Category: Gadgets
DocuPen RC800 – colour scanning from a pen-sized gadget
A more minimalist approach to scanning comes from the DocuPen RC800 – which offers full colour 24 bit scanning of documents, which can then be saved to a PC or PDA or sent via email. Much smaller than the typical…
Solar Powered Trackable Clothing
If you're in a profession where it's important that people be able to locate you instantly (a paramedic or fireman, for example), or a hobbyist given to visiting remote areas, wearing a GPS dot may be either a desirable…
College harnesses cow pat power
We noted recently that cows are producing a lot of global warming gases. What more sensible, then, than to harness that awesome power for good instead of evil? Which is precisely what is happening at Walford and North Shropshire…
Top 50 TechDigest.tv weird gadgets of 2006 : No's 25 – 1
And so our list (started yesterday) concludes. Here is a run-down of the top TechDigest weird gadgets of the last year…
Top 50 TechDigest.tv weird gadgets of 2006 : No's 50 – 26
We all love gadgets, but if there's one thing that we love MORE than gadgets it's weird gadgets. So what better way to say goodbye to 2006 than to have a run-down of the top 50 weird gadgets TechDigest brought news of to you over the last 12 months. What follows is…
Walk and glide skates
Piled on the pounds after all those leftover Christmas turkey meals? Then you need to get yourself a pair of these. Called the Walk n' Glides, they're a set of…
Electricity use for gadgets "to double"
As more and more gadgets are hailed as "must-own" items and sale numbers of these items grows, electricity usage is growing too. It's now estimated that electricity use – through the sales boom of such items as electric toothbrushes and cordless…
Ventriloque Talking Alarm Clock
Alarm clocks make the most unbelievably ugly noises, which is natural, since, well, you're supposed to be awoken so overwhelmingly that you must, must, must, stop that horrible sound. The Ventriloque alarm clock, by contrast, lets you record whatever…
Pen that writes without ink
Using a solid metal nib made of an alloy that leaves marks as easily as lipstick (but wearing down so infinitesimally slowly that it might as well be solid diamond you're scratching your initials into everything with) this pen…
Aluna Tidal-Powered Clock
To emphasize the renewable resources of ocean currents, the Aluna Tidal Powered Clock display consists of LEDs powered by ocean turbines. A prototype is underway, with intent to establish mirror images of the final in the northern and southern…