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Pop-up Outlet Hides Under the Kitchen Countertop

Matthew — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:20:32 +0000

Plug sockets are common place in your average kitchen on this side of the world. The device pictured below is designed to hide the sockets below a kitchen (or other type of surface) so that you can only have them on show when you actually need them. I have seen the idea before and quite [...]

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Walkie-Talkie Smartphone Handset

Matthew — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:04:53 +0000

I only tend to see truck drivers with walkie-talkies these days as I drive past them. With the walkie-talkie smartphone handset, you can join in on that scene too. The handset plugs in to the headphone port on any smartphone and has a microphone built in to the handset. To talk, you push the button. [...]

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The Pen Sized Scanner With Laser Guides

Matthew — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:52:49 +0000

This pen shaped scanner allows you to conveniently and quickly capture text on a page by simply hovering the pen over the document. Integrated in to the pen is a 5 megapixel camera capable of capturing images at a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. Although the laser guide looks a little fake on the [...]

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Enterus Door Mat

Matthew — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:37:10 +0000

If you want a door mat shaped like an enter key then look no further. The Enterus Door Mat has been designed to look as such and simply shows the enter word with an arrow. The mat is made of a durable coconut fibre making it last for years of usage. Run down of Features [...]

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Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner

Matthew — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:14:32 +0000

This device works in a similar way to the superior slide and negative to digital picture converter that I wrote about the other day. However, this particular version uses either an iPhone or Android phone to capture the images. As the post title suggests, it is also incorporates Lomo technology. The app that is free [...]

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The Cosmologists Watch

Matthew — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:58:25 +0000

This watch contains all the major constellations that can be seen in the northern hemisphere. The watch part is quartz which allows it to keep relatively accurate time. Rather than me go over all the details (which I honestly don't really understand), I'll just quote from the sales page at Hammacher. Every 24 hours, the [...]

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Very Early iPhone Prototype Revealed

Matthew — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:06:33 +0000

THe picture below shows a very early prototype iPhone. The device measures 5 x 7 inches and has exposed circuit boards along with a number of regular ports such as a serial port, ethernet and USB. It was posted by ARS who got their information from an ex Apple employee who worked on the project [...]

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MakerBot Moves in to 3D Scanning with Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner

Matthew — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:45:57 +0000

MakerBot is becoming well known for making affordable 3D printers. This has made printing a 3D object a fairly easy task. What remains difficult is creating the 3D design that the MakerBot needs to print from. To solve this problem, MakerBot is now working on the Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner. This device is used to [...]

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The Superior Slide and Negative to Digital Picture Converter

Matthew — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:35:07 +0000

If you search around your loft or basement for long enough, you'll probably come across some old slides and negatives from pictures you took before digital cameras took off. These pictures often get damaged over time and if left out in sunlight, they also fade away gradually and lose colour. The "Superior Slide and Negative [...]

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iPhone Gets a Case Designed Like Lego

Matthew — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:26:07 +0000

Lego has been popular for many years now. We recently wrote about a Lego inspired mug. Today its time to take a look at the Lego inspired iPhone case. It is called the BrickCase and is available for both the iPhone 4(S) and iPhone 5. It comes just as the case in 5 different colours [...]

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Ninja BBQ Set

Matthew — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:47:53 +0000

A different approach to cooking on a BBQ is to use some ninja tools to flip burgers. This Ninja BBQ set has been designed to look a little different in that each has a handle looks like the handle of a ninja sword. In the pack you get a BBQ fork and spatula. The handles [...]

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JackPod Smartphone Tripod Mount

Matthew — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:19:32 +0000

The JackPod is another great idea that I just came across on Kickstarter. It is a device that you plug in to the 3.5mm headphone jack on your smartphone and use that as a mounting point for a tripod. The details show that it can mount any smartphone that uses any case safely on to [...]

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Thor Ice Scraper

Matthew — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:53:37 +0000

Scraping ice of a windscreen on your car can sometimes take a bit of effort. Couple that with very cold hands and you are left with an unpleasant task if you leave your car outside every night in the winter months. If you are not lucky enough to have a heated windscreen then perhaps the [...]

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The Quiet Hair Dryer

Matthew — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:43:06 +0000

Hair dryers can be annoyingly loud. As the title of the post suggests, this model is different as it is described as being quiet. According to the technical details of the quiet hairdryer, a regular one has a dB level of 81.8 while the quiet version generates 72.8dB which apparently makes a big difference. It [...]

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Dummy Cursors Distract Onlookers from Seeing Your Password

Matthew — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:36:02 +0000

Entering passwords on a system can be risky if done in a public place where onlookers are watching what you do. A new system has been created that adds a swarm of moving cursors to the screen so that it helps mask and confuse onlookers as to which mouse cursor is the real one. The [...]

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