Category: Peripherals
Sportswood bass drum-shaped wooden PC case
Ideal for the frustrated musician in all of us, this L-24 bass drum-shaped wooden PC case from Sportswood.
Watch that new digital photo frame… it could be infected with malware
Digital photo frames are all the rage at the moment, and they seem innocuous enough, right? After all, you’re only going to be using them to display a few family photos.
The truth is, though, that the seemingly innocent device on your mantelpiece could be harbouring malicious software, ready to infect your PC. Some of it is specifically written to attach to portable storage devices.
It stands to reason, really, that any storage device, be that hard disc or flash memory based, could contain data which, when transferred to a PC, could manifest as a virus or trojan. Remember when a batch of Apple iPods was shipped complete with a PC virus?
McAfee Security reckons that the most likely point of infection for new hardware is in the Quality Control section of the manufacturer.
Fancy a £377,000 platinum PC from Japan?
Oh, c’mon, you know you do. That beige box needs to be pimped up, and if your wallet can take the strain, Tokyo firm Zeus Computer has just the thing. It’s called Jupiter, and it’s a top-spec PC housed in a case made from pure platinum. The cost? 80 million Yen – around £377,000.
For the pirate (or goth) in your life – the Skull Speakers
Sometimes words just aren’t necessary – you’ll just know from the picture above whether you want a pair of these Skull Speakers.
Buffalo Technology to launch external high definition and DVD drives in Europe
Buffalo Technology has announced that it will be launching a range of external DVD and high definition disc PC drives in Europe.
First up will be a top-of-range device capable of reading and writing to Blu-ray discs, and reading HD DVDs, as well as handling standard DVD media. It will come bundled with disc authoring software from Nero.
GreenEyes Eye Catcher promises proper eye contact when webcamming
Fed up with looking shifty while videochatting using a webcam? Yes, I’m looking at you Leslie Grantham. Although it appears you’re looking at something els… Oh.
Macworld 2008: Apple launches Time Capsule wireless backup system
Steve Jobs today announced a new hardware and software combo designed to make backing up multiple Macs over a wireless network as painless as possible.
The Time Capsule hardware is a revamped 802.11n Wi-Fi base station (Airport Extreme) with a built in server grade hard drive with either 500GB or 1TB capacity.
Introduced by Jobs as a much more convenient way of backing up notebook Macs (no-one wants the hassle of connecting cables to an external hard drive, he said) but usable by any OS X Leopard-equipped Macs.
Software-wise, it utilises the Time Machine functionality introduced in Leopard.
Now NEC is launching a curvy gaming monitor
One of the hits of CES was Alienware’s curvy 2880×900-resolution gaming monitor, which promised to provide FPS-heads with even better peripheral vision. The technology behind it was provided by Ostendo Technologies. However, it’s emerged the company is providing the same tech to other monitor-makers.
CES 2008: Trust makes tiny Bluetooth 2.0 USB adapter
And I mean tiny: check it out. No, I don’t have giant freakthumbs. Trust International is showing it off at CES. And, er, there isn’t much more I can say about it until they release pricing and availability details. But still, innit small, eh?
CES 2008 Creative promises big sounds from a small footprint with the GigaWorks HD50 speakers
Creative has a new range of desktop speakers on the market – the GigaWorks HD50.
