How To Do a Red Smoke Hand Grenade at Home August 22, 2007
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Here's a two-part video that will teach you how to easily do a massive smoke hand grenade using sugar, baking soda, organic dye and saltpeter, all common elements that anyone could buy. The first part above shows you how to do the grenade itself, while the second part after the jump show you how to do the fuse using matches, tape and a paper clip.
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USB-Powered CD Destroyer Mauls a Disc in Five Seconds August 22, 2007
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Keep that schoolmarm from perusing your porn with this USB-powered CD destroyer from Brando. In just five seconds, this hungry beast renders any CD or DVD unreadable, grinding in devastating circular scratches and resulting in a strangely beautiful coaster that reminds us of a Spirograph.
Mutant iPod Dock-Hi-Fi-DAB System From Ministry Of Sound August 22, 2007
READ MORE Digital Audio , Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , MP3 , Music , Radio , iPod
We covered the first iPod dock with integrated DAB functionality a couple of weeks back but now Ministry of Sound has joined in what’s sure to be a fast-growing segment.
The ridiculously named MOSMC057IP looks like your traditional mini hi-fi but with DAB on the inside and an iPod dock on the top. It has 20Watts of RMS power, can handle MP3s, CDs and CDR/ CDRWs while the dock charges the iPod. Alongside the DAB there’s also an FM/AM radio. The key features are:
- LCD Display
- DAB / FM Tuner
- SD / MMC card reader
- USB port allows playback from digital music device
- Clock / Sleep timer
- Preset equalizer
- Headphone / Aux Socket
- Full remote control
- Aluminium speaker grills
And don't forget the funky glowing blue neon lights. Available this month for £140.-Martin Lynch
Fatman Lands The iTube Mothership August 22, 2007
READ MORE Digital Audio , Hi-fi , MP3 , Music , iPod
Fatman, makers of the great iTube valve amps and iPod docks, has really pushed the boat out on this one, with the iTube Mothership. Trekkies will be familiar with the terminology for this wallet-crunching, £5,000 audio beast which features things like the iTube Controlroom and Engineroom.
The system comprises the Controlroom pre-amplifier [with three line inputs and one phono input] and two Engineroom Mono Block amplifiers, each delivering 200Watts of audio. The pre-amp comes with 6 premium amps and the amps sport 18 apiece.
Just make sure you don’t pump any compressed MP3 crap through it and you might just get your £5,000-worth. If your budget only stretches to £500, you might want to audition the valve-based Shanling MC-30 instead.-Martin Lynch
iPod Shuffle Just £20,000 August 22, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Digital Audio , Gadgets , Mobile Devices , Music , iPod
OK, so it's not exactly a typical iPod Shuffle, which retails for around £50, but it sure is shiny and purdy in a rapper-kind-of-way.
And, if you have around 240,000 Norwegian Kroner it too can be yours. That's almost £20,500 in real money for a blinged out Shuffle, clothed in gold, platinum and diamonds. Still, why would anyone in their right mind spend £20,450 blinging a £50 MP3 player? It's like gold plating a Lada.
Still, you can be sure that whoever buys this kind of tat is the same person that buys diamond necklaces for their permed poodles.-Martin Lynch
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