iPhone Radio

We always go a little ga-ga over modern technology with a vintage twist, especially when it looks as cool as the Retro DAB and iPhone Radio. Complete with DAB and FM tuners and wrapped in a gorgeous leather surround, this stylish alternative to run-of-the-mill radios will bring new age noise with a 50s feel to any room (or picnic).

 Connect an iPod or iPhone and you can also play your favourite stored tracks through the Retro Radio’s substantial speakers, charging the device at the same time. With up to 15 hours’ battery life, this is compact enough to take with you on picnics in the park or just add a little vintage chic to your lifestyle.

Product Features:
Leather surround and handle
DAB and FM Tuners
Battery power option for use on the go
Charges iPhone/iPod
AUX-in for other sources
Dual Alarm
Wake up to radio, iPhone or buzzer
Snooze and sleep mode
Technical Specifications:
2x 10W speakers
Up to 15 hours battery life
3.5mm AUX-in

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iPod speaker docks

With so many iPod speaker docks out there, how do you decide which one to buy? Easy, you listen to the esteemed members of the tech press. And the dock they’re all drooling over is the stunning TEAC Aurb.
Compatible with every iPod/iPhone model out there, this curvaceous slab of audio dynamite delivers a rich sonic punch that’ll knock your socks (and quite possibly your vest and pants) clean off. Indeed several journos rate it alongside the much revered (and much pricier) Zeppelin.

As well as a retractable iPod/iPhone dock, the Aurb (pronounced ‘orb’) boasts an FM tuner, top-mounted CD player and auxiliary/USB inputs so you can play MP3 and WMA files from memory sticks, CDs and more. Take three gizmos into the sitting room? Nah!

If you’re looking for power you’ve come to the right place because the Aurb belts out 100 watts of room-deafening audio via twin 32mm tweeters and 89mm woofers. But it’s not all about wallop because this astounding sound system features a range of equaliser settings to please audiophiles who appreciate subtlety as well as beef-flavoured oomph.

Unlike many speaker docks in its division, the Aurb’s sexy remote is no afterthought; it’s an intuitive, gorgeously-built blipper with matching elliptical styling that allows you to twiddle through menus and playlists with ease.

Best of all, press accolades and audio prowess aside, the Aurb looks like the kind of thing Darth Vader might use to blast out the Imperial March, or even wear on his head. And if that’s not a brilliant reason for hitting the Buy button we don’t know what

Key Features:
iPhone and iPod dock
100W power
CD Player
FM tuner
USB port
Functions:
Function: iPod / CD / Tuner / USB / AUX
Retractable iPod Dock (iPod charges while playing)
Playback MP3 Files from USB Memory Device
PLL Synthesized FM Tuner
Slot-in CD Player supports CD, CD-R/RW, MP3 and WMA Discs
FL Display
2-way Stereo Speakers with Bass-reflex Port
Remote Control (Also controls iPod functions)

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The Keyring Breath Tester is a 3 step alcohol test that (as the name suggests) you can keep on your keyring. It's just the thing you need when you're out on the town, and it's incredibly easy to use. Just hold down the power button until the LED turns green and blow across the top of the grill. If the light remains green, then you're under 0.05% BAC*, and in theory in the clear. If the yellow LED comes to life, then you need to use caution (and probably a bus) as it means you're hovering dangerously close to the legal alcohol limit of 0.08% BAC. If the red and yellow LEDs come on, then you should throw your car keys into the nearest river and start weaving your way home as you've had far too much to drink**. If you were silly enough to take our advice and throw your car keys away then you'll be thankful for the breath tester's built-in torch (unless it was attached to your car keys of course).

If you need to ask whether you're too drunk to drive, then you probably are, but rather than trying to remember how much you've drunk in those unfathomable units, just blow on this gadget to find out.

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Mini Video Camera

In the future you’ll be able to replay memories whenever you fancy via a screen grafted onto your mind’s eye. Until then you’ll have to make do with the amazing Mini Video Camera.

Barely bigger than a credit card, this supermodel slim 3x zoom camcorder lets you capture life’s greatest moments in vivid VGA 640x480 without having to stuff some chunky ‘is that a camera or are you just pleased to see me?’ style contraption in your pocket. You won’t even know it’s there. And don’t worry about storage because its 128MB onboard memory is expandable to 16GB via Micro SD card.

