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Our top 10 hot entertainment gadgets this week

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Gadget Shop: Pyramat Sound Rocker

There’s a lot of it about right now - it seems like there are thousands of gadgets competing for our attention. Here are our picks for some entertainment goodies that should keep your attention a little bit longer than December 27…

  • Nintendo Wii from Rapid Electronics - from £238.29. You want a Nintendo Wii? Well, this retailer will be happy to oblige. Choose from three different deals, including a chance to pick up a portable DVD player or to buy as part of a LCD TV bundle.
  • Pyramat Sound Rocker PMS1000 from Gadget Shop - £99.95. A chair for those who are serious about their entertainment. Surround yourself in the action of your video games, movies and music - compatible with PS2, PSP, XBox, Xbox360, NintendoDS, MP3 Players and iPods.
  • Sony MDRNC60 high-quality noise-cancelling headphones from Sound & Vision - £149.99. Reduce ambient noise and provide a quieter environment to enhance audio entertainment. Capable of reproducing vocal and instrumental sound with vivid clarity.
  • Revo Pico Wi-Fi from Advanced MP3 Players - £149. The world’s first self-powered internet radio, featuring an internal rechargeable battery for cordless, go-anywhere listening freedom. Capable of accessing thousands of internet radio stations from all over the world.
  • Tangent Quattro portable WiFi Radio from HiFiBitz - £179.95. Listen to digital radio or your stored music anywhere in the house - and there’s four funky colours to choose from.
  • Slingbox Solo from Advanced MP3 Players - £129. Watch your TV from anywhere in the world on your laptop or cell phone. So now you can watch your DVR, digital cable, satellite receiver, or DVD player to catch your favourite movies, series and sports - wherever.
  • USB turntable from Firebox - from £89.95. Put all your vinyl records straight into your digital library. Plug either the classic or contemporary-styled turntables into your computer’s USB port and convert your collection - software included.
  • iRiver Clix 2 portable MP3 player from Advanced MP3 Players - from £89.99. Sleek good looks, ingenious operation and a giant screen - as well as up to 8mb of storage, not to mention a fine array of functions and still amazingly small dimensions
  • Roberts Robi iPod DAB Radio from HiFiBitz - £48.99. Turns your iPod into a portable DAB radio - and it doubles as a handy remote control.
  • Wireless FM Multifunction Transmitter and MP3 player with USB Port from TechFocus - £9.99. Works as a standard FM transmitter or a fully-functional MP3 player when used with a flash drive or portable hard disk. A USB port connects it to storage devices and a line in jack connects your media player.

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Top 10 sellers from Gadgets.co.uk

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Gadgets.co.uk: USB hamster

Those nice people at Gadgets.co.uk have been in touch to let us know about some of their products that are selling particularly well at present (hint: a quick-solve for your present woes). Fancy a sneak peek at what other people are buying? Here you go…

Plus, there’s even a discount code on offer to make it that little bit more attractive. First, here’s a few things you might spend it on:

  1. USB Hamster Wheel - £15.95. Plug it into your computer and when you type the hamster will run in his wheel! In fact the faster you type the faster hammy will run!
  2. Stainless steel chocolate fountain - was £29.95, now £18.99. Just fill with melted chocolate, turn on and off you go to chocolate heaven!
  3. Electronic coin sorter - £19.95. The ideal solution to loose change problems - drop your UK coins in, press the button, and watch them all get sorted and stacked.
  4. LavNav nightlight - £19.99. With a nightlight, visual targeting system and a ‘put the damned seat down’ warning feature, this is a practical solution to those perennial household arguments.
  5. Darth Duck Fadar - £6.45. A long long time ago, on a planet many light years away, there was a slight accident. Here’s the result…
  6. Salvation 1 mini radio-controlled helicopter - £49.99. Weighing just 27 grams, this micro chopper can fly forwards or backwards, left or right with precision control and unprecedented stability.
  7. Silver rubber band gun - £5.95. Allows rapid fire of up to eight rubber bands - with a snazzy chrome-coloured finish it’s probably the best rubber band gun in the world.
  8. Clockwork racing grannies - £7.99. Take two saggy, baggy, dotty old grannies with Zimmer frames, wind up their clockwork and race ‘em!
  9. Sharp Shooter TV remote control - £9.95. Tired of the seemingly endless struggle over what to watch on TV? Solve your problems at a stroke with this gun-shaped remote.
  10. Flying alarm clock - £19.95. When the alarm sounds the propellor is launched up into the air and will fly away from the clock, the alarm only ceasing once it has been located and replaced. By this time you will surely be alert enough to make the stumble into the bathroom.

Now, about that discount code. Get a fiver off when you order more than £50 worth of goods and pay using Google Checkout. Enter BONUS5 at the checkout as usual…

10 silly present ideas from IWantOneOfThose.com

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Here’s a quick fix foryour Christmas shopping dilemmas, courtesy of IWantOneOfThose.com.

This retailer brings you the very best in daft gadgets, ridiculously desirable toys and silly things for the home and office. Get sorted with this list of its Christmas best-sellers… while sat at home in the warm.

