Flip Digital Video Camera

If your normal home movies are about as badly put together as Pete Doherty’s tailoring, what you need is the world’s simplest and easiest camcorder. Trying to catch those beautiful one-off moments without the fuss and bother – and cost – of a heavy-duty model used to mean trading in quality footage for convenience. No longer, traveller. 

Enter the bad boys of mobile movie making: the Flip camera range. They’re a pair of easy-peasy digital video cameras that have already taken America by storm. Their trick is to be like Herman Munster: simple, sturdy, and with a heart of gold. TheFlip Ultra II and Flip Mino cameras are both so simple to use that anyone from 5 to 105 can be a miniature director: press the large button that says ‘on’, press the button that says ‘start’ and hocus pocus – you’re the cul-de-sac’s very own Stanley Kubrick all of a sudden. 


Whether you’re shooting your dog dressed up like Yoda for a Star Wars re-enactment or simply your pal Dave falling off a fence in a priceless You’ve Been Framed moment, you’ll be amazed at how well both the Flip Ultra II and Flip Mino stand up to the scrutiny of critics. The Mino comes with 2GB of memory on board, which is enough for 60 minutes of filming at a crisp 640 x 480 pixels in MPG4 format. There’s no need to worry about the palaver of focusing – it’s automatic, and with a 2x zoom available you’ll be able to dispense with your Gaffer, Best Boy and all the rest of the crew. 

Digital Photo Frame

The latest in a long line of near-unpronounceable products, the Qudo Digital Photo Album is about as close to a work of art as a gadget can get. Of course, this being a digital photo frame, it's sort-of up to you to turn it into a masterpiece with your scintillating snaps, but this is still a beautiful specimen. It's easy to use as well - simply upload your photos (there's a hefty old 2GB capacity - expandable up to 16GB if you use an SD card) and let the 8-inch screen cycle through all those superb shots you've taken.

Speaking of hefty, the 800 x 600 resolution on the screen is more than detailed enough for you to see every little detail of your pictures. If you then decide that one of your snaps really does need to be given pride of place and printed out (a photo you can hold? How quaint!), then there's a simple function that allows you to connect directly to a printer via USB cable, so you don't have to faff around waiting for your computer to load up. You'll only get distracted by Solitaire anyway.

The controls are simple and intuitive. You can zoom in or out of your photos, view them as a slide show and navigate your way through different albums you've created. Holding up to 20,000 of your finest snaps (with an SD card), you won't be short of space to store your pictures. The Qudo is perfectly portable, too, and has a rather tactile rubbery casing to make it even more attractive. Top it all off with a deliciously swanky leather case as well. Take your pictures, then take them wherever you like.

Size:-

• H: 3 W: 16 D: 23 cm.

Magic Wand Remote

Harry Potter might be a dab hand at casting spells but we’ve yet to see him use his wand to switch off Holby City, series link EastEnders or mute Jeremy Kyle mid-rant. And that’s because the annoying little brat has only got a wand, not the Wand. 


Utterly astounding, this beautifully crafted gizmo looks like the kind of thing you might find in Diagon Alley. The difference is you use it to control your telly, Sky, digibox, stereo or any other infra-red device via various abracadabra-ish gestures. Simply swish, whirl and flick to change channels, adjust volume and much more. Incredible! What Katie and Peter Did Next? *ZAP!* Who cares? Your swish really is its command.


Totally button-free, the Wand can ‘learn’ up to 13 infrared codes from your existing remote(s) and fling them into the ether when you perform one of 13 predefined gestures. It’s a kind of magic. Okay, it isn’t but making Vernon Kay vanish has never been such fun. Silencio Imbecilicus!

You can  assign various functions to various moves: flicks to turn on and off; spins to control volume; big swishes to mute and so on. You’ll be flicking just for the fun of it. Better still, rival wizards will be unable to mess with the telly or digibox unless you show them your moves. Hocus flippin’ pocus! 

Features/functionality:

• 1 - Rotate anticlockwise (typically used for “volume down” function)
• 2 - Rotate clockwise (typically used for “volume up” function)
• 3 - Flick upwards
• 4 - Flick downwards
• 5 - Flick left
• 6 - Flick right
• 7 - Tap on top
• 8 - Tap on side
• 9 - Big swish
• 10 - Push forward
• 11 - Pull back
• 12 - Double tap top
• 13 - Double tap side

Mobile Cinema DVD Projector

Having a cinema in your house is quite the norm if you bathe in champagne, dry yourself with billion pound notes and keep a fleet of gold-plated Lear jets behind your volcano casino. But at the risk of sounding presumptuous, you don’t, do you? That’s why you need the Mobile Cinema DVD Projector.

