Top Gadget Gifts of 2012

Something wonky in the design? Check it out on the web for the best possible view. Gifts for Everyone Merry Christmas. The shopping season is in full swing and there are some REALLY cool gadget gifts available this year. Here's a selection of the top sellers that we are seeing.  Gift Picker Doctor Who TARDIS Mini Fridge The Doctor Who TARDIS Mini Fridge does not have to keep things nice and cool always, as reversing the polarity will see the interior keep things nicely heated and warm all over. To add to the overall effect, it comes with a flashing light as well as TARDIS sound effects whenever you open and close the door  Buy Now or see more info at our site Kindle Fire When it comes to HD displays, great resolution is just the start. Unlike other 7" tablets, Kindle Fire HD delivers rich color and deep contrast from every angle, with an advanced polarizing filter and custom anti-glare technology. Buy Now or see more info at our site Star Wars Holiday Lights So, your beloved Star Wars movie franchise has just been bought over from Disney, and you can more or less say that Ariel and Leia can duke it out for the sexiest princess title considering the kind of suits that they wore in the past. Perhaps for this Christmas or holiday season, you might want to bring some Star Wars cheer to your home, and how do you do exactly that without any outside help?  Buy Now or see more info at our site Star Wars R2-D2 R/C Inflatable The world’s – or should I say, the galaxy’s most beloved astromech droid, R2-D2, has just gotten yet another boost to its portfolio of devices and toys that will further enslave the minds and wallets of parents (and Star Wars fans) everywhere, coming in the form of the $59.99 Star Wars R2-D2 Inflatable R/C. Yes sir, can you say that this is the ultimate galactic accessory? Buy Now or see more info at our site Remote Controlled Dueling Helicopters These are the remote controlled helicopters that battle each other for indoor air supremacy. Each helicopter is equipped with an infrared cannon that emits a beam in a 90° forward-firing arc with a 10' effective range accompanied by firing sounds. One "hit" to an opponent spins it to the right, two spin it to the left, and three put it into an irrecoverable tailspin, yet its durability enables continued duels. Buy Now Portal 2 Sentry USB Desk Defender There is nothing quite like a science fiction device being brought to life in the real world, and here we are with the $39.99 Portal 2 Sentry Turret USB Desk Defender that ought to wet your pants – in a good way, of course. This is basically a motion detecting turret that will help guard your desk against any pesky busybodies who love to loiter around your work area whenever you are not around. Buy Now or see more info at our site Forward this email to a friend Update subscription preferences Copyright © 2012 Coolest Gadgets All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website If you'd like to stop getting these emails, you can unsubscribe. Coolest Gadgets Holt Grove Nottingham, UK NG14 6HW United Kingdom Add us to your address book

Daily Digest Coolest Gadgets for 12/06/2012

The latest and coolest gadgets daily digest Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dec 06, 2012 10:00 am | Alison A Friend for Any Beer Fan Have you ever been into a bar where the bartender is part customer server, part entertainment? You certainly remember the locations with behind-the-bar antics. Usually it involves bottles and colorful drinks, flips and turns. But what about us beer and ale drinkers in the world? How do we get entertainment? Popping a top sure seems mellow in comparison to flipping bottles. BBbarfly, devised by a former bartender and an engineer, adds a little pizzazz to the art of serving and drinking beer.  As any bartender or 'beertender' will attest the sheer volume of beers opened require a reliable tool. And you need a tool the professionals count on. Sure it is a bottle opener. But open it up and take a look. The high quality stainless steel means you can open hoards of bottles. Comfortably too as the cover becomes a sturdy handle. BBbarfly is designed for optimum weight distribution during the opening process. Patterned after a butterfly knife the BBbarfly folds down to less than 5.5" – perfect for a pocket or drawer. Units start at just $25 on BBbarfly website.  You can select from 10 colors and over 150 designs. Or mix and match. Or make your own! Contact BBbarfly and they can look into customizing a unit or units for you. What a great way to keep your company’s name out there. The specs are just half the fun of BBbarfly though. What you do with the unit makes it all worth it. BBbarfly creates Trick Tutorials for your device – new entertaining moves to open, close, flip, spin and amuse  Hop on their website to learn tricks like the John Wayne or the Kickback or my personal favorite, the Transformer. You finally have a chance to perfect those butterfly knife tricks – without the blade! Tricks continue to multiply as BBbarfly users submit content to the Flair Beertending section of the site too. And if that is not enough, add some style with a belt holster for $15. So for a fun approach to opening bottles check out BBbarfly for you or the beer drinker on your list. These bottle gadgets prove to make the task of de-capping a beer bottle easy, fun and entertaining. [ A Friend for Any Beer Fan copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 09:15 am | Alison HOT KIDS GIFT ALERT: Electric Guitar Shirt Thanks to your use of the CG Gift Picker we are happy to report that a top seller in the kids and teen ages is the