Puchi Puchi – the sound of bubbles popping

The Japanese have come up with yet another invention you didn’t know you needed until you heard about it: Puchi Puchi – the everlasting bubble wrap simulator.

Everyone loves popping bubble wrap and it’s a great way to relieve stress and tension, but the problem with it is that it runs out, and there’s not always a sheet to hand when you need it. But if you have a Puchi Puchi on your keyring or in your pocket, you can pop away to your heart’s content, safe in the knowledge it’ll never run out!

Why ‘Puchi Puchi’? Well, according to Japanese people, that’s the sound that bubbles make when they pop! Puchi Puchi feels just like the real thing and is tactile and satisfying to handle and pop. Each time you press one of the ‘bubbles’ it makes a realistic popping noise, but at random intervals this is replaced by a surprising and cute sound! There’s no need to be stressed out or tense when you’ve got your Puchi Puchi everlasting bubble wrap handy, simply pop away to relieve the tension!

Already a huge sales success in the Far East, Puchi Puchi looks set to be the next big craze over here too!

Watch Puchi Puchi in action!

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Lighting up the Dark Knight!

As many of you no doubt know, this year the caped crusader returns in the new movie titled: The Dark Knight. To help bring a little light to the darkness will be Thumbs Up’s new Batman light-up t-shirts.
The traditional Batman logo which has been a classic piece of iconography ever since the first movie is making a comeback in electro-luminescent form.

Featuring heavily in this new movie will be Batman’s arch-nemesis – The Joker. For those of you who are going to be rooting for the bad guy – because, let’s face it, he’s more fun than grim old Batman, there’s also a light-up Joker t-shirt that’ll be just the thing to show who you support.

These high-quality shirts are made from 100% cotton and contain a small battery pack that powers a flexible panel on the front of the shirt to give amazing effects, ranging from a gentle glow to a pulsing strobe. Great for night time parties, clubbing or to just attract some attention!

Officially licensed from Warner Brothers to celebrate the launch of what’s set to be one of 2008’s biggest movies, these new light-up t-shirts are a great new twist on a classic design.

Falcon MVIX called a ‘Streaming Dream’

Early reports on the Falcon MVIX from the UK audio-visual media have been extremely positive. Expect to see some more detailed reviews soon.

Stuff TV called it ‘a streaming dream’.

What HiFi were impressed with how it bridged the gap between TV and PC.

Falcon MVIX Media Centre

Have you got a really big, flashy new TV but find it’s going to waste as most of what you watch these days is downloaded, so you’re sitting in front of your computer to watch it, or struggling to get a decent picture outputted from a laptop? If so, then this could be the answer to your problems.

The Falcon MVIX brings all of your digital media files and content to anywhere in your home via WiFi and is also compatible with peer-to-peer file sharing networks – which you should, of course, only use legally, okay? Got that?

Able to stream video over a WiFi network in High Definition, it’s a giant leap forwards in terms of making downloaded content or digital files even more accessible, as it works with pretty much any media file or video format.

The MVIX supports all commonly used media formats, and virtually all of the more specialised ones too. And what’s more, you can use it to display your photos as a slideshow whilst playing music too. It does all this all from an internal hard drive, an external USB drive or it can stream from any computer on your network. It’s the ideal solution for storing or backing up absolutely all of your software, images, music, films or documents.

Compatible with all major computer platforms, including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, the MVIX is firstly a drive enclosure, so that you can add your own IDE or SATA hard drive and use it to store your media files. It also connects to your home network either via Ethernet or WiFi to share and stream content. And it’s actually a media player itself too, which can connect to TVs or digital projectors via composite, component, S-Video or DVI with a crisp, clear picture quality. The MVIX also benefits from an HDMI port so that you can attach it to an HDTV to ensure the highest quality transfer possible.

All in all, the MVIX is the ideal way to make the way you store files compatible with the best ways of viewing them.

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