Month: July 2005
Today's top tech stories from the US
All the most exciting inventions that are causing a ruckus of in the US of A. Optimus wireless keyboard wears its functions on its keys (Engadget): Potentially the smartest idea of recent times. Now pray that it actually gets made…
Orange SPV-C550 music phone arrives
Orange has confirmed that the next version of its SPV smartphone – the SPV C550 will go on sale at the end of the month and will be free with some tariffs. As we reported earlier Orange is billing…
Goodbye paper
This isn't news of an approaching Fahrenheit 451 style society but the unveiling of an amazing technology pioneered by Fujitsu Corp's labs. This extremely thin and flexible colour display material requires only minimal power to operate and when the power…
Rollei's eight mega pixel compact snapper
No, we don't know much about Rollei either but we do kind of like the look of the Prego DP8300 that's just hit Digital Photography Blog. It's neat compact camera finished in tasty metal casing that's capable of snapping…
Sharp's 'as good as CRT' LCD TVs
Annoyingly we can't vouch for its claims as we didn't make the press conference but Sharp says it has produced the first LCD TV specifically designed to make the most of the UK's PAL broadcast standard. The Aquos P50…
Sky launch HDTV website
Sky is flexing its corporate muscles over the coming HDTV era once again by launching an informational website about the coming technology. Ok, it's not exactly ground breaking but if you do want to nicely laid out, clear information answering…
Mobile blogging goes mainstream
It seemed that almost everyone in London last week was snapping away with their camera phones whether it be archiving the joyous celebrations that followed the Olympics announcement or capturing the aftermath of the awful events that took place…
8 Gig USB sticks due in the autumn
It doesn't seem that long ago that USB memory keys (or is it sticks) that had 64MB of storage seemed like a genius piece of technology. Now apparently keys with capacities of 8 Gigabytes are on the cards. Buffalo…
Dock your iPod in a pink muff
I must confess that this iPod accessory has no greater merit than any of the hundreds of others released each week, save that its name reduces me to paroxysms of childish glee. Apparently there's a different definition of the…
Mikey's review: Sennheiser MX500
Is it worth ditching the earphones that came with your iPod for something a bit pricier? Mikey Moran checks out Sennheiser's £25 MX500. So you've finally bowed to peer pressure and bought yourself an iPod, and it sounds okay. But…