Designed with the f word in mind (that’s fun, potty mouth), this idiot-proof LED projector features an integrated DVD player and built-in stereo speakers. Simply plug it in, bung in a disc and gawp in wonder as it beams a quality image (up to 50”) on the wall. Papa-papa-papa-papa – yeah!

Ideal for kids’ bedrooms, family get-togethers and movie night parties, the robust MCDVDP (catchy, eh?) uses clever LED technology, so power consumption is low and lamp life is long. And because it’s portable you can move it between rooms with ease. ‘Ratatouille is now showing in Cinema 4 (aka my bedroom).’ Proper numpties can even plug in a microphone for big screen karaoke sessions. 

Product Features:

• Portable projector with integrated DVD player and stereo speakers for enjoying movie in 127cm (50") diagonal picture size
• Great low cost cinema entertainment system
• Robust and light weight; easy to store and portable
• Karaoke player with external microphone jack for singing along favourite songs (microphone not included)
• Simply and easy to use
• LED technology allows longer lamp life (more than 10,000 hours) and lower power consumption

3D HD Camcorder

Do your movies and photos feel a little flat? Lacking in visual oomph? Then prepare to step into a whole new dimension with the jaw-droppingly, eye-poppingly impressive Aiptek 3D HD Camcorder. 

This amazing compact camera utilises two lenses and two sensors to capture stunning high definition (1280x720) 3D video and stills. But you won’t need special glasses to view your handiwork on the fly because the Aiptek’s on-board 2.4” display boasts a built-in 3D filter. Impressive? You’ll be poking its screen to make sure the third dimension is just an illusion.

Product Features:

• SD Card Slot
• Records in 2D or 3D
• Takes still photos
• 3D LCD Screen to view 3D film playback
• Includes: Arcsoft TotalMedia HDCam software
• Easy upload to Facebook and YouTube. (Note: Facebook does not currently support 3D files, but you can upload the red/cyan files to view with red/cyan glasses).

Panoramic 360 Camera

Just when you thought a simple photograph could no longer blow you away, along comes the Panoramic 360° Camera to put a whole new perspective on things – literally. Because despite utilising 35mm film and a manual rubber band drive, this jaw-droppingly unique camera captures truly panoramic shots of the world around you.

Simply grab the handle, tug the ripcord and gawp as the idiot-proof Lomo spins on its own axis, snapping everything it sees for one breathtaking, super-wide, all-encompassing shot that’s four times longer than a standard landscape snap. It’s like having eyes in the back of your head. And the front and the sides.

Features:
* Uses standard 35mm film that can be processed anywhere  
* Shutter Speed: Relative shutter speed equivalent 1/125s ~ 1/250s , slow speed manually  
* Aperture: f/8, f/16  
* Lens: 25mm; Fixed Focus: 1m ~ inf  
* Creates up to 8 full 360° panoramas on a 36-exposure film  
* Rubber band drive + fully manual controls (no batteries required!)  
* Manual long exposures  
* Sunny/cloudy aperture settings  
* Standard Tripod mount

WiFi Bathroom Scales

Back in the bad old days, people would weigh themselves using clonkity contraptions counter-balanced by boulders, pebbles and stegosaurus eggs. Okay, they didn’t, but we’ve been too busy playing with this revolutionary set of WiFi Bathroom Scales to research the history of weighing machines.

Ultra sleek, this tempered-glass and aluminium gizmo automatically records your weight, fat mass and BMI (body mass index) every time you step on it. But here’s the clever bit: it beams the info to your computer or iPhone over your WiFi connection, so you can track your results wherever you may roam via a password protected website or free iPhone app. You can even sync with Google Health and share your progress (or lack of) via email, Twitter or Facebook. Weigh-hay!

Battery Requirements:

• 4x 1.5V batteries (AAA) – included

Connectivity:

• Wireless 802.11g
• Very low power consumption
• WEP/WPA/WPA2-personal security

Wallets

Wallets have traditionally been designed to hold cash, not cards. Thing is, cash is fast becoming yesterday’s currency, a fact most wallet makers seem keen to ignore. For this reason we’ve been on the lookout for a pocket-sized receptacle that will protect flexible friends as well as wonga, whilst exuding a dash of 21st century style. Step forward the gorgeously sleekOgon RFID Wallet. 

