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Beware! We're living in Canada. Please be careful of:
UK 240v vs CA 110v
UK PAL vs CA NTSC
Size of stuff that may need to be taken in hand luggage.
Thanks!
Nick
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| chumby | |
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| Like a digital photo frame, with speakers, wifi, touchscreen, runs Linux, sweet! |
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www.chumby.com
$179.95
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| Chainmail T-shirt |  |
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| I actually got married in chain-mail... but that was on loan. It now looks like I could OWN some chain-mail fairly affordably. |
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ThinkGeek.com $99.00
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| Powerball METAL - IronPower | |
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Powerballs are wicked, and these METAL ones are smoooooooooooth.
Pricey, but OH so tempting! |
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| Forever Faithless |  |
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| That's a CD :-) |
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| USB NerdKit | |
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| Build all sorts of nerdy projects using this kit, which includes microcontroller / LCD / LED / push-button / etc. |
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www.nerdkits.com
$79.99
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| Almost any Home Automation stuff (110v!) | |
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I'm not a fan of X-10's popup ads and other aggressive marketing techniques, but there's plenty of companies APART from X-10 who make devices which use the X-10 protocol, and there's loads of other home automation stuff. There's home automation books, devices, controllers, etc. Almost anything would interest me.
Beware! Don't choose anything that's 240V-only, as Canada uses 110V! |
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£1.00
www.aartech.ca
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www.smarthome.com
£1.00
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| Barcode Scanner | |
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I'd like to do some geeky things like scan stuff we're about to throw away / run out of, to automatically add them to our shopping list. There's also other cool geeky stuff I could do like scanning a CD cover to play the CD, scan the ISBN bar-codes of all the books in our "home library", just keeping inventories of all my stuff, etc etc etc.
They've been known to give barcode scanners away FOR FREE in the US, it ought to be possible to find a fairly cheap one around. It doesn't need to be too fancy, as long as I can make it work with my own software, I'll be happy.
Barcode scanners tend to be be USB input devices these days, and powered off the USB, so it SHOULDN'T be a problem using it in either the UK or Canada. |
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$100.00
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| War On Terror - The Board Game | |
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| It's got suicide bombers, political kidnaps and intercontinental war. It's got filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties and the Axis of Evil is a spinner in the middle of the board. |
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www.waronterrortheboardgame.com
£29.95
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| 'A Very Scary Solstice' CD (+songbook if you must) | |
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You'd better watch out; you'd better go hide.
An Elder Sign is needed for this Yuletide.
Great Old Ones are coming to town.
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$26.00
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| Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum Poster | |
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| Cool. Would quite like to be able to point at this at work and say "look, that's where GSM is, and that's why you can't do gigabit data rates to mobiles" and stuff. |
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ThinkGeek.com $9.99
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| Kensington WiFi Finder | |
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| Locates wireless networks without me having to carry my laptop around! |
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ThinkGeek.com $23.99
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| Mini Zero Fog Blaster | |
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| Ickle smoke-ring gun! How cool is that?!? :-) |
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| Traser GlowRings | |
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| Radioactive tubes, in your pockets? Are they mad?!? |
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Gadgets.co.uk £10.00
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| i-Top | |
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| funky spinning-top with LED magic |
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Firebox £9.99
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| Green Laser Pointer | |
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Much brighter than red laser pointers!
Not cheap though :-/ |
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| Tux Linux Penguin Blanket | |
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| Very cute, fuzz, warm, and has a linux penguin on it - what more could you want from a blanket? |
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| DVD region-free hack for Sony DVP-CX850 | | Copy this |
| The DVD people sell only broken DVD players, which play only DVDs from your home "region". If you buy cheaper DVDs whilst abroad, you can't play them on your player. To make matters worse, they have adverts on the start of films that you're NOT ALLOWED to fast-forward through, even if you've seen it a dozen times before and hate it! How stupid is THAT?!?!? Luckily, this is a free country, and people sell little gizmo's which can fix your player. You can then pretend you're in the USA and play USA titles, and fast-forward through the waffle - exactly like any CONSUMER's DVD player would do. I'd like one of these modifications for my DVP-CX850. I'd like it to be the type where I can choose a region, NOT the ones that try to choose automatically, as recent RCA titles aren't fooled. |
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| Roomba Intelligent FloorVac | | Copy this |
| Finally, a robot that does the vacuuming, at a price that's actually affordable! Ought to be OK on 110v, but please check! |
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www.roombavac.com
$200.00
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