Month: July 2005
First i-mode 3G phone for Europe
One of the big weaknesses with the i-mode mobile platform (see here for more), which O2 intends to launch later this year, is that it is a bit short on cutting edge phones. NEC hopes to change all that…
Crazy Frog on your PS2
Horrendous news for all sane Britons. The Crazy Frog, who really ought to be have been heading for a liquidizer not the top of the pop charts is now eyeing up your PS2. A company called, appropriately enough, Digital…
Today's top tech stories from the US
Let's see what has the tickled the fancy of our American pals. PSP Launcher released for Lumines (Engadget): Hackers have done it again, soon you may be able to launch commercial games from a memory stick. microsoft might License Xbox…
Advert free DVD recording
The Hitachi DV-DS81E has a unique feature that will mean there is even less to coax an unwanted muscle movement whilst watching telly. Through some form of technical wizardry the recorder marks the points at which it detects the…
Girl Gamers
The fact that there are many more blokes who play games than girls is steadily approaching falsehood. Apparently the number of female players is increasing at massive rate and for this reason the University of Abertay Dundee has put…
Spot the robot
I like robots, I like to be afraid of robots and I like to believe that in the future they might live amongst us slowly gaining our trust so that one day they can turn against their human masters…
Apple to expand Shuffle?
There's only one drawback to flash media players; though they are tiny and can look great, memory capacity is always very limited. Though the iPod Shuffle system helps alleviate the annoyance of arranging a new track selection every day,…