How Can I Practice Table Tennis's Spins Without My Wife? Hmm, Now I Can!

IPONG works similar to a tennis ball machine and through a steady stream of balls for practice in your desired direction on the table. It also has the ability to provide Underspin, Topspin and a challenging Heavy Topspin but no side-spin. This automated trainer can hold up to 110 balls and using an adjustable speed dial through them out at any rate from 12 to 70 per minute. It comes with AC adapter with 4 1/2' cord. Balls not included. 19" H x 11" Diam (10 lbs.) It is available at http://www.hammacher.com

Finally Someone Is Here To Collect LEGO Bricks From Floor - Pickup Robot

This robot picks up objects from the floor and when it reverse, it beeps. It is a remote control robot but it can be run in autonomous mode under which it utilizes it's four infrared eyes to locate objects between eight to twelve feet range. While working it says sentences like "Let's get to work!". Once the object is located it places in the back cargo bay. The robot also says "too heavy for me" upon encountering a heavy object. One of it's application that I came across is to lift LEGO bricks off the floor when the kids are done playing. It has six rubber wheels which provides grip over fine floors and smooth surfaces. Sturdy ABS construction. This robot requires six AA batteries and three AAA batteries.

Self Watering Planter - Fill Up The Reservoir Once Every 8 Weeks

Yes! TriPot I from http://greenamic.com let you have up-to 8 weeks of worry free plant water care. With embedded sensor technology helps keep soil well-balanced moist and never too soggy nor too dry. It comes in different colors and stylish eye-catching tripod design. The manufacturer has labelled it Maintenance-free and eliminate over-watering as well as under-watering situations. It has a price tag of about 40 USD.

Looxcie Wearable Camcoder - Gives You 3rd Stealth Recordable Eye & Ear

With a price tag of around 200 USD Looxcie camcorder plugs into and around your ear just like a blue-tooth headset for cell phones. Most people if they see you wearing this will presume as if you are using one of those bluetooth headset. Looxcie is also blue-tooth enabled and let you stream video to your cell-phone for recording and quick sharing online. This information is brought to you via http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-09-20-n84.html.

Cotton Candy Maker For Around 25 USD - Countertop-Sized With Old Fashioned Carnival Style

This Cotton Candy Maker has a price tag of 25 USD. Ideal for home use because of small size that can easily be placed on countertops. It comes with cone holder, 2 plastic cones, 1 packet cotton candy mix.

Kwikset Lock Kill - Permanently Destroys A Standard Kwikset Lock

Sometimes landlords have to change the lock especially after one tenant moves out. It is safer to have the older looker permanently disabled using this patent pending Kwikset Lock Kill. This product is strictly meant for the use of locksmiths and property managers but what about if some crazy people will use it for imparting pain on others. This product has a price tag of about 20 USD at URL.

The Video Boroscope - Take Your Eyes To Places Where You Cannot Fit Your Head

This is the boroscope is having 32 MB of built-in memory where images are saved as JPEGs and videos as AVIs. It comes with a a flexible 36"-long gooseneck camera which can take your eyes to hard-to-reach places. Display is 2 1/2" color LCD at 320 x 240 pixel resolution. Two white LEDs at the tip illuminate subjects and the camera tip can submerge in water 10' deep. The Video Boroscope has USB port and video-out port for connecting to a computer or television direclty. This device supports Windows 7, Vista, and XP and it requires four AA batteries. It is available at URL with a price tag of around 250 USD.

Security Straps For Deadbolt Locks - Add Another Protection Layer To Your Door's Deadbolt Lock

This is a strap made with industrial-strength nylon and having Velcro® termination. All you have to is to wrap it around your deadbolt lock in a direction that it could not be rotated from outside with a key or lockpick. It is flexible and easily stretches to fit nearly every standard deadbolt. This is available at URL for around 14 USD.

From PATA/IDE To SATA I To SATA III, So What Is Next - Faster Throughput, Smaller Interface, Lower $

The ever increasing data transfer rate in Hard Disk Drives (HDD) is astonishing. When I opened my eyes in IT field it was PATA a.k.a. IDE HDD which provided throughput upto 8 Mb/s followed by Enhanced IDE or EIDE which took the throughput to 16 Mb/s. When SATA a.k.a. SATA I HDD was introduced, it was a big jump. Not only it provided the throughput upto 1.5 Gb/s (or 1500 Mb/s) but the size of the interface/connector got reduced by almost 70 percent. With the introduction of SATA II later, the throughput got doubled i.e. 3Gb/s. Now with SATA III, the throughput got doubled again i.e. 6Gb/s. For sure I can imagine 12Gb/s throughput right around the corner. I came across this Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB with SATA III interface for 89.99 USD today on URL. Three years ago, I purchased 1TB HDD for 250 USD. It was SATA II. Now you can buy SATA II 1 TB (terabyte) HDD for around 50 USD from tigerdirect store: http://www.tigerdirect.com. As far as reduction in size of interface is concern, I do not see it happening in the near future but the time it gets reduced further for sure it will not be called SATA, I think. You can read more about SATA @ URL including but not limited to pin-layout, eSATA a.k.a External SATA used for external SATA HDD enclosure, power supply attachment interface etc.

