shallow like that. $99.95.

 Featuring cutting-edge sci-fi design and superior [...]

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The TicTacToe Computer - Deep Blue turns pink?

The TicTacToe Computer was made completely out of Tinkertoys by some whizz kid students at MIT in the 70’s. And they say that geek adolescents waste their time a lot. Pshaw…!

 The Tinkertoy computer is not fully automatic: a human operator must crank the read head up and down and must manage [...]

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Spy Tie - the covert collar cam

The Spy Tie. Stick an NTSC/PAL pinhole camera into a plain old household necktie and capture those special moments when the boss’ spittle hits your face in full tirade. The cigarette packet sized companion recorder comes with a 2.4 inch LCD monitor, a full remote control and holds SD cards up [...]

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Grooveshark - get paid for sharing music

Grooveshark. A peer to peer music file sharing service which provides legal no-DRM MP3 tracks, priced at 99 cents per, with a share of the profits going to the copyright holders and a share going to the users who are helping to build the community. It’s along the same sort of [...]

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IndieKarma - widgets + micropayments = interesting

IndieKarma is a rather interesting micropayments idea to help bloggers and website owners gain a little cash from their venture. The idea is that the owner embeds a widget on their home page and every time an IndieKarma member visits the site, one penny is deducted from their account. The big [...]

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