Gadgets

Giant buttons light up your home cinema

August 26, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: button lamps, home, home cinema, lighting

It’s the perfect way to illuminate your home cinema – a set of less-than-subtle lamps that pay homage to those familiar icons on your remote control. All you need to do is wire them up so that they actually operate your kit.

Dr Who’s Universal Screwdriver spotted

August 22, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: DIY, home, tools, Universal Screwdriver

It’s not quite the Sonic Screwdriver that David Tennant uses to decommission Daleks, but the revolutionary barrel changing mechanism inside this handy DIY device can cycle through 12 different screw heads instantaneously and you’ll never loose a single one. Perfect for home improvers and Time Lords then.

Top 10 concept gadgets of 2008

August 22, 2008, 12:00 pm by Staff Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: concept, feature, Gadgets, top 10

The quest to stay on the cutting edge of gadgetry never ends, and the concepts of today are tomorrow’s iPhone. Or HD-DVD.

From kitchen kit to military espionage, we’ve rounded up the best ideas of the year so far.

Fancy a peek into the future? This list of wild, wacky and downright clever concept gizmos is exactly what you need!

Music-making digital pen!

August 21, 2008, 2:00 pm by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: compose, music, pen, song, stylus, tune

Forget sampling yourself, fussing with GarageBand, or even attempting to beat Guitar Hero. This sing-along pen has everything you need to become the next Elton John!

Awaken with a buzzing in your ring!

August 19, 2008, 2:30 pm by Jim Hill 1 comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: alarm clock, bedroom, home, Silence

Instead of being rudely awakened by a blaring alarm, the Silence alarm clock gently rouses you from slumber with a wireless vibrating rubber ring. Just shake your ring finger to snooze.

Maplin cooks up in-car microwave

August 15, 2008, 1:15 pm by Stephen Ebert Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: 12V In Car Microwave, Cooking, Maplin, microwave

Maplin has served up a mini in-car microwave that’ll change your definition of fast food. It’s just the thing for munchies on the move!

Cigarettes or James Bond’s handsfree headset?

August 14, 2008, 1:00 pm by Jim Hill Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets Tags: Cigarette packet, handsfree, Headset, James Bond, quantum of solace, spy

Bond’s latest spy gadget from Quantum of Solace could be this covert handsfree headset for his limited edition Sony Ericsson C902 mobile phone. Nobody will suspect a thing as you talk into what looks exactly like a packet of cigarettes.

Herding with headphones, its like RC for cows

August 13, 2008, 10:00 am by Pete Jenkinson Leave your comment

Filed under Gadgets, News, Portable Audio Tags: bovine, electronics, farming, field, headphones, remote control

It has the look of an overly elaborate device for tracking the whereabouts of herds or could perhaps be a gift from Mr Farmer to his bovines in the form of a portable entertainment system for the fields, alas its neither but a controller unit to get these stubborn creatures on the mooooove (sorry).