Boys Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt at Think Geek. No skills required. Each button on the neck is a major chord. Simply pick your chord and strum away! And no, there’s nothing ‘canned’ about this instrument. The owner makes  their own sounds – whether good or bad. The shirt is 33% off at the moment, now just $19.99 too. So check it out for the junior musician in your life. Need ideas for others on your shopping list? Let the Gift Picker point you to the perfect options. [ HOT KIDS GIFT ALERT: Electric Guitar Shirt copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 08:30 am | Edwin The Aesthetician's Ultrasonic Hand Moisturizer Let's face the facts – no one likes having dry skin, and you can more or less say that this is anathema to those who are of the female gender. After all, dry skin looks ugly, and when the condition gets really bad, you start to itch all over the affected area. Well, perhaps it is time to slap on plenty of moisturizer, but that can end up being extremely expensive in the long run, so why not settle for something that is slightly different, albeit it might cost you a wee bit more as an initial investment? I am referring to the $149.95 Aesthetician’s Ultrasonic Hand Moisturizer, which is an at-home hand moisturizer that relies on similar technology which professional aestheticians use to rejuvenate dry, chapped skin. It will make use of distilled or fresh tap water (your choice), where the moisturizer’s ultrasonic transducer will get to work by emitting an oxygenated warm or cool hydrating mist that is seven times smaller compared to water droplets, penetrating deep into moisture-starved skin, ensuring that your hands remain smooth and supple along the way. All you need to do is insert your hands into the front of the unit, and the moisturizer will get to work immediately, where control knobs let you adjust mist output and temperature from about 62° F to 92 F° in a precise manner. [ The Aesthetician’s Ultrasonic Hand Moisturizer copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 08:15 am | Edwin Light Show Fountain Speakers For those of you who have visited Sin City (Las Vegas), you would know that glitz, excess and entertainment is all part of the package. The thing is, with so many different hotels to choose from, you can be spoilt for choice. Most folks would know of the iconic Bellagio with its water fountain show, and here is your chance to bring home a little bit of Bellagio's magic to your home – thanks to the $39.99 Light Show Fountain Speakers. Compatible with all USB-friendly devices, this particular lights & water show has been specially timed to your tunes, ensuring that it will not miss a beat or put a foot wrongly. Plug it into your iPod, a MP3 player (who uses those these days), or a computer/notebook using the included USB cable and you are good to go. Of course, what is the whole point of a fountain when there are no lights for that added touch of glamor? This is where the quartet of multi-colored LEDs come in handy, bringing your tunes to a literally new level. [ Light Show Fountain Speakers copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 08:04 am | Edwin Swimming robot arrives at Australia, breaks record in the process Having a human swim across an expanse of water like the English Channel is surely an achievement not to be trifled with, but rather, to be celebrated by the rest of the world, but do we do the same when it comes to robots? After all, robots do not have emotions, and they certainly are not out to chase records and all. The thing is, behind each robot is a human (at least that is the way things are at the moment, not until the robot apocalypse happens ala Terminator and we see robots start to make robots…), and certainly the human behind the robot's conception and creation must be pretty darn proud if said robot was able to perform amazing tasks. Case in point, this particular self-controlled swimming robot which actually completed a journey from San Francisco all the way to Australia, covering a record-breaking 9,000 nautical miles (that would be 16,668km just in case you were wondering), a trip that required the PacX Wave Glider to spend more than a year in water to achieve. Liquid Robotics is the US-based company behind the project, where the PacX Wave Glider's main role is to collect data concerning the Pacific Ocean’s temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone itself. The company claimed that the success with PacX Wave Glider's Herculean attempt is proof that such technology could actually "survive the high seas", in their own words. With a name like Papa Mau, this robot takes on a far more personal character, where it was so named in honour of the late Micronesian navigator Pius “Mau” Piailug, whose claim to fame was his innate ability to look out for ways to navigate through the seas without the need for traditional equipment. Liquid Robotics said, “During Papa Mau’s journey, [it] weathered gale-force storms, fended off sharks, spent more than 365 days at sea, skirted around the Great Barrier Reef, and finally battled and surfed the east Australian current to reach his final destination in Hervey Bay, near Bundaberg, Queensland.” What other record breaking feats from robots that you would like to see? Source [ Swimming robot arrives at Australia, breaks record in the process copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 07:34 am | Edwin Nokia Lumia 620 is new Windows Phone 8 for those on a tight budget Nokia has just made an announcement for a new Windows Phone 8 powered device, where they have called it the Nokia Lumia 620. This particular bad boy is