Archive for March, 2008

Glow Brick

The Glow Brick has to be the next best thing to remote-controlled lighting. In fact, we’ll stick our neck out and say that it’s even better, because you don’t have to lift a finger to switch it on.

A strangely lovely phosphorescent light bulb is entombed in a clear acrylic brick, which lounges about by day, quietly soaking up solar energy, then takes centre stage by night.

At dusk, the light starts glowing all green and mysterious, showing an awesome staying power throughout the darkest hours. The overall effect is of a disembodied shining light bulb suspended in mid air, which, you’d have to agree, is not something you see every day.

On a functional level, it makes a handy, low-maintenance security light. On a frivolous level, it’s a jolly nice talking piece for people who like to talk in dark rooms.

You can have this for £19.95

The iPod Photo is the latest bit of chic technology from the style gurus at iPod central. Combining great looks and some very slick tech, the iPod Photo 30GB delivers sound and vision in a super slim and lightweight package.

Weighing in at an astonishing six ounces (how very un-metric and retro), the iPod Photo will store an entire library of up to 15,000 tunes, dozens of albums worth of photos (as many as 25,000 displayed at 220×176-pixel resolution) on its vivid 2-inch Colour LCD screen.

You can connect your iPod Photo to a projector or TV to give slideshows complete with music, and thanks to extended battery life, enjoy up to 15 hours of continuous music.

Beautiful to look at, beautiful to listen to, beautiful to watch and beautiful to use. It’s just all too beautiful.

Features

* Apple’s new Photo iPod in black.
* A 30GB hard drive.
* A digital photo viewer.
* A 2 inch LCD screen for viewing your snaps, song choices or album art work.
* The iPod Photo stores up to 7,500 songs or up to 25,000 photos.
* Your iPod can be used as a portable hard drive for your files.
* The Apple Click Wheel.
* Will play music, podcasts, audio books and act as a photo viewer.
* Display date and time.
* An alarm clock and sleep timer.
* Completely skip-free playback.
* Playlists that you can create.
* Rate your songs.
* Shuffle songs or albums.
* Includes an integrated, rechargeable Lithium Ion battery with 15 hours of battery life.
* You can connect your iPod Photo up to a T.V. (supports NTSC, PAL) or projector and play slideshows with music.
* iPod Photo supports image formats BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF and PNG.
* iPod Photo supports audio formats WAV, MP3, AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless.
* A USB cable.
* An AC adaptor.
* Headphones.
* Requires Mac OS X or Windows 2000/XP.
* Requires a 2.0 USB port.
* Size: 10.4 x 6.1 x 1.1cm
You can have this for £189.00

The simplest gadgets can bring a lot of confort?

Not all gadgets are hi tech and cool. Some are incredible simple, so simple we don’t even see them as gadgets.

Gadgets are small devices meant to improve our life. The Teak Shower Stool does just that. It is not cool, fancy, expensive and eye catching but is very practical.

The Teak Shower Stool is a comfortable smooth, teak wood seat that is vented to help prevent soap and water build-up.

The triangular shape fits compactly into a shower stall corner or tub.

This shower chair features four adjustable legs made of powder-coated aluminum, to accommodate a variety of user heights. Simple but smart. Isn’t it? Also each leg is equipped with large rubber tips to reduce the possibility of the seat slipping while in use.

The Teak Shower Stool is made from high-quality teak wood that is renowned for its durability and weathering properties, as well as, its attractive appearance.

This shower chair can be used outside the shower as well: it can hold your robe while you are the shower, or extra folded towels.

Like I said a simple and smart gadget which bring a lot of comfort for you and your family.

The gadget price? $69.95 for the Teak Shower Stool.

This is a Luckies classic. Just open the can, add water and hey presto, a few days later rises up a real, living beanstalk.

That’s pretty cool, but here’s the freaky bit; one of the leaves is embossed with those 3 little words – ‘I love You’.

Wow. How? Nature or nurture? Who knows, but it makes a cool gift.

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This ultimate failsafe alarm for serial oversleepers produces an ear-splitting, banshee-wailing, earth-shattering 113db of white noise. In short, louder than a helicopter hovering just above one’s bedroom ceiling. Golly.

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