USB Finger Dance Mat

Check out this cute little USB Finger Dance Mat which will help you pass away the time as you wait for that all important email, want a break from the computer or just want to let you hands do the walking and talking!

Based on the ever popular dance mat craze which has swept the globe this is a miniature workout for your fingers and you will soon see that it is rather addictive. Simply plug it into one of your USB sockets, slip your fingers through the hole and select which game you want to play. As with the traditional dance mat game you get more points if you are able to press to the beat and catch one of the arrows while it is illuminated.

On a more serious note it would be interesting to see if the USB Finger Dance Mat actually helps those who type for a living giving the fingers a much needed break but keeping them supple. However, we diverge from the real reason for the USB Finger Dance Mat, fun, fun and more run.

So have you got two left fingers or are you really in control of your digits?

Maggie T Nutcracker

So what is the Maggie T Nutcracker ?

Love her or hate her there can be few figures in UK politics that have remained in the headlines for as many years as the famous or infamous Margaret Thatcher. She came to power as the first lady PM of the UK but she seemed to have more balls that the rest of her cabinet put together!

Now you can check if she really was as tough as they all said, as strong as an ox with this Maggie T Nutcracker. Can you imagine sitting around the table come Christmas and you have just opened a bag of walnuts for the family, “but how can we crack them?” is the cry….

Simple, place a walnut between Lady T’s thighs, squeeze her legs and you she will literally crack open the hardest nut you can find – no change there for the First Lady of UK politics.

So whether you support Labour, the Conservatives or any of the other political parties in the UK there is an appeal to everyone. She cracked the miner’s strike, she cracked the Unions so why not grab hold of your very own Maggie T Nutcracker and let her crack your nuts for Christmas!

Inflatable Moose Head For Animal Lovers Everywhere

Love them or hate them, why do all of these big hunters need to show off their catch?

Well, now you can be your own big game hunter with this Inflatable Moose Head which to all intense and purposes is absolutely useless but offers something different to hang on your wall. No scouring the countryside for that elusive moose, no more riding over meadows and dales, simply blow up your Inflatable Moose Head stick it on the wall and you will be everyone’s friend.

The animal lovers will love you because you are saving the wildlife and the hunters will love you because they won’t recognise it is not real!

This gizmo is 30 inches tall, 29 inches wide, 24 inches from the wall to the end of the moose’s nose and it also comes with its own wall hanger. So next time you want to show off your hunting skills without leaving the comfort of your arm chair just blow up the moose, stick it on the wall and hey presto, sorted.

However, if you think it may cause offence to any guests, simply deflate the moose’s head and stick it somewhere out of sight. When your guests have left blow it back up again and stick it back on the wall!

Video Games Improve Social Skills

It’s the news that all kids have been waiting for and all parents will attempt to censor from their children. Apparently, according to a recent report, computer and console gaming holds the key to social development and improved social interaction skills. That/’s quite a step from the days when gamers were seen as being social pariahs and outcasts with no friends (I remember the days bitterly). More on social gaming

XBox 360 To Be Cheaper Than Wii By The End Of This Week

Microsoft has taken the most unusual step of confirming an upcoming price drop after a Tesco page was leaked to the press that shows Xbox 360 prices dropping below those of the Nintendo Wii for the first time. The savings are yet another price drop that will take the cost of the Arcade version will cost just £130, the Premium 60GB hard drive version will drop to £170 and the Elite 120GB hard drive version will cost just £230.

The cost of the arcade and premium versions will both be lower than the price of a Nintendo Wii at the end of this week when the price drops will come into force. The drops are equivalent to about £30 on each console – a very good price reduction in anybody’s eyes and especially in the eyes of those looking for the cheapest console.

The Xbox 360 is most certainly cheaper than its other main competitor, the PS3, which has continually been blighted by problems – the latest being yet another delay in the release of the Home software that was to attempt to rival the popularity of Xbox Live.

BT Apparently Didges Phorm Shaped Bullet

The government has claimed that they are happy with the way that BT trialled the Phorm advertising software despite the fact that they didn’t have consent from users. The findings of a government report are something of a mixed bag because despite claiming that they are happy the initial trial was perfectly legal they have set out quite different guidelines for the future implementation of this kind of user behaviour tracking software.

