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Fri 21 April 2006
The Lazy Drinker is a computer controlled bartender. The modified Igloo cooler can hold 16 of your favourite drinks and can mix up over 5000 concoctions automatically. All controlled from your computer, with a database of all the possible drinks, via a serial cable . Works on Windows PCs and MAC(in beta). You can get the Lazy drinker for $750 or $550 for a DIY Kit
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Fri 21 April 2006
Real Arcade Cabinets for your Home!
This is the real deal, look at how authentic they look! Quasimoto make a number of arcade cabinets, some with awesome street-fighter-esque decals on the side! Each one includes 27" HD monitor (1080i, 720p, 480p, 480i) and THX sound. It's compatible with most consoles and PC and even has a handy tray for holding all your games. In terms of pleasure to money spent ratio, even for £1200 this is totally ‘affordable’ for anyone! Eating and having a roof over your head come a close second next to having one of these.
Fri 21 April 2006
Not ones to discriminate we not only report on high tech products for the living but also for those who aren’t. Introducing the “Digizerk” from Dutch inventor, Henk Rozema. These are gravestones with an LCD display which can show text, photographs and video at a signal from a mobile phone or a remote control. A gravestone will set you back between €4,000 and €7,000 (£2,780 to £4,860), but each one comes with a 20-year guarantee. Rozema hopes to have the first working digital gravestones, in cemeteries by the end of this year, if you can’t wait that long, check out the American company Vidstone who was first on the scene.
Fri 21 April 2006
MTV Overdrive is a free site featuring on-demand footage of some of MTV's biggest shows including Pimp My Ride UK, Screenplay, Punk’d, Dirty Sanchez, plus news, movie trailers and music videos. Overdrive will launch on the 23rd April showing extra footage of the premiere of Pimp My Ride UK, series 2 after it ends on the telebox. A clever strategy to raise awareness of the site as who doesn’t want to see more of the unintentional comedian, Tim Westwood, and be entertained by his unique dialect and gangly physique complemented by ill-fitting clothes.
Want to know more about IPTV? Read: Super-cali-fragilistic-expi-IPTV
