Month: April 2004
Broadband cable puts its foot down
There's very good news for anyone in the UK who gets their broadband via cable. Both the major cable providers, Telewest and NTL, have announced that they will up the data speeds of current subscribers from May for no extra…
Alternatives to the iPod mini
Got yourself an iPod mini yet? Chances are probably not, unless of course you live in the USA and were quick off the mark when they went on sale in late Feb. The rest of us are waiting for…
How stressed is your spit?
Over in Japan Yamaha in collaboration with Nipro Corp and researchers at Toyama has developed a gadget that can tell how stressed you are by analysing, wait for it, your spit. According to a news report on I4U it works…
New portable video player
The team at Peripheral Corner have been a busy lot lately. Not only have they introduced the Eten smartphones to the UK (click here for more), they have also just unveiled a hard disk based video player. The not…
Sony's luxury MD
In the middle of last year Sony unveiled the first of its super high-end, and it should be added, rather expensive Qualia series of products. Now it is to add a MiniDisc player to the range. The Qualia 017…
Colourful MP3 player
Cowon, which earlier this week launched its hard disk based iPod rival, the iAudio 3 through MP3-plus.net is also bringing a small flash memory-based music player, the iAudio 4, to the UK. Available with storage capacities ranging from 128MB…
Linksys B Media Adapter take 2
We were huge fans of the Linksys B Media Adapter, a device launched last year that enabled us to wirelessly stream music from our PC to the hi-fi while watching images from our computer on the TV. Good to…
Familiar-looking MS smartphone
Here's yet another microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 smartphone we haven't seen before, yet curiously this one sports a rather familiar design. Retailing for £500 without a contract the AnexTEK SP230 features a flip up/down keypad, which we reckon could…
Wi-Fi camcorder
Sadly we don't have any photographic evidence as cameras are banned from the Hong Kong Electrical Fair, but OEM maker Shuoying International is promising a camcorder that could really shake the market up when it is launched later this year….
Chinese take world's largest plasma screen title
So far the race to build the world's largest plasma screen has been the sole preserve of Korean giants Samsung and LG. Now a Chinese company Skyworth is claiming to have caught them both napping and taken the title…
