Month: December 2003
Goodmans DVD/DTT combi
Er is it a DVD player, is it a digital terrestrial box? Well, actually it's both. Goodmans is the latest company to have gone combi crazy with a Freeview box wrapped up inside a DVD player (or is it…
Telewest behind UK's first virtual carol service
For those who can't be bothered to go to church to listen to Christmas Carols, Telewest is behind the world's first online Christmas Carol Service. Due to webcast on Wednesday 17th December (7.30pm) at St Philip and St James'…
New games handheld for the UK
Sony's upcoming PSP (click here for more) isn't going to be the only handheld gaming console to arrive in the UK next year probably in late summer. Tech Digest can exclusively reveal that the hottest new games console in…
Now LG has a robot vacuum cleaner
One day soon we'll tell you everything you need to know about the robot vacuum cleaner market. Until then here's the latest entrant, the LG Roboking. Apparently the cleaner uses a similar kind of 'cruise missile mapping technology', as…
Tosh's private LCD screens
Don't you just hate it when you are working on a laptop on a plane and the person next to you keeps taking a sneaky peek at what you are doing? Well if Toshiba gets its way this will…
Rio Karma and Nitrus reach UK
Digital audio specialist Rio has finally launched its range of MP3 personal players in the UK. But for the moment you can only get them through Amazon. In our book top billing goes not to its 20 Gigabyte £279.99…
BSquare launches in UK
Vodafone is set to bring one of the US hottest smartphones to the UK. The BSquare Power Handheld pairs a microsoft Windows CE.Net operating system with a large (4inch) LCD screen, which the company claims is ideal for web…
Quackers
Just about every gadget website has picked up on this one, but if you haven't seen it yet here is the duck-shaped USB storage device the I-Duck from Japanese company Solid Alliance. It stores 16MB of data, but you'll…
Nokia 7200, 6230 and 6810 review
Nokia's range of mobile phones for 2004 didn't exactly blow us away. So it is good to report that its handsets for 2004 show that the company is back on track delivering superbly designed, easy to use mobile phones….
Fusion's Freeview box with 7 day guide
At last a digital terrestrial set-top box with a 7 day electronic programme guide (EPG) rather than the near useless 'now and next' facility. According to ERT magazine, the new £79.99 Digifusion FRT100 carries a full seven day guide…