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As St. Valentine’s Day is coming in February, here is a special gift for you and your beloved: one romantic hot air balloon flight for two across wonderful landscapes. How does this sound? Well, for sure you got me on this one! The very unique features of such a flight is the fact that you are acutally able to see 360 degrees around you,being in the air with no plastic or glass shelves around you. What is wonderful is that these kind of trips are also available on some winter days, so there is no time for you to loose thinking about the perfect St. Valentine’s gift.

The journey usually lasts for one entire hour, but you have to be on the spot in time as for sure there will be other people willing to do the exactly same thing. On purchasing this experience you will be sent an open dated gift voucher with 10 months validity- do not know exactly what you can use this voucher on, but for sure the experience worths all the money (by the way, such a trip costs around 420 dollars). Enjoy!

The tradional British tea served at 5 o’clock sharped has very quickly became the favourite habit of millions of people all around the world, inside or outside the United Kingdom. And now let’s be honest- isn’t tea one of hte most important miracles of mankind? I thought so too! And what could be better than simple tea cup- some very delicious biscuits to go along…and a very interesting and funny cup to carry them through the house without the usual mess you do while pouring some hot tea on your brand-new carpet.

Simple and elegant, the biscuit pocket cup is actually very practical and easy to use- it makes you spare time and nerves while you try to clean the splited tea on the floor poured by mistake while in one hand you had the usual tea cup and in the other your very favourite tea biscuits. Quite charming, as an Englishman would say!

We all enjoy a delicious lunch, prepared with spice ingredients and fresh herbs that almost always are the actual salt and piper of the ffod you want to cook. There is however, each time, one minor problem- you have to use the herbs at once you buy them or, if not, they will not be kept fresh for your second attempt in the kitchen. Well, not anymore! Fortunately, there is someone thinking about all our needs and here is the latest simple, but very practicale, kitchen invention: Prepara Herb-Savor- this compact and ingenious storage device prolongs the life of your fresh herbs for up to three weeks by keeping the cut stems in water and its cover isolates your herbs from the rest of the items in your fridge. It has ample capacity but still easily fits inside a standard refrigerator door. The removable stainless steel basket keeps herbs neatly gathered together, and allows for easy washing.

For a price of aproximately 30$, you can have this device as your future best friend when trying to impress your friends over na over again with your cooking skills.

Remember the golden ages of the Super Mario games and the Nintendo Wii generation? Well, when one would say that they are part of the past, here the industry game strikes again bringing on the market an energy drink which goes perfect with some vodca and 4 ice-cubes.

The officials say that the drink will taste like “blue-raspberry” but we all can imagine that this is not really the case- for sure it will have the common, strange taste of the other energy drinks on the market just that this one seems to be more friendly and actually have a kind-of retro look.

It seems that the first zero-gravity massage chair has just been brought on the market- and this also seems not to be a joke as we all thought when reading the news for the first time! It actually has a lot of interesting features such as Human Touch robotic massage mechanism that feels like real hands-it emulates the techniques used by physical therapists and chiropractic professionals — rolling, kneading, percussion and therapeutic compression; the wired controller puts all therapies at your fingertips (including eight automatic programmed massage sessions); foot and calf massager in the footrest uses a patented technology that works your lower extremities an upward, wavelike fashion (therapeutically moving blood away from the feet and toward your body’s core).

Furthermore, as you  rotate into the zero-gravity position, the pivoting “Z” shape cradles your spine in a stress-free position; elevates your legs above your heart for improved circulation; eases tense muscles; and increases oxygen intake by expanding lung capacity. Two lumbar heat modules warm the lower back muscles, gradually reducing tightness and preparing them for a more restorative message and faster healing- in short words, the chair seems  to combines incredibly realistic and therapeutic Human Touch massage with zero-gravity ergonomics. Interested?

If you are looking for a stylish, slim camera that can be put even in your shirt pocket and still look invisible, here you got it: slightly smaller than a credit card, and just 6mm deep, the Credit Card Camera is solidly built with a protective aluminium casing. Being so slim, it does not fit a traditional battery, but instead it contains a rechargeable lithium battery that is recharged when the camera is connected to your computer’s USB port.

Even though it is so small, it is not short in features:

-Two resolutions of pictures - up to 640 x 480 VGA image

-Image compression mode for storing up to 209 image

-10 Second self timer- for taking group pictures with you included

-Continuous shooting - takes 10 pictures per second

-Built in rechargeable battery lasts up to one wee

-Automatic exposure and white balance

-PC Web Camera mode for video conferencing

As being “eco-friendly” and “green” turns out to be this year’s trend, Nokia has come with a brilliant concept that is so much awaited to hit the market. Here are the features of the gadget, taken from the official Nokia site: the concept consists of two parts – a wearable sensor unit which can sense and analyze your environment, health, and local weather conditions, and a dedicated mobile phone. The sensor unit will be worn on a wrist or neck strap made from solar cells that provide power to the sensors. NFC (near field communication) technology will relay information by touch from the sensors to the phone or to or to other devices that support NFC technology. Both the phone and the sensor unit will be as compact as possible to minimize material use, and those materials used in the design will be renewable and/or reclaimed. Technologies used inside the phone and sensor unit will also help save energy.

Another very interesting feature is that you will be able to choose which sensors you would like to have inside the sensing device, thereby customizing the device to your needs and desires (you can use a heart-rate monitor or  the  motion detector to measure your walking pace). To complete the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept, the phone and detector units will be optimized for lower energy consumption in both the manufacturing process and the it is build under the  three principles of waste reduction: reduce, reuse and recycle.

