Month: October 2006
Evesham introduces 47-inch true HD LCD TV
Looking for a big TV for your Christmas viewing? Evesham has launched a 47-inch true HD LCD TV – and it's on the market for less than £2,000. Evesham's big screen offers 1080p High Definition viewing, along with both analogue…
Sony unveils Pink Memory Stick Micro (the pop act not the colour)
Sony has unveiled a limited edition Pink Memory Stick Micro (M2) – that's the American pop act, not the colour, which is still black. Think they've missed a trick there. Anyway, if you're a fan of Pink (or P!NK…
Disc Drive Fitness Tester
Has your hard disc drive ever let you down? Could it be about to do so? There’s no easy way to tell, it could pop its clogs tomorrow or next week, most likely never but it would be helpful to…
Happy Birthday XP
Amidst all the excitement and celebrations of the iPods’ fifth birthday we quite forgot to say many happy returns to Windows XP, which has also just reached the ripe old age of five. The operating system was already well…
Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature
Sporting a very elaborate web site with all kinds of games which I only investigated as part of my solemn duty, I report back that the Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature is a remote-controlled arthopod that you can actually…
HAL 5 Robotic Suit takes you to the mountaintop
It's not the oversized Mechwarrior battle gear we think of when we think robot exoskeleton, but then, it's intended for day-to-day use. The HAL 5 Robotic Suit, by Tsukuba University engineering professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, is a vaguely Tron-looking outfit…
DJ Bear cute iPod speaker with plug 'n' play pocket
This has to register highly on the 'cute' scale when it comes to iPod speakers. Forget white plastic and moulded corners, this is soft, fluffy, and friendly. Yes, it's the DJ Bear (though that's perhaps a little grand given that…
MacWorld's MacExpo UK "Best of Show" awards
MacWorld have been busy at last weekend's UK MacExpo in London, and have awarded ten products "Best of Show". The products must have either been debuted at the show, or be very new and generating significant buzz at the show….
Current TV not worried about YouTube-style copyright crackdown
Current TV, the channel founded by Al Gore which devotes a third of its schedule to user-generated content, isn't worried about the copyright crackdown that's sweeping through online video-sharing communities like YouTube. In an interview with the UK Mediasnackers podcast,…
Vista an excuse for Microsoft price hike, basic version too basic, suggests Acer
Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president of PC manufacturer Acer, has said that the Home Basic version of Microsoft Vista is so basic that users will be forced to move up to at least the Premium version, priced at £189.99,…
