B5 Network - Tech, Gadgets and Weird Things

We humans are naturally lazy species (and I’m sad to say but I’m example of it too…oh well). that’s a good thing though - our laziness powers the development of technologies - we are too lazy to do some work, so we invent something to do that work for us. Example: we were too lazy to get up from the sofa and switch the channel, so we invented the remote control.

Here’s another example. In the good old days (way before I was even born) parents who didn’t trust their teenagers and their dates with their cars would spend the whole evening stalking them. They would never give the benefit of a doubt for a young adult (I’d estimate that in 75% of the cases that’s a good thing, but it still is disrespectful.).

But today even the overbearing nuisances AKA parents are lazy. Why spend the whole evening as a stalker when you can just hide a GPS tracker in the car and get all the reports about your kids’ behaviour.

Well, most of the teenagers today can hardly be trusted to cook themselves lunch without burning down the house (just exaggerating, no need to worry), but for some others it’s unfair. 16 to 21 years (don’t think you can get a drivers’ license earlier regardless of where you live) of being a good kid, and then not being trusted…

Ah well, “all is fair in love and war”, and this is war. If you don’t have an hour or two to search for the bug in the car, you can just block the signal with this little gadget. Just plug it into the cigarette lighter socket and it will scramble all frequencies used by GPS devices. Later just think of a realistic story why cellphones interfere with the signal (which probably was the reason the GPS stopped working after your first turn, right?), and if your parents are not too tech-savvy, they will buy this.

This nifty gadget is only $80.00 (with FREE worldwide shipping) at DealExtreme.

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” These words, said on July 20, 1969 by Neil Armstrong became one of the best known phrases in history. What’s more, a lot of people actually know where and on what occasion it was said. I still think it would have sounded better if he had said something along the lines of “What? I thought this was supposed to be made of cheese…”.

Well, he probably chose his own phrase just because he wasn’t particularly hungry. And that is all thanks to the great minds in NASA, who have thought of rations that can last for 50 years without refrigeration, AKA “Astronaut food” (yeah, thanks guys. Now we have something utterly meaningless in history textbooks. A good joke would be far more useful - laughing is good for everyone.).

Well, as much as I would like to see hunger-driven ramblings in the textbooks, I’ve got to admit that the concept of space food is great. It’s mainly the same food, just deprived of any moisture or air inside it (i.e. made unfit for bacteria to live in). Don’t think it’s still as tasty after all of that, but who cares - it’s cool, wouldn’t you agree?

And now you have a chance to try some of that food yourself. It can be Bananas, Strawberries or Neapolitan Ice-Cream. Perfect for a long camping trip (I mean, it IS very unlikely that you have a space shuttle in your garage, so you won’t probably use it for what it was originally intended to be used for), or just as a rare treat at a party (better tell them what you’re serving in advance, or your lack of cooking skills will be quickly known through out the neighborhood).

A pack of food costs £2.95 (approximately USD $5.31) at IWantOneOfThose.

Say, all you gadget lovers, what words are most common in gadget names?

Any ideas? Well, let me share my view. It’s ‘USB’, ‘LED’ and last but not least, ‘x in 1′.

So, for today, we have a 2 in 1 type Globe, even if it’s name is quite deceiving (atleast for me).

Even though the picture makes it (sort of) clear for me, let me explain this to those of you that don’t get this (the picture could certainly be more detailed).

At day time, this is a simple globe with a political map on it (meaning it shows countries and cities), along with some natural features (that being lakes and maybe more significant mountains). Pretty usefull for geography students to have, and pretty interesting to look at from time to time even if you aren’t one.

However, by night it turns into an illuminated map of 88 constellations with their names - cool huh? Just the thing for the budding astronomer of the house. Astronomy is fairly simple if you have the right motivation (for me it’s lasers - managed to locate the north star and the little bear (or whatever it’s called in english) in about 3 minutes when I got a green laser - with about 15.9 years of failure to do so before).

The globe itself is 21cm wide and 31cm high - big enough to earn respectful looks and at the same time it should fit on your table.

The Earth and Constellation Globe is £49.95 (approximately $89.91) at boysstuff.