If you don’t have the time or the money to own a guard dog, there are some other alternatives that you can take to secure your home when you are out of town. Consider this barking dog alarm system for your home, where you don’t have to worry about anybody ever breaking in again. It barks like an angry guard dog, and senses motion from up to 25 feet away, through doors, walls and glass. As the intruder gets closer, the device barks louder and more frequently. Read more
The world of movie rentals is getting better every day. If you have a Netflix account you can now rent movies in the mail, but wait, there is more. This Roku Digital Video Player that we found will connect to your wireless network and automatically stream Netflix movies on-demand (there are more than 12,000 of them) right to your TV. You do need a Netflix account however, and there is no monthly fee associated with your Roku Digital Video Player. Here is the scoop. Read more
Remember the AT-AT Walkers from Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back? If you're not sure, here's a clip:
For those of us who aren't Lego geeks, or Star Wars obsessed, or who weren't even literate when the film was released, AT-AT stands for All Terrain Armored Transport. At the time, they blew people away, not just in terms of the effects (which really were mind-blowingly stunning way back when) but because of the concept of a reticulated, all terrain robot.
So you can maybe understand why this video from Boston Dynamics of Big Dog, their cargo-carrying all terrain robot sorta blew my mind. Read more
Finally, a full motorized scooter that has a fully insulated cooler attached…and you can ride on it. Seriously, this awesome and hot summer gadget allows you to carry up to 24 12-oz. beverage cans and 8 lbs. of ice in its onboard cooler. Easy throttle and brake controls are located on the handlebars, and the gadget handles just like a golf cart. Nifty pneumatic tires make traveling over different grades easy as pie. Gadget can drive up to 15 miles on one single battery charge. The perfect and mobile summer cooler for you! Read more
USB Cell BatteryI think inventions are getting increasingly clever, and perhaps with Obama's "Green Initiative" more environmentally-friendly as well. This latest invention can serve as an example of both: a re-chargeable battery with a catch.....this one re-charges with your computer's USB, which means a few things.
First of all, you save money over the course of the battery's life-it lasts for roughly 500 charges and the AA battery pack costs about $18 per pack. (Although AA batteries are currently the only ones available in from Moxia Energy, the company has plans to expand into other popular battery sizes as well.)
Secondly, these batteries are definitely a "life-saver" for the environement as approximately three billion "single-use batteries" are discarded every year. Read more
The many advancements that have been made in cellular phones and PDA devices have enabled companies to create their most intuitive and useful PDAs ever. At the forefront of this trend are nifty phone gadgets like the Samsung Blackjack 2. This Windows equipped PDA device is basically a small laptop in a cellular phone. It provides a plethora of useful features that easily dwarf the competition. Read more
Remember tape cassettes? Those bulky plastic things that offered shoddy audio quality and that quite often would get eaten and ruined by the tape players that allowed you to enjoy the music contained within them? While these magnetic and obsolete cassette tapes may be a thing of music’s sordid past, many people still have hundreds of them lying around their homes. What if there was a way to convert these older tapes into modernized MP3 and other digital formats? Wouldn’t that just be wonderful?
Now you can do exactly this with the Cassette to MP3 Converter. This dual cassette device allows you to easily convert your old cassette tapes to the modern digital MP3 file format for audio media. You simply place a tape in the cassette drawer, plug the gadget into your PC and let it run. It will even allow you break the songs into single tracks, just like a modern CD. Then simply burn your songs to a CD from your computer or download them to your portable MP3 player. It’s that easy! Read more
Calling all of you old school folks out there who have a massive collection of VHS movies and see no reasons to ever pay to buy those same movies again on a DVD, what you need is the VHS to DVD Converter. This answer to your money-saving and movie preserving prayers allows you to easily transfer VHS tapes to DVDs by simply inserting them into the device and pressing one button. This gadget can also copy DV and Digital 8 camcorder files. It allows for HDMI inputs with 1080p formatting, and you can even plug camcorders in directly to the unit for easy file transferring. Unit also plays MP3s and JPEGs, so you can even copy photos and videos to DVDs. So before you throw out your old VHS tape collection, simply convert it to DVDs with this awesome unit. Read more
Check out the remote control on this baby! This vibrator can be operated from 20 feet away, presumably by a ready, willing, and able partner, but maybe by you if you are like Gumby and have arms that go forever. I don't know, however, if it can be used between rooms or not.
I BuzzThis handy little gizmo to my left is quite possibly the greatest IPod adaptation EVER. If you want your orgasms to rock, and i do mean rock, try hooking this up to your I-Pod and it will move in tune to your music. Seriously, with something like this in your house, do you really need a man around?
Just like the marijuana "vaporizers", there are now battery-operated "cigarettes". Once the "smoker" inhales, it activates a heating unit and the nicotine is vaporized. So far, it is still legal in the United States, but there have been calls by some for the FDA to ban it. It seems like regulators are always on the look-out for something new to regulate, if for no other reason than to justify their very existence.
Besides marketing them as a way for people to quit smoking, e-cigarettes can be viewed as a way for people to get around smoking bans. You can use them in restaurants, hospitals, malls, and who knows- maybe even in a courtroom. (However, this might not impress the jury or judge if you are the defendant.) Read more
