This football remote control was the second of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. It is a universal remote control for your television, dvd, vcr etc whilst doubling as a squidgy soft football toy - great for kids. Buttons for the football remote control are located on the top of the toy.
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Loading ...The Pet’s Eye View Camera was the second of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets and one for pet lovers everywhere. Ever wondered what your cat or dog gets up to when you’re not with them? The pet’s eye view digital camera clips onto your pet’s collar really easily. It takes 40 pictures, with intervals of 1, 5 or 15 minutes. It connects to a laptop or PC so you can download the pictures.
The Pet’s Eye View camera is great in that it allows you to see what your pet sees. It’s out in the UK mid-July, but if you want one sooner you can import one from the US.
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Rate this offer: (2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Good to see Gadget Show presenter Suzi Perry back on the show after suffering an ectopic pregnancy a few months ago. She was on hand to run down her top 5 gadget lights. Here were the results:
5. 2C Solar Light Cap
This was chosen for its multi-tasking ability. The 2C Solar Light Cap is a cap that’s also a torch that doesn’t need batteries - it runs using a solar panel at the top of the cap. Very useful for DIY, tradesmen etc. Get one here
4. Glow Graffiti
Glow Graffiti is a light spray which allows you to graffiti walls etc in the dark without actually leaving a trace. Illuminatingly urban - get some glow graffiti here
3. Glow Flow Shower Head Light
The Glow Flow shower head light illuminates your shower or bath and provides some really funky lighting for your bathroom. The Glow Flow LED is activated and deactivated by simply turning your shower on and off. Like the Light Cap it doesn’t need batteries - the LED lights are powered using the force of the water passing through the Glow Flow device. There is also a built in temperature sensor glowing red when the water is warm and blue when the water is cold. Get a Glow Flow Shower Head Light here
2. Amp Lamp
The Amp Lamp has been handcrafted by top designer Dominic Bromley and really looks beautiful. Incorporated into the Amp Lamp is an amplifier and a speaker, creating a full 360 degree sound from the lamp. Get an Amp Lamp here
1. Flatlite
The Flatlite is the world’s longest and thinnest energy saving lightbulb. It uses phospher crystals for illumination rather than delicate filaments. It costs just a fraction of what a normal lightbulb costs to power and is only half a millimetre thick. Its flexibility is another plus point of the Flatlite. You can get more info on the Flatlite here
Rate this offer: (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Working Lunch reported today that it’s a bad time for savers. No surprise here really, with the Bank of England continuing to lower its base rate of interest in an attempt to kick start the economy and allow people to borrow again. Savers are currently faced with the problem of a poor rate of interest on their money which is getting worse by the week, and with inflation higher than current interest rates, many savers are actually making a loss on the money they have in the bank. Not to mention the fact that the banks are hardly the safest places for a saver’s cash right now, being bailed out by the gobernment left right and centre.
David Braithwaite from Citrus Financial Management appeared on Working Lunch today to talk about the current savings account predicament. He urged savers to be ‘on the ball’ when it came to keeping an eye on savings rates, bonus rates and savings terms in order to get the very best return on savings in today’s difficult financial climate.
Cash ISAs were also mentioned. It’s important that as a saver you use up your cash ISA allowance if at all possible - it’s tax-free savings at a decent return compared to other investments you could make right now. The advice from David Braithwaite was to shop around for the best cash ISA and then fill your ISA if possible before April, when the tax year starts again.
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A Wireless Electricity Monitor from First Utility was featured on The One Show this evening. Most people don’t know how much electricity they are using in their home from one moment to the next. With a Smart Meter, or Wireless Electricity Monitor, you can see exactly how much money your home is costing in electricity at any given moment. The wireless electricity monitor tells you exactly how much you’re spending per hour.
The couple interviewed on The One Show had a smart meter from First Utility fitted in their home and they found it a very useful way of saving money. Using First Utility as your supplier, your electricity usage is fed straight through to them online, meaning that there is no need for them to estimate your electricity usage.
According to The One Show presenter Dominic Littlewood, the big six energy companies and the Government are planning on everyone in Britain having a smart meter - but that would mean 47,000,000 smart meters to be replaced in 25,000,000 homes, which will take an epic 10 years to roll out.
Val and Alan, the couple interviewed on The One Show, have a wireless electricity monitor from First Utility. You can visit their website by clicking here. They confirmed that due to the smart meter they are indeed saving money.
One Show presenter Christine Bleakley said that the wireless electricity monitor was a great idea and that she wanted one. Dom said that of all the energy suppliers at the moment there is only one, First Utility, with available smart meters. Dom said the only downside is that you may become obsessed with how much electricity you are using and constantly check the smart meter to see how much money you may be spending.
There are two similar products on the market with a clear distinction, Dom explained: the smart meter and the smart display. The smart meter is supplied by First Utility as we’ve already mentioned. The smart display can be bought online and are priced between £40 and £50. The smart electricity display will display how much energy you’re using and will not feed the information back to your electricity supplier for online readings and charges.
Rate this offer: (3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Beamz was the first of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. Something for the Weekend gadget expert Seema Palmer explained that Beamz is great for anyone wanting to create their own music regardless of their talent or experience. Any music can be created - it has a catalogue of genres available from rock to jazz to blues to dance.