This revolutionary wallet is encased in light but über sturdy protective aluminium to prevent cards from bending, snapping and cracking. And get this: its special casing shields cards from RFID scanners and demagnetisation (which can strip out data). This means you won’t fall victim to tech-savvy fraudsters or Wile E. Coyote-style cartoon characters armed with comedy u-shaped magnets. You can laugh but scoundrels are already nicking card details by the bucketload using portable scanners. 

Features:

• Aluminium shell, resin core with tear proof PVC pockets
• Includes 7 expandable pockets made of resistant PVC to fit up to 10 cards
• Excellent protection of the data chips from electro-magnetic radiations
• Certified as providing radio frequency identification protection
• Water-resistant material
• Click-button for easy closing and opening
• Packaged in a black gift box

Photo and Negative Scanners

If you’re out of short pants your shelves are probably heaving with old photos, slides and negatives. Yes, you could get a specialist company to digitise them, but do you really want some snooping lab geek to know you wore a Right Said Fred T-shirt to the sixth form ball? Course not. That’s why you need one of our idiot-proof Photo and Negative Scanners. 

These one-touch 5.1MP scanners make digitising precious images a doddle. Simply slip in your photos, negatives or slides and clever electronic tomfoolery will scan and pixellate the trapped images in seconds, leaving you to archive them, burn them to CD, upload them to Facebook or blow them up to cringe at your appalling lack of dress sense. 

PICS 2 PC

• Works with 35mm negatives, 35mm slides, and 3x5, 4x6, and 5x7-inch pictures
• Comes with easy image transfer and editing software
• High-resolution 5.1 MP scanner with up to 3600 DPI
• Fast, one-touch scanning takes just one to two seconds

System Requirements:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) or Windows 7
• Not Mac compatible

Instant Photo Printer

You've probably got oodles of photos trapped inside your mobile phone and digital camera. But how do you print them off when you're out and about? No, you don't cart around a computer, a tech-nerd and a bulky printer. You don't even dust off your raincoat and head to the nearest photo lab. You use the revolutionary PoGo Instant Photo Printer. 

Brimming with breakthrough technology, this ultra-sleek inkless portable printer is brought to you by Polaroid, legendary purveyors of instant piccies, and it's just as idiot-proof as the photo-spewing cameras you played with back in the day. All you do is send your pics to the PoGo wirelessly via Bluetooth (mobile phone) or with a USB lead (PictBridge-friendly camera) and watch in awe as this smart gizmo churns out a quality image on a 2"x3" slice of sticky-back photo paper in under 60 seconds. In a word, wow! You can then peel off the backing and stick your pics wherever you fancy. 

Unlike old-style instant photos you won't have to shake your pics dry because the PoGo uses miraculous heat-activated Zink paper, no ink cartridges required. It's like magic minus the abracadabras and arched eyebrows. What's more the prints are smudge-proof, water-resistant, fade-resistant and tear-proof. Print off that hilarious photo of your over-refreshed colleague asleep on the photocopier with his pants pulled down and stick it on the boss's door and it'll be there for ages.

Powered by a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery or directly via the mains, the PoGo holds 10 sheets of Zink paper at a time - more than enough for a night of sticky piccy fun. And with additional paper packs available right here at Firebox you can re-load, juice-up and indulge in instant print-offs whenever you want: parties, business trips, festivals, holidays, debauched nights out - you name it.

We never thought we'd say this about a printer but the PoGo is one of the most entertaining, not to mention practical, peripherals you'll ever shove in your pocket. Think of it as a hi-tech facilitator of instant photography for the digital age. Failing that, think of it as a nifty little doodah that allows you to stick compromising photos on a sozzled pal's forehead in a flash. Say cheese! 

Please Note:

Holds 10 sheets of Zink paper

This product currently doesn't work with iPhone or LG Viewty

The Zink paper comes with a expiration date, however the performance does not decline rapidly after this date. We have heard from the manufacture these will be good to use for over 24 months from 'expiry'.

