Gadgets Blog: Unusual Gift Ideas
Gadgets, gifts and novelties for all ages
![]() Blondes Have More FunNovember 27, 2008 on 12:07 pm by Dirk | In News | Comment on this postWandering around the internet looking for gift ideas for female friends and family members I stumbled across the simply ingenious ‘Keyboard For Blondes’. This follows the trend of taking a normal everyday item, and making it pink so it appeals to the section of the female (and indeed male) population, who have to own something ‘because’ it is pink. Having said that, this particular item at least does have some added novelty value in that a lot of the keys have had ‘Blonde friendly’ pictures or descriptions added to them. Replacing various buttons such as the ‘F’ keys with the ‘Useless Key’, the ‘Return’ key has become the ‘YES! I want it!’ key, and Caps Lock is known as ‘WARNING! Size XXL Letters!’
To defend myself none of the people I envisage possibly buying this for would need the new key descriptions, as they are all perfectly adept at using a normal keyboard, even knowing what most of the Useless Key’s do. However they do fall into the category of wanting anything that is pink. As an alternative to this more novel version there is of course the Pink Usb Flexible Portable Rubber Keyboard that we stock at Gadgets.co.uk which I think would be a better option for those on the go, or maybe with not quite the right sense of humour for the Keyboard for Blondes. StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() Nintendo DSi – Want please!November 21, 2008 on 5:28 pm by Dirk | In News | Comment on this postWell, the Nintendo DSi has been released and having read the first review I found here I still want one now! I am an unashamed Nintendo fan, and I love the way they concentrate on making things fun, and dare to be different to everything else out there, and this review has not dampened my enthusiasm to get my hands on a DSi, if anything with it’s two camera’s and microphone for enhanced online play, and capability to download games and demos, as well as a welcome SD memory Card slot (albeit at the expense of the GBA slot) it has increased it.
StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() iBlock iPod Speaker ReviewNovember 21, 2008 on 4:45 pm by Clare | In News | Comment on this postI’m sure everyone agrees when I say that the iPod is revolutionary! We at gadgets towers think it’s definitely up there with sliced bread, mobile phones, Internet and for some (like myself) hair straighteners. Once you have them you just can’t imagine life before them! StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() Hello!November 14, 2008 on 4:30 pm by Clare | In News | Comment on this postMay I just start with the traditional method of introducing myself. My name is Clare and I am the newest member to the gadgets.co.uk team. Whilst sitting here on the usual chocolate and biscuit scoffing Friday afternoon I seem to have had one of my very rare blonde, but, bright spark ideas. Never having been a gadgets boff myself, when it comes to technology I am of the simple variety. I have little or no comprehension of slang or lingo, and wouldn’t know a megapixel from a megabyte. Now back to my recent epiphany….it has occurred to me that surely I am not the only person in town of this caliber to visit our website. Well fear no more for I am now making it my new vocation to change this by bringing you my personal opinion about the newest gadgets and gizmos in the exciting world of gadgets.co.uk. So in the risk of being different I end this blog with the less traditional method of introducing myself………. Hi, my name is Clare, and I’m your new GADGETS GIRL! StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() “Don’t thank me. Thank the moon’s gravitational pull.”November 14, 2008 on 2:36 pm by Dirk | In News | Comment on this postIt seemed to be something of a staple of 80’s television series such as The A-Team, and MacGyver that at some point the heroes would be in a situation where they would need to make something to get them out of whatever predicament they were in.
In the case of The A-Team this usually consisted of them being locked in some sort of shed that had a rusty old car as well as some handy sheets of metal, a blow torch, and some sort of cobbled together automatic weapon in order for them to be able to build a kind of tank in which they could escape and save the day.
StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() Dedications what you need……November 14, 2008 on 12:45 pm by Dirk | In News | Comment on this postIf you want to be a record breaker. It’s not uncommon to find dedication in the world of gamers, whether it be queuing up to make sure you are one of the first to get the latest console, spending hours levelling up your World of Warcraft character, or similar. There are some feats that truly stand out however, such as the record for the high score on the game of Asteroids, set by Scott Safran of New Jersey in 1982, which has not yet been broken. This makes it also the longest standing record in video gaming according to the record keeping folks at Twin Galaxies. The score of 41,336,440 points took three days, and was in fact only brought to a halt when the machine ceased to function so the final score could in fact have ended up being much higher. To give you some sort of scale for this achievement you get somewhere in the region of between 20 and 100 points for each successful shot on an asteroid with 200 and 1000 points for large and small saucers respectively. That’s a massive 41,337 shots just destroying small saucers which are fairly rare as it is! If you have some spare time why not see how you fare on the flash version below? Controls are:
StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() A useful iPhone app? Who’da thunk!November 6, 2008 on 9:59 am by Dirk | In News | Comment on this postYes, it’s another post about the iPhone. I was browsing blogs this morning and came across a new iPhone app. The difference about this particular app is that I can see it actually being useful and not merely adding some sort of functionality that really the iPhone should have had at launch, and so in the spirit of equality I thought I ought to make a positive post about the iPhone. StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb ![]() Own your own Presidential CandidateNovember 4, 2008 on 10:59 am by Dirk | In News | Comment on this postApparently there’s some sort of vote going on over in America today, and it’s possibly something of a big deal. I only come to this conclusion because the four main protagonists in this particular vote have recently been made available as one-of-a-kind Cabbage Patch Kids. Up for auction on Ebay since 30th October the auctions finish today at around 1pm GMT. Currently the Sarah Palin Kid is looking like getting the most with the bid standing at $10,000.00 as I write this, with Barack Obama next at $7,300.00. With John McCain and Joe Bidden bringing up the rear on about $2,500.00 and $2,000.00 respectively. This is a charity auction with 100% of the proceeds going to the Marine Toys For Tots charity, which through donations and support from its partners gives toys to needy children. Coinciding handily with the 25th anniversary of the Cabbage Patch Doll these look like raising loads of money that will hopefully do a lot of good and bring smiles to the faces of many many children this Christmas. So here they are, in alphabetical order of surname to avoid being accused of any particular leanings or favouritism.
If you want to keep up to date with the progress of the election you can follow it here through the Associated Press website. StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Simpy | Furl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb |
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