Beamz consists of six laser beams which when interrupted (using your hand is ideal) make sound effects or hit a certain note. Beamz connects to your computer using a supplied USB cable. Seema Palmer said that Beamz costs around £400 to buy, but we’ve found Beamz for $299.99 from the official Beamz website.
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Rate this offer: (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The Parrot Specchio digital photo frame and mirror was the second of this week’s Something for the Weekend gadgets. Gadget expert Ella Williamson demonstrated the Parrot Specchio to presenter Richard Bacon and Something for the Weekend guest Danny Wallace.
There are loads of digi-frames out there, but according to Ella Williamson the Parrot Specchio is the chic-est she’s seen. Spechhio means mirror in Italian. You can store 1,500 photos on the Parrot Specchio internal memory, but it also doubles as a mirror when switched off. It retails for around £300.
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The Tivoli Audio PAL speaker for Ipod or MP3 player was the first gadget featured on this week’s Something for the Weekend. The new design of the Tivoli Audio PAL speaker incorporates a melted effect stand, all very Salvadore Dali, and very cool. Aswell as playing great quality sound from your Ipod, the Tivoli Audio PAL also incorporates an AM/FM radio.
Housed in a rubberized, water-resistant casing, the Tivoli Audio PAL is also very portable.
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Rate this offer: (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jason Bradbury counted down The Gadget Show’s top 5 computer games for Christmas. Here are the games featured, from 5 to 1:
5) Lego Batman
Gadget Show presenter Jason Bradbury remarked that sometimes all you want is a simple game that’s quick to load and fun to play, and Lego Batman on the Nintendo DS fits the bill perfectly. Lego Batman is the latest in the successful Lego series of computer games which includes Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones. The aim is to make it through the 30 levels fighting your way through using classic Batman moves and gadgets faithfully recreated in Lego form, and collecting as many Lego bricks as you can along the way.
Lego Batman for the Nintendo DS is an easy to play, great fun and distracting game. Get it now in time for Christmas.
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Lego Batman is also available on other formats
4) Spore
Spore for the PC is from the makers of The Sims. Gadget Show presenter Jason said it could possibly be the biggest game in the history of games. You start off as a single celled organism floating around in a big sea. By eating everything you come into contact with you grow and grow, evolving as you eat particular cells. You control the evolution of your character through four different stages, ending up in the conquest of space. Apparently the space element of Spore is almost a separate game in its own right, with 50,000 planets to explore in the Spore universe.
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3) Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip is available for most formats including PS3 and XBox 360, but perhaps the most exciting version can be found on the Nintendo Wii, where the balance board from Wii Fit can be used as a virtual snowboard. Tilt backwards, forwards, left and right as you would on a normal snowboard - the controls for the Wii version of Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip are intuitive and lifelike. Only a couple of buttins on the Wii-mote are used to perform tricks - everything else is controlled by your own sense of balance on the board. The Gadget Show presenter Jason thought this game would also do well for Travel Agents by giving people the snowboarding bug.
2) Tom Clancy’s EndWar
Ton Clancy’s EndWar for XBox 360 and other formats came in second place in The Gadget Show’s Top 5 Computer Games for Christmas feature. It is an action strategy game in which you control a World War III army, but it’s how you control the army which makes the game unique. You may have already seen adverts on TV for Tom Clancy’s EndWar - using a headset you can control the game by only using your own voice. Ordering troops around couldn’t be easier than barking out orders from your sofa. The voice command system is amazingly responsive. But Tom Clancy’s EndWar isn’t a gimmick of a game - it is a solid strategy game with the added bonus of the voice controls.
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1) Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet is a PS3 exclusive, meaning it will not appear on any other platform. It is number one in The Gadget Show feature of the Top 5 Video Games for Christmas. Jason Bradbury described Little Big Planet as ‘kind of odd…but in a really good way’. You begin by customising the look of your fabric character, or sackboy. There are 50 weird and wonderful levels in the form of a 2D/3D platformer. It is totally unique, and totally beautiful.
Using the level editor you can even create your own levels, then share them with the PS3 online community. Conversely you can play other peoples levels, meaning that the replayability factor of Little Big Planet for the PS3 is basically endless. Little Big Planet is receiving rave reviews for it’s gameplay, concept, creativity and its original and innovative graphics. The Gadget Show’s Suzi Perry said that Little Big Planet was the most gorgeous computer game she’d ever seen.
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The Gadget Show’s Jon Bentley was sent to a posh London do to test out 3 different cameras. The Casio Exilim EX-S10 came out on top. The Exilim is Casio’s slimmest camera yet at under 15 millimetres. In fact it claims to be the world’s slimmest 10 megapixel camera. The Exilim also has a large 69mm screen. The camera is easy to operate and the flash makes it ideal for low-light party conditions. It has a 3x optical zoom and 10 megapixels ensures that the picture quality is excellent. The Casio Exilim EX-S10 has an additional video mode allowing you to use it as a camcorder and easily upload your videos to YouTube.
The Gadget Show presenter Jon Bentley gave the Casio Exilim EX-S10 a rating of 4 ‘G’s’ out of 5.
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