The Annoy-a-Tron 2.0 is a cool little, and I mean tiny, gadget whose sole purpose, as you may guess from the title, is to annoy the hell out of people.
You simply set the device to emit one of six outrageously irritating noises at your chosen volume, then hide it somewhere and watch your school/office mates get more and more annoyed before they head off and search for the offending Cricket chirping, Doorbell, Grating Electronic noise, Electronic Beep, 15kHz Teen Buzz (only younger people can hear it, old biddies lose the ability to hear high frequency sounds), 12 kHz Electronic Noise or a combination of all six.
This inexpensive device is magnetic, making it ideal for attaching to desk legs, filing cabinets, behind radiators and fridges etc.
Personally I’ve been laughing all afternoon since I managed to get it into the air conditioning with the high volume Cricket chirping.
I’m not one to eat at my desk, but my colleague sitting behind me is and she’s always getting crumbs everywhere, all over her keyboard and desk.
If this sounds like you this super USB Vacuum Cleaner is just what you need.
Or, if you’re like me, you could buy it as a gift for someone at work to give them a little joking hint.
This groovy little 1970s style vacuum cleaner plugs into your computer’s USB port, requires no batteries and works just like a real hoover, only it’s a lot smaller, 20cm x 10cm x 6cm (7.8 x 3.9 x 2.3 inches).
The Retro Usb Hoover Vacuum Cleaner is ideal for cleaning up crumbs and dust around your desk in a novel fashion, it even allows you to put the handle down flat to get to hard to reach place just like the real thing.
If you’ve visited a DIY store or two recently you may have noticed a growing trend in self-powered garden lighting, pathway outliners, fairy-lights and tree lights etc.
It’s the latest ‘in thing’ for your night-time soirees and barbeques. However, most of the lights you’ll see are solar powered, charging their batteries during the day and switching on their lights when it gets dark. Which is brilliant, of course, but they do run down eventually and they can get a bit dull to look at after a while…
So that’s where these amazing Firewinder lights come into their own. You hang them off tree branches, posts or whever you like and the wind makes them spin around, which genertes electricity and makes an array of LED bulbs glow in a swirling pattern – day or night – pretty much forever so long as there’s at least a breeze.
The effect is pretty awesome, we’ve had a bunch of them at two parties so far and they always get people talking – especially when you tell them how it works.
Okay this this isn’t the most exciting gadget ever, but it is a useful one for anyone who owns an iPod MP3 player and many more. It is compatible with any device that uses a USB port to charge.
The input can be anything from AC 100 to 240v, which pretty much covers everywhere in the world, and the output in 5v DC.
This iPod charger comes with adapters so it can be used in Europe, USA and the Far East and Australia. So, wherever you’re going on holiday, you’ll be gauranteed a way to charge your essential gadget.
Belkin is a top quality manufacturer, so the build quality of this charger is much better than any of the generic rubbish you can find on eBay etc, plus it’s made to exacting safety standards so you won’t hurt yourself or your iPod.
This nice little gadget caught my eye the other day so I gave it a try while watching The Book of Eli on blu ray at the weekend, which is a pretty awesome film by the way.
Anyway it works really well, just pop in your raw popcorn, wait a minute or so and you have tonnes of perfect popcorn with virtually no un-popped corns at all.
It’s also not that noisy, so if you’re a bit of a slacker like me (see self-stirring coffee mug below) you can have the popcorn maker near the TV, in my case in the dedicated TV room, and just sit there making the stuff as you watch.
Just got back from the States and these little fitness gadgets are appearing a lot on TV commercials.
It’s mostly aimed at women and it’s like one of those light-weight chrome dumbells only the hand grip and the ends are independent and you can shake the ends back and forth on an internal spring.
They’re specifically aimed at toning and shaping your upper body, arms and chest area, and the workout acheived is 300% more than with the same weight dumbell.
Shake Weights also come with a DVD with demonstrations of all the exercises you can do with them.
So, I was in Comet yesterday and saw this crazy-looking device like something from Dune or Star Wars, blowing air at me with no visible means of doing so. Obviously I went and bought it right away.
The fan is made by Dyson, of bag-less vacuum cleaner fame, and sucks air into the base unit then squeezes it out through a thin aperture around the 12 inch rim. This high-pressure airflow drags more air with it, increasing the air volume by six times.
I could go on, bla bla bla, about all sorts of other specs like the fact the air is a continuous flow, and not a kind of whoosh whoosh wave like you get from a normal fan, but the main attraction for me is the magical feeling it projects. As soon as people see there’s no bladed they start sticking their hand through the loop, then feeling all around to see where the air is coming from.
Still, you have to be a bit of a gadget connoisseur to go for this, it’s pretty expensive for a fan.
As a bit of a hippy I’ve had many a late night conversation about tree-planting bombs… well now anyone can take up guerrilla gardening with these flower hand grenades.
The grenades contain a compact mixture of wild flowers, such as poppies, ryegrass and buttercups, and are perfect for lobbing at those neglected areas of your garden, barren wastelands and undeveloped building sites.
They come in packs of 3, so be subversive and brighten the world with a belt loaded with flower grenades dudes!
I had to drive today from York to Sunderland, somewhere I’ve never been before, and decided to use my sat nav.
I was thinking as it sent me down a backroad, that I wouldn’t normally have known about, as there were a few cars in front of me, how many of them were following their sat nav.
Then I started to wonder about the increase in minor-road usage due to sat navs, and thought to myself that I bet it’s pretty high.
For instance my friends went to the Lake District last week and said they love getting lost then using the sat nav to find their way home, via all kind of backroads and scenic routes they would never otherwise have known were there. I mean, in the pre sat nav days, these are the kinds of roads we’d never go down, unless we were local farmers or something, because we’d have no idea where they end up. So, in some ways, the sat nav revolution is quite liberating, especially when travelling far away from home.
Every biker knows it’s quite difficult to see what’s directly behind you. You have to crane your neck around and twist your body, and you have to be quick about it because you’re not looking forward when you look over your shoulder.. The Reevu helmet has a unique internal mirror system that allows you to see behind you and in front at the same time. You see behind via a thin mirror strip in the upper area of your view, a bit like the rear-view mirror on computer driving games.
Reevu have been experimenting with this technology for a while now, but their newest version is the best yet because it utilizes a material that is a reflective polycarbonate that gives a clear image, makes the helmet very light and also gives it much more durability than most other helmets.
The rear-view technology takes a bit of getting used to, and you might even find yourself looking over your shoulder through force of habit. It is suggested that you give it a trial run on less busy streets to orient yourself, but you will find you soon learn to differentiate between the main view in front and the smaller view facing back.
The Annoy-a-Tron 2.0 is a cool little, and I mean tiny, gadget whose sole purpose, as you may guess from the title, is to annoy the hell out of people.
Anyway it works really well, just pop in your raw popcorn, wait a minute or so and you have tonnes of perfect popcorn with virtually no un-popped corns at all.
