Category: Gadgets
IXOS XMM238 iPod Speaker Cube
Following on from Yamaha's Cube portable speaker system comes another small and square sound system – the IXOS XMM238 iPod Speaker Cube. And it is small – just 70 x 70 x 70mm. Just as well as it's designed…
Play musical safes with the Zaporozhye
If music be the food of love, play on, seems to be the message of the Zaporozhye, the musical condom. There's a sensor in the base and some teeny-tiny speakers that play music "louder and faster" as the sex…
US Air Force prototypes a PHaSR
The Personnel Halting and Stimulating Response uh, device, about the size and weight of an M60, fires a pulse of light that temporarily blinds anybody in the beam. It seems to be a crowd-control device more than anything else,…
Roadstar LCD TV Boombox with music and DVD playback
For me, the term "Boombox" doesn’t really apply to anything apart from the old school Brixton briefcase – the monster sound systems with an output that could damage brickwork. This Roadstar 5 in 1 TV Boombox isn’t that -…
Lenovo's Bond-style USB webcam
Most webcams are quite large (and indeed round) affairs. Not so the Lenovo USB webcam, which is both slim and stylish – and with a spring attachment for fitting on even the slimmest screen. For me, the standout feature…
Danes teleport light into matter
As usual, the most cool technologies are still in the prototype stage, but one can't help mentioning that physicists in Denmark have teleported light into a cloud of atoms. In this case, the light is basically the data and…
GPS pay-as-you-go for cheaper car insurance or big brother passenger?
Norwich Union have introduced a scheme where drivers pay for their insurance monthly based on when, where and how many miles they drive, as well as their age/status, rather than on an annual rate based more on the driver than…
Hitachi's HMR-1 CD player and MP3 recorder
Hitachi has added a bit of extra functionality to the portable CD player in the form of the HRM-1, offering recording to SD card, without the need to connect up to a PC. The HMR-1 is around the same…
Neiman Marcus recommends outer space for Christmas hols
For the geek who has everything plus five friends, the Christmas present of choice this year is surely the Neiman Marcus space trip for six, including after-party with Virgin honcho Sir Richard Branson. Not to mention a full medical…
Linkman stop-smoking gadget
Speaking as someone who has quit smoking, oh, five or six times now, the Linkman is an interesting gadget (with a terribly meaningless name) that will probably only work for people who can come up with free ways of…