definitely one that targets the market which is more budget conscious. After all, we do know that the world's economy is not in the best of shapes at this point in time, so it would make perfect sense for smartphone manufacturers to be more sensitive to the needs of those out there who work around a tight budget, juggling their (financial) responsibilities between a family, work, and leisure. Perhaps you are one who wants to give the Windows Phone 8 operating system a go, but do not want to splurge your hard earned cash on a high end Nokia Lumia 920, which is where the Nokia Lumia 620 steps in – perfectly. Nokia's Lumia 620 would be the company's third and most affordable Windows Phone device to date, and it will join its "elder" siblings in the market, which are the flagship Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820. The Nokia Lumia 620 will come with a rather compact 3.8" display, and this would certainly make it the smallest Nokia Lumia device in the market today. Specially designed to be an affordable alternative to the mid-range Lumia 820, it carries with it an estimated retail price of just $249 – prior to taxes and subsidies, of course. Just what kind of firepower (some say the lack of, I leave that up to you to judge) do you think the Lumia 620 has underneath the hood? For starters, it comes with a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera at the back, a front facing VGA camera, and 8GB of internal memory. Of course, we all know that in this day and age, 8GB is just not quite good enough, which is why there is a microSD memory card slot thrown into the mix for good measure, letting you bump up the total memory to 64GB along the way. Apart from that, it will also be accompanied by a host of all of Windows Phone 8's features alongside Nokia's extremely useful app suite which carries Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia City Lens, and Nokia Transit among others. Any takers? Press Release [ Nokia Lumia 620 is new Windows Phone 8 for those on a tight budget copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 05:00 am | Alison Get Ready for the Slopes Raise your hand if you will hit the slopes this season! Whether a weekend warrior or just a holiday skier I'm guessing you are checking the snow reports daily. But one thing that always makes me chuckle is the fact that skiing is a mega-aerobic activity. Yet we all think we can just get out there and go for it and be as good as we used to be or as the pros around us. Stop! If you intend to ski soon, you need to be getting in shape and familiarizing yourself with the 'sweet spot' – that centered balance point optimum for best performance. So get out your ski boots and get yourself a pair of SKiA Sweetspot Ski Trainers. Simply strap your boots into the trainers. Add 1 of 4 sets of balance blocks – green for beginners, blue and red for intermediates and black for experts – and get into your boots. On dry land or in the snow get into your stance. The objective is to balance. You will quickly determine if, in fact, you are properly centered.  If you can't crouch in your stance you have some muscles to train. If you can balance then step it up by switching to more narrow blocks. In addition to basic stance, SKiA helps muscle memory with steering movements too – whether by rotation or edging. Not to worry, you are not totally alone either. Every order includes trainer exercises plus additional drills to do on the slopes. A pair of the SKiA Sweetspot Ski Trainers runs $72.50 (£45, $72AUD or $92 NZD) on the SKiA website and fit adult ski boot sizes. So before you hit the slopes this year ensure that you won't be yard sale guy or gal. Get your balance in check. You will enjoy the results! [ Get Ready for the Slopes copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More Dec 06, 2012 04:00 am | Alison Ultimate Retro Table We laugh when we think about floppy disks now. Yet they were a lifesaver back in the day. And the 3.5" introduced that sweet plastic cover and metal slider thing which meant you could throw them in your backpack or wherever. Ahhh, the good ol' days. But how will future generations ever know the technologies that preceded them? Guess we need to remind them. Two Berlin-based artists want us to commemorate our computing roots. They sought inspiration for a table from our beloved 3.5″ floppy friends. Neulant van Exel design firm have launched their Floppy Table. Made from hot-rolled steel and stainless steel the unit provides a unique, sturdy and retro statement. The 28" x 18" x 26" (w d h) table contains detail we all remember like insertion arrows and a movable, metal shutter complete with a storage space inside. Each unit is laser marked with a serial number for authenticity too. This trip down memory lane will cost you $930 (before shipping). The product website gives few details but email them if interested or learn more on their Facebook page. For the right user – you know who you are – and the right home I am sure the memories will eclipse any cost. So if you miss the days of floppies there is only one coffee table for you!   Thanks: Digital Trends [ Ultimate Retro Table copyright by Coolest Gadgets ] Read More In This Issue A Friend for Any Beer Fan HOT KIDS GIFT ALERT: Electric Guitar Shirt The Aesthetician's Ultrasonic Hand Moisturizer Light Show Fountain Speakers Swimming robot arrives at Australia, breaks record in the process Nokia Lumia 620 is new Windows Phone 8 for those on a tight budget Get Ready for the Slopes Ultimate Retro Table Recent Stories $$$eriou$ Cinema Quick and Easy Kid Gift: Mattel Apptivity™

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