Month: October 2005
Wi-Fi airship
There's nothing quite as beautiful as an airship floating across the north London sky, and hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of them now that boffins at the Chubu University in Japan have come up with a really…
Philips adds a trio of DVD recorders
Philips has been giving its DVD recorder range the once over adding three new models two of which feature hard disks. The top-end DVDR7300H (£500) and DVDR3300H (£330) are equipped with 250GB and 80GB Hard Disk Drives respectively, each…
Creative X-Fi Elite Pro review
Top new website Gadget Centre has been playing with the Creative X-Fi Elite Pro, a device designed to soup up your PC's performance to make the most of its multimedia, and especially music, facilities. Sounds pretty good too. Review…
Plug for the Best of Stuff show
After all the excitement that was the British Inventions Show the other week, the Tech Digest crew has yet another gadget filled weekend to look forward. On 4th November – though the show runs to the 6th – we'll…
The £10 MP3 player
Struggling to afford the downpayment on a new iPod shuffle? Well, if things are that tight here's some good news. You can now buy an MP3 player for, get this – a tenner. The 24g Ebuyer Ecoman delivers all…
BT to offer TV over broadband
Well we knew it wouldn't be long before some serious broadband player announced an IPTV service (Internet Protocol TV, or TV via broadband to a set top box) and here is the biggie. BT has confirmed today that in…
Kids to spend over four grand on ringtones
Parents: it may be high time to confiscate that mobile phone. A survey carried out by company Xingtone has found that, on average, youths will spend a phenomenal £4,320 each on ringtones in the next 15 years! Perhaps we should…
EDGE Tech iPod dock and card reader
This is a definite candidate for most sensible gadget of the week. Take one ordinary iPod dock capable of the usual synching, charging, etc, then include a flash card reader and you have EDGE Tech's iPod Docking Station and Multi…
Pull a perfect pint at home
The fact that beer tastes better in pubs is probably not entirely to do with the generally drab ambiance, the crazy old men and the billowing clouds of cigarette smoke. Wouldn't it be great if you could get all the…
PodGear's iPod nano and video accessories
Things have been a little quiet on the iPod accessories front of late but now that everyone's had a bit of time to get used to the idea of Apple's latest designs, the iPods nano and video, the redesigned accessories…