Product Specifications
Sensor type: 1/5–type VGA CMOS

Lens: 3.1 mm (35 mm equivalent: 40 mm), aperture: f/2.4
Zoom: 3X digital
Display size: 4.6 cm (1.8 in.)
Storage: 128 MB internal memory[1], MICROSD/MICROSDHC card expansion slot (up to 16 GB)
Focus modes: fixed
Focus range: 50 cm–infinity

White balance: auto
File formats - video: MJPEG still: JPEG
Capture modes: video: VGA (640 × 480 @ 30 fps), QVGA (320 × 240 @ 30 fps), QVGA (320 × 240 @ 60 fps) still: VGA (640 × 480)
Microphone: yes—monaural
Speaker: yes
I/O interface: USB 2.0 (high speed)
Tripod mount: none
Power: Integrated Li-Polymer rechargeable battery
Dimensions: 6.0 × 9.0 × 1.2 cm
Weight: 71g

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Mobile Cinema DVD Projector

Cinema in your house is quite the norm if you bathe in champagne, dry yourself with billion pound notes and keep a fleet of gold-plated Lear jets behind your volcano casino. But at the risk of sounding presumptuous, you don’t, do you? That’s why you need the Mobile Cinema DVD Projector.

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mood lamp

Remember the days when making rooms look chic and moody involved coloured lightbulbs, drawn curtains and lots of squinting? Probably not, because this is the age of high tech ambient lighting, and the ultramodern Jellyfish Mood Lamp raises the bar to unparalleled levels of sophistication.

Gorgeously stylish, this touch sensitive lamp is just as mesmerising as its gloopy underwater namesake. But it’s a triumph of function as well as form. By utilising spamhead-inspired digital technology, the Jellyfish can produce stunning colour effects, gently cycling through 16 million unique colour/brightness combinations. Just turn on, tune in and drop out. Or something like that.

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New Twist phone

wist is a cute swivel QWERTY phone. It comes with 3-megapixel camera, 2.4-inch, 262K TFT QVGA screen, EV-DO Rev. 0, 2.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth, HTML browser, built-in mirror, “Post to Blogs” feature and Compatible with services including VZ

NavigatorSM, V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video, Visual Voice Mail, Mobile Broadband Connect and Corporate Email. It is available through Verizon Wireless at $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. More pictures after the break.

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Panoramic 360° Camera

Just when you thought a simple photograph could no longer blow you away, along comes the  Panoramic 360° Camera to put a whole new perspective on things – literally. Because despite utilising 35mm film and a manual rubber band drive, this jaw-droppingly unique camera captures truly panoramic shots of the world around you.


Simply grab the handle, tug the ripcord and gawp as the idiot-proof spins on its own axis, snapping everything it sees for one breathtaking, super-wide, all-encompassing shot that’s four times longer than a standard landscape snap. It’s like having eyes in the back of your head. And the front and the sides.

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Parrot AR Drone

Are you sitting down? Of course you are. No one surfs the interweb standing up – that’s like sneezing with your eyes open. Well if for some reason you happen to be standing, take a load off for a moment. Because we’re about to show you a flying toy so cool it makes standard RC helicopters look like paper aeroplanes.

 With four independently-powered leaf blowers – sorry, propellers – two built-in cameras and a smorgasborg of futuristic gadgetry packed into its carbon fibre frame, the Parrot AR Drone is the most intuitive remote controlled flyer we’ve ever seen. But the best part is that this high tech quadricopter is controlled entirely from your iPhone!

Also compatible with iPads and iPod Touches, the free app lets you stream live video from the AR Drone’s built-in cameras straight to your screen. When you want take off, just press the onscreen “Take Off” button. The AR Drone will rise into the air of its own accord and stop at a predetermined height. From that point it’s down to you.Tilt your iPhone forwards and the drone will move forwards. Tilt it left to move left. Right to move right. A control wheel on the iPhone’s screen lets you rotate the AR Drone 360 degrees in the air, while another lets you control your height. Need to land? Let the software do it for you! Hit “Land” and the AR Drone will gently touch down – no more ungainly bump-landings so typical with other RC choppers.

 To get around any connection hiccups, the AR Drone generates its own WiFi hotspot – so communication with your iPhone is incredibly fast and responsive. The app will even let you display augmented reality games over the top of your live video feed, so rather than just watching where you’re flying, you can engage virtual robots, or even challenge other AR Drones to an aerial dogfight! Pelt them with volleys of machine-gun fire, launch missiles, and watch them get blown to digital smithereens – all via your iPhone’s screen. Chase each other through the park or turn your office into a combat zone – with a range of up to 50m you’ll have plenty of space to stand and fight; or turn and run

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PC cooker

It is rare to see people mod their PC case into the shape of a kitchen appliance. Check out this one, Modder Zbyšek built a MiniCooker PC complete with blue LED (gas burner) which really looks like real flames. It is built using hand, including welding together the metal chassis, and creating custom plastic knobs and the fake burners out of acrylic.

Inside that oven consists of a Pentium D820 3.5 GHz CPU, with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and an nVidia 9600GT graphics card.

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