From the category archives:
The Wireless Page to TV Magnifier is a mouse sized device that is capable of transmitting close up images of text to your TV. The mouse has a 655 x 488 pixel scanner attached and wirelessly connects to a box stored behind your TV. When scanning the mouse over a page of text the text is magnified up to 25+ times to allow easier viewing.
On a 14 inch screen the magnification starts at 10X with a larger 32 inch screen showing a 28 times image. [click to continue…]
Battle of the Fork Lifts is a game that requires you use your fork lift truck skills to move miniature pallets around. Now, full sized fork lifts are fun for some reason, but these little ones just seem to take the fun out of it.
The idea of the games seems that you need to move a pallet around to another location and successfully stack the pallet on top of other pallets while the other player tries to ram you off the road and make you spill the contents of what you are carrying. [click to continue…]
If you feel your toddler needs a voice on the Twitter micro blogging service then this gadget should be on their Christmas list (not like we think there is any point to it, but we thought we’d mention it anyway). The gadget is called Twoddler and uses sensors to capture a toddlers activity on a twoddler board that is internet connected. Each sensor has pre-defined text that is transmitted to twitter as of when needed.
It’s a bizarre idea if you ask me, but I guess there might be some who think their children need to be heard on twitter. [click to continue…]
This gadget falls in to the category of crazy gadgets due to me not quite understanding why it’s really needed. The Kingjim Pomera is a note taking device that has a full sized keyboard along with a 5 inch VGA screen. What it does is allows you to take notes and send emails if connected to a mobile phone.
The strange thing is that if you need a mobile phone to connect it to, then why bother with the screen on the device… perhaps a bluetooth keyboard for your current smartphone with an application installed could achieve the same goal. That aside, it looks easy to type on and for basic notepad it appears to do it’s job well. [click to continue…]
The Simulator company Cruden has built an F1 simulator that costs a hefty £120,000. The simulator is called the Hexatech and is capable of providing what Cruden call 6DOF (six degrees of freedom).
The simulator is said to provide g-Force simulation of multiple G’s as well as realistic steering that is 100% accurate.
“Let’s be clear: this is not a video game linked up to a steering wheel, race seat and pedals. Although easy to operate, this is the exact same equipment used by the top racing drivers and engineers to improve their race craft and evaluate new tracks and car settings. Our simulator and the software it uses cannot be bought in a store.”
Walyou has created an amazing list of pumpkin carvings ready for Halloween that is happening soon. The ultimate pumpkin collection includes pumpkins carved out with Wii Logos, Internet Explorer logos along with Pacman, Space Invaders and on to Starwars characters.
The list goes on and on. If you are looking for a bit of inspiration for this years Halloween time then go check them out for some ideas. [click to continue…]
The Handycooler is a Personal Air Conditioner that allows you to stay cool when away from your chilled air conditioned office.
The device lets you take cool air with you by the way of evaporative cooling. All you do is drop a few ounces of water on to a sponge and squash the sponge in to a hand held unit a little larger than a mobile phone and switch it on to enjoy some cooled air. [click to continue…]
A number of you probably have a standard boring grey scanner sat on your desk. This mod aims to make it look a bit more fun and presentable by stashing the scanner inside of an old looking book.
Datamancer is responsible for this scanner above and has modded his scanner so that it fits inside a book. As craziest gadgets put it “the scanned becomes the scanner”. [click to continue…]
The Nintendo Wii has a number of bizarre wiimote attachments to make it in to the likes of some maracas, a golf club, tennis racket, steering wheel etc… The latest is an actual controller unit shaped like an American football.
The patent shows a football controller that is designed to assist in a “real-world” football experience. The problem with it is that to get the real-world experience you need to throw it, run in to things and generally have a rough time with the ball… somehow I can’t see this happening in a living room where a nice 42″ plasma screen sits. [click to continue…]
We have already mentioned the Star Wars Force Trainer a few months back, but as it’s now available at ThinkGeek we thought we’d mention it again.
The Force is all around us. It flows around and through us. It is between us and that tree and the rock, around our sunken X-Wing, going through our wallet, tickling our armpits, and flowing between our ears. You think we’re joking, but the only way to guide the Force outside your body is to guide the Force inside your head. Yoda told us that once when we had stew over at his house. The stew was ok (if you like licking swamp creatures), but the advice was invaluable.
The GPS watch houses 4-in-1 GPS features that let you track your location anywhere on the globe. The watch, as well as telling the time, allows you to track your location, acts as a data logger, photo tagger and a receiver.
The GPS watch can be used for tracking your car by the push of a button. It works by using intelligent LED’s that point you in the right direction back to your car or any other point of interest that you may have logged.
When you are walking back to your car the 360 degree directional lights on the watch will tell you which direction you should be walking. And then when you come within 50 meters of the saved location, the arrows around the watch face will begin flashing, and when you are within 15 meters the arrows will turn blue. This smart function is great for anyone who needs help finding his way back to their car or hotel. Don’t let a massive sea of cars get you lost when your trying to find your car after watching a live football game at a stadium.
The iLogic Sound Hats come with built in speakers that cover your ears to provide surprisingly good sound quality when worn. The Sound Had connects up to your iPod or any other MP3 player.
3 colours of the Sound Hat are available which are pink, white or black. [click to continue…]
I have no idea why anybody would want to buy speakers built to look like miniature toilets, but regardless of what I think, someone has their reasons and has actually made some. They are built by someone over in China and can crank out 2 plops I mean watts of sound.
Each toilet has a frequency range of 80Hz to 25KHz and has a signal to noise ratio of >98dB. [click to continue…]
FineDrive have launched a new navigation device called the FineDrive iQ Special. It’s a satnav unit aimed at the Korean market and also helps drivers “study English” when they are driving around.
It uses a native-speaker voice to call out the directions which can be repeated with the A-B repeat function. It uses content from eBoyoung’s Dictionary of English Conversational Expressions. [click to continue…]
If Wikipedia was to get printed in book form then this is what it would look like. Of course, this version shown here is just volume 1 of many 
It would also be fun to see all the discussion notes printed too where all the wiki monkeys argue over grammar.
Of course it’s not real though and just a bit of fun 
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