There's nothing quite like having constant access to every grunt, squeak and snore your baby makes, and this LeapFrog Advanced Digital Baby Monitor (£58.79) is specifically designed for that very purpose. It also keeps track of the room temperature in the nursery, plays digital lullabies and … [Read more...]
Lafayette’s True Blood afghan crochet pattern
True Blood is a great source of crochet crafty goodness thanks to an embarrassment of afghans, which seem to adorn every sofa on set. And if you'd like to get yourself kitted out with Lafayette's chosen granny blanket, the kindly Betty McKnit has added a free pattern to her Ravelry page. Or, … [Read more...]
Dork Review: LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen
It's hard to believe that something as simple as a pen and pad of paper could have charmed the nation's geeks quite so thoroughly. But charmed they are. Vero, over on That Canadian Girl wrote it a love letter, while Shane Richmond at the Telegraph thinks it's pretty damn spiffy. Even Tom Watson MP … [Read more...]
Derren Brown: The Science of Scams ep1
Last night, for the first time ever, Derren Brown made a bit of a pig's ear of his grand finale, finally proving that he *is* human after all and not a bearded devil beast. In fact, The Events hasn't been quite as much fun as the usual Derren stuff. The number of times he seemed to pander to … [Read more...]
The best free apps for your BlackBerry
It's time to supe up your BlackBerry with the best free apps and software available. Here's our must-have apps list... I was wittering away on Twitter the other day about my thrilling night of BlackBerry app downloadage and a few people made enquiries about which apps I recommended. Rather … [Read more...]
Dork Review: BlackBerry Curve 8520 (special edition)
About a month after I dropped my beloved BlackBerry 8900 into a pint of festival cider, it finally decided enough was enough and rang its last. No amount of time spent in the airing cupboard was going to fix it. Unlike seemingly every other human on earth, I didn't lunge straight for the nearest … [Read more...]
FreshBooks: send out professional invoices on time
I've always been rubbish at sending out invoices, often waiting many months before getting my act together to invoice, by which point I was living on a subsistence wage and thin soup. Which is why, with the zealotry of a convert, I now go on to anyone who will listen about the wonders of … [Read more...]
Dork Review: Vax Kone
Let's face it, if you're buying the Vax Kone handheld vacuum cleaner, you're not buying it because you think it might be have the best suckage on the market, or because you suspect it of being capable of great multi-surface cleaning action: you're buying it because you think it looks all pretty and … [Read more...]
Nomi Tang “Better Than Chocolate” Vibrator
Seriously, if you're still living in a world where chocolate is better than sex, you're doing something very wrong. Unless the chocolate is laced with crack, of course. But in this reality, where chocolate crack is not yet freely available from the local Spar, most of us would already concede … [Read more...]
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