Month: October 2003
MP3 goggles – all washed up?
Let's face it swimming up and down can be a little dull. Waterproof Walkmans are one solution to the problem, but it's not easy to hold a CD player when you're doing frontcrawl! So we were very excited when…
Wi-fi Hi-Fi from Digital Fidelity
Digital Fidelity has announced a wi-fi equipped music server that can be controlled anywhere in the home with a Dell PDA. Called the Hush AVX Music Centre, the company claims it runs much more quietly than other music servers…
Orange SPV take three
We've mentioned it a couple of times before, but thought you might want to see a decent picture of it. We are referring to the third version of Orange's SPV smartphone the SPV E-200. In terms of styling and…
1meg broadband for all?
For the best part of a year ADSL broadband subscribers who lust after extra Internet download speed for gaming or running a network, have had to endure the taunts of those surfing the net via cable modems. For while…
Fossil hits the SPOT first
Ok, so it's not a technology we expect to see in the UK, but the first watches that use microsoft's SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) appear to be heading for the US stores. These timepieces can be customised to…
Phones that come in pink
Ok, so it might be a deadringer for a ladies compact, or nose powderer as we call them round here, but it is in fact one of four new fashion phones unveiled by Siemens. The quartet, numbers five to…
'Proper' TV over the net from microsoft
microsoft boss Bill Gates has promised software that will deliver both 'standard' and 'high definition' television to consumers TV sets via broadband Internet connections. However the majority of Britons with broadband won't be able to tune in as their…
Fergie Hill reinvents the speaker
Apparently they took ten years to design – and looking at that ultra weird circular acrylic horn we are not surprised. They are the Ferguson Hill FH001 speakers the debut product from a new British audio company. The first…
Gunners mobile – works in Europe too
David Beckham isn't the only world-class footballer pushing a mobile phone. Samsung and O2 have gone one better and nabbed arguably the best central midfielder in the world. Yes, Arsenal's Patrick Vieira has laid his cards on the table…
Panny's great camera hopes
Some CEATEC news that got lost in the barrage of wacky phones and football-playing robots is that Panasonic is to add three new digital cameras to its Lumix range. Due in Japan this month and the UK (although the…
