Tag: Gary Cutlack
HD DVD owners buy more movies than Blu-ray owners, in Europe at least
Another week, another unsubstantiated series of boasts from HD format makers.
This week it’s the turn of HD DVD to do a bit of claiming about how well its doing, with the group saying European buyers buy more discs on HD DVD format than on “other” HD formats. Apparently, owners of HD DVD players have bought an average of 3.8 movies each, compared to an abysmal 0.7 attach rate…
The ASUS Ecobook will match your kitchen's cheap laminate flooring
Good god. We often fantasise about a revival in woodgrain-covered technology, but the reality is… pretty nasty. No wonder this sort of thing was outlawed by Brussels in the mid-1980s.
This new bamboo-laminated beast is the Asus Ecobook – an environmentally-friendly machine that’s apparently better than everything else because 50% of its components can be recycled. Frankly, the last thing we think about when buying a laptop is what’s going to happen to it when it breaks and we have to throw it away, but if you want something that’s hypothetically slightly better for the world after it stops working and cost more to fix than to replace, this sort of does the job.
Microsoft's latest rip-off target – Flickr?
Flickr with a touch of YouTube, actually.
There’s a rather pretentious “Web 2.0” job on offer at Microsoft at the moment, which is asking for geeks able to “construct a winning strategy for Microsoft in photo and video…
The PDA is dead – and an N95 is laughing by its grave
Analyst IDC says the shipment numbers of PDAs has dropped by 43% over last year, making a sensationally poor 15th consecutive period of decline for the once-futuristic pocket computers.
Clearly it’s because phones have stolen their thunder. With iPhone, Nokia’s N95, the lovely LG Viewty and numerous…
Radiohead says 'In Rainbows' figures are nonsense
Radiohead has said the independent sales data released for its In Rainbows digital download is a load of old rubbish.
The band said that Comscore’s figures “are wholly inaccurate and in no way reflect…
Sky warned over broadband speed claims – had better not do it again or else
Virgin Media and two members of the public complained to the Advertising Standards Authority over a Sky Broadband advert which boasted its service is faster than Virgin’s.
Being a Virgin Media broadband user myself I can attest that it almost certainly is, as is a letter taped to the back of a tortoise, but that’s…
Mow like the wind with the F1 lawnmower
Styled on Formula One cars from the 1970s, when they were exciting death traps rather than fully automated boredom generators, the F1 Lawnmower is a flashback to the sideburned glory years of motor racing.
H-racer – The hydrogen-powered toy car for sustainable children of hippies
Even toy cars have to worry about being environmentally sound nowadays. This little thing runs on a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, delivered to it via a solar-powered refuelling station for the ultimate in parent/teacher evening smugness.
The Horizon H-racer is as environmentally friendly as riding your bike to the local salad shop…
Now DJs are getting their own social network – MixRevolution
I’ve had a new idea for a social network. It’s a social network where all the administrators of social networks can come together. It can be called NetNet. NetNet 2.0.
On NetNet 2.0 social networkers can discuss social networking issues, in a safe, understanding, socially networked environment, adding each…
J-Lo joins the USB stick revolution with wood-based album release
The big-bottomed star of numerous perfume adverts is embracing the new USB stick trend, with her latest album ‘Brave’ coming on a ludicrously luxurious custom memory stick.
Jenny’s USB drives are rather outrageously crafted from African mahogany, and are being produce by the overly expensive thing-customisers at Gresso…
