Month: August 2004
MYMO kid's mobile
Soon you'll be able to set up wireless hotspots in utero and embed mobile phones directly into the ear canal at birth. In the meantime, however, there's the MYMO mobile phone, made especially for children between the ages of 4…
KEF Audio's Q Compact AV System
KEF Audio's Q Compact AV System is a complete home cinema speaker package. Two pairs of QCompact speakers for front and rear, a Q6c Central Channel speaker, and a PSW2500 Sub-Woofer make up the £850 system. Details include: Qcompact Reference-Based…
Mini Maxi
We may not have a "cars" category on Tech Digest, but when the car looks like this, there's no way we can be expected to ignore it. A stretch limo Mini. This is what the world has been missing. A…
Swap your tat
What goes around, comes around, and what better thing to revive than the joyful innocence of Saturday Swapshop? Long before Keith Chegwin proved that Cheggars can be boozers (old joke; still funny), before he'd treated us all to the sight…
Philips' new line up of DVD recorders
The two most interesting machines in Philips' latest batch of releases are the DVDR725H and the HDRW720. These two multi-format DVD recorders are also hard disk drives, with 160GB and 80GB of storage respectively – room for 250 hours…
Gadget Britain
The tech heads over at Boys Stuff have been having a play about with their e-Pandora software, looking at the spending habits of the nation. Turns out, there's a whole new vein of regional stereotyping opportunities out there just waiting…
The nation's first music downloads chart
The singles chart in the UK maybe looking increasingly sickly, but, as we all know, the world of online music downloads is fighting fit and growing stronger by the day. And, unsurprisingly, radio is beginning to want a piece of…
3G LG comes to 3
3's been doing a good job recently of getting some decent sized (by which we mean small) 3G phones onto its network. The LG U8120 is its latest addition, an upgraded version of LG's U8110 video mobile that comes with…
Personal video player with TV tuner
Must admit to getting really excited when we heard that UK accessory specialist Peripheral Corner was to start selling a personal video player with an integrated TV tuner. It isn't however quite as thrilling as it sounds, as the tuner…
Griffin's iTrip hits the road
Typical! Just as we go and invest in a Griffin Technology iTrip, that little FM transmitter device that broadcasts music from your iPod to FM radios in your home/car, the company announces an even better product. Scheduled to launch in…