  • Rhythm Sticks - drumsticks that don’t need a drum. Each one has a speaker in its base and, when you hit the air with them, they make a great drum sound.
  • Cat’s Arse Sharpener - it’s a cat, you stick your pencil in its derrière, it meows and it sharpens your pencil. In its own litter tray to catch your pencil shavings.
  • PicooZ Micro Helicopter - this gnat of a flying machine is the smallest and lightest radio-controlled helicopter in the world. Also astonishingly easy to fly.
  • Hot Hand Warmer - Warm up your cold bits at the click of a switch. The pack does some nifty chemical reaction stuff, solidifies and heats up - bingo. Boil them in water and they re-liquify.
  • Emergency Phone Charger - simply pop in an AA battery and plug it into your phone for an extra two hours’ talk time. Will also charge up any iPod.
  • Craptrumps - Just like Top Trumps, only better. Instead of the cool and classic cars adorning the original cards Craptrumps is all about the really rubbish cars we all actually drive.
  • Sudoku Loo Roll - When are we sitting down alone, with our hands free and nothing too taxing to do with our brains? You can see where this is going…
  • Flying Monkey - Where evolution failed, this monkey has succeeded, whether or not that is a good thing remains to be seen.
  • Colour Phasing Sphere - phases deliciously slowly through a spectrum of soft mixed colours, spreading a moody and mesmerising glow round the room.
  • Lavalamp Phone Charm - Replicating the iconic Mathmos Lava Lamp from the 60s, but on a somewhat more diminutive and Lilliputian scale.

Our top 10 gifts for geeks

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Firebox: Tux droid

All the geeks you know are probably off somewhere sulking and pretending they don’t want anything to do with Christmas. But we know better.

As an opportunity to acquire sexy new toys it can’t be bettered. So, if you want to make sure you’re buying the right thing (or making sure your loved ones are buying you the right thing) then look no further.

Here’s 10 things that we’ve spotted guaranteed to appeal. Or maybe you just want an excuse to spend money on yourself…

Whatever the case, we hope you enjoy the list.

  • New Apple iPod Touch, 16GB, Black from John Lewis - £269. Because you can’t really argue with this (as reflected by its price tag). Sleek and black, only 8mm thick with a 3.5in widescreen suitable for watching movies. Touch-screen navigation allows you to browse items by cover art then flip it to view track listings. The 16GB hard drive stores up to 3,500 songs, 20,000 photos or 20 hours of video. Enjoy five hours of video or 22 hours of audio playback from a single recharge. Also includes wi-fi capability for internet use or iTunes store connection.
  • Bounty Bay MMORPG subscription from Yusho - approximately £16.94 depending on the exchange rate, as it’s priced in euros. Massive multi-player online roleplaying games are currently among the coolest things in geekdom. As pirates always have been, for some reason (we think it dates back to Monkey Island). Think World of Warcraft or Second Life, except every day can be Speak Like A Pirate Day! And with this one you have the chance to be in from the beginning. We faithfully assure you that this has the potential to be the geek gift of the season.
  • USB Podcast Kit from IWantOneOfThose.com - £89. Everything you need to podcast to the planet. Behringer have bundled a studio-grade USB audio interface with comprehensive DAW and podcasting software, and also thrown in a professional 5-input mixer with 2-band “British” EQ, high-quality headphones and a dynamic broadcast-style microphone plus cable and stand. All you need is something interesting to say…
  • Tux Droid from Firebox - £89.95. For the Linux aficionado in your life, a piece of kit that can be programmed to tell you about your appointments, or convey any other kind of information you need to know about. It also doubles up as a wireless VoIP phone, an MP3 speaker and an alarm clock that rouses you with any sound you fancy. And it has the power of speech too, apparently, or at least speech synthesis. Exclusive in the UK to Firebox. Did we mention that it’s a felt-covered penguin?
  • I Am the Eleventh Timelord T-shirt from Shot Dead in the Head - £18. Comes in almost any colour your heart could desire, from Tardis blue to Rose pink. Or, if The Doctor doesn’t hit the spot, try one with a Sinclair or Commodore 64 logo. Another of our favourites reads: Jack Bauer wouldn’t stand for this shit. In case you can’t decide there’s a two for £30 deal on offer.
  • Samsung Digimax i7 Digital Camera from The Digital Camera Company - £181. Boasting a frightening array of features including a rotating LCD applied to a digital camera for the first time. The new user interface allows the Samsung i7’s mode to switch automatically depending on the angle of the LCD screen. The 3in LCD incorporates a wide touch screen and the thoughtful design ensures a firm grip and while the dynamic SVGA quality iMovie Clip function and the Flash animation GUI will melt the heart of every geek that encounters it.
  • WiFi detector from Firebox - £59.95. A pocket-sized device that sniffs out the presence of WiFi without the necessity to boot up your laptop. As well as detecting a signal and indicating its strength it also displays essential network information including network ID (SSID), encryption status (WEP and WPA) and channel. And when multiple networks are present you can scroll through info for each individual network.
  • Tardis USB hub from IWantOneOfThose.com - £19.95. This four-port Tardis USB hub may not whisk you off to another dimension but it will cause a diversion during your working day. Every time you use a port the light on the top flashes and it makes that classic Tardis noise that geeks everywhere know and love (you can turn it off if colleagues start to object, then refuse to get a life). Rest easy, knowing The Doctor stands between you and oblivion.
  • Desktop Defender from A1 Gifts - £11.99. For those days when the rest of the world will insist on intruding. Don’t they realise that coding takes concentration? If not, keep them away from your desk with a few well-placed foam missiles from this neat desk-mounted, battery powered, fully aimable missile launcher with a 10ft range and sleek red and silver casing. And a big red button.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean DVD player from PC World - £49.99. Yo ho, me hearties! Let Captain Jack Sparrow entertain you with this official Disney product featuring CD, CDR and CDRW playback, on-screen display and NTSC encoding standards. So now you can watch all your favourite pirate movies and not get eaten by ghosts. Arr!

