Month: June 2005
What's New From Shiny?
Here's what's going on at some of our other blogs this weekend. Games Digest: PSP production scaled back?, Blu-Ray/HD-DVD talks break down, Hasbro turns London into Monopoly Shiny Shiny (gadgets for girls): Hello Kitty Fire Extinguisher, USB Mini Lava Light,…
NHJ C@ndi: Super tiny cusomisable players
These teensy c@ndi players from NHJ are being billed as the smallest players in the world. Whether that's strictly true or not is open to debate, but there's no doubt that they're mighty minute. Available in a selection of colours,…
Today's top tech stories from the US
It's time again for a look at what is hot in the world of gadgets stateside: Fluffy iPod cases (DAPReview) Now you can disguise your iPod as an unsightly explosion of body-hair. Motorola iTunes Phone (Engadget) Probably just more conjecture…
iRiver launches U10, T20 and T30
For some reason, iRiver media players always seem to draw a lot of water in the tech news industry. I'm not suggesting there is anything wrong with them, far from it, but what has always been a mystery to me…
VoIP in a flash
We reviewed the large but lovely Firebox VoIP offering a few weeks back, Now news reaches us of a tiny offering aimed at the international jetsetter with a frightening 'phone bill. The FlashPhone F1K for Skype is essentially a…
It's ok, Sony won't hurt you
Sony caused a stir this week as a Guardian article reported that customers who have bought imported PSPs in the UK ahead of the European release could have their handheld impounded. A part of Sony's anti grey import legal…
GuardRobo security robot
Everyone loves hulking robotic machines, especially while they remain a model of societal compliance, protecting our homes and businesses instead of questioning their subservient status and snapping limbs like kindling. This bulky electronic friend is named GuardRobo and though…
Orange launches Glasto TV channel for your mobile
Ok, so we didn't get a ticket for Glastonbury this year, but are we bitter? You bet we are. And we were overjoyed to hear that the unseasonably sunny weather is going to give into huge rainy storms in…
Mikey's review: Creative MuVo N200
Even for a self-confessed iPod fanatic, it's hard not to like the cheeky little £100 one gig Muvo N200: It's an eager-to-please little bic lighter of fun offering MP3 playback, FM Radio, Line and mîcrophone recording and for all…
nVidia release next-gen 7800 GTX
That time is upon us again. The time when the cutting edge technology that we indulged in not so long ago begins the spiral towards redundancy. Nvidia has begun shipping of the first in the next generation of graphics cards….
