Category: Travel Gadgets
Video Review: CitizenM hotels decked out with Philips gadgetry
I was lucky enough to spend a night in the brand new CitizenM hotel in Holland, designed in conjunction with Philips for the modern day business traveler…
Terrorise tourists and amateur photographers with the "Image Fulgurator"
If you’re looking for a way of getting revenge on society without actually breaking any laws or getting yourself hurt, try this – it’s a way of projecting hidden text into other people’s photographs.
The “Image Fulgurator” uses a flash sensor to activate itself and beam your text onto walls, works of art and groups of innocent tourists at the exact moment someone’s shot is taken, so, hopefully, your target remains completely unaware you’ve just projected the word “tosspot” over the front of the Tate Modern.
Two large bottles of lager + Image Fulgurator…
Another wi-fi detecting thing – this time it's a SHOE
Clearly the next step in human evolution is to develop a sixth sense that makes the hairs on your arm stand up or your belly button flash green when in range of a wi-fi signal – but until then we’re stuck with rubbish novelty items to let us know when there’s some stealable internet nearby.
And now it’s wi-fi shoes. Or, at least, it’s a concept piece, in which a pair of trainers have had a miniature wi-fi detector stuck on them…
Play songs from your iPhone to your car radio with Griffin's iTrip Autopilot with Smartscan
My goodness, this is a great product. It’s rare that I rave about sub-£100 products, but having used an iTrip for iPods in the past, I can only guess the iPhone version will do the job just as well.
Now, my car is old, the cassette player barely works, and a CD player? Fuggedabbait. The iTrip charges your iPhone and allows you to control it at the same time, plugging into the 12V power port on your dashboard. You’ve probably used something similar in the past, but this is the first product compatible with the iPhone…
Libelula: Rocket powered helicopter back pack – er, wow!
So it turns out that the helicopter backpack isn’t just the preserve of Wile E. Coyote..
'Explore Europe' in 3D, courtesy of Google & Eurostar – or just get off your arse and go there
Eurostar and Google Earth have teamed up today to unveil a brand new, interactive experience at the recently revamped and damn sexy St Pancras International Station in old London town.
Explore Europe…
Survive at the Five – Top 5 Gadgets to keep you sane at Heathrow Terminal 5
You may have climbed Everest, you may have crossed the deserts, you may have survived weeks in the jungle with only a sharpened mango for protection but today we offer you five gadgets your life just may depend on should you have to brave the toughest environment known to man – Heathrow Terminal 5…
"We're fine, honest, we're just, um, releasing a Smart Rider Car Phone. In 2008." says Motorola
Obviously Motorola hasn’t quite grasped that when your company is struggling as much as they are, the worst thing you could possibly announce is that you’re going back to manufacturing 1992’s technology.
Hoping to remind the world they were once market leaders, and indeed invented the ruddy mobile phone, they’re releasing the Smart Rider Car Phone, a slinky Bluetooth-enabled BlackBerry-shaped phone…
Sony's MEX-BT3600U in-car CD tuner stereo system will let you roll with your homies in style
Sony has rolled out a new in-car CD tuner, the MEX-BT3600U, which’ll let you play from a USB-enabled MP3 player, stream your choons via a Bluetooth compatible Walkman jobbie, or play from one of those roundy silver shiny discs you have littering the floor of your car. Remember those?
In addition to those features, it can also be used as a Bluetooth headset of some description, with Bluetooth-enabled handsets allowing for hands-free calls via the microphone on the head unit’s front panel.
Controversially, the MEX-BT3600U…
Now the whole world can enjoy LED assisted tweezers
If you set a date in your diary and let your eyebrows grow in anticipation of an all-day plucking session after Stu’s review of Tchibo’s ‘high-grade stainless steel corrosion-resistant’ LED tweezers (storage case with integrated mirror included), you’ll be delighted more of the same is now available online for the bargain price of $10.
