Month: December 2004
Eurostar goes wireless
We got all excited about the prospect of having wireless internet access to keep us entertained on the channel tunnel journey. Turns out it's just a wireless hotspot at Waterloo International and Ashford International terminals. You'd have thought they'd have…
The most highly specified TV in the world?
Want to see the TV being credited as the world's most advanced? Vivadi's Saturn is on display in Harrods right now. The plasma TV comes with a 46-inch screen, a DVD recorder and a 200GB hard drive recorder (admit it,…
Amazon Launches DVD Rental
Amazon has launched a DVD rental service. £7.99 a month gets you four DVD rentals a month and you can have two at any one time. For £9.99 you can have three DVDs at home at any one time and…
Commodore 64 gets a relaunch
Obsession with retro gaming continues apace, with the ultimate retro console, the Commodore 64, set to make a reappearance on the UK market. Already out in America, where it apparently sold around 400,000 units on the first day, the console…
Britain's Cheapest iPod Rival
It seems that the people at Apple weren’t best pleased about AnexTEK using the word "pod" for the CoCoPod. The player’s now been re-christened the GP-2000, which is less memorable but also, we suppose, more sensible. Not sure why they…
Shower radio
You are cordially invited to join us dancing naked in the shower this Christmas. We’ll be singing like idiots along with Magic FM in a vain attempt to use up the endless supplies of stinky shower gels we receive from…
Kwik Save's super cheap HD Player
As Shiraz at the Mirror rightly points out, more attractive music players exist in this world than Medion's hard disk Jukebox, but not many of them cost just £100. 2.5GB of storage and 9 hours' battery life makes this…
Games Digest Awards
We're almost done harping on about our awards, honest, but we thought it only fair to alert to the existence of Games Digest's own set of Telewest Broadband Shinys. As with all our awards, the categories veered sharply between sensible…
B&O's BeoVision 7
We've seen the BeoVision 7 in operation and it's got all the super-swanky features a rich person could possibly require. The people presenting the 32-inch TV were at pains to show us how beautifully finished it was, with all the…
Eyetop Video Glasses
If you haven't yet recovered from the ridiculous notion of wandering about with a pair of Oakley Thump MP3 player sunglasses on your head, look away now. Eyetop released a pair of video sunglasses a while ago to, so far…
