Month: July 2004
Virgin Bites back with funky Wap service
Years after Vodafone live! and O2 Active British phone network Virgin Mobile has finally got round to launching its own WAP service. Only unlike its rivals it has a funky feel and is targeted at the young. Available to all…
VHS goes digital
This is a gadget that your mother would like. All those old VHS videos she's got of you in your first school play/egg and spoon race/naked in wellies in the paddling pool (at the age of 25)? Well now she…
Sennheiser Happy Clappy headphones
While we may live in disposable society, there's nothing wrong with trying to do you bit for the environment with a spot of recycling. The HD 555 (£99.95) headphones from Sennheiser have been designed so that when the headphones start…
Denon budget Home Cinema
Denon's new home cinema set up may not help to ease the burden of the UK's £1 Trillion debt but it still kinder on the pocket than most home cinema set ups. The AVR-1705 61.AV receiver costs £250 and…
Buses go wireless
While buses may not be the most complicated of creations, Portsmouth City Council has decided it needs to employ some serious technology to get them running efficiently. 300 buses are to be fitted with a wireless transmitter that will send…
NTL Photo Service
NTL Broadband customers can now make the most of their digital images using Photobox, an online service offering photo prints, frames, greetings cards and postcards. 400MB of online storage space for digital images is being provided along with fifteen free…
3 to offer video downloads
T-Mobile, Orange and O2 all already offer music download services via mobile phones, but 3 has gone a step further today by announcing that it is to start a mobile video jukebox. In what could be the future for downloads…
Creepy Mind Reading Ball
It's saying something about the state of humanity when a small blue, battery operated gadget can work out what you're thinking. But that's precisely what Firebox is claiming of its latest toy. The 20Q (£12.95) can apparently establish what word…
Play Real tunes on your iPod
Owners of an Apple iPod will be pleased to hear that RealNetworks has found a way to play tunes from its music downloads store on the player. The Harmony software it has developed means that the iPod is no longer…
iPod loading service for Londoners
If you can't be bothered to load up your iPod with CDs let the experts do it for you. As an exclusive offer to Tech Digest readers in the London area we will take your CDs from you, load them…