Archive for September, 2007

Popgadget:
If you don’t like carrying a USB on your key-chain or clipped to jeans or to the inside of your purse, the IOGEAR Wallet Drive might suit your data transfer needs and organization style. The Wallet Drive is touted as “cutting-edge portable storage on a diet.” We agree!
Brilliant metallic blue, barely 3mm thick, and a [...]

Popgadget:
Don’t you just hate it when you run out of battery power for your mobile devices? Then you need the Just Mobile Gum Portable Power Pack. With a capacity of 2200mAh, it can charge a typical mobile phone twice to full capacity. Only 70mm in length, it’s small enough so you can throw it in [...]

RedFerret:
The RipRoar Creation Station includes a full resolution camera with a mountable green screen, tripod, integrated software and a bonus content CD.
Simply record yourself or your friends in front of the green screen and effortlessly produce your own short movie by replacing the green with any background, cutting and pasting video and images, and [...]

Think Geek:
Weighing in at just slightly over one ounce, this little network tool will come in very handy the next time you are installing, upgrading or troubleshooting your network cabling.
The LinkCheck can be used to test for the presence and speed of standard RJ45 10Mb or 100Mb Ethernet connections. With the push of a [...]

TechnaBob:
Kikkerland’s USB Hub Man has flexible wire arms and legs with a port at the end of each one. His body houses all the electronics and a tiny green power indicator LED in place of a heart.
The only bummer about Hub Man is that only one of his ports runs at USB 2.0 speeds without [...]

TechnaBob:
The brilliant minds of industrial design firm Sonic Design came up with this design for an iPod-inspired bottle opener called the iDrink.
In keeping with Apple’s DRM (Drinker’s Rights Management) policies, the iDrink opener will only open bottles which have been purchased from the iDrink store (99 cents each). In addition, the opener features a built-in [...]

TechnaBob:
Bulbs Unlimited sells kits that let you create fixtures like the ones pictured here from your own recycled bulbs. The kits include everything you need to make these cool designer fixtures except for the bulbs themselves.
A special bulb marking template, adhesive and “snaps� let you arrange your bulbs into a variety of cool shapes [...]

Lifehacker:
The Inflight USB Power Unit connects directly to the headphone jack found in the armrests of most commercial airplane seats and passes power to your gadgets via a USB connection.
It would be convenient as hell to have outlets at every seat instead of headphone jacks, but now you can get the best of both [...]

ThinkGeek:
Black Black by Lotte is the powerfully caffeinated gum and candy sensation from Japan. Made famous in the U.S. by Wired Magazine, Black Black also contains Vitamin B-3, ginseng and oolong tea.
In Japan the Black Black commercials feature none other than Jean-Claude Van Damme performing his wild gymnastical kung foo stylings.
US $1.99.
Photo by ThinkGeek.

Sharper Image:
To help keep things from being lost or stolen, attach mini “homing” tags (3 included) to elusive objects that seem to wander off by themselves - keys, glass cases, favorite toys, mobiles, remotes, purses, even pets!
In “Locate” mode, if a tagged item is misplaced, the base unit with directional display will guide you [...]