Month: July 2005
Bluetooth Squirrel to handle calls
It seems that soon secretarial work will be delegated to stuffed animals if pioneering work from the MIT Media Lab comes to fruition. The pic shows a 6" tall novelty toy that can be responsible for handling incoming phone calls….
Vodafone's cheap international roaming calls
So are mobile phone networks starting to wake up to the fact that their ludicrously expensive international roaming charges are pushing people to making country to country calls via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)? Possibly, for Vodafone has just unveiled…
PURE Digital EVOKE-2XT
Pure has proven itself time and time again to be a benchmark against which other DAB manufacturers should compare themselves. The Evoke series of portable players have been a surprisingly big hit and so Pure is about to launch the…
Perplex City on its way
A new form of "Alternate Reality Gaming" (ARG) is due to hit the Internet on July 13. ARGs are games that take the form of Internet puzzles mixed increasingly with real-life/game world crossovers. From the film AI’s trail of…
JVC EX-P1 Wood Cone A/V system
Only last year, JVC made a breakthrough that made the Wood Cone speaker a possibility. Working on the theory that, for many musical instruments, wood makes the best acoustics, it stands to reason that a speaker could benefit from having…
What's New From Shiny?
What's happening at some of our other top blogs this weekend? Games Digest: Games out this week, Games industry charity jumps on wristbandwagon, When divorce means haggling over characters Shiny Shiny (Gadgets for Girls): ABKey Alphabetical Keyboard, Hello Kitty Plush…
Creative's Zen Nano Plus hits UK
Creative has confirmed that its Zen Nano Plus, super small flash based MP3 player is going to launch in the UK. It hasn't yet got a price list or a date for launch, though it shouldn't be too long considering…
iPod's runaway success continues
Big tech story in all the papers today is how Apple has shifted 6.2 million iPods in the past three months – one million more than expected. While at Tech Digest towers we do like to have the odd jibe…
Konica's cut-down digital SLR
If you want more evidence that the hot new trend in digital cameras is cut-down SLRs, here's yet another launch. The Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D (also known as the Dynax 5D) brings together some of the best features of…
The only gay in the toyshop
Top tip from us – this year's big Christmas toy won't be Batman, Barbie or even Robosapien. It'll be some camp, porky bloke from the valleys decked out in ill-fitting hot pants who specializes in self-denial. Yep, we hear…
