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So you’ve hammered your bank account and kitted out your front room with a lush, cinema-threatening flat-screen LCD TV. Keen to keep things truly hi-fi and state-of-the-art, you’ve bagged yourself …
The Great HDMI Cable Ripoff. Save your cash, any old cable will do. Read MoreLogitech has launched a low cost universal remote control, designed to replace the growing clutter of remotes no doubt currently festooned all over your living room coffee table.
Logitech Harmony 300i universal remote control for cut price couch control Read MoreAlthough we know that a cheapo £10 keyboard does the job just as well, we’re big fans of high tech keyboards – and the more pointless lights and gizmos bolted …
Eclipse Litetouch wireless touchscreen keyboard Read MoreBruce Springsteen’s “go-cart Mozart” may have been checkin’ out the weather charts see if it was safe outside, but these days meteorological matters can be consulted speedier with Oregon’s new …
Helios Solar Weather Station for go-cart Mozarts Read MoreBilled as the “Essential Festival Companion,” Etón’s new SCORPION wind-up gizmo packs a solar powered radio, a mobile phone charger, a LED torch for avoiding those perilous tent pegs, and …
Etón SCORPION for all your festival radio/torch/beer opening needs Read MoreNintendo Wii users will soon be able to immerse themselves in even more Super Mario action, with the latest in the Wii Galaxy Series bagging a UK release date.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Nintendo Wii UK-bound (video) Read MoreLucky Americans can already cruise down freeways belting out tunes via Belkin’s new TuneCast Auto Live FM transmitter, but for us Brits, we’ll have to be twiddling our iThumbs until …
Belkin iPhone TuneCast Auto Live FM transmitter hits UK in March Read MoreIt’s not exactly what you’d call super-sexy, high tech gear, but for elderly folks living alone, the Combo 680 home phone could be a life saver. The phone combination from …
Amplicom PowerTel 680 ‘Home Alone Phone’ for the elderly Read MoreKorean media player whizzes iriver have released details of their Smart HD touchscreen PMP, which looks rather a dandy affair to our eyes. The Smart HD – previously seen lurking …
iriver Smart HD touchscreen PMP looks rather natty Read MoreSony has decided that alarm clocks are just too boring, and has introduced a clever-clogs, touchscreen Wi-Fi device which will add a touch of hi-tech to even the most disconnected …
Sony release Dash wi-fi alarm clock, sorry, ‘Personal Application Viewer’ Read MoreWhen we think ‘BlackBerry’, we think flapping flip charts, swivel action suits, lantern-jawed pointing execs, pie-chart laden PowerPoint presentations and cappuccino-clutching folks hurtling along Fifth Avenue to a Very Important …
Blackberry Presenter wows with wireless PowerPoint presentations Read MoreBlue Microphones have updated their ‘Mikey’ bolt on microphone for iPods and iPhones, and it should prove a handy tool for sound recordists, interviewers, musicians and shifty bootleggers. The first …
Blue Microphones update Mikey hi-fi stereo microphone for iPhone/iPod Read MoreWe hope it does more. In fact we’re sure it does more, although you wouldn’t know it from the YouTube clip that’s just been posted. Researchers from the Nippon Institute …
Nippon Institute of Technology unveils hissy-fit robot Read MoreHonda’s groundbreaking robot Asimo has now reached its ninth birthday, and to celebrate a party was thrown at their Japanese headquarters, with 200 guests invited from around the world (I …
Honda’s Asimo robot turns 9. Shakes a leg (updated Nov 2011) Read MoreWe can’t say it’s something we’ve thought of before, but we can see a certain logic to JOBO AG’s new ScanViewer which combines a digital picture frame with a photo …
JOBO ScanViewer combines digital frame and photo scanner Read More