Category Archives: USB

Convert vinyl to digital

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It’s amazing how many people still have old vinyl records and what is even more surprising is the fact that a lot of the collectors have no record player to put them on or won’t play them in case they are damaged.

So these records stay in their sleeves gathering dust, but it doesn’t have to be that way and this digital music convertor is the device that can help. Simply place the record on the turntable and play it, from here you can connect to a laptop or

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Flash drives from a galaxy far far away

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Star Wars influenced a lot gadgets, household items and toys, but that was a while ago and yet it seems the desire for Star Wars products is still there maybe even more than there was years ago.

But now it is possible get the dark side of the force on your side for a change, or whoever your favourite is from all six films, although the characters are slightly limited in choice.

Star Wars 4GB Flash Drives

•Republic approved thumb drive storage devices.

•Provides 4GB of storage (just in case you couldn’t guess).

•Dimensions: 3″ tall.

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The Griffin PowerMate

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This is a knob for all jobs and that’s not very funny either! It is a serious piece of kit that can be used for everything from editing your own movies to surfing the web.

You can assign it certain applications and with the turn of the knob control more than just the volume of the laptop.

The PowerMate is made from aluminium it has that though well built feel to it and looks important too!

PowerMate USB Multimedia Controller & Input Device

•Pump Up The Volume- PowerMate is the coolest volume knob your desk has ever seen. Crank up your MP3s and CDs. Then w

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The Karaoke recording device

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Let’s face it there are plenty of people out there like to have a bit of a sing song every now and then, so it is logical that the next step would be to record yourself, wouldn’t it?

This device plugs into the laptop USB port and provides the singer with a sort mini recording studio where with a little of editing and overlaying the user can produce a half decent track of sorts.

It’s not going to help you to win American Idol, but it’s a bit fun for those quiet times.

Features – The device supports WMA, WAV, and MP3 file formats, and it has a built-in speak

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Sweeten up the office

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Sometimes it can get a bit funky in offices that have little air and no windows, so what can be done to make sure that the smell is sweet and not sweat.

Try this USB oil burner; add a few drops of aromatherapy and plug the device into the laptops USB port and it will gently fill the room with an aroma that is pleasant.

Features – Step one, add one drop of the included aromatherapy oil onto the little X. Step two, insert into a USB drive (horizontal drives preferred to prevent drips). There is no software to run, no drivers to install, as the USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner j

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Fancy a game of chess?

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If that is the case and you do not want to cart an old style wooden chess board and pieces around with you, then why go hi tech with this computer chess board.

Simply plug into the USB port and set those pieces up.

This is a great piece of kit, because it is tactile and you get to see exactly what is going on in front of you and the player has the choice of player against a real person or the computer.

Features – The software also provides hints during the game and enables you to save pictures of a game in-progress for play-by-e-mail games; it can replay an entire

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Mr Snowman on your desk

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Forget all of those trees and other fancy decorations, when all you need is an animated snowman that simply plugs into the laptops USB port for power and once connected the snowman or as it is now the snowbot comes to life or rather its scanning Cylon type light does.

The ThinkGeek Snowbot Features:

•USB Powered (for great justice!)

•Scanning LED Robotic Eye

•Rate of sweeping is controllable via knob

•Selectable LED Robotic Eye Colours (Blue or Red)

•Authentic Snowbot Sound (on/off switch)

•Rotating, articulating metal arms

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USB powered digital microscope

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Get some great digital images that hardly anyone else has been able to come up with, in fact these are images that are not seem all of that often.

Simply plug this into the USB port of a laptop and anything is possible.

Specs -

•Handheld USB Microscope (comes with Stand)

•Sensor: 1/4” Colour CMOS

•1.3M / Resolution 1280×1024 pixels

•USB 2.0 Output

•Magnification: 10x ~50x, 200x

•Achieves effective magnification values of up to 330x with digital zoom

•8 built-in LEDs

•LED on/off controlled by soft

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Great web cam with lights

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This is a brilliant web cam that uses the USB port to connect to the laptop and draw power too, it has six built in LED’s but don’t worry the brightness can be controlled through a handy dimmer switch that is so much better than trying to find the on screen controls.

Features – The auto-focusing, 2 MP camera is mounted to a semi-rigid cable that can be bent to any position–even into its own stand. It can capture video at 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution (as well as 5 fps at 1,600 x 1,200 resolution), providing a focus range of 2 3/4″ for close-ups and a

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A rock is for life not just Thanksgiving

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The pet rock is back and better than before, during those early days the pet rock was just too lame. Now it has been reborn and all you have to do is plug this into the USB port of your laptop.

So what can you expect to see:

•They make a great gift for everyone we can think of.

•They don’t need food

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