Our top 10 gifts for gadget freaks

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

John Lewis: Micromark Tea Express

If you’re wondering what on earth to buy the gadget freak in your life, then look no further. Or, if you are that gadget freak, try printing out this page and leaving it lying about somewhere handy.

Here’s 10 things that we’ve spotted guaranteed to appeal to everyone hoping to find plenty of geeky gizmos under their Christmas tree.

Or maybe you just want an excuse to spend money on yourself… Whichever way, we hope you enjoy the suggestions.

  • Micromark Tea Express from John Lewis - £49.95 Nothing less than the rebirth of the Teasmade! This combined automatic tea maker, reading light and alarm clock is programmable and makes up to four cups, has a large LCD clock with an analogue face and built-in alarm, plus its own ceramic teapot. What gadget freak could ask for more?
  • Clocky Runaway alarm clock from IWantOneOfThose.com - £39.95. This is a sadistic little treat for people that have a bit of a job getting up in the morning. You see, it’s impossible to turn the annoying little bugger off without actually leaving your bed. Set your alarm and as soon as it goes off the Clocky will lurch forward and then move off in random directions for 30 seconds. There is a snooze function, but when it expires the clock will run off again. Endear yourself to friends and family alike…
  • Radio-controlled Pro Trek watch from Casio - £249. Casio Pro Trek watches use a unique triple sensor system to accurately measure temperature, barometric pressure and direction. This Pro Trek now also includes Wave Ceptor technology to ensure perfect timing to the second.
  • Roboraptor 8081 remote-controlled robotic dinosaur at Dixons - £64.99. Roboraptor is a 32-inch long realistic robotic beast with lifelike animatronic motion that allows him to walk, run and hold a predatory stance. Sensors all over his body enable him to hear, see and feel people and the environment around him. He’ll roam about, or you can set his mood to make him cautious, playful or on the hunt.
  • EZvision video eyewear from IWantOneOfThose.com - £149. They said it couldn’t be done - a take-anywhere 50-inch movie screen. Weighing in at just 68g, ezVision Video specs plug into your iPod Video or any portable player and screens movies in such a way that it seems as though you’re looking at a huge screen. Retractable headphones are built into the arms. Eight- hour re-chargeable battery, integral volume control and adaptors to connect to iPods and DVD players. Never go mad on a flight or a train ride again!
  • VOIP Cyberphone from Firebox - £29.95. A fully-featured USB-powered telephone which comes bundled with Skype, free software which uses new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology to allow you to make free calls to other VoIP Cyberphones and obscenely low cost calls to landlines and mobiles all over the world. All you need is an Internet connection to start talking to the 208 million people worldwide who have already signed up.
  • Phillips LCD digital photo frame from John Lewis - £129. This 7in glass frame with a choice of coloured surrounds, scrolls through up to 50 of your digital photos, displaying a single image, thumbnails or a slideshow, complete with transition effects. It features high quality, print-like pictures with full colour, high pixel density and adjustable brightness to match ambient light conditions. Extremely easy to use, it allows viewing of digital photos directly from memory cards. Or simply plug the frame into a computer via a USB connection and download images.
  • Kameleon remote control from Firebox - from £49.95. An incredibly stylish object that offers simple remote control solutions to the latest technologies in the home. No other universal remote control removes the unwanted clutter of multiple remotes with such style. Comes in 5-in-1 and 8-in-1 flavours to take care of your TV, VCR, DVD, CD, audio, satellite and cable needs.
  • Combined MP3 player and USB stick from MyMemory - from £11.99. A huge memory capacity in a body that’s both tough and small. This multi-purpose MP3/WMA Player also doubles as a USB Flash Drive to help you store, transfer and carry your important data. Comes in 1GB and 2GB sizes.
  • Gadget cover - from £9.99 per month. With most of us carrying a small fortune in gadgets around with us these days, it’s definitely time to think about insurance. How about a policy that covers against theft, loss of mobile phones, accidental damage and water damage as well as offering an extended warranty, worldwide cover and replacement within 48 hours? Check out what Gadget Cover Insurance has to offer.