Babies and toddlers aren’t best known for their ability to stop and go on command. This results in them spending much of their time using their head as the brake for most of their unexpected manoeuvres.
According to the DTI, there a 500,000 reports of child head injuries each year. What do you do?
Meet the Thudguard, a helmet specifically designed to make sure your little Einstein doesn’t damage their brain along the way to learning how to walk and run. It’s targeted at kids aged from 7 months to 2-years old.
Developed by a Scottish mother of three, the Thudguard is made from “impact tested protective foam” to reduce the severity of bumps and thuds.
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Wii Fit, the game that looks like setting a new global trend for making gamers more active, has UK buyers in a spin as Play.com reports that its pre-order allocation has been snapped up within 24 hours.
According to the online retailer, they were ‘overwhelmed’ by demand for the ‘gamercise’ bundle, which is due to launch here on April 25. Now before you start chucking your Mars bars out of the pram, the e-tailer is expecting – hoping – to get more stock before launch in a few weeks. The game has already sold more than 1.7 million copies in Japan, were there are around 5 million Wii consoles.
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There’s a lot to be said for self-defence classes but in this day and age, there are easier ways of literally frying an assailant’s ass without so much as a wasting a single bead of sweat. Well, at least in the US, where all manner of nasty gadgets are freely available.
Meet the Lipstick Stun Gun, capable of delivering a claimed 350,000 volts to the crotch of just about anyone you don’t like. The makers say:
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OK, if the sounds of sneezing and coughing your lungs up make you feel good then the Talking Tissue Box is for you.
According to the makers, it will make you feel well when you’re laid up by imitating your splutters and coughs every time you pluck a tissue.
Each time you reach for a tissue, it imitates your illness with one of five sneezing and coughing sounds. If laughter really is the best medicine, this hilarious tissue box will have you feeling better in no time.
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Sony always charges extra for its TVs compared to other manufacturers. Sometimes it’s worth it and other times it not. The company will probably charge more too for its new high-end LCD TVs but it’s banking on some new sexy features to justify the extra layout.
The Bravia W4000 are to be the flagship tellys in its LCD range, offering Full HD (1080p) and 24fps support and coming in 32,40,46, and 52in flavours. Alongside the digital TV tuner there’s also a HDTV tuner, that can decode any Freeview, or other, HD channels you can find without needing a set-top box. Useful, but not really until the scheduled Freeview HD rollout in late 2009. Still, you'll be ready.
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