Month: June 2005
TV Cubed
A university in Japan has come up with this: if you're wondering what you're looking at, it's a TV, but instead of having that ugly plastic back like most TVs, this TV, dubbed the Z-agon cube TV, boasts six plasma…
LG Electronics releases compact Bluetooth phone
Looks like you people who crave the small in your tech life will have something new to get excited about, with the announcement by LG Electronics of the latest clamshell handset, the F2400. The phone is available with Orange in…
iTunes flogs 50 million in Europe in one year
Looks like Apple's iTunes has gone from strength to strength, with the announcement by Apple that the European iTunes store has sold and uploaded over 50 million songs to music fans across Europe. iTunes was launched in the UK, France…
Bayraider in world's top 50 coolest websites
Blimey Charlie! Time magazine, apparently it is big bananas in the USA, has just published its top 50 coolest websites in the world, and guess what, Tech Digest's sister site Bayraider made the cut. In fact Time picked up…
TV killer reaches UK
Dixons staff are looking nervous. And no it is not because of rumours of more shop closures or fear of hernias caused by lugging round massive plasma screens. No it is because they know that their very worst nightmare,…
The death of plamsa?
The Guardian has a feature on the future of TV screens and in particular whether plasma screens, which now go for well under £1000, are on their way out and likely to superseded by newer more advanced technologies. Click…
Samsung's lightest 3G phone so far
We can't say for certain who has the smallest and lightest 3G phone so far, but one of the contenders has to be the SGH-Z500 from Samsung which has just gone on sale in the UK via Vodafone and…
Canon's sky snapping camera
Must admit when Canon said it had a new camera especially for astrophotography we were pretty flummoxed. Turns out, as any Latin scholar could have told us, it means snapping the stars and the night sky. Anyhow the new…
iriver's iPod shuffle rival
There is definitely new impetus in the flash memory music player market as manufacturers try and tempt those who otherwise buy an iPod shuffle. Latest to launch a rival to Apple's model is Korean manufacturer iriver. Its new T20…
O2 announces i-mode (just don't mention WAP)
In a briefing to journalists in a lovely old fashioned West End pub this morning, O2 announced details of its plans to launch a new mobile internet service by the end of the year. The new service, which uses Japanese…