Dimensions:

PoGo approximately 7.2cm(W) x 12cm(D) x 2.4cm(H)

Zink photo paper approximately 7.6cm(W) x 5cm(H)

Contents:

1 x PoGo Portable Printer

10 x sheets of Zink paper

1 x Li Polymer rechargeable battery 7.4V, 450mAh

1 x Mains Charger

1 x User Manual

Battery Requirements:

7.2V rechargable battery included

Battery is replaceable

Full charge prints approximately 15 images

9V AC Adapter included

Connectivity:

Bluetooth (class 2) OPP

USB 2.0 (full speed= 12 MBPS)

USB A connector (USB cable not included)

Print Speed:

Approximately 60 seconds per image (20 seconds to transmit, 40 seconds to print)

About Zink Photo Paper:

Full bleed, borderless image

Inkless printing embeds colour into the paper

Prints dry-to-touch, water-resistant, tear-proof and smudge-proof

Peel off, sticky-backed

Automatic image quality optimisation

Each sheet measures 2 x 3 inchs

Indoor Fireworks Projector

Aren’t fireworks fab? All that phwooshing, crackling, sparkling magic is enough to make the most miserable cynic open their gob in childlike wonder. Trouble is pulling off a decent display calls for a few thousand quid’s worth of fireworks, a night sky and a big field. At least it did, because the Sega Indoors Fireworks Projector lets you enjoy full-on displays without leaving home.

Resembling a small planetarium, this jaw-droppingly entertaining gizmo beams realistic virtual firework displays across walls and ceilings. It even blasts out suitably explosive sound effects. The only thing missing is the heady aroma of gunpowder mixed with boiled hot dogs. Impressed? You should be because the Sega is the world’s first indoor firework projector, and unless you fancy flying to Japan the only place to get it is right here at Firebox.

Battery-powered, the Sega utilises six lenses, internal speakers and nine interchangeable image discs to replicate various awe-inspiring displays. All you do is select a mode, insert a disc and turn off the lights. Hook up to external speakers and we’re talking Beijing Olympics standard here, folks. We’ll even throw in three bonus discs containing messages such as ‘I love you’ and ‘Happy Birthday’.

Projection Time Modes:

• Choose from 4 Projection Time Levels: 1 min / 2 min / 4 min / 10 min

Batteries:

• Battery powered (4 x AA alkaline batteries, not included)
• Approx. 3 hours continuous use based on 1 fresh set of batteries
• WARNING! Do not use Oxy Nickel Hydroxide or rechargeable batteries (Nickel Cadmium) under any 

Pet's Eye View Camera

When you’re sitting at work, we all reckon that the dog has a better life. Until now, there’s been no way to find out if this is actually true, or just the ramblings of stress. Does your canine pal spend the day napping on your armchair, or is he firing up the Xbox and slaying space marines, drinking your beers and calling in rabbit pizzas? OK, so the last bit is probably the stress talking. But don’t you want to know for sure? The Pet’s Eye View Camera is how you find out.

The internal memory can store up to 40 snaps, so you’ll have a whole album’s worth of memories to share with your friends. Although you might want to edit out the less hygienic ones for public consumption. Best of all, the shots blow up to 6” by 4”, perfect for framing and putting on the mantelpiece. Or even turning into Christmas cards for your family, just as long as your family love the sight of an upturned bin and a dog’s tongue scooping out the last flecks of custard from the packet.

Features:

• Auto-interval settings to take photos every 1, 5 or 15 minutes
• Internal memory stores up to 40 photos
• 640 x 480 resolution for 4" x 6" prints
• PC and Mac compatible
• Includes rechargeable Lithium-ion 100 mAh battery.

Henry Desktop Vacuum

Aw, Henry! It's not often you develop an emotional attachment to a vacuum cleaner. Hi-tech cyclonic jobs are too flashy, upright push-alongs are too old-fashioned, and those stupid contraptions councils use to blow litter everywhere are plain useless. Henry, on the other hand, is utterly lovable. And that's why you'll adore this mini desktop version.


Just like its smiley sibling, the Henry Desktop Vacuum is as much cartoon character as it is household appliance. In fact this fully-licensed sucker is so cute he'll appeal to captains of industry as well as all you geeks with fluff-flecked keyboards. (At least we think he will).


Dimensions:

• Henry measures approximately: 10cm (H) x 9.5cm (W) x 10cm (D)
• Henry's nozzle is approximately 35cm long