Month: October 2004
Philips Defibrillator on sale on Amazon
Home health gadgets seem to be the next big movement for technology. Over in America (so soon, no doubt, over here) people are starting to kit out their homes with the latest emergency gear in the hope of cheating death…
NEC Plasmas and projectors
NEC's just released a batch of plasma screens and projectors for the home. The plasmas are: 42-inch 42XR3; the 50-inch 50XR3; the 61-inch 61XR3; and a 42-inch VGA model, the 42VR5. The high definition screens apparently have the highest contrast…
Griffin follows Apple's lead
Griffin's releasing a black version of the i-Trip to match the Special Edition iPod. The company has also re-released its black version of the PowerMate, so you'll be able to goth up your whole Apple collection in no time. Griffin…
Black U2 iPod
Not content with making themselves look foolish on the current iPod ads, U2 has collaborated with Apple to produce a black Special Edition iPod. The player has been rumoured for some time, and Apple has finally released the official announcement…
Armari suits new PC design
Loads of interesting living room friendly PC designs at the official UK launch of Media Center 2005 last night – most of it from companies we've never even heard of. Take Armari. No, not a company ripping off designer…
Apple's iPod Photo in 40 and 60GB versions
Typical. We desert our post for a couple of hours to chomp on pizza and chuckle at Little Britain and Apple goes and makes it biggest announcement of the year so far. Yes, that iPod Photo that has been rumoured…
Pink Sony "iPod" not destined for UK
As if not being able to perv through the clothes of your neighbours wasn't bad enough, apparently we're not getting the NW-HD2 either. Sony's first upgrade of the NW-HD1 is available in pink and blue as well as the bog…
See through clothes using your mobile
Not content with a bit of friendly groping on the underground during rush hour, Japanese phone owners can now see through people's clothing using an add-on for Vodafone handsets. Yamada Denshi, third party developer, has come up with a night…
Robosapien wins Best Toy award
We're not sure who told Hamleys that the Robosapien was a children's toy, instead of an karate chopping robotic companion for a generation of 20-something computer nerds. Well, no matter, the robot has just impressed the judges on the Hamleys…
Music downloads from a phonebox?
Now that everyone's got a mobile phone, hardly anyone uses phone boxes anymore – except as toilet facilities of course. BT says that 60% of its 70,000 phone boxes lose money and the company hasn't built any new ones since…