For the very spice food addicts (count me in!) and for the ones that have a little garden in the back of their house and also time to take care of their own seeds, here is something quite eccentric: grow your own chilli plants! The Chilli Kit comes with five different varieties of chilli seeds, including Tepin, the world’s hottest for the truly brave. The Herb Kit comes with basil, parsley, chives, rosemary and thyme, so you can get a proper mini kitchen herb garden going, and the Bonsai Kit too has five different varieties of Bonsai Tree seeds, all ready for you to grow a Lilliputian forest. Each kit comes with five organic coconut husk growing pots and compost discs, your seeds, wooden plant markers, and of course comprehensive growing instructions.

Sound interesting? For surely does!…Try it out and be the master in spice souces and special dishes- very good way to impress your friends at a summer barbecue.

Do you still have that jar full of coins that reminds a lot of the childhood years? If yes, and it is still full with all kind of coins here is the solution for that mess: the motorized coin-sorting machine organizes change so that you don’t have to do it manually. Simply feed in a handful of coins, press the button and there you go! The semi-automatic Money Miser sorts out your pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters and drops them directly into handy paper coin tubes. Fold the tube top and you’re ready to go and buy the world!

A very practical gift for either you or your 7 years old son that still puts money aside to buy that special baseball gloves!

Here be bring right in front of you an experience which shall be for sure, hard to forget! This fascinating half day will let you learn some of the skills required to conduct a secret agent operation. Conducted by ex-Police Force or Special Forces experts, you will receive instruction on both weapon handling and non-armed combat techniques, as well as how to use specialist spy equipment such as bugs and covert cameras, all essential training for when you are face to face with enemy agents. The experience is set to start at 10am or 2pm, and will last for three hours, during which you will learn how to use a pistol, a machine gun, and a sniper rifle, then try your hand at axe-throwing and bomb de-activation.

Moreover, it will be also shown to you how to use specialist spy equipment such as covert cameras, UHF radios, bugs and listening devices and lock-picking gadgets, as well as receiving expert instruction on unarmed combat techniques and contact drills using a laser combat system. On the end of the day, you will receive an open dated voucher valid for ten months. The experience is suitable for anyone above 17 years and you should know that all the needed equipment will be provided to you. All it remains is to have fun and enjoy this one-of-a-kind experience!

Want to experience a day in a music studio with one famous songs producers nearby, showing all  the new tricks and teaching you a lot of tips for your future musical career? Or are simply curious to enter the music producing universe? Here is the chance if you are somewhere near London. There is these days a special offer which allows you to spend the day in a London Recording Studio making your very own record alongside top UK producer/re-mixer Julian Napolitano from the “Soulseekerz”. Moreover, if you have your own idea of a track that you would like to make, you can actually bring a record with you that sounds like the kind of thing that you would like to do. Maybe you’ve got an all time favourite dance tune and have always dreamt of making one like it, so now you can bring your dreams to reality.

The general shedule is like this: you should arrive at the studio at 10am and by 4pm that same day you will be leaving with 5 copies of your very own track, a free sample CD worth £250.00 full of musical ideas (effects like bass lines, drums) that you can use on your next track if you have in plan to go further on with the music.

If you are one of those excited sports fans or movie entuziasts, here is the new best thing for you: there is a new range of framed limited edition Film Cell and Sports Cell presentations available on the market.Each presentation bears a metal nameplate engraved with the title of the film or sport event, and shows the limited edition number. Perspex covers the front and back to enable the cells to be visible from all angles. Each framed presentation also comes with a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the the authenticity of the cells.

Besides being very limited in number, the presentations feature hand selected strips or single cells of original 35mm film, mounted with a photo of the star or a scene from the film. For the sports cell, each comes complete with hand picked 35mm cells, 6in x 4in images of the sports personality or team. A very exclusive aquisition that suits perfectly a game room or a home cinema.

If you are a heavy-sleeper, mostly at morning times when you have to get very early at the office, this shall be the best gift for you: a clock that sounds very loud at the set time, and, most important: it starts flying into the room making a mosquito sound and it does not stop until you wake up and turn it off- now that’s an exciting way to wake up each morning, isn’t it?

If, by mistake, you leave or window open, it could even fly out of your house, go into the neighboor’s yard and scaring the poor dog off! Or, following another plot, if you really do not hear it and it goes out of battery, it can easily land on you (maybe even on your head!), harming you or leaving you unconscious! However, this would be the worst scenary out there- the device is actually very funny and it even won a technology design award for its innovation and flair.

This is besides a funny gadget, also an educative one: a portable solar system which can be easily attached to your ceiling bringing a retro atmosfere and soft colors into your room. It can be fixed with a kit that comes in the package and moreover, it is battery powered so there is no use for cables and complications.

The sun is in the center, as expected, surrounded by all nine planets gracefully orbiting around it. Simply switch on, lie back and listen as the accompanying audio CD takes you on a fantastic journey around the solar system. The set comes complete with a remote control which also has a cool built-in light pointer which can project meteors and comets onto your ceiling. The device is for sure educational and also very relaxing, so there is nodoubt that anyone sitting in the bed, watching it, no matter the age, will easily fall to sleep in a few minutes on the charming ambient sounds.

Yes, it is posible- for the moment this is just a concept, but for sure in the near future we will see it available on the market. Researchers have compe up with an idea to make your mobilephone function as a mouse whenever you do not make or receive a call, naturally. This software relies on Bluetooth technology to keep it going, and enables the cell phone to interact with public displays. For example, users can obtain product information or purchase tickets simply by using the camera. Unfortunately, this idea still requires a great deal of work before it is ready for a commercial release since the image capture and image processing rate on the cell phone is rather slow, and you have to deal the with the lag.

So, in short time we shall have the option to buy a cellphone with so many features: making calls, taking pictures, filming, bluetooth and now even function as a mouse! Where will technology lead us in 10 years from now?…