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This little gadget tells you how much money you should bet in a round of poker. Should you go in low (rare), or a medium bet to see other cards, or go for an ultimate bluff and go in well done.

Oh…what? Sorry…I thought you said stake.

The STEAK button is an ingenious little device that shows you how cooked your steak is. All you do is stick the device into your cooked steak and it’ll tell you if you need to cook for longer, or if it’s already frazzled beyond all recognition.

Costing $14.99 from Surlatable it’ll revolutionise the way you cook your steak.

“Stick a fork in me, I’m done.”

“The king is dead. Long live the king”.

No idea who said it first, but I’m sure it was a bit of an event. What I AM sure of, is that originally it wasn’t referring to Elvis. Because although he is ‘the king’ and although he is ‘dead’ (unless you believe my brother-in-law who insists he’s working at the fish and chip shop in Runcorn) the quote is from around 1422, which is almost certainly before Elvis’ time.

Where am I going with this? Well, with all the assorted activity around solid state drives, you would think that development of traditional platter-based drives would be starting to decrease.

No way Jose.

This little beauty from Fujitsu spins at a rapid 15,000 RPM and claims to have increased reliability. Which is nice.

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Ryan.

I have to be honest with you (honesty pays, apparently, and I need the cash) when I first saw this, I thought it said ‘Microsoft SCARFACE’. It had me wondering what on earth MS was doing re-making a perfectly good movie. But no, apparently not. Al Pacino can rest easy.

This, ladies and gentlemen is the future. And it has been for quite a while.

Price is around the $10k mark (£5k, €7.25k) which I actually think is not at all bad. Especially if all this honesty pays off…

Cheesy video after the jump.

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 It could have been called the Eartha Kitt Daily, or perhaps the Brad Pitt News…but to come up with a name that is so perfect in every conceivable way is just magic.

Never since Churchill came up with the quote for lighting one’s exhaust fumes has a name so apt been chosen.

“The f@rt is like a giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate” - Source

OK, OK, so Churchill didn’t say those exact words, but you get the gist of it.

The Loo Read is a must buy for anyone who loves spending every breathing second of their spare time couped up in the lavatory catching up on yesterday’s news. Great as a gift, even if it IS for yourself!

At £59.99 from LazyboneUK it seems slghtly on the expensive side, but then again I guess half of the profits go to the person who thought up the product name. And jimini cricket do they deserve it.

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Let me tell you what is going through these kids minds: “I wish I could curl up and die” and “I am going to be emotionally scarred for life” and “since when was human cloning legal?”.

This is called the ‘trioBike’. Which, as far as I can tell is a pretty reasonable product name. It does three things, you see - use it as a bike (clone 1), a pushchair (clone 2) and a carrierbike (clone 3). Very clever in a Danish bacon kind of way.

Costs a mere $3400 (£1700; €2450).

Just be prepared for your kids to hate you.

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Ryan.

Absolute Genius idea.

Hide all your expensive Thorntons chocolate Alpinis in this jar, set the timer then sit back all smug as your desperate chocaholic girlfriend whinces in pain every time she tries to get at one of the chocolates.

The jar is programmed to send a mild electric shock if anyone attempts to open the jar before the allocated time has expired.

Costing a sweet £10 from Crazyaboutgadgets.com this will give you literally, minutes worth of fun. You could even put your cigarette stash in there if you’re trying to quit.

My only advice:-  do not, I repeat, do NOT put a small stupid pet in the jar - cos that would not be big or clever.

 

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with C.

“Casio Exilim EX-V7″?

Nope, Cheese.
Game over.

If however I had spied a Casio Exilim EX-V7 I would have been a fortunate man with good eyesight. Reason being, the Casio EX-V7 is the slimmest 7x optical zoom camera out on the market (as I write this article). Having a 7x zoom feature means you can stay well back and zoom right in on your target. It has image stability built in so no more shaky blurred images. It is the T3 magazine Test winner in the June 2007 edition beating more expensive cameras such as the Ricoh 500SE.

It costs £290. For this you also get Quicktime Movie mode (H.264) or Motion JPEG AVI. It even has a voice recorder built in - handy for reminding yourself where a photo was taken. Handy feature if you’re half-cut in a pub one night!

Get yours today from Pixmania with some extras thrown in (1Gb SD card, spare battery and a case).

Now, all together…say “Cheese”.

You can’t put a price on cool. You either ooze it, or you snooze it. Having a Junghans worldtimer watch on your wrist definitely means you’re an oozer.

This little beauty weighs only 85 grammes; has a genuine crocodile leather strap and is water resistant. (Being made of crocodile skin you’d sure hope it was water resistant!!). But the reason why you shouldn’t be nervous about the £1100 price tag is because of the following feature….

It automatically updates to the local time zone as soon as you fly into it. No more winding back, forwards or doing complex mathematical computations to guess the right time…this watch does it all for you using advanced multifrequency radio links to a German Meteorology Institute. Isn’t that just ace?!

I want one now. Please JunghansTime….isn’t it TIME you sent me one….eh? Clever eh? Time..watch….worldtimer….Ah forget it!

  If you’re too young to remember Roland Rat or getting up early to watch “Why don’t you” in the summer hols, then you probably will never have used a good old fashioned telephone like this. Ever. Fact

Coming in black, pink or batman-red, this retro telephone seems a bit steep at £59.95 from firebox. However, my theory is …if you’re old enough to remember them, then you are probably aged 28+ which means you should be able to afford one.

Go on…impress your mates with one of these in your pad. They are fully refurbished so will work just like a normal phone.
Only down side is if you need to call the cops coz some chav is knicking your hub caps, it takes forever to dial 999.

Aforementioned chav will probably get away with his crime. So you have to decide….cool phone, or no hub caps. I know which one I’d go for.

I want to let you into a little secret.

The landlord for our offices here at “Tekmondo Towers” does his own painting and decorating. Nice guy - a little bit paranoid with the whole ‘locking up’ thing, but thats a story for another day if you know what I mean.

Anyhoo, point is that our ceiling is a little bit… well… blotchy. there are painted bits, and there are less-painted bits. And I don’t think he was going for the turner art prize. It all could have been so different.

Had he invested in what I would like to call “Glidden Ceiling Paint with EZ Track (R) Technology” he would actually have been able to see what he was painting (because it goes on pink) and then stood back 30 minutes later and admired the brilliant white, non-blotchy finish of a ceiling wonderfully uniform in colour and radiance (because it turns into white).

Technology… used for good.

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Ryan.