3ware PCI Express 4 SATA II RAID Controller Card With Hot Swap, Hot Spare, SMTP - A RAID Genie

This 3ware 9650SE-4LPML RAID controller card is excellent for small and medium scale business. The SATA II interface provides up to 3 Gb/s of transfer speed. Remember SATA I is upto 1.5 Gb/s. Some of the best qualities of a RAID controller card is hot swap, hot spare and SMTP based email notification. This card all these qualities. It tested and certified for Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux, 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD operating systems. It has on board RAM as cache memory of 256 MB DDR2 533. It supports RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, Single Disk, JBOD. This is a true hardware RAID controller card as it's having on-board I/O RISC processor. It's like a small dedicated computer on your PCI Express slot for RAID operation. RAID quality can be achieved either via pure software (puts all burden on motherboard processor) or via firmware solution (puts comparively less burden on motherboard processor) or via pure harware solution (puts comparatively least amount of burden on motherboard processor). That is why pure hardware RAID controller cards are again comparatively the most expensive one. For example this card (3ware 9650SE-4LPML) has a price tag of 329 USD.

Rosewill Silicon Image RC-209-EX PCI 2 External E-SATA And 4 Internal SATA Controller

This RAID controller PCI card from Rosewill comes with 2 external e-SATA and 4 internal SATA interfaces. It is tested and certified to support Windows 98SE/ ME/ NT 4.0/ 2000/ XP/Vista/ Win7 32/64 bit but works on different flavors of Linux servers as well. Supports RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), RAID5 (Parity RAID), RAID 0+1 (mirroring + striping) and Concatenation modes. The RAID IC chip used on the board is from Silicon Image (URL). It's having a price mark of around $15 USD (as of today). This card is not having any SMTP notification mechanism. It does not have hot spare and hot swappable capabilities either but in 19 USD you can convert any PC into a excellent storage/backup/media network server by hooking 6, 1 TB of HDD or 4, 1 TB SATA HDD internally. The SATA ports support 1.5 G transfer rate.

Rosewill RC-201 PCI SATA X2 Silicon Image, RAID 0/1/JBOD - Cheap But Effective

This RAID controller is from Rosewill and it's low profile controller with a price mark of around 12 USD (as of today). It supports RAID 0/1 JBOD with two internal SATA interfaces provides 1.5Gb/s of transfer rate. This controller comes with two special shielded and durable SATA1 connectors pre-tested for plugging more than 1,000 times. It is tested and certified to support Windows 98SE/ ME/ NT 4.0/ 2000/ XP/Vista/ Win7 32/64 bit but works on different flavors of Linux servers as well.

ABS MegaCam 4220 A Network Camera With Motion Sensor And LEDs To See In Dark

Webcams is quite a mature technology and ABS has decided to jump in for innovation. This ordinary looking webcam can be used for regular use but it has to offer killing features. This camera comes with features such as infrared LEDs to make it able to see in the dark, two-way audio (external speaker required), the ability to scan and pan, and intelligent motion detection. To monitor up to sixteen cameras a free software package has been included. So it is a fair alternative for an expensive security system. It can be used with CAT 5 OR CAT 6 cable or wireless plus it can be hosted on the net which gives you remote monitoring. It is best deal in this camera culture that offers you to save a lot of bucks.

TRENDnet Has Released The Latest 450Mbps Wireless-N Router That Is Huge Improvement On The Previous

Wireless-N routers are getting popular on a good pace; these routers provide speed increase over previous wireless standards given you own a proper adapter. TRENDnet has released the latest 450Mbps Wireless-N Router. It has been quite attractive for a network shared by many users due to it's raw power. This router costs more than average. A lot of manufacturers have wireless N routers line, but just a few of them reach the 450Mbps mark. The three antennas on it give the router three spatial streams at a channel width of 40 MHz. It is expected to see a throughput of 200Mbps as the theoretical speed is quite difficult to obtain. Compared to the 54Mbps (theoretical max) that Wireless G routers offer, this is a huge improvement. So wires will be a past now due to this technology.

Creative Labs Introduced Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB External Sound Card For Better Sound

Creative Labs has been a big name in the audio industry and they have introduced a USB sound card to boost the audio performance of laptop. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB sound card has been designed to enhance laptop's music, movie, and gaming experience at a very reasonable price. It is an easy upgrade from the integrated sound card. The card's audio processor with Creative's CMSS-3D technology remixes your stereo audio into surround sound. EAX Advanced HD enhances game audio tracks, providing a more immersive experience. The Creative Xtreme Fidelity audio technology restores the detail and clarity to your music and movies lost during compression, making all your music and movies sound better! Simply pop this card into a vacant USB port in your laptop and you'll have speaker and headphone connections for stereo to 5.1-channel surround sound