This cool baseball has a built-in speed tracking system. It is named the Smart Ball and can track it’s self up to speeds of 120MPH. [Read more…]

The RRoD (Red Ring of Death) is one thing that all XBox 360 owners fear will happen to their beloved console one day. When the red ring starts to flash you know your in trouble.

The RRoD can happen happen for a number of reasons which we wont go in to here as the RRoD we are talking about today is actually a coaster for putting drinks on.

The Red Ring of Death Coasters were designed for XBox owners to always remember what the RRoD is and how upsetting it can be 🙂 [Read more…]

Competition Now Closed. Winner will be announced this weekend. A new competition will be announced tomorrow (Saturday).

We are starting up a weekly competition here at gadgetvenue that will start each Friday evening with the winner chosen the following Friday. For our first giveaway we are offering a SanDisk Sansa View 16GB MP4 player* which was reviewed several months ago at the link above.

SanDisk Sansa View is a 16GB flash based MP4 player. It measures 4.29 x 1.95 x 0.41-inches and weighs 2.9 oz…

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The Car Performance Analyst is a small device about the size of a Sat Nav that allows you to monitor your cars acceleration, horsepower, torque to name a few. It comes with a 4.3 inch color touchscreen that allows you to view exactly what’s happening in your car.

The gauges on screen allow you to customise them so that you can measure and report back on your 1/4 mile run or your 0 – 60 time. All data can optionally be stored on an SD card so you can run tests at various times of the day. [Read more…]

This little pocket GPS keyring is a device that you carry on your keys and store the location of your car’s GPS co-ordinates when parked. The idea behind it is that you park your car, push a button to store the location of your car and then walk away. When it’s time to get back to your car you simply tell the device you want to go back to your car and an intelligent digital compass tells you what way to go. Of course, locating a car is just 1 way to make use of this GPS keyring. [Read more…]

The Grassy Lawn Charging Station is a charging gadget that allows you to conceal all the power supply’s and cables inside the a compartment under the grass. You then snake the cables through the grass and plug them in to your phone and lay the phone, camera or whatever else is charging just resting nice and tidily on the grass.

Although it would have been cool if this was an induction based charging unit to wirelessly charge your gadgets I still think the idea is great. [Read more…]

If you have the need to hide your notes then this reappearing ink pen will do the trick. You can write as normal on a sheet of paper and when the paper heats up the ink disappears. To get the disappearing ink to come back you simply need to cool the paper down and the message reappears in tact.

The pen uses special temperature sensitive ink that doesn’t just work the once. When you write on a sheet of paper it will always disappear and reappear depending on the temperature of the paper. [Read more…]

The HG400 is a Heads Up Display (HUD) that sits on the dashboard of your car and projects your speed and a compass on to the windscreen. The device is capable of showing either MPH or KPH units and also features a speed alert function to let you know when you are going over a pre-defined speed.

The HUD is powered by your cigarette lighter socked and the device costs $149.95. It’s a handy device to have that allows you to keep your eyes where they should be, on the road. The HG400 also has bluetooth built in allowing it to be connected to a smartphone, PC, laptop or PDA.

The HG400 is available from SkyMall.

This cool gadget is a personal ultra sound device which allows physicians to scan patients while on the run rather then booking them in to the usual specialised ultra sound suite. It is built by a company named Signostics Medical and allows patients to be diagnosed pretty much anywhere. [Read more…]

This lamp features a bright LED light that provides bright light. It is powered by both solar power and a hand crank to allow it to be used even when no sun light is available to charge it up. As well as lighting up it also serves another purpose in that it is equipped with a mobile phone charging port. [Read more…]

This new car charger allows you to charge more gadgets in your car then before. It features 2 USB ports and also splits the regular lighter socket in to 2 more sockets at 12 volts. With this device you have the ability to charge up to 4 gadgets at once.

Things you might want to charge at the same time are a couple of mobile phones and a Sat Nav for example. [Read more…]

The Mini RC Race Track is perfect for those small RC cars that became popular over the last several years. When normally using a mini RC car you end up aimlessly driving around your office desk. This race track aims to give more purpose to the madness of mini RC cars.

The mini RC track allows you to design it in many different track layouts. It comes with 19 track sections along with a checkered finish line. The track is smooth and perfect for small wheeled RC cars. [Read more…]