BT, Phorm, and other other organisations have come under some fairly serious fire recently once it was revealed that BT had trialled the Phorm software without gaining consent from their users. The legality of the software’s use was also questioned by the EU and whether these findings by the government will be the end of the questions remains to be seen.

The paper outlined usage guidelines for any future deployment of similar software. Users must be made aware of the software and how it will be used including what data will be collected and users must be given a clear option to opt out of the software’s use. Clearly none of these guidelines were met in the first instance which begs the question of how it could have been a legitimate use of the software.

Image courtesy of the BBC.

The PureCart Trolley Cleaning System

Whether you suffer from OCD, are the kind of snob that won’t walk too close to other people, or you just don’t fancy running the risk of catching any old disease there’s great news on the horizon. We once again find ourselves looking into the tomes of content we’ve given over to shopping trolleys in recent years by bringing you news of the PureCart shopping cart that eliminates any germs found on the shopping trolley in question.

The PureCart, in actual fact, isn’t a shopping cart but is more of a sort of drive thru cart wash. Shove the cart through the PureCart system and it will spray it with disinfectants and antibacterial to minimise and eliminate the possibility of catching some hideous cold or the Peruvian Bovine flu (it’s a particularly nasty one… probably).

Happily, the PureCart system can also be expanded through the addition of a nozzle, no less. This allows the cleaning of baby seats, wheelchairs, and other items. No price details as yet, but we’re guessing you’re probably not that obsessed that you need one for those drunken nights when you go Sainsbury shopping cart drag racing (I think there’s an official circuit outside my house).

Dots Gloves

With all three days of our finest British summer now firmly behind us and the undoubted onset of generally crap weather ready to kick in at any moment we thought it was about time that we looked at some suitably wintry gadgets of sorts and first up are known as the Dots Gloves that are designed with the mobile gadget freak in mind.

Dots Gloves have, surprisingly, a number of dots on the finger tips of the gloves so that they offer g accurate grip when attempting to control your iPod, mp3 player, mobile phone, or other mobile device. The dots look kind of reminiscent of the backs of old school mobile phone buttons; something similar, I should image, to the back of the keyboard on a ZX81 but we’re reliably informed that they are effective in their plight against slippy finger syndrome.

They may not seem that great an innovation at the moment but we guarantee that now you know about them you’ll want a pair the very next time you step out into freezing cold temperatures with nothing more than your Bon Jovi collection for company. You’ll either be regularly removing your gloves to control the iPod (and to check to frostbite) or you’ll give it up as a decidedly bad and very cold job.

The Black Hole Machine Hacked

Considering the amount of potentially bad publicity that accompanied the Large Hadron Collider and how it would apparently spell the end of the world via a small black hole the news that it was hacked the other night is more than a little concerning. Fortunately, though, while Cern apparently don’t have much idea regarding computer security they’re already well practised at brushing aside problems and attempting to set the public’s mind at ease.

Cern said that the Greek Security Team of hackers managed to hack into a computer that is connected to main network and then left a message on the organisation’s home page. They also said that it had done no damage and had been little more than a nuisance but that it had highlighted the need for computer security (no, really?).

You’d think with the ridiculous amount of investment that has gone into creating the LHC that they could have afforded a twelve month Norton subscription or something. At the very least there’s a number of free, open source applications that do a perfectly admirable job for budgets of any size.

The Energy Ball Wind Turbine

It sometimes seems a little odd that in a country far more famed for its gales than for its bright sunshine we would rely more on generating energy through solar power than through wind turbines. When it comes to alternative home energy, though, solar chargers and solar powered devices are the craze. Granted, wind powered chargers and devices do have some glaringly obvious difficulties but the possibility exists.

The Energy Ball from Dutch company Home Energy International could be the start of things to come (ok, maybe we’re getting a bit carried away). While you might look a bit of a tool carrying round a phone charger that uses one of these use as its alternative source of energy you could certainly erect one in the majority of back gardens.

It’s that effective that it can be used to harness the wind’s power even when it drops to less than 4.5mph (that’s probably a good 360 days of the year generating energy then) and the design that looks like a cross between an aeroplane and an egg whisk is certainly an improvement on the extremely industrial looking turbines that we normally see.

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