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  • USB bum-cooler - blessed relief!

    21 August 2006, 11:55

    The UK's heat wave may be over but how much would any of us have been willing to pay in recent weeks for a bum-cooler intended for use on office ...

  • USB missile launcher - just the job for inter-desk warfare!

    7 July 2006, 17:09

    There may be better ways for deskbound office workers to let off steam but we'd settle for this USB missile launcher - fired from a simulated radar-tracking screen on a ...

  • 'Portable' TMS Migraine Zapper

    23 June 2006, 14:13

    Migraine's no laughing matter but we did have a double take when we first saw the TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulator) Migraine Zapper, not least cos this is the portable version!

  • The iPod Nano-killer is here?

    6 June 2006, 17:59

    SanDisk out to outdo Apple?

  • Computex Taipei - 2006 : Preview :: ECS V70 'breakthrough' digital photo frame

    5 June 2006, 17:15

    A "breakthrough" digital photo frame with audio and video capabilities is among the new products being debuted at Computex 2006 by Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS)

  • Intelligent spoon, video-game urinal, transparent toaster

    30 May 2006, 13:14

    In its latest round-up of weird and wonderful gadgets and technologies, tech blog has come up with some beauties, including a video-game urinal, a transparent toaster and an intelligent spoon

  • CTS - 2006 :: Hela's remarkable freebie

    12 May 2006, 01:55

    Over the years, Bob Crabtree has collected more useless freebies from exhibition press packs than he can recall. But, at CTS this week, he seems to have struck gold, taking ...

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  • Breathalyse yourself

    16 January 2006, 16:41

    You know how it is, go to these big international events and they tend to throw on the parties. So there was team HEXUS, staggering coherently walking around CES when ...

  • Turning a Geiger Counter into an iPod

    12 January 2006, 11:45

    Just when we think everything has been modded in every possible way, somebody comes along and surprises us. This time a mod-happy guy by the name of JavaMoose has decided ...

  • The Monster remote - controlling just about everything

    10 January 2006, 12:26

    It's massive, it's absolutely massive. Then again, it does attempt to control just about everything in your house, including the lighting.

  • Making robots feel - new robo-skin developed

    17 August 2005, 00:00

    A team of Japanese researchers have created a thin, flexible network of pressure and temperature sensors that could be used to give robots a sense of touch.

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  • CEBIT 2005: ABIT RM-11 Remote control

    17 March 2005, 00:00

    The impact of this is to make your media PC a hands free bit of kit, letting you clock it up and down as per your needs. Fancy watching a ...

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