Monthly Archives: November 2006

Portable Ice Rink

Online store Hammacher Schlemmer continually amazes us with the stuff it stocks. There’s virtually nothing it won’t sell, from transparent kayaks to hydrogen fuel cell cars, short of doing a Harrods where it’s said you can even buy an elephant. This time, HS has in its catalog a portable ice rink…. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com [...]

Complainers of the World Unite

If you love World of Warcraft or other online games, never visit the forums. The gripers will ruin it for you. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. Original post by juniper.foo@cnet.com (Juniper Foo)

FMP3 Watch

With 007 due to explode on the silver screen this week, the peerless Q probably goes shopping at Thanko’s Web site for some of his gizmos. We’ve already spotted at least one candidate for the Bond arsenal, the FMP3 Watch. Looks covertly like a timepiece, but this Swiss Army Knife of a watch can carry [...]

Groove Glove

We’ve seen yoyo-powered MP3 players, MP3 massagers, even MP3 knobs . Now comes the Groove Glove, a DJ deck with its own onboard speaker that sits on your hand. Slide it on, and you can start pumping up the volume with four sound controls for adding scratches, sample blasts and rap riffs with your fingers…. [...]

Charge your phone on-the-go

Make haze while the sun shines? With the Indonesian fires still smoldering, it should inspire some of us to go eco-friendly with alternative sources of power, like the Scotty Solar Charger. Though at 5-7 hours of sunlight to fully charge (yielding 1 hour of talktime or 60 hours of standby), that’s a lot of tan [...]