Tchibo's GPS navigation system for under £180
Tchibo, probably best-known as a concession in various supermarket chains, is releasing a full-featured satellite navigation system next month. Aimed at the first-time buyer, it will sell for a reasonable-sounding £179. The unit (which annoyingly, doesn't have a model…
Thursday Top 10: Things we learnt on VideoJug this week
How do you do stuff? It's a question that's constantly in my mind, whether I'm trying to fit a new door lock, cook a swanky meal, or find my way back home at 3am in the morning after a…
Asus to launch wireless Skype phone with music streaming
As soon as the Wi-Fi enabled Skype handset has hit the stores, it;s being upgraded – by Asus in this instance, which is introducing a Wi-Fi enabled handset that doubles up as a speaker, playing songs streamed from your…
Gamextra's DS Lite Sound System
The need for a sound system for the DS Lite has never been very pressing, but with continuing rumours of MP3 functionality being added to the pocket-sized machine, there could be a good-sized market very soon for something like…
Samsung launches 10.2 megapixel GX-10 SLR
Another new SLR – this tiome from Samsung, with the launch of the 10.2 megapixel GX-10, aimed, according to the company at "the discerning enthusiast photographer searching for comprehensive functions, stunning design, ease of use and real value for…
Get your own C-3PO on eBay
He's everyone's favourite camp movie droid, and now C-3PO is available to stand in the corner of your living room. At least, he is if you have $2,500 to spend on a life-size replica that's for sale on eBay….
Thinner and more Powerful Solar Cells Soon?
It’s all down to bonding hydrogen to silicon, a technique being perfected by researchers at Iowa State University’s Applied Science Department. The team, headed by Vikram Dalal (pictured) in collaboration with solar cell makers PowerFilm are developing thin and…
Hidden XP – The Private Character Editor
Propellerhead has uncovered another one of those hidden programs inside Windows XP, this one goes under the rather grand name of the Private Character Editor. In fact it’s a very useful graphics tool for designing your own fonts special…
Office-sized Duck Shooting Gallery
Before there was the mouse or the gaming console, there was the shooting gallery. The Duck Shooting Gallery lets you experience that small-scale, secretly, in your office, without actually having to admit you spend half the time posing sexily…
Kao + Kelo = feels-like-skin for robots
Skin is often the slight flaw in the robotic character, but the Kao Corporation and a team from Kelo University have come up with a false layer that ten out of twelve people (under, they admit, highly unscientific circumstances)…