Although the World Cup has successfully had us clamouring for High Definition, HD TV sets are still out of reach to many due to their high price tags. And that's before you even think of paying for any HD content to watch on one.

Medion has therefore done what some manufacturer was inevitably going to do sooner or later - offer an ultra-cheap solution. For a mere £600 you can pick up this MD20099, a 32" LCD HD-Ready set with a resolution of 1366 x 768.

You may not have heard of ASCI Red but for nearly nine years it was one of the world's fastest supercomputers and the first one to break the Teraflop barrier (one trillion operations per second) back in December 1996. At its peak it was running at 3.1 terraflops but now it has been retired from duty at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratory in Albuquerque New Mexico.

Built by Intel and running 10,000 processors it wasn't much to look at, just a row of anonymous grey cabinets but did the job it was designed for -- running mind-bogglingly complicated calculations and simulations and it proved to be very reliable.

The Windows Registry, that vast collection of System files that controls almost every aspect of Windows and the programs running on a PC crops up regularly in tips and solutions at Propellerhead, but have you ever wondered what it looks like, and what it gets up to? Wonder no longer, a little freeware utility called Regmon shows you exactly what is going on, in real time. It's actually a powerful diagnostic tool for engineers and expert users but even if you don't know or care about what makes the Registry tick it is still fascinating to watch.

Who said there's nothing cool about a USB drive? Very likely me - but I take it all back after seeing the limited edition Ginchy series of USB drives, designed by Lili Chin for Mimico.

Yes, they're rather cool 50s throwback rockabilly types, available as three characters - Ramona, Betty and Link (pictured), who lists his interests as "hot rods, guitars, tiki drinks, the beach, pin-ups and poetry". And - from what we can see - cigarettes and Brylcreem.

Remember ROK? We featured the company earlier this week  after it extended handset coverage of its mobile TV service for GPRS/EDGE mobiles. Well, apart from streaming TV, they've also been producing standalone full-screen TV shows and movies for phones  - the latest of which is the Austin Powers International Man of Mystery movie.

The titles are available on copy-protected memory cards, almost like DVDs for your phone - just insert the card to a suitable phone or PDA, and you can any of more than 100 titles, including BBC classic comedies such as Little Britain and The Office as well as SpongeBob Squarepants and South Park and other movies such as Shawshank Redemption.

If you're sick of all the rumour and hearsay surrounding Sony's much-awaited console, Games Digest reports that Sony has now launched its first official PlayStation 3 website, which you can find here.

You can get a first glimpse of some of the games due for the next generation machine and find out more about the console's high definition capabilities. It's also pretty useful for sorting out fact from fiction - with details of the console set in stone for all to see.

Still, I'm sure there'll be many more twists and turns before the November 17th release date - and if there are, you'll hear about them first over at Games Digest.

Ever fancied yourself thrusting a microphone into a celebrity's face, asking the incisive questions that'll get you in the tabloids the morning after? You should take a look at the FlashMic - claimed to be the world's first digital recording microphone.

The FlashMic combines a high quality microphone capsule with a 1GB flash recorder built into the microphone body, which means FlashMic-equipped journalists and interviewers are always ready to record with just a single button press. Recordings can then be transferred quickly to a computer for editing via the FlashMic's USB interface. It's ready to record straight out of the box or can be pre-configured for more sophisticated operation and file naming protocols using the included software.