Category: Gadgets
CallBlocker screens your phone calls: choose your interception message
I could start a rant about how much I hate telesales calls, but I think most people hate them so I won't . Even after I've added myself to the Telephone Preference Service block list, unscrupulous automated systems from overseas…
One Minute Video Review: Parrot Photo Viewer
I took a look at the Parrot Photo Viewer, which is designed to display photos from your phone or other Bluetooth equipped photo device. You can pick on up for £150 here. …
Imation adds flash storage to charity wristbands
All the rage a couple of years back and still doing steady business are the coloured charity wristbands. They showed you'd done your bit for charity, but served no other practical use. Well, Imation plan to change all that….
PowerSquid Surge3000 Calamari Edition: more cable but more able
I (like you) hate cables. So, a gadget with more cables in it should not be provoking this kind of enthusiasm – but really, the thing I hate more than cables is having nowhere to plug the dratted things…
USBCell – standard batteries that recharge via USB
Moixa Energy has launched the USBCell – a rechargeable battery can charge straight from any USB port. USBCell can be used exactly like a normal battery – initially it's available as an AA battery, with a full range of…
Lexar JumpDrive Mercury with built-in capacity meter
Lexar has launched what it claims is the first USB flash drive with a capacity meter in the UK – the JumpDrive Mercury. The built-in capacity meter is based on Electronic Paper Display (EPD). The display is a paper…
Nintendo NES Controller alarm clock
Feeling generally nostalgic for the golden era of console gaming? You need a Nintendo NES Controller alarm clock. Yes, this Japanese-made gadget looks like an an NES controller, but instead of making Mario jump, it gets you out of…
Scientists invent human gills after studying beetles
Don't you love a headline like that, which gives no room for misinterpretation? Yes, you can throw your snorkelling gear in the bin and stick yer personal submarine back in the garage: physicists at Nottingham Trent University have been…
The Week In Tech: 10 stories you might have missed
The first in a new weekly feature rounding up some of the more intriguing, informative or plain baffling tech stories knocking about the internetweb. Casting aside all those cast-iron predictions that Apple would launch the iPhone this week, first…
Get a firm steer with your own mechanical bull on eBay
I've never been to one of those bars where you drink your own bodyweight in Tequila before clambering onto a mechanised bull and hanging on for dear life, to impress the many foxy women in cowgirl hats who'd gather…